Punjab PCS Prelim CSAT Strategy ,Book List Previous year Papers

To clear CSAT one must score 150+ in CSAT if you have seen level of paper in previous years.

CSAT in Punjab Civil Services usually consist of

1. English Comprehension & Grammar ( 50 marks )
2. Punjabi  Comprehension and Grammar ( 50 marks )
3. Reasoning and mental ability ( 40 marks )
4. Mathematics and Airthmetic skills ( 40 marks )
5. Decision making and communication skills ( 20 marks )

Sometimes 3rd and 4th part got total weight age you may not find any question from 5th one .

Now How to prepare First Part :-

How to solve English Comprehension you may learn it from MK Pandey Book of Reasoning . 

Then Practice Question Paper from UPSC Previous year CSAT Papers .

For English Any book of 10th Grammar will be sufficient But I will suggest you prepare it along with Mains English .

For this either Get Jaypee book of English for PCS or get AP Bhardwaaj book for Solved Paper of UPSC  with 10th English Grammar will be sufficient

Along with this regular reading of newspaper , writing English essay etc is also required .

Also try to Solve Norman Lewis book of Word Power made Easy  if you had not done yet .

Now Lets move to Punjabi Comprehension & Grammar  :-

For Grammar 10th Punjab Board Grammar is sufficient .

For Technical Vocabulary 12th Punjab board book is sufficient .

To prepare along with mains try Jaypee book on Punjabi for PCS is sufficient book .

There are no quality book on Comprehension in Punjabi  .

I will advise you for Punjabi Comprehension Solve Previous Papers .

Read  Some books on Punjabi Articles on different topic .

Read books like writes Gurbaksh Singh Preetladi  ” Zindgi di Raas ”

Read articles from Punjabi Tribune http://punjabitribuneonline.com/category/ਹਫਤਾਵਾਰੀ/ਅਦਬੀ-ਸੰਗਤ/

ਆਰਟੀਕਲ ਖਾਸ ਕਰਕੇ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਸਭਿਆਚਾਰ , ਗੁਰਬਾਣੀ , ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿਰਸੇ ਆਦਿ ਦੇ ਬਾਰੇ ਪੜੋ . ਹੁਣ ਤੋਂ ਵੀ ਸ਼ੁਰੂ ਕਰ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ .

ਬਾਕੀ ਮੇਂ ਕੋਸਿਸ਼ ਕਰਾਗਾਂ ਕਿ ਇਥੇ ਹੀ ਤੁਹਾਨੂੰ ਆਰਟੀਕਲ ਉਪਲਭਧ ਕਰ ਦਵਾਂ . ਹਰ ਹਫਤੇ ਦੋ ਆਰਟੀਕਲ ਘੱਟੋ ਘੱਟ .

For Reasoning :-

For Reasoning There is nothing much needed to prepare if you are already good at it .

Just Solve Previous Paper of UPSC & PCS CSAT Question Paper .

Then Solve Practice set from indiabix or any online site .

If you are week

then solve RS Aggarwal Verbal and Non Verbal reasoning .

Just solve two three question from each type of a topic .

Solve questions only those which already asked in some exam previously .

That will be enough for reasoning .

For Maths :-

Bsc Academy M tyra book 

here to solve two or three questions each type repeated one .

You must prepare Probability of 11th standard .PPSC usually ask question from this section .

Those are good at mathematics Just Solve Previous papers of UPSC and PCS . and then practice from sites mentioned already .

Final thing is Communication skills .

Read basics  of different type of communication from google just basic review .

CSAT Papers’s of Previous year’s Question paper Prelims by PPSC

Question Paper of 2012 PCS CSAT  Download 

Question Paper of 2013 PCS CSAT Download

Question Paper of 2015 PCS CSAT Download

Solve them . Your score must increase while solving every next paper . Wherever you  got confused ask me in comments .discuss in group

Finally you must have resources :- for CSAT PPSC are :-

UPSC Previous year Paper , PPSC Previous year Papers , 10th English & Punjabi Grammar & 12th Book ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਾਰਤਕ ਦੀਆਂ ਇੱਕ ਦੋ ਵਧੀਆ ਕਿਤਾਬਾਂ ਜਿਵੇਂ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਲੜੀ ,ਤੇਜਾ ਸਿੰਘ ਆਦਿ

For advance preparation

RS Aggarwal , M Tyra Maths , jaypee books on english and Punjabi or UPSC English mains solved Papers

mix up according to your needs .

Final note :-CSAT is attitude which can not be acquired but only can be sharpen with practice .Here you need to sharpen that . No body in this world can inject this someone’s body . You need to practice then to learn . when you practice your mind always try to make it simple and easy to understand