CIVIL SERVICEs EXAMINATION

CIVIL SERVICEs EXAMINATION

Every year UPSC (Union Public Service Commission,Delhi) takes Civil Service eXamination

If you get selected in it, you can join IAS/IPS/Railways/Revenue/Postal/Telecom/Foreign etc. cservices as an officer.

The exam routine goes like this:

December : notification comes in major newspapers.

you need to buy the form from Head Post-office in your city. and send it to Delhi.

Min.requirements

1. Age 21

2. Bachelor's Degree in any field (art/commerce/sci.) from a UGC recognised university.

Scheme of Exam:

In other compitive exams such as GRE,CAT,etc. the application fee is quite high

that's why non-serious candidates don't fill up the forms.but in UPSC- the form costs only Rs.20/- so every tom,dick and harry around fills it. so every year almost 200,000 people give this exam.

but the vacancies are generally 700-800.

so UPSC takes the exam in 3 stages to eliminate the non-serious candidates

HERE IS UPSC's official website where you can get the detailed info. On syllabus etc.

Click me to go to there

Stage 1 :Prilim (Month May) :

Multiple choice questions

papers gets checked by computers

generally 10X more candidates are passed per vacancy

e.g. there are 700 vacancies- they'll pass 7000 Candidates for next stage.

there are 2 papers

1. general studies...150 questions X 1 Mark = 150 M

2. optional subject...120 q? X 2.5 Mark = 300 M

total 450 Marks + negative marking -0.33Mark per wrong answer

*READ THE TIPS FOR EXAM SECTION*

Stage 2 :Mains Exam (October)

mains exam consists of essay like long questions

each paper has 300 Marks

1. Language paper (your mother-tounge) + EngliSh (only for qualifying

these papers marks don't get counted in merit list)

2. General studies Paper I & II

3. First Optional Subject Paper I & II

4. SEcond Optional Subject Paper I & II

5. Essay Paper 200 Marks.

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from this another merit list is made for interview.

suppose there are 700 vacancies, then they'll select 1400 candidates

Interview Stage:

held at Delhi, UPSC Headquarters, Interview carries 300 Marks.

after this the final merit is made, and you get selected according to your merit number+preference list given by you +reservation e.g.

you wrote in your application the preference:

IAS, IRS(Railway), IPS (Police)

and now you got 50th Rank in merit list and they've only 40 Vacancies in the IAS jobs so they'll select you for the IRS job. and if the IRS jobs are full- you'll be selected as IPS (+ reservation criterias )

its just like the college admission after 12th Standard based on merit list.

After selection you'll be given 2 years training and finally you'll be appointed as an officer.