Secure Q&A Compilation – October 2014

The following document (compilation of Q&A – October 2014)  has been prepared by “The Undercover Group”. The document has around 200 Questions and carefully written answers to each of them. It is organized GS paper wise too. For this year’s Mains, this is extremely useful. You can also download September month’s documents from here. They have …

[UPSC Mains-2014] Insights Secure Questions on Current Events, 07 November 2014

ARCHIVES 07 November 2014 Answer ALL the questions in about 200 words: 1) “The economic reforms need to be properly linked with social benefits.” Has India succeeded in this establishing this linkage? Critically examine. Business Standard 2) Critically comment on the impact of outcome of recent midterm polls  in USA on India. Business Standard 3) Recently the …

General Studies-2014: Answer Writing Challenge – 53

ARCHIVES 07 November 2014 1) “A characteristic contribution of India to musical rhythm is the tala.” Write a note on it. (150 Words) Reference 2) Write a short note on Dhrupad (100 Words) Reference 3) Write a note on Sunga art vis a vis Buddhist sculpture. (150 Words) Reference

Public Administration-2014: Answer Writing Challenge – 48

ARCHIVES 07 November 2014  Topic: Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government: Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism 1. Analyze the following statements from D D Basu, “The preamble to our Constitution serves, two purposes: (a) it indicates the source from which the constitution derives its authority; (b) it also states the objects which constitution seeks to establish …

Commerce-2014: Answer Writing Challenge – 21

ARCHIVES 07 November 2014 1) Explain the effect of absorption costing and marginal costing on net profit of a business firm. 2) Illustrate Operating Leverage and Financial Leverage. What insights you get from these two leverages? What are their limitations? 3) “Higher capital requirements might induce banks to seek higher returns in areas that are high risk or …

Geography-2014: Answer Writing Challenge – 31

ARCHIVES 07 November 2014 1) Examine critically the concepts of ‘determinism; and possibilism. Bring out the significance of regional concept. 2) ”The emergence of Behavioural Geography was due to the disillusionment with axioms on which models were based and the axioms were far removed from reality”. Comment. 3) Discuss the concept and application of systems analysis in …