Youth, Discipline & Excellence
Essay Category: 4.5 & 4.6 | Last updated: 2026-06-04
PYQs Asked
- Social media is triggering Fear of Missing Out amongst the youth. -2024
- It is best to see life as a journey, not as a destination. -2025
- The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing. -2024
- Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. -2023
- Not all who wander are lost. -2023
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. -2022
- Quick but steady wins the race. -2015
- Discipline means success, anarchy means ruin. -2008
- Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. -1994
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