How toppers approached this question
What are the determinants of insurgency in the north-eastern region of India? What strategy should the Government of India, civil administration and security forces adopt to counter the threat in the affected areas?
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
- Context-hook opening
- Define the key term first
Build
- Numbered enumeration
- Directive-mirroring headers
- Problems then remedies
Close
- Verdict conclusion
- Forward-looking close
Moves they converged on
- Numbered enumeration79% of answers
Enumerate points as a numbered list.
- Data as argument62% of answers
Use a figure to carry the argument, not decorate it.
- Example as evidence60% of answers
Tag a concrete example explicitly as evidence.
- Directive-mirroring headers56% of answers
Headers that mirror the question's directive.
- Context-hook opening47% of answers
Open with a hook that frames the issue.
Evidence toppers carried (per answer)
Data points ~2Concepts ~2Other anchors ~1Statutes ~1Current events ~1Examples ~1Institutions ~1People ~1
GS3 · Discuss: derived from 135 real past-paper answers: counts, not copied prose
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