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QUESTION 4(b)
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10 marks

There is a heavy ethical responsibility on public servants because they occupy positions of power, handle huge amounts of public funds, and their decisions have wide-ranging impact on society and environment. What steps have you taken to improve your ethical competence to handle such responsibility?

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What the examiner wants

Explain/Analyse the exact proposition in the PYQ — “There is a heavy ethical responsibility on public servants because they occupy positions of power, handle huge amounts of public funds, and their decisions have wide-ranging impact on society and environment. What steps have you…” — using concept/chronology or mechanism, evidence on both sides where relevant, and a conclusion that answers the directive rather than merely describing Ethics Theory.

Explain/AnalyseAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1For the prompt cue ‘There is a heavy ethical responsibility on public servants because they occupy positions of power, handle huge amounts of public f’, directly answer: There is a heavy ethical responsibility on public servants because they occupy positions of power, handle huge amounts of public funds, and their decisions have…≈35 words
  2. 2For the prompt cue ‘There is a heavy ethical responsibility on public servants because they occupy positions of power, handle huge amounts of public f’, directly answer: What steps have you taken to improve your ethical competence to handle such responsibility?≈35 words
  3. 3For the prompt cue ‘There is a heavy ethical responsibility on public servants because they occupy positions of power, handle huge’, add one verified official-source anchor and a limitation/counterpoint specific to Ethics Theory≈35 words

Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.

Answer plan

Define/contextualise Ethics TheoryExplain mechanism/chronologyQuestion-specific evidence/examplesImplicationsConcise conclusion

Where marks usually go

  • For the prompt cue ‘There is a heavy ethical responsibility on public servants because they occupy positions of power, handle huge amounts o’, avoid a generic note on Ethics Theory; answer the actual wording/directive and the Ethics Theory proposition
  • For the prompt cue ‘There is a heavy ethical responsibility on public servants because they occupy positions of power, handle huge amounts o’, do not add examples around Ethics Theory unless they prove, qualify or rebut the proposition asked

Value addition

  • Provision/institution → issue → implication table
    → Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.

Official source anchors

These are authoritative sources selected for this exact PYQ. Where a card is an official-domain anchor rather than a fact-level citation, verify the precise provision, definition or data point on the linked source before using it.