For all the Civil services aspirants this is breaking news where they will now have a new format for their examination. This may disrupt the preparations of many aspirants who have been closely following the previous examination pattern and studying accordingly.
But according to the latest updates in the UPSC syllabus for the upcoming 2011 civil services examination there will be no such thing like an optional paper from now on.
The latest reports about the new syllabus for the examination held at the preliminary level will now have only have two main papers to be included for the aspirants.
The first paper will test the current affairs and general knowledge of the student and the next one would test his aptitude skills, other skill sets and communication skills.
Thus is has been clearly established that there will be only two papers for the civil services which are general knowledge and civil services aptitude test(CSAT). The aspiring students
will be allotted two hours each for both the question papers in which they can solve the questions easily.
Both these papers for the civil services will be of 200 marks each for all the students.
Therefore after these changes the students who wish to make it big need to concentrate more on their aptitude and general knowledge part if they wish to go through the mains.
UPSC Examination 2011, UPSC Syllabus, UPSC Notification 2011 | UPSC Result. Notifications, UPSC Results, UPSC Syllabus, UPSC Sample Papers, UPSC StudyIf you are thinking of the syllabus which is included in the first paper which is basically general knowledge then you can focus on international events, Indian national movement, Indian political system, environment, climate change, international events, India and world geography, Indian history, Economic and social development, Biology and general knowledge.
