Proportional Paragraph Reduction (Précis Writing for Allahabad High Court RO/ARO)Proportional Paragraph Reduction (Précis Writing for Allahabad High Court RO/ARO)

Core principles governing how text must be reduced without losing administrative clarity or legal accuracy.

• One-Third Rule: The final précis must strictly be around one-third (33%) of the original passage's word count, allowing a permissible deviation of plus or minus 5%.
• Third-Person Narration: Précis must always be written in the third person (he, she, it, they, the author) and indirect speech, avoiding direct first-person ('I', 'We') or second-person ('You') pronouns.
• Elimination of Ornamentation: All rhetorical flourishes, metaphors, secondary examples, figures of speech, and repetitive anecdotes must be pruned.
• Objective Standpoint: Candidates must never incorporate personal opinions, critiques, or external facts not present in the given text.

Techniques for grasping the central theme swiftly and deriving an appropriate administrative heading.

• Skimming Technique: Rapid initial reading focusing on the opening and concluding sentences of paragraphs where core arguments usually reside.
• Central Theme Isolation: Identifying the single dominant idea that connects all sentences, ensuring subordinate details are discarded.
• Title Formulation Criteria: Titles must be concise (3 to 6 words), apt, reflective of the core subject, and placed at the top before writing the précis body.
• Logical Continuity: Sentences in the précis must follow the exact chronological or logical sequence of arguments presented in the original text.