
Akansh Dhull
Genuine and correctly attributed: Akansh Dhull (Roll MT23 KTRA 004), NextIAS MTS Rapid Test-1 GS Paper-I, dated 19/08/2023, Online; cover note 'This Copy is from 2023 Mains'.
17 questions · 14 examples analysed
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56 handwritten mains booklets from 12 candidates, written on NextIAS test-series papers. The widest paper spread of any source here — Essay, all four GS papers and full-length GS booklets — from twelve candidates including CSE 2025 rankers Akansh Dhull (Rank 3) and Animesh Jain (Rank 63).
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Genuine and correctly attributed: Akansh Dhull (Roll MT23 KTRA 004), NextIAS MTS Rapid Test-1 GS Paper-I, dated 19/08/2023, Online; cover note 'This Copy is from 2023 Mains'.
17 questions · 14 examples analysed

Example density is the signature strength - named role-models (Bose, Shastri, S.R. Sankaran, Ashok Khemka, Visvesvaraya, E. Sreedharan, Prasanth Nair) are deployed for almost every point.
19 questions · 10 examples analysed

A pure current-affairs play: all 10 answers are pulled straight from 2024-25 headlines — Trump-era reciprocal tariffs, IWT-in-abeyance after Pahalgam, the Red Sea/Houthi crisis, BRICS' Kazan expansion, India-Taliban talks, the Iran-Israel war, WTO paralysis and the India-China thaw.
10 questions · 9 examples analysed

Rank-8 topper attempts all 10 GS-III questions, a complete Science-&-Tech plus internal-security spread, every answer closed with a forward-looking line
10 questions · 10 examples analysed

Opens the duty-ethics answer (Q1a) by naming the cost of over-emphasising duty — Red Tapism, disregard for ends, short-sightedness — before mapping it in a branching diagram
2 questions · 8 examples analysed

Both essays open with a story-style hook — Gandhi's 'what could challenge the mighty British Empire? Salt' and Adi Shankara being taught humility by Lord Shiva disguised as a Chandala — before stating an explicit roadmap of the questions the essay will tackle.
2 questions · 14 examples analysed

Both essays hook the reader with a concrete human story before analysis — Riya, the slum schoolgirl whose flooded home symbolises unplanned urbanisation; Sushant Singh Rajput for loneliness
2 questions · 14 examples analysed

Every one of the 10 answers opens with a current-affairs hook and closes with a quotable one-liner — textbook intro/conclusion discipline.
10 questions · 9 examples analysed

Complete attempt — all 12 questions (Q1-6 theory parts plus six full case studies) answered in English across ~54 handwritten pages; clean, legible blue ink.
19 questions · 14 examples analysed

Genuine NextIAS 'Ethics Enhancer Test 2024' (EE2401, Test 01) full GS4 paper by Deepali Mahto — all 12 questions attempted in English across a ~52-page booklet
19 questions · 14 examples analysed

Genuine Diksha Rai copy — NextIAS 'Ethics Enhancer Test 2024' (EE2401, Test 01, 07-Aug-2024); all 12 questions attempted across Section A (theory) and Section B (case studies), ~56 booklet pages.
19 questions · 14 examples analysed

Full attempt - all 20 questions answered (Q1-Q10 at 10 marks, Q11-Q20 at 15 marks); nothing left blank.
20 questions · 7 examples analysed

MISASSEMBLED FILE: only Pg 1-3 of Animesh's NextIAS booklet are present (Q1a + Q1b); booklet Pg 4-54 are replaced by a different candidate's 'VAJIRAM & RAVI' Ethics booklet (PDF p9-59) — do not attribute that work to Animesh.
2 questions · 11 examples analysed

Genuine, very neat blue-ink handwriting with key terms consistently underlined — fully legible throughout
10 questions · 14 examples analysed

Two complete essays, one per section: Section A on 'Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization' (topic 4, circled in the margin) and Section B on 'The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same' (topic 6).
2 questions · 14 examples analysed
Rank 4 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 4 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 8 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 1
Rank 8 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 3
Rank 8 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 11 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 2
Rank 11 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 1
Rank 19 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 19 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 1
Rank 19 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 2
Rank 36 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 1
Rank 36 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 1
Rank 36 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 36 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 36 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 3
Rank 36 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 2
Rank 36 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 2
Rank 40 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 3
Rank 40 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 40 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 40 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 48 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 3
Rank 48 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 2
Rank 63 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 3
Rank 63 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
Rank 95 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 3
Rank 95 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 1
Rank 95 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 2
Rank 95 · CSE 2025 · GS Paper 4 · Ethics
56 booklets from 12 candidates, covering Essay (17), Full GS mains (10), GS Paper 1 (6), GS Paper 2 (6), GS Paper 3 (6), GS Paper 4 · Ethics (11). Every one is a free PDF — no sign-up, no paywall.
No. These are candidates' own handwritten answer sheets, written on NextIAS mains test-series papers and filed here under that label so you can find them. UnlockIAS is not affiliated with NextIAS; credit for each booklet belongs to the candidate who wrote it and to the test series that set and evaluated the paper.
Not the content — the shape. How long the introduction runs, whether the body is point-wise or paragraph-wise, where diagrams and flowcharts sit, how the conclusion links back to the question, and how much of the answer space each sub-part gets. Those are the transferable decisions; the facts you already have from your own notes.
Yes, and it is the more useful exercise. The same archive holds booklets from Vajiram & Ravi, DrishtiIAS, ForumIAS, VisionIAS, InsightsIAS. Reading two writers on the same paper from different programmes shows you which habits are genuinely common to good answers and which are just one evaluator's house style.
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