Essay for APSC Mains Exam – List of Suggested Essay Topics

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Essay for APSC Mains Exam - Suggested Topics List

Essay for APSC Assam exam

Essays are an integral part of test( descriptive) of English language for any examination.

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As per the new APSC Mains Exam rule, the essay paper of 250 marks to be completed in 3 hours, plays a very important role. To be written in the medium or language of the candidate’s choice. Candidate is required to write an essay on a specific topic.

SUGGESTED Essay Topics for APSC Mains Exam 2020

Group A

  • Jobless growth in India
  • Cooperative federalism in India
  • Cashless Indian economy
  • Can capitalism bring inclusive growth?
  • Protection of ecology and environment is essential for sustained economic development
  • The deteriorating health care system in India
  • Lower quality of higher/technical education in India
  • Aadhar Card – Usefulness/potential threat
  • India’s Act East policy
  • India’s Renewable Energy Targets
  • NPA issue in India
  • Social media – a enabler or a spoiler

Group B

  • Prospect of Organic farming in North Eastern region
  • Citizenship issue/NRC
  • Immigration in Assam/North east
  • Threat to ethnic identity of native population
  • Promotion of culture of Assam
  • Flood menace of Assam
  • Improvement of School education in Assam
  • AFSPA Act – needed legislation or a misused power
ANALYSIS of Previous Years Essay Questions

Year 2002 – 100 Marks

  • Free thinking
  • Science in everyday life
  • International Terrorism
  • Literature and life

Year 2006 – 100 Marks

  • The Role of Media in Indian democratic polity
  • Regional Literature and Cultural integration in India
  • Whither Indian agriculture?
  • Global terrorism and what it means to India
  • Politics and personal character

Year 2011 – 100 Marks

  • India today and what you want Her to be tomorrow
  • Liberty versus Responsibility of citizens in Democracy
  • Generation Next and Generation Before – Conflict and Cooperation between the two
  • Your idea of a scientific soceity
  • Death of the Book in the Digital Age of mass production

Recent Years Questions

  • Two Essay 50×2 =100 (400-500 words)
  • Three choices in each groups
Year Group A (50 Marks) Group B (50 Marks)
2013-14 
  • Culture and society
  • What ails Indian Sports
  • More Governance, Less governance : an agenda for Economic regeneration of India
  • Cultural heritage of Assam
  • The prospect of eco-tourism in Assam
  • Identity Politics in North-East – it’s cause and consequences
2015
  • Development imbalance in different regions of India and the role of governance as a corrective measure
  • Indian Secularism and Religious Conversion
  • Sports as a career choice
  • Bio-diversity of North-East India and its commercial viability
  • Rhino Poaching : Is there a solution?
  • Fairs and Festivals of Assam
2016
  • Role of Mass Media in transforming the society
  • State of the Indian Railways and the proposal for introduction of Bullet Trains
  • Political emancipation of women
  • India’s Look East Policy and the North-east:
    Challenges and Opportunity
  • Industrialization in Assam: Problems and Prospects
  • The diversified important traditional festivals of Assam
2018
  • Advertising: its role, uses and abuses
  • Population concerns in India: Shifting trends, policies and programmes
  • India’s Foreign Policy in changing Global Mileu
  • Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 and its impact
  • River Transport in Assam – Problems and Prospects
  • Urbanization and it’s effects on ecology, environment and society in Assam

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Essay topics asked in the Assam Finance Service 2015

  • Vanishing Greenery in Assam and its impact
  • What ails Indian Agriculture
  • Growing urbanization in India – a bane or a boon
  • The problem of consumerism and how it affects us