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QUESTION N16
GS2
12.5 marks

Professor Amartya Sen has advocated important reforms in primary education and primary health care. What are your suggestions to improve their status and performance?

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9 min
200 words

What the examiner wants

Explain/Analyse the exact proposition in the PYQ — “Professor Amartya Sen has advocated important reforms in primary education and primary health care. What are your suggestions to improve their status and performance?” — using concept/chronology or mechanism, evidence on both sides where relevant, and a conclusion that answers the directive rather than merely describing Miscellaneous (Social Sector).

Explain/AnalyseAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1For the prompt cue ‘Professor Amartya Sen has advocated important reforms in primary education and primary health care. What are your suggestions to i’, directly answer: Professor Amartya Sen has advocated important reforms in primary education and primary health care≈45 words
  2. 2For the prompt cue ‘Professor Amartya Sen has advocated important reforms in primary education and primary health care. What are your suggestions to i’, directly answer: What are your suggestions to improve their status and performance?≈45 words
  3. 3For the prompt cue ‘Professor Amartya Sen has advocated important reforms in primary education and primary health care. What are y’, add one verified official-source anchor and a limitation/counterpoint specific to Miscellaneous (Social Sector)≈45 words

Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.

Answer plan

Define/contextualise Miscellaneous (Social Sector)Explain mechanism/chronologyQuestion-specific evidence/examplesImplicationsConcise conclusion

Where marks usually go

  • For the prompt cue ‘Professor Amartya Sen has advocated important reforms in primary education and primary health care. What are your sugges’, avoid a generic note on Miscellaneous (Social Sector); answer the actual wording/directive and the Miscellaneous (Social Sector) proposition
  • For the prompt cue ‘Professor Amartya Sen has advocated important reforms in primary education and primary health care. What are your sugges’, do not add examples around Miscellaneous (Social Sector) unless they prove, qualify or rebut the proposition asked

Value addition

  • 3-box flow: concept/context → core argument/evidence → implication/way forward
    → 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.