Hello aspirants, so the much awaited CDSE 2 2013 is finally over! So much of hectic schedule during the paper, giving two-three back to back isn’t an easy task. Well those who have appeared, you must be curious about the cutoffs and those who are planning to appear must be eager to know about the kind of paper, or the difficulty level of the paper. Well to begin with I would like to tell you that UPSC exams are not easy, so you need a good preparation to score.
So here is an analysis of the paper for the OTA candidates, it means that this article covers only the analysis of English and GK.
OTA English Paper
The English paper consisted of the promised number of questions i.e. 120 questions, all carrying equal marks and the maximum marks for this paper were 100. The questions were typical one’s ranging from synonyms, antonyms, error detections etc. in short the set pattern was repeated. The paper consisted of seven passages each having four-five questions based on them. The passages were easy, simple to understand and the questions were somewhat direct. The spotting error section had 19 questions; all demanded a good understanding of basic grammar. There were total 20 each of Antonyms & Synonyms, which were of an above average standard. The good part about Antonyms and synonyms in CDSE is that if you do a good number of previous year question papers you’ll find that words are repeated in some way or the other. There were 18 questions on ordering of sentences, all were simple, and then there were 16 questions on ordering of words in a sentence, again a simple exercise. Hence the English paper was average.
OTA General Knowledge Paper
General Knowledge comprises of the toughest part of CDSE or any UPSC exam for that matter. In this paper also General Knowledge was tough. Some questions were totally direct and some were in no way direct! There was a dominance of questions from Economy, commerce etc. (Thanks to the downfall of rupee!). There were questions asked from the recipients of major awards. Current affair questions included current affairs from the month of April 2013(Latest). There were very few (only two-three) questions asked from the sports section. There were a good amount of questions from Indian Polity. All the questions demanded a good understanding of the things. Hence merely thinking that memorizing history, geography or polity will sail you through in GK is not correct. This is so because there were ample amount of Assertion-Reasoning type questions.
The cutoff for OTA might remain the same as of past years; it may lie between 65-80. Hope for the best and keep your fingers crossed.
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i hv got 30 marks in all three subject dat is math ,gk and eng cn i prepare for ssb??
Sir, I have filled my cds form on own and mistakenly I filled IMA preference as 1 and the other three as 0 Including OTA , hopefully I will get 70+ marks in English and g.k. papers … Will I get d call if I clear the cut off ? Apart from the mistake ? Or should I start preparing for next Feb attempt ? My maths paper was not gud , attempted 50 with 60% accuracy …
Hope for a response … Thanks in advance ..!!
can people who have opted for IMA ,can also get selected for OTA who has it as their second preference if they do no cross the cut off marks for IMA?????
Yup
Is there in Sectional cut-off marks??? Can you please reply.. Because my English paper was gone exceptionally well, but my GS is pathetic…
Yes there is sectional cut off, check this out last time it was 12 for each exam http://www.upsc.gov.in/exams/cut-off%20marks/2012/cds2/CDSII_2012.pdf
yes … there is sectional cutoff for all the three sections ie English. GS and mathematics in CDSE…….
AMIT BISHT
hoping good!!
Van u plz tell me how we calculate marks for 1 correct answer???
for gk and eng : correct – (100/120) i.e 0.83 marks
wrong – ((100/1200)/3) i.e minus 0.23 marks
for maths : correct – 1 marks
wrong – minus 0.33 marks
or one wrong in k and ebg (.83/3)=.28
cut of 65-80 marks for ota is out of 200(100+100) or something else?????
How do u calcualte ur number?? Like how much per correct question?
+0.83 for correct, and -0.83/3 for wrong.
cant u do simple unitary method for 120 question paper
ur marks out of 100=total correct ans*100/120
now deduct the n wrong ones i.e. n100/3*120 from total
hey guys I hav attempted CDSE-2out f 120 i attempted 110 and gt 28 correct in both (Gk&Maths)
but in EnglisH I got 60..vl I pass bcz I dun understand these marks
distribution thing.
sorry man, you’ll have to try again.
Number of Attempted Answer = number of correct answer + number of wrong answer.
Example: Out of 120 question in English say I have attempted 90 questions, of which say some 75 questions may be right + say 15 questions may be wrong ( 75 right + 15 wrong = 90 attempted) .
Number of correct answers X 3 marks = marks for correct answers (say “A”)
Allot 3 marks for each correct answer
Number of Wrong answers X 1 mark = Marks for wrong answers (say “B”)
Allot 1 mark for each wrong answer
Total number of marks= 120 questions X 3 marks each = 360 marks
Obtained marks in English paper (say “C”) out of 360 = Marks for Correct answers – Marks for wrong answers.
now convert this mark for 360 to mark for 100.
Example:
Marks for Correct answer “A” = 75 correct answers X 3 mark = 225
Marks for Wrong answer “B” = 15 wrong answers X 1 mark = 15
Obtained Marks “C” = “A” – “B” = 225 – 15 = 210 out of 360
now convert this score for 100 marks – (210/360) X (100) = 58.33 is your score for 100
Like wise calculate for English, General Knowledge and Mathematics (each for 100) and then add all the three marks to get total mark for 300 and that’s your final score.
In case of OTA candidate, Calculate for English and General Knowledge alone (each for 100) and then add both the marks to get total mark for 200 and that’s your final score.
This is only one method (but there can be other easy or less complicated ways to calculate)
Both papers included brother. I think cut off would be around 85-90