General Studies CSAT Paper II-Arun Sharma , Madhukar Bhagat , Abhijit Guha For Civil Services Examination McGraw Hill

It is thirteen years since UPSC introduced the new paners and syllabus for that Pribinon Studies Paper-II). One would have expected the pattern of the et does not seem to be the case. In 2014 CS(P) Paper-II examination, the skills were not required to be answered by the candidates and the topic was eventually exchudfront the next notification of UPSC. In 2015, the General Studies Paper-11 was made a qualifying the des were required to score one third of the marks, 66.67 out of 200 so clear. A new trend which is so in the part few years is the emergence of very small passages with questions testing not only the compet matter but also requiring application of logic to answer the questions. The standard of some of the other question thumtioned many aspirants. This trend has continued in the subsequent years tos. Although a part of the bronder op “Comperbension”, they are referred to as, “Logical Comprehension’ in the statistical analysis owing to the amribe tested by such short passages.

The changing pattern, of the examination and the nature of questions, creates gemine apprehension in the minds of the aspirants as to what would be the nanare of questions and their level of complexity? Are they going to be of same difficulty level ot would their complexity be more? From the stage priot to the Preliminary examination when the candidates begin serious preparation of this examination and upto the stage of interview, candidates spend hundreds of her in preparation of this gruelling examination. Surely everybody endeavours to cross the fint bundle and reach the Mains stags. This cannot happen without clearing the Prelims. As sach it would be at one’s own perd that any seperant wondd take General Studies Paper-II lightly. What if this paper’s marks are considered for selection next year and it does not remain merely a qualifying one? Even if it is a qualifying puper, the changing patern and imcreasing level of complexity do requinta basic minimum preparation.

Keeping the above in mind, the publishers and the authors have come up with this new edition of General Studies Paper-2, 2026 which has been revised and updated as per the trend of the latest question paper of 2025

The authors, with subject expertise in their respective domain, have ensured that the consent of this popular book are focused on meeting the demand of the aspirants, who are serious in their peepseation of this paper.

A Brief Analysis of the Various Sections in this Paper

Comprehension: It has been noticed that nearly 30% of the question are based on comprehension passages. Thew are usually high quality passages on various themes such as economy, polity, environment, Inerature, etc. The anovers to the questions are not easily discernible and have to be derived from the passage after reading it and understanding it thoroughly.

In this book, there are 150 passages which match the standard of the passages in the examination paper. These we intended to test the aspirants thought processes and their ability to derive inferences. Questions based on these pe sages have been carefully framed and have been developed based on the level and scope of such questions and is the 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 exam

Interpersonal Skills Including Communication Skills: In the past nine years, no questions have been asked which can be exclusively assigned to this section. Communication skills are partly tested in the Comprehension In future, questions from this section may largely be limited to linguistic communication skills, However, questio from this section cannot be entirely ruled out in subsequent examinations. Hence we have adequately covered section in the book

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