The 2016 UPSC-General Studies Paper 2, also known as CSAT, had a few changes in the pattern of the Verbal (English) Section. The rest of the sections did not have any surprise!!
The number of questions in this section was reduced as compared to the past few years. There were a total of only 29 questions, where 27 were Reading Comprehension questions and the remaining 2 were Verbal Reasoning questions.
Detailed analysis is given in the table given below:
Subjects |
Topics |
Number of Questions |
Reasoning |
Analytical Reasoning |
15 |
|
Directions, Coding Decoding, Cubes |
5 |
|
Misc Math Reasoning |
7 |
Quant |
Numbers / Fractions |
4 |
|
Averages / % ages |
7 |
|
Ratios, Mixtures |
2 |
|
Time, Speed, Distance & Work |
3 |
|
Algebra |
2 |
|
Geometry, Mensuration |
3 |
|
P&C, Prob, Sets |
3 |
Verbal |
Critical Reasoning / Single Question RC |
14 |
|
Two Question - RC ( 1 Passage ) |
2 |
Four Question RC ( 3 Passages ) |
12 |
|
|
Logical Consistency |
1 |