INTRODUCTION

This section contains model answers to UPSC GS Paper IV (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude) from 2013 to 2017. Answers to descriptive or even analytical questions in social sciences can never be definitive. In this regard, they differ from problems in exact sciences like physics or mathematics or statistics, which have single or unique answers. In the social sciences, there can be no uniformity in the structure or content of answers, or in the relative emphasis which can be placed on parts of a question.

Despitetheseissues,we areawarethatstudentsarekeen to haveanswerswhichcanserve as models. Therefore students should study the answers given below critically, and treat them as possible models. They have been tailored exactly to the need of the questions in terms of length, content, focus and coverage. Students may carefully read the following tips on how to answer questions for this Paper