ABOUT EXAMINATION - The civil services examination is conducted every year by the union public Service commission (UPSC). As a common examination for various services like the IAS, IFS, IPS, GROUP A & GROUP B Central service. The notification for the examination is published in the month of December to February every year in employment News/Rojgar samachar Services/posts to which recruitment is to be made through the Examination are: This Preliminary Examination will be common for the candidates applying for Civil Services Examination and Indian Forest Service Examination, and will act as a screening mechanism for selection of candidates for the Civil Services (Main) Examination and Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination. Candidates are required to apply through online mode in the Commission’s website www.upsconline.nic.in. No other mode is allowed for submission of application. Note 1 - Candidates are requested to note that there are some changes in the scheme of Civil Services [Main] Examination and also in the scheme of Indian Forest Service Examination. While for the Civil Services Examination, it is in the basic content of the Main Written Examination wherein changes have been made by the government, in the Indian Forest Service Examination, a preliminary examination has been introduced as a mode of screening candidates for the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination. Civil Services Examination, common exam for various posts – Top 3 ranks – IAS, IPS & IFS (i) Indian Administrative Service. (ii) (ii) Indian Foreign Service. (iii) (iii) Indian Police Service (iv) (iv) Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group ‘A’. (v) (v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. (vi) (vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group ‘A’. (vii) (vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. (viii) (viii) Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group ‘A’. (ix) (ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’ (Assistant Works Manager, Administration). (x) (x) Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’. (xi) (xi) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. (xii) (xii) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’. (xiii) (xiii) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group `A`. (xiv) (xiv) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’. (xv) (xv) Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, Group ‘A’ (xvi) (xvi) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’. (xvii) (xvii) Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group ‘A’. (xviii) (xviii) Indian Trade Service, Group `A` (Gr. III). (xix) (xix) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group "A". (xx) (xx) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade). (xxi) (xxi) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group `B`. (xxii) (xxii) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group `B`. (xxiii) (xxiii) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group `B`. (xxiv) (xxiv) Pondicherry Police Service, Group `B`. Examination Centres in India: AGARTALA AHMEDABAD AIZAWL ALIGARH ALLAHABAD AURANGABAD BANGALORE BAREILLY BHOPAL IMPHAL ITANAGAR JAIPUR JAMMU JODHPUR JORHAT KOCHI KOHIMA KOLKATA LUCKNOW MADURAI MUMBAI NAGPUR PANAJI (GOA) PATNA PUDUCHERRY PORT BLAIR RAIPUR RANCHI SAMBALPUR SHILLONG SHIMLA SRINAGAR THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ,TIRUPATI UDAIPUR VISHAKHAPATNAM Note -Blind candidates will, however, be required to take the examination at any one of the seven centres only viz. Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Dispur and Mumbai. Candidates admitted to the examination will be informed of the time table and place or places of examination. The candidates should note that no request for change of centre would be granted 3. ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS: (i) Nationality (1) For the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, a candidate must be a citizen of India. (2) For other services, a candidate must be either: — (a) a citizen of India, or (b) a subject of Nepal, or (c) a subject of Bhutan, or (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India. Provided further that candidates belonging to categories (b), (c) and (d) above will not be eligible for appointment to the Indian Foreign Service. A candidate, in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary, may be admitted to the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the Government of India. (ii) Age Limits: (a) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on 1st August, 2013, i.e. he/she must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1983 and not later than 1st August, 1992. (b) The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable : (i) upto a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe. (ii) upto a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates. (iii) upto a maximum of five years if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from the 1st January, 1980 to the 31st day of December, 1989. (iv) upto a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Services personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof. (v) upto a maximum of five years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commission Officers and ECOs/ SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 1st August, 2013 and have been released (i) on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from 1st August, 2013) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency, or (ii) on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service, or (iii) on invalidment. (vi) Upto a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years Military Service as on 1st August, 2013 and whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case the Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment and that they will be released on three months notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment. (vii) upto a maximum of 10 years in the case of blind, deaf-mute and orthopaedically handicapped persons. NOTE I : Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Classes who are also covered under any other clauses of Para 3(ii)(b) above, viz. those coming under the category of Ex-servicemen, persons domiciled in the State of J & K, blind, deaf-mute and orthopaedically handicapped etc. will be eligible for grant of cumulative age-relaxation under both the categories. NOTE II : The term ex-servicemen will apply to the persons who are defined as ex-servicemen in the Ex-servicemen (Re- employment in Civil Services and Posts) Rules, 1979, as amended from time to time. NOTE III : The age concession under para 3(ii)(b)(v) and (vi) will not be admissible to Ex-Servicemen and Commissioned Officers including ECOs/SSCOs who are released on own request. NOTE IV : Notwithstanding the provision of age-relaxation under para 3 (ii) (b) (vii) above, a physically disabled candidate will be considered to be eligible for appointment only if he/she (after such physical examination as the Government or appointing authority, as the case may be, may prescribe) is found to satisfy the requirements of physical and medical standards for the concerned Services/posts to be allocated to the physically disabled candidates by the Government. PLAN OF EXAMINATION The competitive examination comprises two successive stages: (i) Civil Services (Preliminary) Examinations (Objective Type) for the selection of candidates for Main Examination; and (ii) Civil Services (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the various services and posts. 2. The Preliminary Examination will consist of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions) and carry a maximum of 400 marks in the subjects set out in subsection (A) of Section-II. This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only; the marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Main Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Examination will be about twelve to thirteen times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filled in the year in the various Services and Posts. Only those candidates who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year provided they are otherwise eligible for admission to the Main Examination. 3. Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the written part of the Main Examination as may be fixed by the Commission at their discretion, shall be summoned by them for interview for a Personality Test vide sub-section ‘C’ of Section-II. Marks obtained in the papers will be counted for ranking. The number of candidates to be summoned for interview will be about twice the number of vacancies to be filled. Marks thus obtained by the candidates in the Main Examination (written part as well as interview) would determine their final ranking. Candidates will be allotted to the various Services keeping in view their ranks in the examination and the preferences expressed by them for the various Services and Posts. B. Main Examination The written examination will consist of the following papers: Paper-I Section 1 Essay Section 2 English Comprehensions 200 marks & English Précis 150 marks (Of Matriculation/ Xth standard level) Paper-II General Studies–I (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World 250 marks and Society) Paper-III General Studies –I (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and 250 marks International relations) Paper-IV General Studies –III (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management) 250 marks Paper-V General Studies –IV (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude) 250 marks Language Paper-VI Optional Subject – Paper 1 250 marks Paper-VII Optional Subject – Paper 2 250 marks Sub Total (Written test) - 1800 marks Personality Test - 275 marks Grand Total - 2075 Marks {Candidates may choose any optional subject from amongst the list of subjects given in para 2 below (Group 1). However, a candidate can opt for the literatures of a language, indicated in Group-2 below para 2, as an optional subject, only if the candidate has graduated in the literature of that particular language as the main subject}. NOTE: (i) Marks obtained by the candidates for all papers (Paper I-VII) will be counted for merit ranking. However, the Commission will have the discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all papers of the examination. (ii) For the Language medium/ literature of languages, the scripts to be used by the candidates will be as under:- Note : Language Script Assamese Assamese , Bengali- Bengali , Gujarati – Gujarati, Hindi – Devanagari, Kannada- Kannada , Kashmiri Persian Konkani Devanagari Malayalam Malayalam Manipuri Bengali Marathi Devanagari Nepali Devanagari Oriya Oriya Punjabi Gurumukhi Sanskrit Devanagari Sindhi Devanagari or Arabic Tamil Tamil Telugu Telugu Urdu Persian Bodo Devanagari Dogri Devanagari Maithilli Devanagari Santhali Devanagari or Olchiki For Santali language, question paper will be printed in Devanagari script; but candidates will be free to answer either in Devanagari script or in Olchiki. 2. List of optional subjects for Main Examination: (choose any 1 optional subject, which will have 2 paper –I & II) Group-1 (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 Group-2 Literature of any one of the following languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, English. Interview test- The candidate will be interviewed by a Board who will have before them a record of his/her career. He/she will be asked questions on matters of general interest. The object of the interview is to assess the personal suitability of the candidate for a career in public service by a Board of competent and unbiased observers, to judge the mental calibre of a candidate. In broad terms this is really an assessment of not only his/her intellectual qualities but also social traits and his/her interest in current affairs. Some of the qualities to be judged are mental alertness, critical powers of assimilation, clear and logical exposition, balance of judgement, variety and depth of interest, ability for social cohesion and leadership, intellectual and moral integrity. Candidates are expected to have taken an intelligent interest not only in their special subjects of academic study but also in the events which are happening around them both within and outside their own state or country as well as in modern currents of thought and in new discoveries which should rouse the curiosity of well educated youth.