Essays : Sample Questions

2018 UPSC Essay Paper is now available. Exam took place today from 9 AM to 12 PM 

See Topics 1, 4 & 6 of the paper

Now please see Trademark IAS probable essays [published on 06 SEP 2018]

http://trademark-ias.blogspot.com/2018/09/upsc-cse-mains-2018-essays.html

7. Improper history can ruin generations to come.

19. Performance of Indian Army within and without the borders

For Topic 1 of UPSC paper:

Mark Trademark IAS GS 3 ATS Qs : [compilation to be published soon]

"Post a critique of India's climate change approach"

We would be posting sample questions toward UPSC CSE MAINS 2018

This is the first post in that series

The top 24 belong to Advanced Test Series [ATS] 2018

1. The future conflict zone is Water.

2. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

3. How can India perform better in the next Olympics?

4. Judiciary needs reforms, but the question is how?

5. We talk of pluralism and gender equality; but have we been able to achieve either?

6. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

7. Improper history can ruin generations to come.

['The Past is a permanent dimension of human consciousness and values' essay of UPSC 2018 has a direct correlation with this topic. The past = Human History {HH}. HH builds human consciousness & values. It is ingrained in them, shapes them up and shares a symbiotic relationship. HH gets reflected in human social, political, moral & cultural consciousness and vlaue-system of the present. The topic asks for an elaboration of the definition of HH.]

 

8. Often unnoticed, India has displayed a successful paradigm of taming insurgencies. 

9. Self-Help Groups form the backbone of India’s rural economy

   10. “You give me competent and honest teachers, I will give you a great country”

   11. A sensitised and sensitive police force is the requirement of the day for India

   12. Has India performed better in technology and engineering but not in basic science?

       13.      “Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven” [Tagore]
  
   [environment related essay - there was a

climate change essay in UPSC 2018]

       14.      India’s economy is back on track. Can it pick up speed?

15.      Children and violence : various dimensions

    16.  “Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well”

      17.      War and violence pose a double jeopardy for women

     18. The bottlenecks which plague South Asia

[border disputes essay of UPSC 2018 is a subset of this topic]

     19. Performance of Indian Army within and without the borders


[border disputes essay of UPSC 2018 is a subset of this topic]
 

    20. Are industrially developed nations the only exemplar of growth?

     21.      “Bombs and pistols do not make a revolution. The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas.” 

      22. “Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door”

       23. Internet, censorship and friends

       24. Will Artificial Intelligence rule the future?

      

           

     ATS 2017

             1. Demonetisation, GST, Make-in-India : India has come a long way

2. Triple Talaq and condition of Muslim women in India

3. Should India import latest technology on Defence or focus on in-house research?

4. Social Media and Secular India

1. It's Oil which Controls !

2. "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

3. "Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself"

4. So beautiful, yet so troubled : India's North-Eastern States

1.      Non-Governmental Organisations: Good, Bad and the Ugly?

2.      Cryptocurrency – the currency of the future

3.      Has the Indian Police force delivered?

4.      India has carved a niche in space missions

1.      Creativity knows no bounds, yet censorship is required

2.      “One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next.”

3.      "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart."

4.      Has India failed its farmers?

1.      India’s labour force will soon overtake China as the world’s largest, but India is struggling to generate opportunities for a workforce with the wrong skills”

2.      India one of the top five defence spenders in the world. What should India do to bolster the defence sector?

3.      India has about 17 percent of world population. India saw polio being eradicated from the country and life expectancy grow to 68.89 years which was only 32 years at time of independence. What more can India do in the health sector?

4.      At 227 million people, India’s internet user base is now the second largest in the world after China

1.      “Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your country.”

2.      “We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.”

3.      Supreme Court says that “Indian Temples can’t ban women or restrict their entry”. And Malala Yousafzai says that “We cannot all succeed if half of us are held back”.

4.      Sanitation, Cleanliness and Happy Family Life : the Holy Trinity in India

Last minute 15 Essays !!

1. India at 2050

2. Life of a common man/woman in India

3. Why India's foreign policy is the way it is?

4. India at 2018 could still be found in its temples & mosques

5. There are so many different Indias

6. Ten ideas / personalities which/who shaped India

7. Why so few Nobel Laureates from India?

8. The magic of Yoga

9. The Great Indian Cinema

10. Monsoon and India

11. The responsibility of being an intellectual

12. Ours is a society of images & selfies

13. 10 years - the world has moved on from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers

14. Nationalism and Patriotism 

15. Despite all odds and criticisms, Indian Bureaucracy delivers.