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📚 UPSC Mains 2025 GS-IV Paper (Ethics & Aptitude)

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UPSC Mains 2025 — GS Paper IV (Ethics) Analysis & Preparation

GS-IV challenges your ethical foundations, decision-making, and governance mindset. This is where discipline meets dilemma—your answers reveal your moral reasoning and officer potential.

Why GS-IV Ethics Is a Game-Changer

Ethics paper tests not just theoretical concepts but your ability to judge, motivate, and act with integrity under pressure. Excellence here signals empathy, public trust, and readiness for administrative responsibility.

📑 GS4 2026 Strategy at a Glance

• Master Theory: Core values—integrity, objectivity, empathy, non-partisanship.
• Case Study Practice: Daily solve one dilemma, stakeholder mapping, and justify actions.
• Real-Life Examples: Collect 10 instances from media, governance, and social work to cite in answers.
• Structure Answers: Use Intro-Problem-Option-Decision-Justification-Conclusion format.
• Recommended Reads: Lexicon, Subba Rao, ARC Reports, and Michael Sandel's Justice.
• Revision Cycle: Solve previous 10 years' questions before next attempt.

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📚 Key Resources For GS4 Preparation

Lexicon – Ethics

ARC Reports

Case Study Approach

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💡 UPSC GS-IV Syllabus Summary

• Ethics & Human Interface: Essence, determinants, consequences, dimensions.
• Attitude: Influence, relation to thought, behavior, and moral behaviour.
• Aptitude and Foundational Values for Civil Service, Emotional Intelligence concepts.
• Contributions of moral thinkers from India & the world.
• Public/Civil service values, probity, and governance.
• Ethical issues in governance, corruption, and case studies.

Practice Checklist for Aspirants

• Solve 10 case studies from previous years.
• Review one real-world administrative dilemma weekly.
• Revise notes and past mistakes monthly.
• Keep answer format consistent: Stakeholders → Dilemma → Options → Decision → Justification → Conclusion.

“Discipline and everyday effort shape your ethics. Let your preparation mentor your decision-making—the IAS journey demands not just knowledge, but always wisdom in action.”

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