STRATEGY TO SCORE HIGH IN MAINS GS AND ESSAY WITH SOCIAL ISSUES

 Strategy to score high in Mains GS and Essay with Social issues

What do you do when you have just 100 rupees left to survive three days? You make the most out of it. Go for easy food that also satisfies hunger, such as instant noodles. Your strategy for scoring high in mains is kind of similar. Every aspirant knows pretty well that each and every mark matter. It decides your fate and gives meaning to all your hard work and efforts.

Let’s get right into the action and help you figure out how to score even better in UPSC CSE GS mains.

If you carefully look through the previous year’s papers, a good number of questions have been asked from Indian society and social justice. But these two topics end up being the most neglected by students and coaching institutes, assuming that they are easy to answer.


Talking numbers, questions carrying marks up to 215 marks have been asked in the UPSC mains 2020 examination. You cannot let go of such a huge number even in your dreams. Though it is easy, a well-defined preparation of these subjects is sure to fetch you guaranteed marks. As we can see, social issues is a very important topic for UPSC exams. It has major weightage in GS paper 1 mains and has implications in all the four papers of GS, and sometimes essay as well.

Aspirants who have a strong sociology background would find it even easier to crack this section, but for those not from a sociology background, worry not as we present to you a full proof plan.

Social Issues Syllabus For UPSC:

  • Salient aspects of Diversity of India and Indian Society
  • Role of women and women’s organization
  • Population and associated issues
  • Poverty and developmental issues
  • Urbanization – problems and remedies
  • Social empowerment
  • Communalism, regionalism, and secularism
  • Health and Mental Health, Drug abuse
  • Unemployment
  • Illiteracy
  • Globalization
  • Education

The social issues present widely throughout India are numerous, and each of them needs to be analytically addressed; only the

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