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.
Prelims-2011 results were out on 30th January 2012 and mains exam conducted beginning from 27th May 2012. So we can expect more or less same pattern this year also. Speculation is that Prelims-2013 results will be out today evening or tomorrow.
Bhanita,thanks ! but can you please provide the result by the correct word, as ABCD are diiferent for different sets of series.
Hope you will not mind to type 100 words :)
eagerly awaited
@Swarali, Sorry I overlooked that.
@Monika, comp engg. did you appeared in last year mains? How’s the scoring pattern in humanities subjects??
Tushar I have no idea about science subjects and their scores. What’s your graduation in?
Thank you saurav
Unless results are out there is no thrust to do any study. I hope apsc declares result soon.
Hi Animesh,
Are You sure about the result.
Is it really gonna out by tomorrow!!!!!!!!!
Yes, Tushar u r right. that’s why I wrote 2010 batch in my initial post
EDUCATION
1.B
2.C
3.A
4.C
5.A
6.D
7.D
8.A
9.C
10.D
11.B
12.D
13.D
14.A
15.B
16.A
17.D
18.C
19.D
20.A
21.C
22.C
23.D
24.D
25.C
26.A
27.A
28.B
29.A
30.D
31.A
32.D
33.D
34.A
35.D
36.C
37.A
38.C
39.B
40.D
41.A
42.D
43.B
44.B
45.B
46.B
47.C
48.C
49.C
50.B
51.C
52.C
53.A
54.A
55.D
56.C
57.A
58.D
59.C
60.B
61.C/D
62.B
63.B
64.B
65.A
66.C
67.A
68.B
69.B
70.A
71.C
72.B
73.C
74.A
75.B
76.A
77.C
78.C
79.D
80.B
81.A
82.D
83.B
84.A
85.B
86.B
87.B
88.A
89.C
90.A
91.B
92.D
93.C
94.A
95.D
96.C
97.C
98. ???
99.B
100.A
there might b some mistks.
THNKS.
Thanks swarali,
the result in the link is not the last result but previous to that. The date is 19 june 2009.
Last years topper is mirzana hussain.
Animesh, I hope you are confident about that.
Saurav,
u r right, the marks she obtained was 1067(not 1040! as per my previous post) out of 1600.
Tushar: plz chk the link: http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jun1909/City1
Today all members are going to sit to make a final decision. Hopefully results may be out in the evening or tomorrow. Best of luck to all.
Saurav,
APSC chairman has earlier said that pre result will be out in January, that didn’t happen.
Swarali… 1040 should be out of 1600 (including intrview).. plz check….
1040/1400 is an improbable mark- I think
Monika you are safe… Read for mains…..
Real tension is that–> I’ve heard Mains will be in April (I heard APSC chief said it in News Live)… anybody has any info regarding this… If it happens , it will be really frustrating… Only 2 months will be there for preparation.
In pre history, same in mains, second optional I am still confused between pol sc., geo, computer sc. Have you appeared previously in mains. What is the marking pattern? Is scoring marks in science subjects easy compared to humanities?
Let there be thousands of candidates who have given the exam, the cut offs may not go higher than 260 for an OC candidate, even though there are people who claim to have scored record scores like 320, 340, 360 and all that. Frens, the answer scripts may not be shown, and so one can only speculate about the correct answers. The people who say that they have scored 320, 340, etc seem to be slightly over confident. In reality, these scores will come down because some of the answers they think to be correct, are not to be so. There are many questions in this exam with two right options. The examiner will give credit to the answer he/she thinks to be right. Yes, there may be candidates who might have scored a little over the 300 mark, but the cut offs will be decided by seeing the overall candidates performance as a whole, and not by the few 300ers. So, I don’t see the need for taking unnecessary tension about this issue. What you could do in the exam, you have done. Now just wait for the results. The cut offs should not be going more than 260 for the OC people. And regarding when the results will be declared, I think its better not to go by somebody’s predicted dates like 11th, 12th, 14th, 22nd, etc. No body even in APSC knows when exactly the results will be out. So we just need to wait. It can be declared any day.
Swarali,
830-840 was the cut off in OBC category. The topper was mirzana hussain as per result. Please tell me where the marks information is available in net.
Thank you Tushar
In prelims I had political science
And in mains ill be having political science and education.
What about yours?
Monika,
I think 250+ will have a good chance. What was your optional in pre and what will be in mains?
Earlier news came out that result will be declared by end of this week, now it seems it might be delayed by another week.