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Himachal HPAS CSAT
CSAT Meaning:
- The full form of CSAT is the Civil Services Aptitude Test. It was introduced as a part of the Himachal Pradesh Public Civil Services Exam (Preliminary) to test the analytical skills, reasoning ability and aptitude of HPAS aspirants.
HPAS CSAT SYLLABUS AND STRATEGY FOR HPAS PRELIMS:
- The Prelims will consist of two objective type papers (multiple choice questions) and carry a maximum of 400 marks (200 marks each)
- The duration of Papers 1 and 2 (General Studies and CSAT) will be two hours each.
- CSAT is just a qualifying paper.
- CSAT(Paper-II) is only a qualifying paper and a minimum of 33% qualifying marks are required to be eligible for clearing the HPPSC Preliminary Exam.
Syllabus (CSAT PAPER 2): 200 marks with 100 Questions (Qualifying Nature)
- 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).
- English Language comprehension skills (Class X level).
HPAS CSAT Pattern of Marking:
- The HPAS CSAT paper consists of 100 questions which the candidate has to finish in the allotted time of 120 minutes only.
- Each question carries 2 marks in the HPAS CSAT paper making the total to 200 marks.
- Candidates must remember that there is negative marking in the HPAS CSAT paper.
- For every incorrect answer, the candidate is penalised 1/3rd of the total marks allotted to that question, i.e., 0.66 marks will be cut.
- If a question is not attempted, i.e., the candidate leaves it blank on the OMR sheet, no marks .
If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happen to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question.
Important Books:
- A Modern Approach to Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning by Dr.R.S.Aggarwal(Reasoning)
- Civil Services Aptitude Test by Arihant or R S Aggarwal.
- Analytical Reasoning by M.K. Pandey (for quick Comprehensions) or Lucent General English
- RS Aggarwal or Arun Sharma : Logical Reasoning
- English: Word Power Made Easy
- Examlife Test Series
- If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happen to be correct and there will be same penalty as above for that question.
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