UPPSC Exam Pattern 2024, Check PCS Prelims and Mains Pattern

The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission conducts the UPPSC PCS Recruitment 2024. The Commission recruited the Combined State/Senior Subordinate Services Examination 2024. Candidates preparing for the UPPSC Exam should have an idea about PCS Exam Pattern. In this article, we have discussed the UPPCS Exam Pattern 2024 for Prelims, Mains, and Interviews.

UPPSC Exam Pattern 2024

The Commission  is responsible for recruit Group A and Group B officers for the state government’s administrative services. The UPPCS Exam Pattern has changed from the 2018 UPPCS Prelims exam. The new UPPSC Exam Pattern is more or less modelled on the pattern of the UPSC CSE Exam. The key components of the new PCS Exam pattern are:

• 0.33% or 1/3rd UPPSC negative marking will now be used in the preliminary exam.
• Along with the Essay and General Hindi Paper, the mains will have 6 GS Papers. Optional Subject Removed from Main Exam 2024
• 100 marks will be assigned for the Interview/Personality Test.

There are three stages to the UPPSC Exam 2024, and each stage has a specific purpose. The commission publishes the UPPSC Syllabus 2024 along with the UPPSC Notification 2024 on its official website.

UPPSC Optional Subject Removed 

UPPSC has released the notification for the UPPSC exam 2023 on the 1st of March 2023. The major change that the commission had done in the present year’s exam pattern is that it has removed the optional papers from the mains exam and has replaced it with two additional General Studies papers GS Paper V and GS Paper VI.

UPPSC Prelims Exam Pattern 2024

Here is a complete discussion about the UPPSC Prelims Exam Pattern. This is purely qualifying in nature, and it serves as a screening tool to filter out non-serious applicants. There are two papers, Paper I and Paper II, in the UPPSC PCS ACF/ RFO Prelims exam. Each paper has 200 marks and consists of multiple-choice questions (MCQs). See the following table below for the UPPSC Prelims Exam Pattern.

UPPSC Prelims Marking Scheme

• Paper-I will determine the exam cutoff and merit ranking
• Paper II i.e., CSAT Paper is qualifying in nature so, candidates must score at least 33% marks in paper II.
• Every wrong answer will lead to a negative marking of 0.33%. For instance, if a question has a maximum mark limit of 2, answering it incorrectly will cost you 0.66 marks.
• Multiple circles being filled in on the OMR sheet for the same question would be regarded as an improper answer, and a negative marking would result.
• Not answering a question results in no marks being deducted.

UPPSC Mains Exam Pattern 2024

Candidates who passed the PCS and ACF/RFO preliminary exams are eligible to take the main examination. The following table contains the UPPSC Mains Exam Pattern. The final selection of the candidates will take into account the candidates’ scores in the main exam. There are eight papers of a descriptive nature in the UPPSC Mains Exam. The Mains Exam, which has a cumulative weighting of 1500 marks, is a merit-deciding round. In the Exam Pattern for UPPSC Mains, there are two major changes that happened in 2018 and one change in 2024 is the removal of optional paper from mains syllabus.

• With an increase in the number of papers, UPPSC has replaced objective-type papers with descriptive-type papers in the Mains exam once again.
• The “Ethics” paper, which was not there before, was introduced by UPPSC.

UPPSC Interview Exam Pattern

An Interview or Personality Test is the last round of the UPPSC Exam. Candidates who passed the main exam will receive an invitation to the personnel interview. There will be a 100-mark interview. A Board that is appointed by the UPPSC conducts interviews with candidates. The purpose of the interview is to determine if the candidate is personally qualified for a career in state services by a board of experienced and impartial observers. In the Personality Test Round, candidates must be informed of events/issues both internal and external of their state or country, in addition to their academic studies. The interview is more of a purposeful dialogue meant to probe the candidate’s mental capabilities and capacity for analysis.

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