APSC Prelims Exam 2013 Analysis, Cut-off mark etc.
On December 29, 2013 Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) successfully conducted the preliminary stage of Combined Competitive Examination. The Assam Civil Service examination was held at 155 centers spread across 23 districts in Assam. A total of 70132 students were selected for the preliminary examination. But the attendance was low – below 70%. APSC Prelims comprised of two papers – Optional Subject of choice and General Studies. The Optional paper was in morning while General Studies paper was in afternoon shift. Here we will discuss the patterns of the two question papers and also the possible cutoff mark.
APSC 2013 Optional Paper:
We talked to several students and examined some question papers. Majority of the students we talked to commented that the optional paper was easy. But it will be wrong to generalize it based on few comments. But we examined Agriculture, Economics, and Political Science papers. The question pattern was same as previous years. We rated the question papers – average. Students with good preparation can easily score up to 90% in those papers. What about your optional paper?
APSC 2013 General Studies Paper:
Several students complained that General Studies question paper was tough. So, we examined the question paper personally. Yes, the paper appears difficult. But it was not a tough question paper. And if an intelligent student carefully approach each question, it is not even difficult. Civil Service examinations in India usually carries questions related to Constitution of India, Indian Politics, Current Affairs, Reasoning / Mental ability and Regional topics. APSC CCE 2013 was no exception. The question paper covered Indian constitution, Indian economics, general knowledge, geography, Assam history, reasoning etc. We think about 70% of the questions were easy for students with good preparation.
The General Studies question paper carried several Assam related questions (about 30 nos). We found that 10 questions were already answered on our Assam Answers section. So students who followed our site definitely answered those Assam related questions correctly.
APSC 2013 Cutoff Marks:
The Combined Competitive Examination (Preliminary) is divided into two question papers. Each paper carries 100 questions with 2 marks for each individual question. So, the total mark of the APSC CCE (Pre) exam is 400. Then what will be the cut off mark of APSC 2013? As there is no official announcement related to the cutoff mark, we can only speculate. We believe that APSC Prelims 2013 cutoff mark will be within 260 to 280 marks.
Mains exam takes 1 month to finish. May is not probable as Its an election month. Even the UPSC prelims is delayed by 3 month. As per EC union govt will be formed by June-01. So we can hope that Main exam will held in June. So we are getting ample time for mains preparation. I heard that this time the selection process will be fast (if no one approaches HC!).
Thanks animesh. Those of you who predicted that today would be the day for the announcement of results, I hope you are proved right. We all atleast wish the results to be out by coming Friday if not today. I can understand how everyone is eager to know about the results and about their selection. Don’t worry. All will go well.
thank u animesh. wht abt d results ? any idea when it is going to be declared.
Can outsiders appear 4 APSC or is it necessary 2 have domicile of ASSAM??
Are seats reserved 4 them also???
raiz ! kaile aakha ase ne ?
Mains will be conducted after general election and counting thereof. Bcoz some educational institutions will be used as strong room until counting.
Any idea frens when the Mains exams will be conducted? Some of you are saying April, some May, some June, and some July. Can we predict accurately at least which month.
bikash roy, you have 99.5% chances
i will get 236- 256 in prelims. is there any any chance.i m an obc candidate.
apsc people are working overtime nowadays to declare the results within this week.
when the result wil be decleared ? i have come to known that result will be decleared tomorrow evening . is it true ?
Sudhir,
check your GS answers from http://www.assams.info/career/2013-apsc-prelims-general-studies-question-paper-part-1
you will then know the actual marks you will get. Anyone with above 250+ in OC has good chance of clearing pre.
180 in optional and 25 correct answers in GS followed by 75 guesses..
Is thr any chance?
Many well prepared outsiders had applied but a few appeared in the exam beacause of–
1) 2 optionals. Most of the SPSC’s have followed UPSC path and eliminated 1 optional.
2) Fear.
@Tridib- I think you are safe.
as a candidate of oc what my chances to crack prelims as i am going to secure 70% .also provide me the information about the best books of gs for main.best of luck to all of you.
In some state their state language is compulosary subject in their public service exam then why we shpuld not . For ecple kerela .hope our law maket should take some decision in favour of assamese in near furure
The problem of making Assamese compulsory is that More than half of the candidates from Assam are from non-Assamese medium. But yes, asking questions very specific to Assam’s geography, history and culture etc. will make the task difficult for candidates from outside Assam.
Hi,
I think, in GS, Set A, answer for Q.87 should be C. Because, Goa is a state, whereas all others are cities.
As per the article published in Telegraph there are 2000 outside assam candidates out of total of 70000. How many appeared in pre is not known but we can assume it will be around 1000-1200.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1131102/jsp/northeast/story_17522855.jsp#.Uu_g4PtP5yX
Assamese shoukd be mandory subjet in apsc to filter outsider