How to Fetch Good Marks in Mains Examination (KAS)

Marks in Mains Examination:

Mains examination is a Written examination in which you have to write in about 8 seperate papers. You need to have a good answer writing skills to fetch good marks in Mains. Writing skills are developed over the period of time during your educational career. It is a gradual process. If you are appearing in KAS mains examination and you are afraid of writing the answer, we here are mentioning about 10 ways of answer writing by which you can imrpove your answer writing to fetch good marks in mains Examination (KAS).

1. Number of questions you attempt: 

Mains score depends on how many questions you attempt and answer in each paper. In order to score high, you must attempt at least 95 to 100 percent questions. Not a single question should be left unanswered. Now what is the stratagy for attempting all questons? There may be some probelems that lead to lesser number of question attempts. One possible reason is slow writing. Improve your writing speed if you are a slow writer. Secondly, you know the answers but you write extra content in some answers and that leads to the shortage of time for other questions to attempt. This is also a cause of lesser number of questions sttempts. If you attempt a question, you will get at least some marks. If you completely leave a blank sheet for a question, you won't get any mark. So try to attempt 100 percent in KAS mains papers to get good marks.

2. Length of answer:

Length of the answers also influence the marks. If you write lengthy answers for the questions that do not required so, it means you are writing extra things in the answers and this leads to the shortage of time for other questions. So try to give equal time for equal wataged questions. Time Management  in exam hall is very important to fetch good marks. You must write same amount of content for same wataged questions. For example write two pages of answer for each of 10 marks question.

3. Diagrams and Illustrations in answer:

For the subjects like, Botany, zoology, physics, chemistry, anthropology, geography, statistics, etc diagrams are very necessasry part of the answer. Diagrams must be drawn by using pencil. Although some candidates can draw the diagrams by pen, but you must prefer the sharp pencil. Drawing diagram is also an art. It needs lot of practice to draw a clean and neat diagram. During your preparation you must draw a a diagram about 10 times for attaining perfection. Try to draw diagrams on the plan page during your preparation. Yes, speed of drawing diagram also matters a lot. You have less time in the examination hall so you need to draw the diagram very fast. During final revisions, draw the diagrams again. Initially you will take enough time to draw but after practising about 9-10 times your speed of drawing will also increase. Try to draw simple diagrams. After drawing, label the diagram well. Now where to draw a diagram? If your answer is short and it is taking a single page to cover, then draw the smaller sized diagram on the same page on right side of the page. Seperate the diagram from the text. Or you can write the answer on half page and draw the diagram on other half of the same page. For long answers, you must draw large sized diagram on a single page.

4. Style of writing and pen used:

Font size of the text should niether be very large or very small. You must be able to fit about 7-10 words in one line. And do not leave a line empty but write in each line of the page. Leaving a line in between two text lines (like children do) indicates the immature writing style. Next thing you need to mind that you must use a thick ball pen for writing the title, heading and subheadings in the Answer. Use two types of pens one with small ball point and other with large so that heading and subheading can be easily identified as Bold text. Do not use coloured pens. Use single coloured (blue) Pen.

5. Way of Writing answer: 

Another important thing is the way you write the answer. There may be different layouts you design and represent your answers. Some of the styles are as Essay type answers, Point wise answers, Graphic representations, Flow charts, etc. It depend on what the questions demands, how much time you have in the examination, and what actually you want to express. For example if there is a question that describe the causes, effects, and measures of Air pollution. It can be described in essay style if you have enough time. But if time is less you may just graphically represent the answer. Draw a circle in the centre of page and write Causes of air pollution in its centre. Then draw some arrows radiating from the circle and name the causes at the end of arrows. This is just graphical representation of "causes of airpollution". Write similarly the effects and measures of air pollution. It will save time and energy and your answer will look as simple one.

6. Content of the answer:

Yes the most important thing regaring the answer is the Content of the answer. An answer must have only the relevant content. You must reply only what is asked in question. It will save your energy and time also. If you write some thing irrelevant that will be a wasteful exercise. Answer must be to the point. You can add only limited examples in your answer. There should be no repetition of sentences in your answer. Make sure that you are able to express your real knowledge. Try to write in your own words. Use simple and easily understandable vocabulary. Answer in a straight way. Only good content will fetch good marks.

7. Essay writing skills: 

As you know mains examination is a written examination. There are 4 GS papers, 2 optional, 1 General English and 1 paper of essay writting. Essay writing paper is also a good opportunity to fetch marks in mains. Essay writing skills will help you gain the adventage. Most of the candidates do not practise the essays at home because they think that they can write essays easily. But still you must practise essay writting well before the final examination. Choose some previous essay question papers and try to write essays on daily basis. Analyse your essay regularly. We will give you simple steps how to write a good essay on a particular topic. You must know the basic technique. Firstly write an introduction about the topic which simply means you are writing "WHAT?" about the topic. Secondly you must write WHERE, WHY, WHEN and HOW? about the topic. Lastly you must conclude the essay. For example you have to write an essay on the topic "Impact of Digitization on common people". Firstly write WHAT is digitization? Then WHERE we have started the digitization? Then WHY we need it? And finally WHEN we have started it in India? Then HOW we can achive digitization. After these Ws are cleared then write the IMPACT of digitization, how it has affected the common people life. Write both negative and positive points, give more watage to postive points only. Conclude it positivly in single paragraph. Use some relevant quatations in your essay at beginning, middle and at the end. We have a seperate post on Essay writing skills. Please clik and read.

8. Speed and accuracy of calculations: 

There are some subjects in mains examinations which are mathematical in nature. Many people choose such subjects in mains examination and there are many candidates who have qualified the mains examination by choosing such subjects also. For example subjects like Physcics, Chemistry, Statistics, Mathematics, are there which need high speed and accuracy to solve the numerical natured questions asked in the examination. You can aquire the high speed and accuracy by practising the calculations at home. If you solve more questions in less time, definately your score is going to be high. Another thing is that you must read the instructions if you can use the simple calculators in examination ? Yes simple calculators are allowed in mains examination but not the scientific calculators.

9. Preparation and practice level:

Yes wholy and soly your preparations and practice level will relate the marks fetched by you in the examination. More preparation means more marks. But remember, only hardwork does not yeild. You must have to work smartly also. So prepare the subjects and practice the answer writings at home or take a test series at some private insititue, and evaluate yourself on daily basis.

10. Hand writing:

Hand writing also matter a lot. Writing cleanly and neatly will fetch good marks as it makes examiner easy to read the content in a less time. If your handwriting is not well but words can be read easily, that is also ok. Your writing should be read by other. It is true that beautiful writing takes time as there is always a dearth of time in the examination hall. So focus on readable handwriting rather than a beautiful looking one. Other thing you need to avoid is cuttings in answers. Write fairly and do not cut the lines and paragraphs. Think before you write the answer. For essay writing paper, you should firstly design a rough draft of the essay at the ending pages of your answer sheets. Then analyse the essay by taking some time. Then start writing the essay fairly. Lastly mark the cross on those rough pages and write "Rough Use" at the top of the page.

Mark cross in all left out pages in the answer sheets. It is very mandatory. It is mainy done in order to avoid any further editing or addition of content to your answer sheet. The more cleanly you write your answer the more marks you will fetch. So study smartly to fetch good marks in mains examination (KAS).


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