Haryana Government amended HCS Rule 2008, Now preliminary exam will be similar to UPSC CS Prelims.
HPSC PCS HCS Prelims Exam New Pattern:Haryana Government has amended the Haryana Civil Services (Executive Branch) Rules, 2008. The new rules will be called the Haryana Civil Services (Executive Branch) Amendment Rules, 2020. The Government made changes in Paper 2 of the examination.
As per the amended, HPSC HCS preliminary exam will be similar to that of UPSC Civil Services Prelims Examination. There will be two papers of 100 marks each in the preliminary examination GS Paper 1 and CSAT. General Studies Paper 1 exam is competitive in nature and CSAT in qualifying in nature.
Both the papers will be objective in nature. Questions related to General Studies (existing and notified syllabus) will be asked in Paper I. There will be a Civil Services Aptitude Test under paper II, which includes comprehension, inter-personal skills, including communication skills, logical reasoning, and analytical ability, decision making and problem-solving, general mental ability and basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, order of magnitude, etc.), Data Interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc.). Earlier, for paper II, applicants needed to select one subject out of a list of 19 subjects.
Both the Question papers will be set bilingual i.e. in English and Hindi. Each question will carry one mark and for each wrong answer one fourth (0.25) mark will be deducted. The Paper II i.e. Civil Services Aptitude Test will only be qualifying in nature with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33 percent.
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