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Dear Civil Services Aspirants,

The Civil Services Preliminary Exam 2010 must have taken you by surprise as the UPSC has all of a sudden changed the pattern of the questions and reverted to its old traditional pattern instead of heavily focussing on Current Affairs. Actually, this is the original pattern of the UPSC and other State Civil Services Preliminary Exam. It is only since 2007 and till 2009, there was an extra ordinary focus on Current Affairs especially on Government related policies.
The analysis of the past 10 years papers provided by Prelims Model Tests a few year ago stand testimony to it. However, the odd 58 full length tests provided by Prelims Model Tests had covered all the aspects and have stood the test of time.

Further, there is another change in Prelims Exam 2011.The Civil Services Preliminary Exam will be replaced by Civil Services Aptitude Test and there will not be any Optional paper. The Aptitude Test (CSAT) will consist of two objective type papers (i) Aptitude for Civil Services and (ii) Ethical and moral dimension of decision making. Both these papers will have equal weightage and will be common to all the candidates. The details of the syllabus is yet to be finalised by the UPSC. Thus, it is clear that the optional subjects will not be available. However, General Study either by way of traditional GS paper or current affairs or common General awareness or knowledge about varous Government plan and policies is going to stay in some form or other.
As such, the preparation for 2011 Civil services Aptitude Tests via model tests will be a continuous process and will be made available online shortly as and when the syllabus is finalised by UPSC.