SPORTS QS STUMP UPSC PRELIMS CANDIDATES

Mumbai The most-awaited exams of the year for IAS aspirants - UPSC Prelims were held yesterday. While questions on sports caught candidates by surprise, "conceptual' questions in polity kept their annual promise. FPJ spoke to a few of the 10 lakh students who took the exam on Sunday and found that candidates across India had different versions of the difficulty level of the paper. Yash Khade of Akola, for instance, said that the paper was "overall moderate" while Nadeem Pasha of Mumbai found it "difficult".

- MANALI MOMAYA

Priti Kumari of Delhi said, "For me Paper 1, GS (general studies) was easier than CSAT. Actually, GS was easy this year than that of last year. I found more direct questions in this year's paper: Previously, there used to be two to three answers for one question. It did not happen this time. Only four options were given and one answer was to be chosen which was less confusing."