The Civil Service Aptitude Test, also known as the General Studies Paper-II is one of the qualifying papers of the UPSC Prelims.
| 1 | Comprehension |
| 2 | Interpersonal skills including communication skills |
| 3 | Logical reasoning and analytical ability |
| 4 | Decision-making and problem-solving |
| 5 | General mental ability |
| 5 | Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level); Data interpretation (charts,graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc. -Class X level) |
