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Their question: “Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) as an alternative to the Public Distribution System”
Anudeep's Q18 balances the benefits and harms of DBT versus PDS, exactly 2015 Q6's 'replacement of price subsidy with DBT' question.
Key learnings from their answer
- ›For every 'comment' / 'critically examine' question he splits the page into a two-column for-vs-against table, MPC violates vs does not violate RBI independence (Q3b), DBT beneficial vs harmful (Q18), growth challenge vs emissions challenge (Q4), land reforms positives vs negatives (Q17). -> When the directive demands balance, physically structure the answer as two columns/sides rather than a paragraph; it forces a genuinely two-sided treatment and is instantly visible to the examiner.
- ›He opens nearly every answer with a one-line textbook definition before any analysis, e.g. 'Food security exists if all people at all times have physical, economic access to safe and nutritious food' (Q1), establishing the concept in the very first line. -> In a 200-word answer, spend your first sentence pinning down the key term precisely; it signals conceptual clarity and earns the easy 'context' marks before you start arguing.