Civil Services Prelims Exam 2016 General Studies Paper - II Analysis

The 2016 UPSC-General Studies Paper 2, also known as CSAT, had a few changes in the pattern of the Verbal (English) Section. The rest of the sections did not have any surprise!!

The number of questions in this section was reduced as compared to the past few years. There were a total of only 29 questions, where 27 were Reading Comprehension questions and the remaining 2 were Verbal Reasoning questions.

Detailed analysis is given in the table given below:

Subjects

Topics

Number of Questions

Reasoning

Analytical Reasoning

15

 

Directions, Coding Decoding, Cubes

5

 

Misc Math Reasoning

7

Quant

Numbers / Fractions

4

 

Averages / % ages

7

 

Ratios, Mixtures

2

 

Time, Speed, Distance & Work

3

 

Algebra

2

 

Geometry, Mensuration

3

 

P&C, Prob, Sets

3

Verbal

Critical Reasoning / Single Question RC

14

 

Two Question - RC ( 1 Passage )

2

Four Question RC ( 3 Passages )

12

 

Logical Consistency

1