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How can I develop my Mains answer writing skills?

by tverma

Mains answer writing

That’s a good question. There are umpteen coachings that provide Mains answer writing courses for UPSC CSE. Since I have qualified Prelims this year and will be sitting for Mains, I myself was searching for one such course and came across SUGAM. SUGAM is an answer writing course for beginners that helps them write good answers with utmost brevity. It spans 16 weeks. One can opt for either one paper a month or for all the papers in one go. Herein, students are first shown model answers so that they can get an idea of how to write logically conclusive answers.

Structure of Mains Answer Writing

I love how SUGAM is structure. Incorporating each of the papers along with the important topics is what Eden follows. Every day, students are made to write 4 questions which helps them to understand the art of answer writing. By the end of each week, 6 questions are to be attempted by the enroll students. And guess what, all these papers are evaluate by the experts of Eden IAS within 72 hours. These papers are returns back to the students with individual feedback. The most tedious part of the Mains examination is the General Studies IV or Ethics paper. Here, the Ethics paper is taken care of by the best Ethics faculty member – Mr. Tirthankar Roychowdhary. With a good command of Integrity, Ethics, and Aptitude, Tirthankar sir makes sure that students grasp the technicalities and the Faculties of the subject well. Well, practice isn’t the only thing that makes an aspirant perfect. And this is the reason why Eden takes a lot of tests. The frequency of mock tests is usually weekly and monthly. They grind you to such a great extent that you will clear the Mains examination with flying colors. 

So, in my opinion, you can enhance Mains answer writing skills via this program. It has been very beneficial in my case.

The period between Prelim and Mains is the golden time for writing practice, and even if you haven’t practiced much beforehand, a serious effort in those 3 months can be a game changer.

Let’s divide the main works into 3 parts and discuss them separately.

Essay

Document the last 20 years and try to identify the key areas on which topics are often based, e.g. B. Education, youth, development, science and technology are very common. Try to do some background work on these topics.
Now try to write one essay a week on these topics. You are the best judge of your essays and if you are satisfied after writing an essay, believe me you will get a good score.
Take a test series and write as many essays as you can. This is of great help in the exam room, where you will not have any problems with time management. If you have a study group, everyone can write and compile essays and provide feedback.
Stick to the basics and organize your ideas well, and you can get very good grades.

Optional

Try to solve all quizzes from previous years in a given time. Take the quiz series and rate your answers. In voluntary ads, the grades given can be terrible, even if you think you wrote well because you wrote what you knew and not what the question required. Therefore, a good series of tests helps to correct such errors.
General Studies
Don’t neglect the ethics work as I’ve seen students get lax and think since it’s an easier part they can get away with writing everything. Such strategies can very easily lead to bad grades (below 90).A very good ethics score (above 110) can be achieved as long as the structure of your case studies is correct. To do this, try to try as many case studies as possible.
Take at least one set of tests to get feedback on your answers. The grades awarded in the test series are also random and you shouldn’t let that put you off. A few days ago I saw a student on the Delhi Metro evaluating copies of answers!
In addition to the test suite, you should try to write answers from Eden IAS website edenias.com
We often tend to underestimate the importance of writing answers. We blame our brain for this because when we write, our brain needs to move out of the cozy, comfortable reading zone it’s in. it rarely undergoes rigorous testing. Therefore, cultivating a new habit requires a lot of self-discipline. I’ve seen students fail to complete test suites (me neither!) and write your first essay in the same exam room!

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