CDS 2 Exam Analysis 2019 (8th September), Question Asked, Difficulty Level

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Spelling Correction

• 7 Questions were asked from this topic.
• You need to identify the correct option from the given choices. 
• For instance: Find the correct spelling from the option:
• (a) Accommodate (b) Acomodate (c) Accomdate (d) Acomodait

Synonyms

• A total of 10 Questions were asked
• In the given sentence, a word was highlighted and students were required to identify the word which was most similar in meaning to the word underlined from the options given.
• For instance:
  (a) The properties of the family have been impounded by the order of the court. (Confiscated/Permitted/Sold/Put on hold)
• (b) The Officer in charge of the operations has been impugned for the excesses. (Expelled/Rewarded/Challenged/Given allowance)

Ordering of Words in a Sentence

• There were 13 questions from this topic.
• A sentence was divided into four different parts (consisting of a set of words) and presented in a jumbled form.
• These jumbled parts had to be arranged by the students to form a meaningful sentence.
• For instance:
  while they are small (P), and do great things (Q), while they are easy (R), do the difficult things (S)
  (a) SRQP
  (b) PSQR
  (c) SRPQ
  (d) QPSR

Antonyms

• 10 questions were asked on this topic.
• Like Synonyms, a word was highlighted in a sentence and from the options, the students had to select the most opposite word to the given word.
• For instance:
  Beauty lies in eyes of the beholder. (Allure/Charm/Inelegance/Ideal)

Ordering of Sentences

• A total of 10 questions asked from Ordering of sentences.
• Here only the first and the last sentence of passage was fixed and the order of the remaining 4 sentences was jumbled up.
• Students were asked to arrange these sentences in the order, in order to form a logical passage.

Comprehension

• 3 short passages were asked under the Comprehension questions, a total of 17 questions was asked from the Comprehension section).
• We are sharing the themes of the passages asked in the exam:
  (a) Passage-1: Mankind experience of various evolutionary changes from primitive to Agricultural Stage
  (b) Passage-2: Various Land reform bills and amendments
  (c) Passage-3: Work Place Environment and surveys to check the effectivity of organisation
• Direct questions were asked based on the passage given, which could be answered easily after reading the passage carefully.

Spotting Errors

• 15 Questions were asked from Spotting errors.
• This time a whole sentence was asked and then different parts were given in the options section and the students had to identify the part of the sentence which contained any error.
• If the sentence was correct, option (d), i.e. No error, had to be marked by the students.
  For instance:
  No Struggle can ever succeeded without women participating side by side with men.
• (a) No struggle can ever succeeded
• (b) without women participation
• (c) side by side with men
• (d) No error

Cloze Comprehension

• The examination asked 2 cloze comprehension questions, one with 10 questions and the other with 9 questions.
• There were blanks in the passage and the candidates were required to pick from the given options the correct word, which could be used to fill those blanks to form a logical phrase and keep the passage flow.

Idioms and Phrases

• 10 Questions were asked from Idioms and Phrases.
• In the question, an idiom/phrase was given and the students had to choose the option that described the meaning of the given idiom correctly. For instance:
  Dirt Cheap
  (a) Extremely Cheap
  (b) Extremely Costly
  (c) Very Cheap person
  (d) Very Cheap item

Part of Speech

• 10 Questions were asked from this topic. This was asked for the first time in the examination.
• Students needed to identify the part of speech of the underlined words and check for appropriate expression.
• For instance:
• Rita eats her dinner quickly. (Verb/Preposition/Adjective/Adverb)

Name of the Sub-Section

No. of Questions asked

History

Geography

Polity

Economy

Physics

Chemistry

Biology

Miscellaneous (Current Affairs, Defence-related questions etc)

Name of the Topic

No. of Questions asked

Number System, Indices, Surds

Geometry

Mensuration

Trigonometry, Heights & Distances

Statistics

Percentages, Profit Loss, Partnership

Average

DI

Simple & Compound Interest

Ratio and Proportions

Time & Work, Time & Distance