Ethics is a new addition to the list of papers on Ethics Integrity and Aptitude in the UPSC test and is the most dynamic paper of all. There is truly little to learn by heart, rather further to understand and apply.
The ethics paper has two corridors one is the question part and the other is the case study part. So we will bandy how to prepare an ethics paper.
To start, I will say that I have not studied Wordbook. Since it’s the only book available in the request, scholars tend to read this. But what I will suggest is that for ethics you do not bear any book.
Reasons
Ethics paper is lower about what’s exactly given in books. what you understand about any particular content.
No book can give samples that are truly vital to answering any ethics question.
So how one should prepare for ethics
Take the syllabus of the ethics paper and go through it.
The syllabus fluently mentions the motifs. Google each term and content of the ethics syllabus and make note of what you understand of it.
Hunt for some citations and samples for each content from which you can substantiate your arguments.
Try to write the questions formerly numerous times with the notes you make.
Advantages of this strategy
• Your answers will be unique and different from others.
• You will have a better understanding of the paper and its demand. Hence, you will deliver better.
• You will give answers in your language which will be simple and easy for the examiner to understand.
Citations and samples will make answers more authentic and applicable, hence going good marks.
And most importantly, you will not have to army the motifs. You will enjoy the drug.
Within numerous weeks, your syllabus will be completed and you will get good marks on the paper.
I answered 10 test papers (all were not done fully but only allowed/ framed the answers). These questions’ answers themselves came from my notes under applicable captions of the syllabus.Eg.
Still, I’ll add the answer in 2 lines in my notes under the heading “ Ethics and mortal interface”and try to quote it in as multitudinous places as possible, If the question is “ What were Gandhi’s views on ethics?”.
Suppose if a question appears coming time on “ Why should we be ethical”, I’ll add Gandhi’s views in addition to my own.
Also the balance is to be aimed for, the test papers may serve views from 20 people, you can handpick 3 – 4. Also if a case study is related to the dilemma related to wrongdoing in a international deal, I’ll epitomize the case/ approach under “ ethics in international relations”.
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This way each case study becomes an illustration if connected to the correctsub-heading in the syllabus and revised/ accustomed multitudinous times before the test.Eg.
There was a case study on biomedical pollution being done by the only medical installation in a pastoral area.
Still, people would lose the medical help but the terrain will be saved If it was to be shut down.
Also the dilemma is between responsibility/ integrity vs performance/ rights of people; long term vs short term pretensions; developing a middle path to balance interests,etc.
my end was to make limited notes, keep adding and use them a lot in test/ thinking before the test so that I could use them on real paper, no matter how strange a question appears.
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But this is only possible when you suppose a lot when you don’t only read your notes but breathe them.
Good luck … ….