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Examples of Précis Writing #1

We live in an age of great hurry and great speed. Men have lost their inward resources. They merely reflect. Like a set of mirrors, opinions which they get a little leisure, they turn to material diversions from outside rather than to inward resources. This internal vacuum is responsible for mental and nervous troubles. The cure for this is not so much treatment by medicine and surgery but a recovery of faith in the ultimate goodness, truth and the decency of things. If we are able to recover that faith, if we are able to live in this world with our consciousness centered in the intimacy of the spirit, many of the problems to which we are subject today may be overcome. Our people were regarded as aspiring after metaphysical insight, but we seem to forget that it never occurred to them to equate eternal life with either the surrender of the mind or the sacrifice of the body. When an Upanishad writer was asked to define what is meant by spiritual life. He gave the answer that it consists of the satisfaction of the mind, the abundance of tranquility of the spirit. Body, mind and spirit must be integrated and they must lead to a harmonious developed life. If we get that, we have life eternal.

Sample Answer

Title: Inward resources- Affinity with the spirit
Precis: In this age great hurry and speed men have lost internal resources. This is responsible for their mental and nervous troubles. If we reserve our faith in the goodness of life we can overcome many of our problems. Our people tried to seek metaphysical insight and religion bless. For spiritual life, there should be a proper integration of body, mind and spirit.

Examples of Précis Writing #2

Education ought to teach us how to be in love always and what to be in love with. The great things of history have been done by the great lovers, saints, men of science and artists, and the problem of civilization is to give every man a chance of being a saint, a man of science or an artist. But this problem cannot be solved unless men desire to be saints, men of science and artists. And if they are to desire that continuously they must be taught what it means to be these things. We think of the man of science, or the artist if not of the saint, as a being with peculiar gifts who exercises more precisely and incessantly perhaps, activities which we all ought to exercise.
It is a commonplace belief that art has ebbed away out of our ordinary life, out of all the things which we use, and that it is practiced no longer recognize the aesthetic activity as an activity of the spirit and common to all men. We do not know that when a man makes anything he ought to make it beautiful for the sake of doing so, and that when a man buys anything he ought to demand beauty in it for the sake of that beauty in it for the sake of that beauty. We think of beauty if we think of it at all, as a mere source of pleasure, and therefore it means to us an ornament added to things for which we can pay extra as we choose. But neatly is not an ornament to life, or the things made by man. It is an essential part of both.

Sample Answer

Title: The beauty of art
Precis: Education teach us w h at to love and h ow to be in love. If a man decide to be saint, men of science and artist, then only he get a chance of being that It is believed that spiritual art is flowing away from our lives. A man demands for the external beauty which can be fulfilled by ornaments but they forget that both are necessary to make that piece beautiful.

Examples of Précis Writing #3

Almost every country in the world believes that it has some special dispensation from Providence, that it is of the chosen people or race and that others, whether they are good or bad, are somewhat inferior creatures. It is extraordinary now this kind of feeling persists in all nations of East as well as of the West without exception. The nations of the East are strongly entrenched in their own ideas and convictions and sometimes in their own sense of superiority about certain matters. Anyhow in the course of the last two or three hundred years, they have received many knocks on the head and they have been humiliated, and they have been debased and they have been humiliated, and they have been debased and they have been exploited. And so, in spite of their feeling that they were superior in many ways, they were forced to admit that they could be knocked about and exploited.
To some extent, this brought a sense of realism to them. Three was also an attempt to escape from reality bysaying that it was sad that we were not so advanced in material or technical things but that these were after all superficial things. Nevertheless we were superior in essential things, in spiritual things and moral values. I have no doubt that spiritual things and moral values are ultimately more important than other things, but the way one finds escape in the thought that one is spiritually superior simply because one is inferior in a material and physical sense, is surprising. It does not followed by any means. It is an escape from facing up the causes of one’s degradation.

Sample Answer

Title: A wide berth from acceptance.
Precis: Every country in this world has some good things with bad things. But surprisingly they are not ready to face the reality of their inferiorities by giving the excuse if their superiority like the east which explains its inferiority in machines and technicals things of their soperiority its spiritual things.

Examples of Précis Writing #4

India has witnessed great expansion of educational opportunities since the attainment of independence. However, the disables children have not yet benefited in any substantial manner from the growth in educational facilities. Education of handicapped children ultimately becomes more dependent and nonproductive. It is therefore believed that scarce national resources should not be wasted on them. Further, it has been our misconceived notion that the education of handicapped children requires highly specialized people and as such, it must essentially be very costly. Maybe, precisely for these wrong notions we have not been able to involve clinical and educational specialization programmers of training and education exclusively meant for handicapped children. It is encouraging to note that the new National Policy on Education has recommended the placement of such children in regular schools so as to provide them integrated education along with normal students.
The integrated education will take care of the different needs of various categories and types of disabled children. The objective is to place the disabled children in ordinary schools for imparting education with the help of special teachers, aids and other resources. For fulfilling this objective an array of the necessary infrastructure by way of training of teachers, provision of equipment and book etc are some of the basic pre-requisition. Hopefully, the parents and their handicapped children will be greatly relieved when the latter are transferred to regular schools.

Sample Answer

Title: Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities
Precis: Instead of expansion of educational opportunities in India, the disabled children have not yet benefited significantly. Due to the belief that handicapped children are dependent and non productive and their education requires highly specialized teachers, educational programmes for handicapped children have never been implemented. The new National Policy on Education recommends that such children be placed in regular schools where their needs are catered to. However, to fulfill this objective, there are prerequisites such as training of teachers, provision of equipment and book, etc. Hopefully, this recommendation will bring relief to handicapped children.

Examples of Précis Writing #5

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room, but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. 1 cannot see the wit of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. I am not for criticizing hedgerows and black cattle. 1 go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to watering places, and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow room and few encumbrances. I like solitude when I do not give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude, nor do I ask for a friend in my retreat.
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect livery to think, feel, and do just as one pleases we go on a journey chiefly to be free of all inconveniences, to leave ourselves behind. It is because 1 want a little breathing space to music on different matters, that I absent myself from the town for a while without feeling at a loss. The moment I am left to myself, instead of a friend to exchange the same stale topics over again, let me have a trace with this sort of impertinence. Give me the clear blue sky over my head and the green turf beneath my feet, a winging road before me and a three hour's march to dinner and then to thinking.

Sample Answer

Title: Going on a journey
Precis: While going on a journey, I like to go alone and enjoy the company of nature. When I am in town, 1 wish to stay idle but going out of town I forget everything and enjoy my solitude without any friends. My purpose of journey is liberty, perfect livery to think, feel, and do just as one pleases. Despite any useless gossips, I love to have clear blue sky, green turf, a winging road and peace.