How was the paper compared to last year
If reports are to be believed, the paper can be said to be easy as compared to the year 2023 i.e. last year. The GS and CSAT paper was conducted in two shifts. This year more than 13 lakh candidates have given the exam for 1056 vacancies. Experts are considering this year’s overall paper to be moderate.
There were many questions with statements
There were many statement type questions in this year’s exam. Apart from this, many questions were asked from current affairs. Many questions of Polity and Geography came from NCERT books. Paper One i.e. GS paper was conducted in session one. Two hours were given for this. Paper Two i.e. CSAT paper was conducted in shift two, which was also given two hours to solve.
Analysis of the first paper
In this section, questions were asked from subjects like Current Affairs, Science, Technology, History. There were 18 questions in Polity which were application based, these were easy to moderate. There were 15 application based questions in Economy which were moderate. There were 9 questions each from History and Science & Technology, in which the questions of History were average and the questions of Science were easy.
19 questions came from Geography and 20 from Current Affairs. Geography was static while Current Affairs was application based. Questions in both sections were easy to moderate. 10 application based questions came from Environment which ranged from easy to a little difficult.
What was the situation of the second paper?
CSAT is a qualifying paper in which it is necessary to get 33% marks. Its situation was something like this. 35 to 40 questions came from Reasoning Ability and if you have attempted 21 to 26 then it is good. 22 to 24 questions from Reading Comprehension and 14 to 17 questions are good, 23 to 25 questions from Numerical Ability in which 15 to 18 questions are attempted then it is good. The level of all can be called moderate.
What was the level of difficulty
Most of the questions in Polity were easy, only four-five questions could be considered difficult. History questions were tougher than last year, Geography had concept based questions which were of medium type, Economy questions were average to tough and there were many questions on government schemes. Environment section was tough and Science section was a bit tough.
UPSC CSE Expected Cut-Off
Only after the results can something be said with certainty about this but the expected cut-off is expected to be this much. 95 to 100 for general category, a little less than general for OBC and a little less than that for SC, ST.
