UPSC Civil Services Examination

🏢🏢Civil Services Examination-IAS🏢🏢

PLAN OF EXAMINATION

The competitive examination comprises two successive stages :

Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective Type):- for the selection of candidates for Main Examination.
Civil Services (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) :-for the selection of candidates for the various Services and posts

Pattern

Scheme and subjects for the Preliminary and Main Examination.

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION :-
The Examination shall comprise of two compulsory Papers of 200 marks each.
Note : Both the question papers will be of the objective type (multiple choice questions).
The General Studies Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.
The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English.
Each paper will be of two hours duration.
Note:{Blind candidates and the candidates with Locomotor Disability and Cerebral Palsy where dominant (writing) extremity is affected to the extent of slowing the performance of function (minimum of 40% impairment) will; however, be allowed an extra time of twenty minutes per hour for each paper

MAIN EXAMINATION : The written examination will consist of the following papers:-
Qualifying Papers : (Don't take it light give some time to it also, if you fail in it further paper will not be checked)
Paper-A(Schedule 8 listed Languages)
(One of the Indian Language to be selected by the candidate from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution).
300 Marks
Paper-B
English
300 Marks
Papers to be counted for merit
Paper-I Essay 250 Marks
Paper-II General Studies-I 250 Marks
(Indian Heritage and Culture,
History and
Geography of the World and
Society)
Paper-III General Studies -II 250 Marks
(Governance,
Constitution,
Polity,
Social Justice and
International relations)
Paper-IV General Studies -III 250 Marks
(Technology,
Economic Development,
Bio-diversity,
Environment,
Security and
Disaster Management)
Paper-V General Studies -IV 250 Marks
(Ethics, Integrity and
Aptitude)
Paper-VI Optional Subject - Paper 1 250 Marks

Paper-VII Optional Subject - Paper 2 250 Marks
  Sub Total (Written test) =1750 Marks
Personality Test     +275 Marks
(Final Merit based on)Grand Total =2025 Marks

List of optional subjects for Main Examination :

(i) Agriculture
(ii) Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
(iii) Anthropology
(iv) Botany
(v) Chemistry
(vi) Civil Engineering
(vii) Commerce and Accountancy
(viii) Economics
(ix) Electrical Engineering
(x) Geography
(xi) Geology
(xii) History
(xiii) Law
(xiv) Management
(xv) Mathematics
(xvi) Mechanical Engineering
(xvii) Medical Science
(xviii) Philosophy
(xix) Physics
(xx) Political Science and International Relations
(xxi) Psychology
(xxii) Public Administration
(xxiii) Sociology
(xxiv) Statistics
(xxv) Zoology
(xxvi) Literature of any one of the following languages:

Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri,
Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri,
Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri,
Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali,
Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.

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