RBI Grade B mains 2014 corrected paper. I received the photocopy of the corrected paper in response to RTI request. I would want nothing in return except your valuable feedback. Please feel free to comment on my answers mentioning the question no.
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U have written really well , tips fr essay -
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Use quotes , tht can fetch good marks--
"Nature has enough for Man's Need but not for Man's Greed" - Mahatma Gandhi
Quotations are highly useful for essays & need to be memorized well.
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Use some typical words - substitute to common words can fetch u good marks.
Some Typical Words to be Used-
Hate: loathe, detest, abhor, dislike, abominate, despise
I know u must know most of things as u r preparing fr iAS but i want to share things & help u whatever way i can. Way 2 thnk u fr help.
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https://visionias.wordpress.com/category/ias-essay/
http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/?s=economics&submit.x=0&submit.y=0
https://anaydwivedi.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/85/
"Some Good Quotes"
1. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. -Napoleon Hill 2. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein 3. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein 4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost 5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale 6. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. - Wayne Gretzky
7. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan 8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. - Amelia Earhart 9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. - Babe Ruth 10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. - W. Clement Stone 11. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism. - Kevin Kruse 12. Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. - Kevin Kruse 13. We become what we think about. - Earl Nightingale
14. Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. - Charles Swindoll 15. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker 16. The mind is everything. What you think you become. - Buddha 17. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. - Chinese Proverb
18. An unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates 19. Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen 20. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi 21. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. - Stephen Covey 22. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
23. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus 24. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. - Jim Rohn 25. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford 26. Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford 27. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain 28. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. - Mark Twain
29. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 30. The best revenge is massive success. - Frank Sinatra 31. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar 32. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. - Zig Ziglar 33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin 34. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Aristotle 35. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. - Aristotle 36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. - Jesus
37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. - Henry David Thoreau 39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. - Erma Bombeck 40. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. - Ancient Indian Proverb 41. Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt
42. Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear. - George Addair
43. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato 44. Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know," and thous shalt progress. - Maimonides 45. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. - Arthur Ashe 46. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. - John Lennon 47. Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon
48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb 49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller 50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. - Confucius 51. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius 52. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank 53. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu 54. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Maya Angelou
55. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou 56. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. - Maya Angelou 57. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. - Sheryl Sandberg 58. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin Proverb 59. You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground. - Unknown 60. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. - Marie Curie 61. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown
62. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine 63. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
64. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Booker T. Washington 65. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. - Leonardo da Vinci 66. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. - Jamie Paolinetti 67. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. - Erica Jong 68. What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan 69. I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. - Benjamin Franklin 70. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. - Bill Cosby
71. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. - Chinese Proverb 72. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. - Roger Staubach 73. It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot 74. You become what you believe. - Oprah Winfrey 75. If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. - Oprah Winfrey 76. If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh 77. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. - Vincent van Gogh
78. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown 79. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. - Ann Landers 80. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren 81. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. - Farrah Gray 82. The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself-the invisible battles inside all of us-that's where it's at. - Jesse Owens 83. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. - Sir Claus Moser 84. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. - Rosa Parks
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http://iksa.in/downloads-resources/
http://ravindranath-reddy.blogspot.in/2011/01/upsc-success-mantras.html
at this just above link , in search - type area on which u want essay - ex , i have typed economics in search , and list will b displayed.
Good essay on below link - ex also---
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Should The Death Penalty Be Banned For Mohammed Afzal?
(an article published in website:Civil Service India))
To hang or not to hang? The death sentence verdict against Mohammed Afzal for his involvement in the terrorist attack on the Indian parliament in 2001 has once again revived the controversy about capital punishment.
The death penalty has existed as long as humans have existed. A central principle of a just society is that every person has an equal right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The essential basis on which community is built requires each citizen to honor the rightful claims of others. The utter and deliberate denial of life and opportunity to others forfeits ones own claim to continued membership in the community, whose standards have been so brazenly violated. The preciousness of life in a moral community must be so highly honored that those who do not honor the life of others make null and void their own right to membership. Those who violate the personhood of others must pay the ultimate penalty. The death penalty for Mohammed Afzal sufficiently honors the nature of moral community.
The arguments against capital punishment for Mohammed Afzal are: -
Are these arguments valid?
Firstly, the judiciary has really done a commendable job in Afzal's case. It is not that overnight in a single day the verdict has been given. Over the last four and a half years the investigations were done, analyzed, and after which the verdict has been given. The court has found it to be"a terrorist act of gravest severity" and "a spectacle of the rarest of rare cases", warranting the death sentence. Activists say capital punishment violates the right to life. But activists fail to understand that Right to life is guaranteed to Human beings who value humanistic principles, not the pathogens like Afzal who disease the society. A criminal who planned and committed a mass murder is definitely a pathogen to the society.
Secondly, the argument that the death penalty is no deterrent does not hold water. If this reasoning is true, we do not need any law against murder, robbery, rape, etc., because they continue to be committed despite stringent laws. Deterrence is not the principal aim of penalty. Men should be punished for their own crimes and not merely to deter others. I would like to insist here that such stringent punishments like death penalty keep the society in control. In absence of proper social control strategies like this, people will take everything for granted. Then there will be complete chaos and confusion in the society. A Gallup International poll found that "Worldwide support was expressed in favor of the death penalty." Afzal is a "menace to the society", whose "life should become extinct" to satisfy "the collective conscience of the society."
Thirdly, what is morality and humanity? Respecting other's rights equally as we respect our own rights, is morality. Death penalty is for merciless and remorseless persons like Afzal. There is no question of mercy for callous persons like Afzal. This is the real humanism. The man who spared no thought for the families of the victims cannot be shown mercy. Afzal alive is more dangerous than Afzal dead for the humanity.
Fourthly, a crime is a crime, no matter to which religion or region the perpetrator belongs. To show sympathy to a terrorist mastermind would be suicidal. It will be a crime against the common people who are exposed to terrorism day in and day out. Death penalty is awarded to a terrorist not to a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian or else to a Kashmiri or a Gujarati or a Tamilian. Coincidentally, Afzal happened to be a Kashmiri Muslim and nothing more than that. Activists should realize one thing that crossing all boundaries such as Hindu/ Muslim/Christian and so on... we are all human beings.
Fifthly, Yasin Malik's argument that Afzal's execution will derail the India-Pakistan peace process is unacceptable and illogical. By supporting Afzal, Pakistan is once again showing its original colors of terrorism to the world. Commuting his capital punishment will bolster the morale of the subversive anti-India forces and would be like playing prank at our heroic security forces who are risking their lives for safeguarding the country. The attack on parliament was an attack on India's sovereignty and democracy. Clemency to Afzal will show to the world that India is soft on terrorism, which is not conducive to the integrity and sovereignty of India. Even in those countries where death penalty has been abolished, there are campaigns to re-examine their system in view of the increasing volume of terror.
One solution that activists forward is to extend life imprisonment well beyond the present limit of 14 years to make such incarceration cover the convicted person's entire life, especially in cases of terrorism taking a high toll. A convicted terrorist undergoing life imprisonment is a potential threat for another terrorist act to secure his release. In such case of life imprisonment the government has to take the responsibility of taking care of him and spend on his further life period inside the jail. Why should the taxpayer's money be wasted in taking care of a terrorist? Why should the jail be crowded? Instead of taking care of him for the rest of his life, if essential the government can take care of his wife and son till his son attains 21 years old. This is the real humanism and not clemency to Afzal.
A diseased person is given proper medication to get cured by killing pathogens that have invaded the body. Similarly a diseased society is medicated by such stringent punishments to keep the society in a healthy state. If the death sentence against Afzal is cancelled on mercy grounds, the society will surely have to face some other irresistible form of disease manifestation. Then even God with his omnipotence will not be able to save humanity. I would like to point here that even Goddess Durga killed Mahishaasura a pathogenic element of the society. Eliminating pathogenic elements like Afzal from the society is inevitable and divine in fact.
If the wrong guy is put to death, then that's a double tragedy. Not only has an innocent person been executed but also the real perpetrator of the crime has not been held accountable for it, and in some cases may be still at large. But I support the death penalty in the most heinous cases, like Afzal's. I strongly appeal to all the intellectuals and social activists not to fight for getting clemency to persons like Afzal, and to fight for genuine cases only. Media should also make it a point that they should not create an unnecessary hype for such issues involving thick-skinned persons like Afzal. "Let us not make a criminal look like a hero."
"If a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good."- Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica. - S. MURUGARAJA
Tips by IAS-
Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance. Once planning has been done, the final task is just to put down in good grammatically correct English (or the chosen language) all your thoughts. Focus on the grammar here. That must be as accurate as possible. Refrain from using tough words if you are not confident about their meaning.(but some say at least use some words). Simple, clear sentences are much better than complicated, flowery language which is hard to understand. The purpose of the Essay is not to show-off your language, but to show your thought process and your refined ideas. Focus on linking your paragraphs. Use connectors like - Moreover, In Addition, Furthermore, However, Nevertheless, While - to traverse from one paragraph / point /argument to the next. For giving examples, use different terms like - for example, for instance, consider this, notably etc.
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