CSAT Coaching - CSAT Course for UPSC 2024

About the CSAT Course

The goal of the CSAT Course is to help students prepare more effectively and efficiently to improve their CSAT (CSE Prelims Paper II) preparation. With the help of this Course, students will be better prepared to tackle the CSAT (CSE Prelims Paper II) syllabus without difficulty.

The CSAT Course is offered in a Classroom and Live-Online mode. The Course's main objective is to give the CSAT preparation a reliable framework for comprehensive knowledge and its implementation. In accordance with the specifications of the UPSC CSE syllabus, the classes are deliberately designed to impart the students with years of curated expertise, techniques, and methods and to have them practise the same during the classes and at home.

Features of the CSAT Course

• The 14 weeks course duration allows students plenty of time to learn at a pace that would effectively cover the syllabus.
• Classes are held for two hours, three days a week .
• The classes are offered in a Classroom and LIVE-Online mode.
• Daily Regular assessments in order to practise the topic, clear up any lingering questions, and confirm comprehension.
• Study materials cover the fundamentals and provide enough practice problems to prepare students for exams and give them confidence in their preparation

Why choose the CSAT Course? 

Most aspirants put off studying for the CSAT exam, devoting 80% of their preparation time to General Studies. Only later do they realize how important qualifying the CSAT Paper is and that they ought to have given it more attention.

Aspirants should be aware that they just need to achieve 33% of the total marks to qualify the CSAT paper. It's crucial to understand that their performance on the General Studies Paper-I will signify nothing (even if they receive a strong score such as 120/200), if they receive anything less than 33% on the CSAT Paper. As a result, it is imperative to give the CSAT paper adequate priority.

According to our observations, the aspirants encounter the following significant challenges:

• Aspirants prioritise studying for General Studies Paper I and, during the Prelims exam, fail to qualify the CSAT Paper, which prevents their names from appearing on the Prelims Selection List.
• Inadequate preparation results from aspirants' poor understanding of the CSAT syllabus.
• Because it is a qualifying exam, aspirants treat it casually and only realise their misjudgment after it is too late.
• The skills and shortcuts needed to effectively attempt the paper and qualify the exam aren't entirely possessed by aspirants.

How will the CSAT Course help you?

In accordance with the requirements of the UPSC Civil Services Exam, a set of questions from the Civil Services Aptitude Test is made to ascertain an aspirant's level of intelligence, and the results give a complete picture of that aspirant’s aptitude.

The CSAT Classroom Course will benefit students in a variety of ways, including by enabling conceptual clarity, prompt and efficient learning, and instilling necessary skills and strategies.

The Course will assist students in the following ways:

• It will assist the students in efficiently and effectively completing the full CSAT curriculum.
• It assists the students in identifying their strengths and weaknesses.
• It will assist the students in developing basic and difficult concepts with clarity.
• The classes will give students access to tried-and-true tactics that have been collected over many years by the subject experts.
• The degree of preparation will be raised, increasing the likelihood that aspirants will qualify the CSAT paper and, as a result, the UPSC CSE Prelims 2024.
• The aspirants will feel more confident and be more prepared for the UPSC CSE Prelims Test 2024.

UPSC CSE CSAT Paper (CSE Prelims Paper II) Exam Pattern

The UPSC Preliminary Exam consists of two compulsory Papers, each carrying 200 marks. The General Studies (GS) is the first Paper (Paper- I), while the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) is the second Paper (Paper-II). CSAT is a qualifying exam that requires a minimum mark of 33%.

The CSAT is a qualifying paper, and an aspirant's ability to advance to the Main Exam level is unaffected by their CSAT score.

At the Prelim Exam level, aspirants are required to participate in both of the General Studies Paper-I & CSAT Paper-II.

The CSAT Paper:

• is awarded 200 marks in total.
• has multiple-choice questions.
• consists of 80 objective-type questions.
• has a 2-hour allotment of time.
• carries 2.5 marks for each question.

bears negative marks for incorrect answers. (0.83 marks, or one-third of the total marks allotted to that question, will be deducted for each incorrect answer.)

entails that no marks will be deducted if a question is skipped or not attempted.

UPSC CSE CSAT Paper (CSE Prelims Paper II) Syllabus

• Comprehension
• Interpersonal skills including communication skills
• Logical reasoning & analytical ability
• Decision making & problem solving
• General mental ability
• Basic numeracy (numbers & their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level)
• Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc. – Class X level)

Who should join the CSAT Course?

All sincere aspirants who wish to qualify the Prelims Exam and move on to the next level of the Civil Services Exam, i.e., the Mains Exam, in UPSC 2024, may register for the Vajiram & Ravi's CSAT Classroom Course.

The following aspirants' needs are catered to by the Course:

• who want to manage and complete their CSAT preparation on schedule
• who want to comprehensively and completely cover all the fundamentals covered in the curriculum
• who want to understand the approaches and shortcuts compiled by experts over many years
• who want to learn how to answer enough questions to qualify the CSAT paper
• who want to reduce the number of negative marks they receive after attempting questions with incorrect answers
• who want to discover how to maximize their chances of qualifying the CSAT Paper by answering as many questions as they can in the allotted time limit
• who want to learn how to differentiate between safer and risky questions to answer
• who want to learn the method for eliminating choices to retain accuracy in their answers