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CSAT Exam Syllabus Overview

The document provides information about the CSAT (Civil Services Aptitude Test) exam for the Indian civil services. It notes that CSAT has two papers - General Studies and General Ability Test. For the General Studies paper, it lists the syllabus areas tested including history, geography, environment, science and current affairs. It also provides past year analysis of topics covered in this paper. For the General Ability Test paper, it outlines the test areas like comprehension, logical reasoning and decision making and provides the syllabus and past year topic analysis for this paper as well.

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CSAT Exam Syllabus Overview

The document provides information about the CSAT (Civil Services Aptitude Test) exam for the Indian civil services. It notes that CSAT has two papers - General Studies and General Ability Test. For the General Studies paper, it lists the syllabus areas tested including history, geography, environment, science and current affairs. It also provides past year analysis of topics covered in this paper. For the General Ability Test paper, it outlines the test areas like comprehension, logical reasoning and decision making and provides the syllabus and past year topic analysis for this paper as well.

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CSAT Syllabus

CSAT (Civil Services Aptitude Test) has two papers:


[Link] Studies
[Link] Ability Test
CSAT was first time conducted in 2011. There is no
sectional cutoff. Marks for both paper I and paper II
are combined to select candidates for the Mains
exam.
General Studies for Civil
Services Preliminary
Examination Paper
List Price: Rs.1295
Price: Rs.818 only!

CSAT General Studies Paper 1


Syllabus
CSAT Paper I: 200 Marks; Duration: Two Hours;
Number of Questions: 100

[Link]

Affairs:

Events

of

national

and

international importance
[Link] of India and Indian National Movement
[Link] and World Geography - Physical, Social,
Economic geography of India and the World.
[Link] Polity and Governance Constitution,
Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy,
Rights Issues, etc.
[Link]

and

Social

Development

Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion,


Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.
[Link] issues on Environmental Ecology, Biodiversity and Climate Change (no subject
specialization required)
[Link] Science

CSAT Paper I Analysis


Topic

2011

2012

2013

2014

History and Culture

13

20

15

21

Economy

18

12

18

Polity

17

25

18

13

Geography

11

11

14

15

Environment & Bio-diversity

22

23

22

21

Science & Technology

19

13

17

Current Affairs
Total

7
100

100

100

100

CSAT General Ability Test Paper 2


Syllabus
CSAT Paper II: 200 Marks; Duration: Two Hours;
Number of Questions: 80
[Link]
[Link] skills including communication
skills
[Link] reasoning and analytical ability
[Link] making and problem solving
[Link] mental ability
[Link] numeracy (numbers and their relations,
orders of magnitude etc.) (Class X level), Data
Interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data
sufficiency etc. - Class X level)
[Link] Language Comprehension skills (Class
X level).

[Link] relating to English Language


Comprehension skills of Class X level. (will be
tested through passages from English
language only without providing Hindi
translation)
Marking Scheme: Total 80 questions have 200
marks, thus each question is of 2.5 marks. There is
a negative marking of 33% or 0.83 marks. Decision
making section doesn't have any negative
marking.

CSAT Paper II Analysis


Topic

201
1

201
2

201
3

201
4

Basic Numeracy

13

19

19

General Mental Ability

15

16

12

Decision Making & Problem


Solving

Analytical Ability & Logical


Reasoning

10

14

12

22

Comprehension (Both English &


Hindi)

27

32

23

26

English Language Comprehension


Skills

Total

80

80

80

80

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