Candidates are required to write essays on 2 topics out of given 8 topics. They will be expected to keep closely to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fashion and to write concisely. Credit are given for effective and exact expression.

Topics of last few years are :
  • Cyberspace and internet: Blessing or curse to the human civilization in the long run
  • Destiny of a nation is shaped in its classrooms.
  • Technology cannot replace manpower.
  • Crisis faced in India – moral or economic.
  • Dreams which should not let India sleep.
  • Can capitalism bring inclusive growth?
  • Lending hands to someone is better than giving a dole.
  • Quick but steady wins the race.
  • Water disputes between states in federal India
  • Character of an institution is reflected in its leader.
  • Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make a man more clever devil.
  • Innovation is the key determinant of economic growth and social welfare
  • Cooperative federalism: Myth or reality
  • Farming has lost the ability to be a source of subsistence for majority of farmers in India.
  • Impact of the new economic measures on fiscal ties between the union and states in India.
  • Has the Non- Alignment Movement(NAM) lost its relevance in a multipolar world.
  • Fulfillment of ‘new woman’ in India is a myth.
  • We may brave human laws but cannot resist natural laws.
  • Social media is inherently a selfish medium.
  • If development is not engendered, it is endangered
  • Need brings greed, if greed increases it spoils breed
  • Near jobless growth in India: An anomaly or an outcome of economic reforms
  • Digital economy: A leveller or a source of economic inequality