How toppers approached this question
The process of consolidation of Bengal, which started after the Battle of Plassey culminated in the Battle of Buxar. Do you think the Battle of Buxar was more important for the British than Plassey?
How toppers built answers of this type: the structure spine and the moves they converged on. Aggregated across real past-paper answers for this paper and directive, not this one question, so no question-specific evidence is shown. No answer text is reproduced.
The topper method
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The spine toppers built
Open
- Define the key term first
- Context-hook opening
Build
- Numbered enumeration
- Directive-mirroring headers
- Multi-dimensional buckets
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Numbered enumeration78% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Example as evidence65% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Verdict conclusion57% of answers
End with a clear verdict.
- Define the key term first49% of answers
Open by defining the central term.
- Directive-mirroring headers47% of answers
Headers that mirror the question's directive.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
Examples ~2Concepts ~2People ~2Institutions ~1Data points ~1Other anchors ~1Current events ~1Thinkers ~1
GS1 · Discuss: derived from 189 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
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Mark my answer freeMethod is derived from real past-paper answers as anonymized aggregate signal. Construction moves and counts, never copied answer text.