‘The expansion and strengthening of NATO and a stronger US-Europe strategic partnership works well for India’ What is your opinion about this statement? Give reasons and examples to support your answer.
What the examiner wants
For NATO & Strategic Balance, address directly in sequence: first, ‘The expansion and strengthening of NATO and a stronger US-Europe strategic partnership works well for India’; then, What is your opinion about this statement? Give reasons and examples to support your answer.. Keep evidence and the conclusion tied to these exact limbs.
Demand-wise check
- 1‘The expansion and strengthening of NATO and a stronger US-Europe strategic partnership works well for India’≈65 words
- 2What is your opinion about this statement? Give reasons and examples to support your answer≈65 words
- 3Use at least two question-relevant examples/evidence points to support the final judgment on NATO & Strategic Balance, proportionate to a 250-word answer≈65 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Where marks usually go
- Over-writing ‘‘The expansion and strengthening of NATO and a stronger US-Europe strategic…’ while reducing ‘What is your opinion about this statement? Give reasons and examples to support your…’ to a token paragraph
- Adding correct but adjacent facts on NATO & Strategic Balance that do not advance the exact causal, comparative or evaluative task in this PYQ
Value addition
- NATO & Strategic Balance: interest matrix — India | counterpart/system | convergence | constraint | policy lever
→ Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.
Verified value additions
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Next: plan for one minute, write it in 11 minutes, then get it checked.