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✍🏻Directives Words for Mains

🌟Discuss: You have to debate on paper by going through the details of the issues concerned by examining each one of them. You have to give reasons for both for and against arguments. And once all the discussion is done, a suitable apt conclusion may be given at the end of the answer.

🌟Comment: It is opinion based question. You have to give your opinion and you also have to justify it. Give evidences, arguments, data to justify you answer.

🌟Highlight: You are expected to ‘draw special attention to’ specific aspects asked in the question.

🌟Elucidate: Elucidate means “to make clear”. In several of the questions, where the examiners use this directive, they present us with a cause-effect linkage asking us to “elucidate”. In such cases, we have to basically bring out the linkage more clearly citing evidence and examples.

🌟Elaborate: When you are asked to elaborate, you need to give detailed information in well organized manner concerning what has already been said.

🌟Explain: Explaining is to make (an idea or situation) clear by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts and to give reason so as to justify the stand.

🌟Enumerate: Enumeration means writing down a list of all the points.

🌟Define: When we are asked to define, we need to state or describe exactly the nature, scope, or meaning of the term asked in the question. Definition should mark out the boundary or limits of the concept.

🌟Illustrate: Illustrate refers to explaining or making clear by giving suitable examples.

🌟Examine: It demands you to investigate the topic deeply and bring to light to various aspects of the given topic. It refers to inspecting something closely and bringing out the facts.

🌟Critically Examine: When you are asked to examine, you have to dig deeper into the topic, get into details, and find out the causes or implications if any . When critically is suffixed, you have to highlight the pros and cons and give a balanced conclusion.

🌟Assess: It demands examination and evaluation of the given topic.

🌟Analyze: You need to examine something methodically and in detail, typically in order to explain and interpret it. You are required to take each and every part of the statement and examine them separately and also in relation with other parts.

🌟Clarify: You need to make (a statement or situation) less confused and more comprehensible.

🌟Reflect: Think deeply or carefully about something.

🌟Justify: You have to prove the validity of the statement. There are two types of questions possible with this derivative. You may be asked to justify the statement given or allowed to take a stand and to justify your stand.

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