ART OF ESSAY PRESENTATION

Test

Categories of

Essay

Expectation

of UPSC

What t o

Do?

General

Advisory

on how to

Prepare

Pre Writing

Suggestions

1

Environment

Related Issues

Have an understanding

towards the environment. Be

aware whether you are following

environmental ethics or not and if you are able to balance it with

growth and development.

Be with nature

without

compromising

on growth and

development.

Balance your

self but be

towards the

side of

environment.

Shed your perceptions and notions. Imagine

yourself as approaching

administration as

you are seeing long term and short term gains both.

2

Opinion Based

Bureaucracy to

be having

balanced

perception.

Shed absolutist

approach don’t

go for liking

and emotions.

Be applied and

Holistic.

Talk to as many

people as possible.

Accommodate their viewpoints.

Don’t be intolerant.

3

Knowledge

Intensive Topics

Bureaucracy to

be world citizens,

cosmopolitan

citizens. Have a

global outlook.

Develop a

global

perspective.

Academic and

Applied.

Reading, reading

and reading.

4

Abstract Topics

Whether you are

a thinker or not,

Whether you can

be lonely in a crowd or be surrounded by

your thoughts when you are alone.

Logic out everything or express anything that you can. Keep

expressing till you find right expressions.

Observational

with a high

degree of

application

based

awareness.

Follow several

quotes on that

topic and perfect

the one that you

take it wear it.

5

Current Affairs

Based

Whether you are

abreast of everything

happening around you or not. How honest are you in

gathering and

processing

information

Have your

senses

completely

functional and

if you are able

to see 360

degrees

To be

Contemporary

Don’t confine

yourself to one

magazine or

newspaper

6

Nature Of India

And Indianess,

Diversity Of India

Related To

Culture And

Civilization

Understanding

the country,

respect it, accept

it. Wants you to be

a part of Nation

Building

Evince Interest

in the topic. Evince interest in art and architecture. Feel proud over the heritage including

mythology. Travel

important places.

Start Respecting

and accepting the diversity

Visit School

Books

Collect matter

on trends in

Literature and

forms

Think of

visiting some

cultural

centres

Must feel Indiannes and its changing

paradigms. Know

the perspectives of other generations. Enter into a

conversation with the. Enhanced Group

communication.

Learn to build

Social capital

7

Perception

Towards The Past

Understand the

evolution and

Problems of the

Indian Middle

Class. How history

shapes views and views and attitude, pride shape up the

country’s thinking.

Link History

with Present

Study India's

Struggle for

Independence

by Sen Identify

issues in

history

Separate

contributions

of personalities.

Read J.

Bandopadhyay &

S. Sen

Shashi Tharoor

8

Deep

Understanding

Topics Of

Colonization,

Decolonization,

Neocolonisation

Understand their

mindset that governs the people of the India and the world; Understand what governs their

relationships

between countries, their identities, and its present

manifestation if

any.

Be observant

about our

surrounding

and feel if our

identity is

intact or has

been held

ransom to

some country.

Develop

observation

power.

Draw definitive

conclusion

about India's

and some

Colonised

countries

present state

and the reasons behind that state.

Go through

Shashi Tharoor

9

Political Economy

Philosophies.

Knowledge, and

Understanding

Develop a

scholarly

ability

Discussion

among groups,

Updated Links

All books that

you have studied.

10

Role Of Women

Understand

Gender issues

Develop

understanding

of the

problems

faced by

women. See

the world from

their angle.

Attitudinal, and

Informative

Know government's

programme

and plan of

action; conceptualise Women's

specific

problems and

Blogs of Vineeta

Dawra Nangia,

Specific Issues of

India Today

11

Population And

Poverty

Associated Issues

Develop an

understanding of

How big the problem is? Know the reality of poverty and related aspects. Understand the core issues facing the country. As an

administrator,

understand the

meaning of development.

Develop

perspective on

whether the

problem is an

actual problem

or not, or

whether the

population can

pay any

dividend

Academic

Newspapers and

K. Siddhartha sir

blog

12

Urbanization,

Development

Globalisation

Their Problems

and  Impact

Urban

Governance Urban thinking, Urban attitude, Be global as well as Indian.

Develop

perspective

Analytical

Cities,

Urbanisation and

Urban Systems

13

Comprehensive

No frills, Get

yourself tested

for basics,

knowledge and

your expression

Be curious, be

interdisciplinary, enjoy your

learning, make

it fun filled,

don’t try too

hard, but don’t

bluff yourself

or the

examiner

Must learn how to prepare a summary, a flowchart for

simplification Prepare a synopsis on every chapter,

imagine all the

questions that

can be framed

and just write

the structure or

the skeletal of

the topic. Focus only on organising

the answer,

presenting it

beautifully like an ensemble of dress. You don’t wear

pyajama and shirt, or a mini skirt and a

kurti.

Go only for

recommended

readings,

recommended

direction of

preparation, rest

of the

responsibility and

accountability is

ours.

COMPONENT OF PREPARATION

DATE ASSIGNED

INSTRUCTION

Strategy about essay Learning

Listening to one Essay per Day

15^th Jan to 15^th April 2019

Late joining students must adjust themselves accordingly

Assignment 1

Identifying essay topics on each of the 13 sections.

15^th Jan to 15^th April 2019

Send the classified topics as instructed.

Assignment 2

Write an essay a day after listening to the video discussion from 15^th Jan to 15^th April 2019

Tests

One essay test a month

Submission of written test and its evaluation through discussion on zoom.

Final Tests

Two Full essay test

Submission of tests by 15^th March

Variables

Good

Average

Comments

Where Improvement Needed

Language.

Expression.

Structure of the answer.

Ogranisation of thought.

Objectivity involved in the answer.

Comprehension of the topic.

Problem solving ability.

Focus and attention.

Negativity tendency.

Attitude whether learner or Judgmental.

Balance of perception.

Simplicity of disposition.

VARIABLE

GOOD

REASONABLE

TRASH/QUESTIONABLE

Attitude

Sincerity

Knowledge and information processing capability

Scope of improvement

Ability to forge links in an interdisciplinary manner