West Bengal Civil Judge Mains 2022 (Compulsory Papers) Question Paper

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West Bengal Judicial Service (Main) Examination 2022: Compulsory Papers

WEST BENGAL JUDICIAL SERVICE MAINS (COMPULSORY PAPERS)

West Bengal Judicial Service (Main) Examination 2022:

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) Women in the workplace.

(b) Deforestation and ecological disasters.

(c) Nationality and economic migration in a globalised world.

(d) Social media and self-restraint.

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

That Machiavelli’s Prince contains the most immoral things and that Machiavelli has no

scruples about recommending to the ruler all sorts of deception, of perfidy and cruelty is

incontestable. There are, however, not a few modern writers who deliberately shut their eyes

to this obvious fact. Instead of explaining it, they make the greatest efforts to deny it. They

tell us that the measures recommended by Machiavelli, however objectionable in themselves,

are only meant for the “common good”. The ruler has to respect this common good. But

where do we find this mental reservation? The Prince speaks in quite a different, in an

entirely uncompromising way. The book describes, with complete indifference, the ways and

means by which political power is to be acquired and to be maintained. About the right use

of this power it does not say a word. It does not restrict this use to any consideration for the

commonwealth. It was only centuries later that the Italian patriots began to read into

Machiavelli’s book all their own political and national idealism. In any word of Machiavelli,

declared Alfieri, we find the same spirit, a spirit of justice, of passionate love for freedom, of

magnanimity and truth.

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

The spirit and the letter of the law.

The use of Indian languages in official discourse.