Prelims CSAT (Paper II)Comprehension & Communication

Mixed Charts

मिश्रित चार्ट

Mixed Charts is part of the UPSC Prelims CSAT (Paper II) syllabus, under Comprehension & Communication. It appeared in Prelims CSAT (Paper II) question papers in 2 of the 10 years from 2016 to 2025 (2018, 2023).

What should you study in Mixed Charts?

  • Mixed DI sets — bar + line, pie + table combinations
  • Caselet-based DI — reading paragraph data
  • Ranking from data
  • Approximate calculation techniques

How often is Mixed Charts asked in UPSC Prelims?

Asked in 2 of 10 years, including 1 of the last 5. Highlighted years below are the ones it appeared in.

  1. 2016: not asked
  2. 2017: not asked
  3. 2018: asked
  4. 2019: not asked
  5. 2020: not asked
  6. 2021: not asked
  7. 2022: not asked
  8. 2023: asked
  9. 2024: not asked
  10. 2025: not asked

About the Prelims CSAT (Paper II) paper

CSAT is Prelims Paper II: 80 multiple-choice questions for 200 marks. It is qualifying — you need 33% to pass, and the marks do not count towards the cut-off. See all 24 Prelims CSAT (Paper II) topics.

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