Is Mental Ability removed from IAS Preliminary Test Exam 2011?

Mental Ability is not removed from the UPSC PT syllabus. It remains in the PT syllabus with its place changed. Traditionally Mental Ability questions were asked in the GS paper. In 2011 PT, the place of Mental Ability has been shuffled. It has been removed from the GS paper and placed in the CSAT.

In Mental Ability, Questions were asked from Numerical Ability, Algebra, Profit-loss, Data interpretation, Logical Reasoning etc. And now, these questions would be asked in the Paper II of the UPSC PT Exam under different headings. These headings are –

•    Logical reasoning and analytical ability
•    General mental ability
•    Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations)
•    Orders of magnitude (Class X level)
•    Data interpretation: charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. (Class X level)