OVERVIEW of GENERAL STUDIES (GS) PAPER 2: 2019
This year's question paper of GS-2 was one of the most analytical and lengthiest paper created by UPSC in the last few years. The questions were found to be on a tougher side. It was a mixture of Fundamental and Applied part. To score high in this paper, one needs to be well aware of several important articles of Indian
constitution along with current affairs, because most of the questions appearing in the GS-2 paper has direct link with recent happenings. Also one needs to include recent commissions, reports, and
its recommendations in the answers.
Let us take the example in International Relation part, USA's official pull out of UNESCO happened in December 2018, China's increasing assertion in South china sea and USA's Pacific doctrine has India and Japan playing a key role. So they were asked in 9th and 10th question.
Also this time the paper was such that one needs to devout at least 30-40 seconds per question to read and understand what is the basic demand and which part needs to be addressed.
For instance, "From the resolution of contentious issues regarding distribution of legislative powers by the courts, ‘Principle of Federal Supremacy’ and ‘Harmonious Construction’ have emerged.
Explain." Here while reading on the first instance, there are chances of misunderstanding and explaining the distribution of legislative powers but the actual demand of the question is about the "Principle of Federal Supremacy"
The difficulty level of questions can be broken up into 3 scales i.e. Easy, Moderate and Difficult.
The Difficult questions occupied the highest portion in the paper with 8 questions (4, 6, 7, 10, 16,
17, 19, & 20),
the second is occupied by the moderate level with 7 questions (1, 2, 8, 9, 13, 15, & 18),
the easy level occupied the last with 5 questions (3, 5, 11, 12, & 14).
There were 4 questions on International relations and 16 questions on Indian polity.
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