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The civil services preliminary examination for 2012 would be held on 20 May based

on the new pattern introduced by UPSC in 2011. The preliminary examination would

consist of two papers of two hours duration carrying 200 marks each. Paper-I is

General Studies and Paper-II is the Aptitude Test. It would be worthwhile to clarify

at the very outset that the number of questions for both the papers have not been

mentioned by the UPSC and thus subject to change. Preliminary examination 2011

consisted of 100 questions for Paper-I and 80 questions for Paper-II.

Paper-I

Paper-I being the General Studies consists of familiar areas like Current events of national and international importance, History of India and Indian National

Movement, Indian and World Geography, Indian Polity and Governance, Economic

and Social Development, General Science and General issues on Environmental

ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change. The students should pay special

attention to the Environment topic as this is a newly added topic and the number of

questions from this section will increase in the coming years. Students would do

well by going through the class XI and XII NCERT biology books which has some of

the chapters on Environment.

Radical Shift in Pattern

Last two years have seen a drastic change in the nature of questions asked in this

paper. The questions now being asked are very conceptual and not factual in

nature. Students would do well by keeping last ten years question papers with them

while preparing for this paper. A close comparison of the question papers will

reveal this difference to the students. The students should always keep this

difference in mind while preparing and should not be tempted to memorize too

many facts as it used to be in the case of prelims preparation earlier. Any disregard

for this cr itical difference will render the preparation futile and counterproductive.

Paper-II

Paper-II is the aptitude paper having topics like Comprehension, Logical reasoning

and analytical ability, Interpersonal skills including communication skills, Decision

making and problem solving, General mental ability, Basic numeracy, Data

interpretation, and English Language Comprehension skills. Here it is important to

make a distinction between Comprehension and English Language Comprehension.

Comprehension section tests the comprehension knowledge of the student so it will

be both in English and Hindi. Questions relating to English Language Comprehension

skills of Class X level (last item in the Syllabus of Paper-II) will be tested through

passages from English language only without providing Hindi translation thereof inthe question paper. This passage is relatively easier than the passage falling under

the comprehension section as it merely intends to check the basic English language

skill. The students should in no case leave or miss these passages in a hurry to

complete any other section as it is easier to score well in these passages. A general

and sound advice for Paper-II is regular practice even if it is only two hours every

day.

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Mathematics

The mathematics section for civil services preliminary examination (which includes

Logical reasoning and analytical ability, General mental ability, Basic numeracy,

Data interpretation) has a different flavor as compared to bank or management

exams. The questions are not too calculative in nature rather more conceptual so

once the student identifies the correct concept the question is solved. This was the

nature across all mathematics questions last year. Thus students are advised to

work more on the conceptual understanding than the speed. The detailed

preparation strategy for this section will be discussed in a separate article.

Decision Making

The questions on decision making are compulsory questions as there is no negative

marking rather the options have differential marking. For e,g option (a) may fetch

50% of the total score while option (b) 75% and option (c) 25% and option (d)

100%. Thus a student should not leave any of these questions as at worst it will

fetch 25% of the total marks assigned to the question. The questions in the decision

making section are of the common sense nature so the students should not waste

too much time in preparing for this section.

Comprehension

The distinction between two comprehension sections has already been made in this

article. The key to do well in the comprehension section is to strike a balance

between speed and accuracy. Neither of them should be sacrificed for the other.

While practicing comprehension students should keep in mind that they should

select passages from different areas like Science, Philosophy, Economics, Art and

Litterateur etc. This will equip them in dealing effectively with any kind of passagethat they might encounter in the examination. A suitable source for practicing

comprehension is picking up passages from any standard Year Book for civil

services or the ones that are available in the coaching material packages. The

detailed preparation strategy for this section will be discussed in a separate article.

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