Paper
General Studies Paper II (CSAT)
What this covers
CSAT studies six skill areas: comprehension, communication, reasoning, decision making, mental ability and basic numeracy with data interpretation. Skill grows through worked practice and error diagnosis, not only through reading definitions.
Key ideas
- comprehension
- reasoning
- decision making
- numeracy and data interpretation
Topics 6
- 01ComprehensionComprehension requires a reader to recover what a passage says, infer only what follows and distinguish the author's claim from an option's…4 subtopics
- 02Interpersonal and communication skillsCommunication is a two-way process of conveying meaning and checking understanding.4 subtopics
- 03Logical reasoning and analytical abilityReasoning tests whether a conclusion follows from stated conditions.4 subtopics
- 04Decision making and problem solvingA decision problem begins with a defined objective, relevant facts, constraints and feasible alternatives.4 subtopics
- 05General mental abilityIdentify the rule or relationship supplied by a mental-ability item, then test it against every observation.4 subtopics
- 06Basic numeracy and data interpretationUse quantities with units, ratios and evidence from a displayed dataset.5 subtopics