UPSC Civil Service Examination 2014 Online Application is Available From Today.

UPSC Preliminary Services Examination 2014 will commence on 24th August 2014and its notification wll be done on May 17th 2014 and the last date for receipt of application is June 16th 2014.

The Preliminary Examination of Union Public Service Commission for Civil Services Examination is also popularly called CSAT or Civil Services Aptitude Test. The CSAT is actually the second paper of General Studies that was introduced in 2011. The CSAT was implemented to end the use of scaling system for varying subjects in the General Studies paper and was a matter of concern for many Civil Services councillors. With the introduction of the CSAT, the UPSC now intends to choose Civil Servants who not only have the knowledge but also the aptitude for reasoning and analytical brain.
A very important point to be noted is that there is Negative Marking in the prelims and 1/3rd of marks allotted for every question is reduced from your score if you get it wrong. So do not guess!

UPSC Preliminary Examination Syllabus 2014

Syllabus of Paper I -(200 marks) Duration : Two hours
  • Current events of national and international importance.
  • History of India and Indian National Movement.
  • Indian and World Geography-Physical, Social, Economic.
  • Geography of India and the World.
  • Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political.
  • System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.
  • Economic and Social Development-Sustainable.
  • Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social.
  • Sector Initiatives, etc.
  • General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change - that do not require subject specialization and Climate Change - that do not require subject specialization.
Syllabus for Paper II-(200 marks) Duration: Two hours
  • Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
  • Logical reasoning and analytical ability
  • Decision making and problem solving
  • General mental ability
  • Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. - Class X level)
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