UPSC GS Paper 2 2019 Analysis- Live Now

The 2019 UPSC-General Studies Paper 2, also known as CSAT, had some changes in the pattern of the Verbal (English) Section. The Quant and Reasoning sections mostly followed the last year paper pattern.

 

Passages overall dominated the paper with a good amount of critical reasoning questions. Those candidates who could use question selection strategies could ease the solving process. Interestingly, this year there was no Data Interpretation question. But there were some questions which required Visual Reasoning. Overall, the level of difficulty was moderate which means that difficulty increased slightly as compared to last year.

Detailed analysis is given in the table given below:

Subjects

Topics

Number of Questions

Reasoning

Analytical Reasoning

14

 

 Coding Decoding, Cubes

3

 

Syllogism

1

 

Sequence and Series

4

 

Directions & Blood Relations

2

Quant

Numbers/Fractions

10

 

Profit-Loss-Discount, S.I-C.I

1

 

Averages/% ages

6

 

Time, Speed, Distance & Work

1

 

Algebra

2

 

P&C, Prob, Sets

3

 

Miscellaneous

3

Verbal

Single/Two Question RC (Inference Based)

30

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