CSAT Decision Making:

CSAT has added decision making question which needs very different approach.

Following tips would be beneficial for UPSC-IAS civil service aspirants.

Capacity of an individual in mathematical, logical and verbal ability is Decision making.

Generally its objective type exams has not been treated as a separate topic special emphasis of this topic would mean candidates can expect questions which tests their “Ethical and Moral Dimension of Decision-Making”.

Here no bookish knowledge required.

The decision making ability or ability to analyze may be mostly judged from the topics of Public Administration.

Moral and Ethical aspects, of decision making may be judged from psychological parts like Conflict-management, Human behavior, Administrative behavior, Motivation, Psychology of individual as well as Social-psychology to understand crowd behavior, Management by objectives, etc.

Understanding the context of the problems is very important quality for the correct solutions to apply.

Vital part in taking correct decisions is Candidate must possess Moral and Ethical qualities.

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SNAPSHOT OF INDIAN CONSTITUTION

 
The republic of India is governed in terms of 'the constitution', which was adopted by Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949 and came-into force on 26 January 1950.
The President of India is constitutional head of executive of the Union.
Article 74(1) of the Constitution provides that there shall —a Council of Minister with the Prime Minister as head to aid and advise President who shall in exercise of his functions act in accordance with such advice.
Real executive power thus vests in Council of Ministers with Prime Minister as head.
Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the House of the People (Lok Sabha).
Similarly, in states, Governor is head of executive, but it is the Council of Ministers with Chief Minister as head in whom real executive power vests.
Council of Ministers of a state is collectively responsible to the Assembly.
The Constitution distributes legislative power between Parliament and state legisletures and provides for vesting of residual powers in Parliament.

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CITIZENSHIP OF INDIA

The Constitution of India provides for a single citizenship for the whole of India.

Acquisition of Citizenship: The Citizenship Act, 1955 prescribes five ways of acquiring citizenship.

1. By Birth: If he is born in India on or after 26 January, 1950 but before 30 June, 1987; or if he is born in India on or after 1 July 1987 but at the time of his birth either of his parents was a citizen of India.

2. By Descent: A person born outside India on or after 26 January, 1950, is a citizen of India by descent if at the time of his birth either of his parents was an Indian Citizen. But before person born outside India was entitled to Indian Citizenship only if his father (and not his mother) was an Indian Citizen.

3. By Registration

4. By Naturalisation:A foreigner can become an Indian citizen by naturalisation.

5. By Incorporation of Territory

LOSS OF CITIZENSHIP OF INDIA:

By Renunciation: An Indian citizens who is also a citizen or national of another country, can renounce his Indian. Citizenship.

By Termination: When an Indian Citizen voluntarily acquires the citizenship of another country, his Indian citizenship automatically terminates.

By Deprivation: It is a compulsory termination of Indian citizenship by the Central Government.

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CSAT: Data Interpretation

Data Interpretation:-

In everyday business the bureaucrats and Government executives must face lots of facts and figures.

For efficiency these facts are presented in more compact and precise forms such as:-

1) Tables - the data tables)

2) Graphs - these are in 2D and 3D,

3) Charts - these are Pie, Bar, Pert, etc,

4) Diagrams - these are Geometric or Venn diagram.

Ability of data interpretation is that an Administrator must possess this basic skills of deciphering the data from the above mentioned precise forms of tables, charts etc which enhances his/her administrative efficiency. 

So IAS Prelim/CSAT exam test the candidates ability of data interpretation.

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CSAT: General Mental Ability

General Mental Ability and Basic Numeracy part should be prepared by studying National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) Mathematics text books right from 6th class to 12th class focusing on only those chapters whose concepts are involved in the questions relating to Mental ability appeared in last 15 years old question papers of G.S. of CSPE and Statistics part questions of Paper-II of G.S. of CSE Main Stage.

The questions from old papers will give you the broad understanding of how the problems would be in the CSAT paper. The type of thinking one needs to develop to solve these questions, the scope for Varity of a question and where the examiner is stressing and what UPSC is expecting from the candidate.

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