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QUESTION 18
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12.5 marks

Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining ISIS. What is ISIS and its mission? How can ISIS be dangerous for the internal security of our country?

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What the examiner wants

Explain/Analyse the exact proposition in the PYQ — “Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining ISIS. What is ISIS and its mission? How can ISIS be dangerous for the internal security of our country?” — using concept/chronology or mechanism, evidence on both sides where relevant, and a conclusion that answers the directive rather than merely describing ISIS / Radicalisation.

Explain/AnalyseAnswer exactly what the question asks.

Demand-wise check

  1. 1For the prompt cue ‘Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining ISIS. What is ISIS and its mission? How can ISIS b’, directly answer: Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining ISIS≈45 words
  2. 2For the prompt cue ‘Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining ISIS. What is ISIS and its mission? How can ISIS b’, directly answer: What is ISIS and its mission?≈45 words
  3. 3For the prompt cue ‘Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining ISIS. What is ISIS and its mission? How can ISIS b’, directly answer: How can ISIS be dangerous for the internal security of our country?≈45 words

Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.

Answer plan

Define/contextualise ISIS / RadicalisationExplain mechanism/chronologyQuestion-specific evidence/examplesImplicationsConcise conclusion

Where marks usually go

  • For the prompt cue ‘Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining ISIS. What is ISIS and its mission? How’, avoid a generic note on ISIS / Radicalisation; answer the actual wording/directive and the ISIS / Radicalisation proposition
  • For the prompt cue ‘Religious indoctrination via digital media has resulted in Indian youth joining ISIS. What is ISIS and its mission? How’, do not add examples around ISIS / Radicalisation unless they prove, qualify or rebut the proposition asked

Value addition

  • 3-box flow: concept/context → core argument/evidence → implication/way forward
    → Draw it in the body, next to the point it supports.

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