2026 · Question 1 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
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Two essays from two sections, about 1,000 to 1,200 words each. Filter by topic or year.
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2026 · Question 2 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
A grateful mind is very beautiful.
- Character, courage and moral leadership.
2026 · Question 3 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
A thorn is a changed bud.
- Change, adversity and resilience.
2026 · Question 4 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.
- Conflict and peace — who pays the price of wars between the powerful.
2026 · Question 5 · Section B · 125 marks · 1200 words
Nature is the symbol of the spirit.
- Nature, sustainability and restraint.
2026 · Question 6 · Section B · 125 marks · 1200 words
A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.
- Education, curiosity and doubt.
2026 · Question 7 · Section B · 125 marks · 1200 words
Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
- Character, courage and moral leadership.
- Means and ends.
2026 · Question 8 · Section B · 125 marks · 1200 words
A good leader is one who follows the followers.
- Character, courage and moral leadership.
- The individual and the community.
2025 · Question 1 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
Truth knows no color.
- Truth, trust and information in a digital age.
2025 · Question 2 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Conflict and peace — who pays the price of wars between the powerful.
2025 · Question 3 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
Thought finds a world and creates one also.
- Education, curiosity and doubt.
2025 · Question 4 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
Best lessons are learnt through bitter experiences.
- Change, adversity and resilience.
2025 · Question 5 · Section B · 125 marks · 1200 words
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
- Nature, sustainability and restraint.
2025 · Question 6 · Section B · 125 marks · 1200 words
The years teach much which the days never know.
- Education, curiosity and doubt.
2025 · Question 7 · Section B · 125 marks · 1200 words
It is best to see life as a journey, not as a destination.
- Change, adversity and resilience.
2025 · Question 8 · Section B · 125 marks · 1200 words
Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.
- Nature, sustainability and restraint.
2024 · Question 1 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
- Nature, sustainability and restraint.
2024 · Question 2 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind.
- Education, curiosity and doubt.
2024 · Question 3 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
There is no path to happiness; Happiness is the path.
- Means and ends.
2024 · Question 4 · Section A · 125 marks · 1200 words
The doubter is a true man of science.
- Education, curiosity and doubt.