CDS Exam Analysis 2020 (2nd February), Question Asked, Difficulty Level

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Spelling Mistake Correction

• 10 Questions were asked from spelling mistake correction topic.
• Students need to choose the correct response from the given set of options. 
• For Example: Find the correct spelling from the below options:
• (a) Stretegy (b) Stretagy (c) Stratagy (d) Strategy

Synonyms

• 10 Questions were asked from Synonym Topic
• In the Synonym questions, a word was highlighted and students were told to identify the word which was most similar to the word which is underlined from the options given.
• For instance:
  (a) He is such a great leader that his actions are contagious. (Complicated/transmittable/effective/Unthinkable)
• (b) His thesis makes all generic statements which have been already proved. (Specific/Crude/Broad/Non-Standard)

Ordering of Words in a Sentence

• 10 questions from Ordering of Sentence in a word.
• A sentence was segregated into four different parts (consisting of a set of words) and given in a jumbled form.
• These parts had to be arranged by the students to create a meaningful sentence.
• For instance:
  in modern societies (P), or merely suppressed (Q), has class conflicts (R), been resolved (S)
  (a) RPSQ
  (b) RSPQ
  (c) PRSQ
  (d) QRSP

Antonyms

• 10 questions were asked from Antonyms.
• Similar to Synonyms, a word was highlighted in a sentence and from the options, the students were asked to choose most opposite word to the given word.
• For instance:
  He Speaks eloquently and can pull crowds. (Confusingly/Expressively/Powerfully/Fluently)

Ordering of Sentences

• 10 questions asked from the Ordering of sentences.
• In this, only the first and last sentences are fixed and the order of the other 4 sentences was jumbled up.
• Students were told to arrange these sentences in the order, in order to form a logical passage.
• For instance:
• S1: Farming is the main production activity in the village
• S6: The new ways of farming need less land, but much more capital
• P: These have allowed the farmers to produce more crops from the same amount of land
• Q: many important changes in the way farming is practised.
• R: But in raising production, a great deal of pressure has been put on the land and other natural resources.
• S: This is an important achievement since land is fixed and scarce.

(a) QPSR

(b) RSPQ

(c) SRPQ

(d) PRSQ

Comprehension

• 2 short passages were asked under the Comprehension questions, a total of 10 questions was asked from the Comprehension section).
• We are sharing the themes/possible titles of the passages asked in the exam:
  (a) Passage-1: Evolution of Civilizations
  (b) Passage-2: Our Preconceptions and Predispositions

Errors Spotting

• 10 Questions were asked from Spotting errors.
• If the sentence is correct, option (d), i.e. No error, had to be marked by the students.
  For instance:
  After Mysteriously expanding for decades, Antarctica's sea ice cover starting melting.
• (a) After Mysteriously expanding for decades
• (b) Antarctica's sea ice cover
• (c) starting melting
• (d) No error

Idioms and Phrases

• 10 Questions were from Idioms and Phrases.
• In the question, we need to choose the correct response from a list of options. For example:
  A Paper Tiger
  (a) A person or organization that appears to be powerful, but actually is not
  (b) Person or organization that appears like a tiger
  (c) People who campaign for the protection of tigers
  (d) A daredevil

Part of Speech

• Students are required to check the part of speech of the underlined word and choose for appropriate expression.
• For instance:
• He has been working in the Dept of foreign affairs since 2002. (Adverb/Adjective/Intensifier/Noun).
• 10 Questions were asked from parts of speech

Fill in the Blanks

• 10 Questions were asked from this topic.
• Where there is a _______, there is a way.
• (a) Way
• (b) Road
• (c) Wing
• (d) Will

Reported Speech

• 10 Questions were asked from this topic. This was also asked for the first time in the examination.
• Candidates need to choose the correct indirect sentence of a direct sentence.
• He said to his friend, "Could you please close the door?"
• (a) He requested his friend to close the door
• (b) He requested his friend to please close the door
• (c) He ordered his friend to close the door
• (d) He wanted his friend to close the door for him

Transformation of Sentences

• 10 Questions were from this topic. This was also asked for the first time in the CDS examination.
• Candidates need to merge 2 sentences into a single sentence & choose the correct option
• For instance: 
• He is hard-working. He is honest too.
• (a) He is not only hard-working but also honest.
• (b) He is only hard-working and honest.
• (c) He is hard-working but honest too.
• (d) He is not hard-working but also honest.

Name of the Sub-Section

No. of Questions asked

Geography

History 

Economy

Polity

Physics

Chemistry

Biology

Current Affairs

Miscellaneous

Name of the Topic

No. of Questions asked

Number System, Indices, Surds

HCF and LCM

Square Roots & Cube Roots

Speed, Time & Distance

Work & Time

Percentage

Simple and Compound Interest

Ratio & Proportion

Logarithms

Algebraic Expressions

Rational Expressions

Linear Equations

Quadratic Equations & Inequalities

Set Theory

Trigonometry

Geometry

Mensuration

Statistics