West Bengal Civil Judge Mains 2021 (Compulsory Papers) Question Paper

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West Bengal Judicial Service (Main) Examination 2021: Compulsory Papers

WEST BENGAL JUDICIAL SERVICE MAINS (COMPULSORY PAPERS)

West Bengal Judicial Service (Main) Examination 2021:

Compulsory Papers

ENGLISH COMPOSITION AND PRÉCIS WRITING

Time Allowed: 3 Hours

Full Marks: 100

If the questions attempted are in excess of the prescribed number, only the questions

attempted up to the prescribed number shall be valued and the remaining ignored. The

figures in the margin indicate the full marks for the question.

1. Write an essay on any one of the following topics: [30]

(a) COVID-19 pandemic and its social challenge.

(b) Woman, domestic violence and the law.

(c) Man and animal conflict: the role of conservation.

(d) Social stigmas in modern India.

2. Write a précis of the following passage and add a title: [20 + 5 = 25]

While wealth is a great factor for ensuring the happiness of human life, it is easily liable to

be employed by one set of people against others. Besides, wealth has a tendency to

concentrate in the hands of a few, with the result that the rich become richer and the poor

poorer. In the existing conditions of society, we find there are classes of people who are

miserable and unhappy, while there are others who are rich, well-fed and comfortable. Such

differences in economic conditions are mainly due to the maldistribution of wealth in society.

It is generally maintained that in a capitalistic society maldistribution of wealth is inevitable.

The question is, therefore, raised whether, in a capitalistic society, wealth conduces to

maximum human welfare. On the other hand, debate may also arise that in a rigid welfare

state the population becomes over-dependent on state aid and consequently loses the

motivation to seek avenues of self-employment. It is necessary to strike a middle-of-the-road

approach in governance to ensure the growth of a people with access to necessary help from

the state but also having a climate of self-help and entrepreneurial zeal.

3. Write a dialogue between two friends on any one of the topics: [15]

The traditional library will only survive in digital mode in future.

The growing problem of unemployment in COVID-19 affected economies.

4. Write a letter on any one of the following topics: [15]