New Delhi,July,3:The CSAT -2011 has conducted by the UPSC on a brand new pattern and now students are evaluating their scorecard.The UPSC had given the new dimension to the civil services recruitment examination by adding the aptitude test. Over 4 lakh aspirants applied for the IAS, out of which around 11,000 will be selected for the mains.
Paper-I followed more or less the previous trend of UPSC PT, however number of question has been reduced to 100 from earlier 150.
Paper-II, was the newly introduced paper had 80 questions from General Mental Ability, Comprehension, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Basic Numeracy, Decision-making and Problem-solving, Logical Reasoning and Analytical Ability.
The students finds themselves in tricky position as the negative marks has eroded their marks to significant level.
The choices of General Study paper were quite close that increased the doubt in the minds of the participating and led to error while handling the question.
Similar situation was in the Aptitude paper where students find themselves quite comfortable after the examination but post examination matching of answer slides them down.
After the wide spread survey among the participating students we found the average score of serious students remain somewhere between 160-165 marks.
As per student performance matrix and history of UPSC the magic number is coming close to 200 marks for General candidates which will give sense of security to the student in the given situation.The cut off will be decided after combining the Paper I and Paper II.
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