I have a question for those who appeared in IR paper. For the last two years questions are of critical nature. So gow much pages are sufficient to write or how much you wrote? I can write 3 to 4 quality pages. Is it ok?

my mark 113/200 in 2018 IR. my answer went to max 5 pages. after that it becomes redundant. Thing is how beautifully you sum up answer concisely and logically

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Success is a failure turned inside out..

Can u share your strategy? CivilHuman

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"Patience ensures victory"

I got 118 last year. Since IR is somehow subjective type of paper so you must write more. The strategy is to divide each topic in Social, political,religious and economic perspective. You can write one page easily on each of them so you get 5 or 6 pages easily. The other thing is apply IR theories everywhere in each topic in each paragraph it will help you in gaining more marks. I have an engineering background and it was my first time to appear in IR paper and i got 118 with a little preparation but a very good guidance from CSP friends. Start every question with introduction and conclude it with a heading of conclusion so that the examiner may easily understand that you are going to sum up so it will make him feel relax during checking your paper. Imagine a bundle of 2000 papers in the hands of examiner and he gets 200 Rupees for each paper to check, will he give more time to each paper?? Obviously not, that is why your paper must be different from the rest of candidates and that is the key to success in CSS.

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I have learnt so much from my mistakes. i am thinking of making some more.