News - angry civil service aspirants want the roll back of CSAT in civil services prelims and collided with police, pelt stones and torch vehicles.
So the hooligans who pelt stones, torch public properties are civil service aspirants!! India is doomed...
What is civil services exam?
These exams are part of the selection process followed by the UPSC (union public service commission) to select suitable candidates for civil services.
What are civil services?
Services associated with the governance of the nation like IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS etc falls under civil services. There are 24 services that are identified as civil services.
What is CSAT?
The civil services exam has three stage.
1) prelims
2) mains
3) interview.
The prelims has two papers.
i) general studies
ii) CSAT.
CSAT - Civil services aptitude test.
It covers comprehension, interpersonal skills, logical reasoning, analytical ability, decision making, problem solving, general memtal ability along with english language comprehension skills. Before CSAT, the pattern was general studies and a optional paper (like botany, geography, civil engineering etc. )
The 8 questions under english comprehension part in the CSAT paper of prelims donot have negative marks for wrong answering.. they can be removed No objection. The CSAT Paper can be printed in all notified languages. No problem.
The problem is when people ask for scrapping CSAT. the other 72 questions are necessary as they filter such "hooligans" from real service aspirants.. India needs even tough aptitude filters as these hooligans only intend to loot public money and donot see civil services as a option to serve the nation...
A real aspirant like me (i work, earn, look after my family and read through the free time i get) will never have a chance to get pass through the prelims which has a optional paper. Majority who cleared prelims with optional papers study in the coaching centers!! They go to a school and read only the syllabus and the material provided by the centera and practice on repeated questions.. will botany as a optional paper radically change every year? Or are they going to ask about the geography of mars one year and that of venus the next year? But in CSAT, i a tax payer and those many who take up the reaponsibility of supporting their family, those who cannot afford the maney to go to cities and study in coaching centers and those many professionals will have a level playing field and the services will have the opportunity of selecting people with varied domain experiences and world knowledge rather than the coaching center products. Past two years i witnessed many practiaing doctors, engineers, working professionals appearing in the mains.. the experience, knowledge, culture they bring in is enormous. India needs more responsible people rather than people good in mugging up..
The best way forward is to increase the scrutiny in CSAT, eliminate the optional paper in Mains, introduce psycological tests and select post specific candidates.
CSAT should not be scrapped.
So the hooligans who pelt stones, torch public properties are civil service aspirants!! India is doomed...
What is civil services exam?
These exams are part of the selection process followed by the UPSC (union public service commission) to select suitable candidates for civil services.
What are civil services?
Services associated with the governance of the nation like IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS etc falls under civil services. There are 24 services that are identified as civil services.
What is CSAT?
The civil services exam has three stage.
1) prelims
2) mains
3) interview.
The prelims has two papers.
i) general studies
ii) CSAT.
CSAT - Civil services aptitude test.
It covers comprehension, interpersonal skills, logical reasoning, analytical ability, decision making, problem solving, general memtal ability along with english language comprehension skills. Before CSAT, the pattern was general studies and a optional paper (like botany, geography, civil engineering etc. )
The 8 questions under english comprehension part in the CSAT paper of prelims donot have negative marks for wrong answering.. they can be removed No objection. The CSAT Paper can be printed in all notified languages. No problem.
The problem is when people ask for scrapping CSAT. the other 72 questions are necessary as they filter such "hooligans" from real service aspirants.. India needs even tough aptitude filters as these hooligans only intend to loot public money and donot see civil services as a option to serve the nation...
A real aspirant like me (i work, earn, look after my family and read through the free time i get) will never have a chance to get pass through the prelims which has a optional paper. Majority who cleared prelims with optional papers study in the coaching centers!! They go to a school and read only the syllabus and the material provided by the centera and practice on repeated questions.. will botany as a optional paper radically change every year? Or are they going to ask about the geography of mars one year and that of venus the next year? But in CSAT, i a tax payer and those many who take up the reaponsibility of supporting their family, those who cannot afford the maney to go to cities and study in coaching centers and those many professionals will have a level playing field and the services will have the opportunity of selecting people with varied domain experiences and world knowledge rather than the coaching center products. Past two years i witnessed many practiaing doctors, engineers, working professionals appearing in the mains.. the experience, knowledge, culture they bring in is enormous. India needs more responsible people rather than people good in mugging up..
The best way forward is to increase the scrutiny in CSAT, eliminate the optional paper in Mains, introduce psycological tests and select post specific candidates.
CSAT should not be scrapped.
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