{"id":14,"date":"2022-01-05T06:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/shankariasacademy_v2\/?p=14"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:11:50","slug":"how-to-prepare-csat-for-upsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/how-to-prepare-csat-for-upsc\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prepare CSAT for UPSC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Civil Service Aptitude Test, also known as the General Studies Paper-II is one of the qualifying papers of the UPSC Prelims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Many candidates do not meet these criteria and get rejected every year.<\/li><li>Though the paper is only a qualifying one, candidates should not ignore it completely.<\/li><li>Candidates who feel that their general English comprehension and basic math skills are not up to the mark must spend a good amount of time on the CSAT paper.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>CSAT Syllabus:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Comprehension<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Interpersonal skills including communication skills<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Logical reasoning and analytical ability<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4<\/td><td>Decision-making and problem-solving<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>General mental ability<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level);<br \/>Data interpretation (charts,graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc. -Class X level)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Service Aptitude Test, also known as the General Studies Paper-II is one of the qualifying papers of the UPSC Prelims. Many candidates do not meet these criteria and get rejected every year. Though the paper is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-strategy","category-upscblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shankariasacademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}