Mains Practice Questions

Essay Topic

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Essay Topic

Mind is never a problem. Mindset is.

Essay Topic

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow

Essay Topic

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Q. International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power. 

Q. Federalism for me but not for thee.

Q. Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Q. You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Q. What rives a man to be a leader? Is it love? Is it hatred?

Q. Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.

Q. Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Q. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Q. It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Q. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Q. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Q. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Q. The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Q. Feminism is for everybody.

Q. Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

Q. There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Q. Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birthright of all.

Q. National sovereignty can only be achieved after self-sovereignty.

Q. Freedom of speech is a human right and the foundation upon which democracy is built.

Q. Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen. 

Q. There can be no social justice without economic prosperity but economic prosperity without social justice is meaningless. (UPSC Mains 2020)

Q. Mindful manifesto is the catalyst to a tranquil self. (UPSC Essay Mains 2020)

Q. Ships do not sink because of water around them,  ships sink because of water that gets into them. (UPSC Mains 2020)

Q. Technology as the silent factor in international relations. (UPSC Mains 2020)

Q. Patriarchy is the least noticed yet the most significant structure of social inequality. (UPSC Mains 2020)

Q. Culture is what we are, civilization is what we have. (UPSC Mains, 2020)