Overall paper is little bit tough for new beginner's Medium for one or two attempt aspirants.
The deepness of questions is not so high but little bit tricky.
Questions from different sections of CSAT Paper-I
Subject Marks
2013 2012 2011
History and culture 15 20 13
Economy 18 12 18
polity 18 25 17
Geography 14 11 11
Environment & bio-diversity 22 23 22
Science & Technology 13 09 19
Note:-
In the above analysis there was may be a small difference between numbers polity and Economy because of there interlinking between those subjects.
In the above table we see that the UPSC had made no big changes in weightage of Topics
Mainly the upsc had focus on Environment & Biodiversity 23 % of the marks are covered only on these topic since the introduction of CSAT paper till now.
The nature of the Question of this topic will be medium level of the understanding capacity of candidate
2.Geography
The trend is changed by upsc from 2011 the nature of the question is little bit high.
3.polity & Economy
According to my opinion polity & Economy was the gateway to enter in civil service mains
Everybody can score in these two subjects when compared to Env & Bio , Sci & tec ,Geography,
The nature of Question is easy for those who study the basic economics and polity
with the basic knowledge the candidate can go for
-Indian yearbook
-Indian Economic survey
4.History & culture
The nature of this topic is to under stand the society and history of India and culture
mainly on
Modern History:
Indian freedom struggle
5.Science
The nature of this topic is little high but not so hard.Everybody can score on this topic including non-maths students if they have knowledge in basic science with contemporary changes in today's fast growing science.
There is incredible changes in science, technology,medicine,biology etc,... since 20th century
Everyone can update there knowledge in these fields.. ..
paper analysis for paper two will be soon click here
For paper CSAT-I click here
The deepness of questions is not so high but little bit tricky.
Questions from different sections of CSAT Paper-I
Subject Marks
2013 2012 2011
History and culture 15 20 13
Economy 18 12 18
polity 18 25 17
Geography 14 11 11
Environment & bio-diversity 22 23 22
Science & Technology 13 09 19
Note:-
In the above analysis there was may be a small difference between numbers polity and Economy because of there interlinking between those subjects.
In the above table we see that the UPSC had made no big changes in weightage of Topics
Mainly the upsc had focus on Environment & Biodiversity 23 % of the marks are covered only on these topic since the introduction of CSAT paper till now.
The nature of the Question of this topic will be medium level of the understanding capacity of candidate
2.Geography
The trend is changed by upsc from 2011 the nature of the question is little bit high.
3.polity & Economy
According to my opinion polity & Economy was the gateway to enter in civil service mains
Everybody can score in these two subjects when compared to Env & Bio , Sci & tec ,Geography,
The nature of Question is easy for those who study the basic economics and polity
with the basic knowledge the candidate can go for
-Indian yearbook
-Indian Economic survey
4.History & culture
The nature of this topic is to under stand the society and history of India and culture
mainly on
Modern History:
Indian freedom struggle
5.Science
The nature of this topic is little high but not so hard.Everybody can score on this topic including non-maths students if they have knowledge in basic science with contemporary changes in today's fast growing science.
There is incredible changes in science, technology,medicine,biology etc,... since 20th century
Everyone can update there knowledge in these fields.. ..
paper analysis for paper two will be soon click here
For paper CSAT-I click here