how is public administration as an optional performing?

Last year i wrote my first mains in first attempt i have done pub ad optional from ansari sir, i got 259 in public administration (p-1: 135 , p-2 : 124 )

My view on pub ad optional is- since, last year there seems to be reviewal of pub ad optional where it has performed well with many people getting marks in  250-290 range. However in my opinion there is paradigm shift that is going on in pub ad optional. The questions that are now being asked is more conceptual, it demand more conceptual clarity then factual knowledge or just mugging up the theory and thinkers in paper-1. On contrast, paper-2 has seen varying pattern last year it was more of conceptual, this year it has become more like gs-2. 

So, overall if one had good conceptual clarity then one can do better in pub ad optional. 

But again average trend remains around 230-260 owing to current pattern of marking in optionals.