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The paper was a bit difficult than last year. History, Art and Culture were difficult than last year. Current affairs was not straightforward when compared to last year. But the difficulty was balanced by some questions from polity which were pretty easy where 85% to 90% of polity questions could have been answered correctly. Hence, the paper was not a cake walk but not so very difficult to score either. People can score 110+ if there was focus for 2 hours [55 questions net]. I believe a good number of them are in this range. The fact that large no. of people scoring 125+ last year are scoring 105 to 110 this year doesn't mean, the cut-off would reduce by 10 marks or so. It could be that a huge number of people are concentrated within a range because of the diffuclty of the paper. That range in my intutition would be 105 to 115.
Since CSAT paper II is said to be difficult (which I felt was easier than last year, because I skipped Quantitative questions and took up decision making ones, I'm sailing through comfortably in Paper II at least) If Paper II might drag the cut-off by 1 or 2 marks, I believe the cut-off would be between 108 and 112.
Just a tip for students from next year in CSAT II - Choose your questions carefully. Spend 5 minutes in the hall initially to identify the simplest questions and there were 10 to 15 decision making questions which were easy to tick in 20 minutes. So please identify the easy ones. I got this advise from my friend in last minute before the day of the exam
The paper was a bit difficult than last year. History, Art and Culture were difficult than last year. Current affairs was not straightforward when compared to last year. But the difficulty was balanced by some questions from polity which were pretty easy where 85% to 90% of polity questions could have been answered correctly. Hence, the paper was not a cake walk but not so very difficult to score either. People can score 110+ if there was focus for 2 hours [55 questions net]. I believe a good number of them are in this range. The fact that large no. of people scoring 125+ last year are scoring 105 to 110 this year doesn't mean, the cut-off would reduce by 10 marks or so. It could be that a huge number of people are concentrated within a range because of the diffuclty of the paper. That range in my intutition would be 105 to 115.
Since CSAT paper II is said to be difficult (which I felt was easier than last year, because I skipped Quantitative questions and took up decision making ones, I'm sailing through comfortably in Paper II at least) If Paper II might drag the cut-off by 1 or 2 marks, I believe the cut-off would be between 108 and 112.
Just a tip for students from next year in CSAT II - Choose your questions carefully. Spend 5 minutes in the hall initially to identify the simplest questions and there were 10 to 15 decision making questions which were easy to tick in 20 minutes. So please identify the easy ones. I got this advise from my friend in last minute before the day of the exam
Decision making ke questions kaha the paper m?
lagta h bhaisahab koi aur paper attempt kar aaye...
The paper was a bit difficult than last year. History, Art and Culture were difficult than last year. Current affairs was not straightforward when compared to last year. But the difficulty was balanced by some questions from polity which were pretty easy where 85% to 90% of polity questions could have been answered correctly. Hence, the paper was not a cake walk but not so very difficult to score either. People can score 110+ if there was focus for 2 hours [55 questions net]. I believe a good number of them are in this range. The fact that large no. of people scoring 125+ last year are scoring 105 to 110 this year doesn't mean, the cut-off would reduce by 10 marks or so. It could be that a huge number of people are concentrated within a range because of the diffuclty of the paper. That range in my intutition would be 105 to 115.
Since CSAT paper II is said to be difficult (which I felt was easier than last year, because I skipped Quantitative questions and took up decision making ones, I'm sailing through comfortably in Paper II at least) If Paper II might drag the cut-off by 1 or 2 marks, I believe the cut-off would be between 108 and 112.
Just a tip for students from next year in CSAT II - Choose your questions carefully. Spend 5 minutes in the hall initially to identify the simplest questions and there were 10 to 15 decision making questions which were easy to tick in 20 minutes. So please identify the easy ones. I got this advise from my friend in last minute before the day of the exam
Decision making ke questions kaha the paper m?
lagta h bhaisahab koi aur paper attempt kar aaye...
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Aur isliye Paper 2 ka Cut off kam karne mein koi khaas Yogdaan nahi hota