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Home » CSAT – Prelims GS Paper 2 Notes Which You Shouldn’t Miss!

CSAT – Prelims GS Paper 2 Notes Which You Shouldn’t Miss!

CSATThis post is a compilation of our most viewed notes on CSAT (Prelims General Studies Paper II), which ClearIAS thinks our readers should not miss.

To start, we strongly recommend that every UPSC aspirant go through the syllabus decoding of GS Paper 2 (CSAT) by ClearIAS as given below.

CSAT Syllabus Expansion and MCQs

  • Comprehension.
  • Interpersonal skills including communication skills.
  • Logical reasoning and analytical ability.
  • Decision-making and problem-solving.
  • General mental ability.
  • Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level).
  • Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. – Class X level).

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