Mains Practice Questions

Essay Topics

1. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

2. The purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

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1. All education is a search for truth and a pursuit of social betterment.

2. Unless it’s people-centric and people-driven, any reform is bound to face resistance and failure.

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1. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

2. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

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1. The true measure of a society's greatness is how it treats its weakest members.

2. The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to fulfill one's potential and contribute to the betterment of society.

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1. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

2. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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1. Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.

2. Detachment isn’t about owning nothing, it’s about nothing owes you.

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1. The mind is everything; what you think you become.

2. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

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1. Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions and thought.

2. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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1. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

2. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Essay Topics

1. The need for gender-sensitive policy-making in India and the challenges in achieving it.

2. The role of the Indian judiciary in protecting civil liberties and ensuring accountability of the state.

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1. The future of transportation: electric vehicles and self-driving cars.

2. A prudent foreign policy requires both pragmatism and opportunism.

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1. The role of civil society organizations in promoting sustainable development.

2. Life is an exam where the syllabus is unknown and question papers are not set.

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1. Shackles of slavery can never be stronger than the quest of freedom.

2 .Scourge of Left Wing Extremism can be tackled only through the twin-pronged strategy of development and deterrence.

Essay Topics

1. The endless wait for justice in India.

2. A fire cannot be extinguished with another fire. It is only water that can make a difference.

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1. Terrorism is today an industry of evil.

2. Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

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1. Winners are not those who never fail but those who never quit.

2. The future of India: Entrepreneurs, inventors and dreamers.

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1. E-Governance: the most easy, effective and economical governance.

2. There are no “natural disasters”- only inadequately planned human settlements.

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1. Trade money for time, not time for money. You’re going to run out of time first.

2. Without development of knowledge and reason, a civilization cannot advance.

Essay Topics

1. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

2. Peace cannot be kept by force but can be achieved only by mutual-understanding.

Essay Topics:

1. It is not wealth that creates road, but it is the roads that lead to the creation of wealth

2. Wisdom brings freedom

Essay Topics:

1. Men have failed; let women take over.

2. Nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Essay Topics

1. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

2. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

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1. India and China- the Epicenter's of Asian geopolitics.

2. He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

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1. What we are suffering doesn't exist.

2. The fulfilment of a ‘new woman’ in India is a myth.

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1. Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

2. War is a cowardly escape from the problems of Peace.

Essay Topics

1. Calculation is not just arithmetic but life.

2. The truth of nature is inadmissible fanaticism.

Essay Topics

1. History is dictated by the victor in the war and not by the vanquished.

2. Technological changes and increased household burden have turned private patriarchy into public patriarchy.

Essay Topics

1. Climate Change and Lifestyle
2.The unexamined life is not worth living.

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Essay Topic

1. Environmental pollution violates the fundamental right to a dignified life.
2. Curiosity is the mother of knowledge.