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All You Need To Know About UPSC

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All You Need To Know About UPSC

UPSC stands for Union Public Service Commission, which conducts the Civil Service Examination along with some other examinations. Via the Civil Services Examination, the UPSC recruits candidates for various Central and All India Civil Service posts in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS), etc.

Eligibility

Must be a citizen of India, a person of Indian origin or a subject of Nepal, Bhutan or Tibet settled in India before 1st January 1962.
Education Qualification: Candidate must hold a Graduate Degree from a recognised University.
Exam Age Limit: Candidate must be a minimum of 21 years of age and must not be more than 32 years of age.

UPSC Exam Pattern

UPSC Civil Services examination is a yearly exam, the pattern is officially divided into two stages called Preliminary and Main Examination while in practice, it is a three-stage exam. The third is the Personality Test/Interview.

Candidates who clear the Preliminary exam, which is only qualifying in nature, are eligible to write the MAINS exam and candidates clearing MAINS to reach the interview stage.

UPSC CSE PRELIMS EXAM PATTERN

This stage consists of two objective-type papers, conducted on the same day. Marks secured at this stage are not counted towards the final merit list.

Civils Exam Pattern – Prelims
Paper	Type	No. of questions	UPSC Total Marks	Duration	Negative marks
General Studies I	Objective	100	200	2 hours	Yes
General Studies II (CSAT)	Objective	80	200	2 hours	Yes
Total UPSC marks for Prelims	400 (where GS Paper II is qualifying in nature with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%)

UPSC CSE MAINS EXAM PATTERN

The UPSC exam pattern for the MAINS exam consists of 9 papers conducted over 5-7 days. All of the papers consist of descriptive answer-type questions.

UPSC CSE Exam Pattern – Mains
Paper	Subject	Duration	IAS Total marks
Paper A	Compulsory Indian language	3 hours	300
Paper B	English	3 hours	300
Paper I	Essay	3 hours	250
Paper II	General Studies I	3 hours	250
Paper III	General Studies II	3 hours	250
Paper IV	General Studies III	3 hours	250
Paper V	General Studies IV	3 hours	250
Paper VI	Optional I	3 hours	250
Paper VII	Optional II	3 hours	250

UPSC PERSONALITY TEST

The total marks of the UPSC Interview stage are 275, thus bringing the total marks for UPSC Mains and Interview for the merit list consideration to 2025.

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