QUESTION 1(b)
GS4
10 marks
Differentiate between:(a) Law and Ethics;(b) Ethical management and Management of ethics;(c) Discrimination and Preferential treatment;(d) Personal ethics and Professional ethics.
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7 min
200 words
What the examiner wants
Differentiate four pairs: law and ethics, ethical management and management of ethics, discrimination and preferential treatment, personal and professional ethics.
DifferentiateAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Law vs ethics: external, codified, enforced by state vs internal, broader, enforced by conscience; overlap but not identical≈35 words
- 2Ethical management (running an organisation ethically) vs management of ethics (systems to promote ethics: codes, training, audits)≈35 words
- 3Discrimination (unfair, arbitrary exclusion) vs preferential treatment (reasonable classification for substantive equality - Articles 15(4), 16(4))≈35 words
- 4Personal (individual values) vs professional (role-based duties, codes) - and conflicts between them≈35 words
Open in about 30 words and close in about 30.
Answer plan
Four pairs, each with definition and one exampleBrief conclusion
Where marks usually go
- Giving definitions without examples for each pair
- Spending too long on one pair
Draw this
- Four-row table: each pair with key difference and one example for each side
Value addition
- CaseIndra Sawhney (1992) upheld OBC reservation as valid preferential treatment, with a 50% ceiling.Supreme Court, 1992
- RuleAll India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968 codify professional ethics for civil servants.AIS Conduct Rules, 1968
Mapped topper copies
Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Aakash Garg · AIR 5 · Page 17 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 27 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Vidushi Singh · AIR 13 · Page 9 ↗Same syllabus reference
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 25 ↗Same syllabus reference
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