Indian Administrative Services (IAS) the legendary Civil Services Exam conducted by UPSC does not need an introduction. UPSC conducts combined civil services exam, which includes Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS), Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS), etc. The services are divided into All India Services and Central, services. The Central services are further divided into Group 'A' services and Group 'B' services.
All India services like IAS and IPS are given state cadres after the selection. The Cadre Controlling authority of IAS is ministry of Personal and Public grievances, Government of India. IPS cadre is controlled by ministry of Home Affairs Government of India. Overall, the IAS plays of major role in administering the Country. IAS runs the governance of the country from the small administrative unit called district as District collector and to the top administrative structure of India i.e. Union cabinet is facilitated by the cabinet secretary. He is the senior most civil servants of the country. The general notion is that IAS is a difficult examination & papers are quite complex & tough. That's not true. It's merely different examination. All it requires is PROPER EXAMINATION TEMPERAMENT & ANALYTICAL APPROACH towards the subject.

(i)Age: A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on FIRST AUGUST, of Examination Year. The upper age limit will be relax able by 3 years for OBC candidates & 5 years for Scheduled Caste/Tribe candidates.

(ii)Qualification: A candidate must hold a degree from any Indian University or other educational institution as a University, or possess an equivalent qualification (there is no restriction on the basis of marks, class or duration of the course).
A candidate who is in the final year of his degree course can apply for, and appear in, the Prelim Examination. However, he should be able to submit proof of his qualification while applying in August for the Main Examination, if selected.

(iii) Number of Attempts: A candidate is allowed four attempts, only subject to the age limits. Appearance in any one of the two papers of Prelim Examination will be considered an attempt. Submission of prelim application to UPSC and receipt of the Hall Ticket will not be treated as an attempt, if the candidate does not appear at all in either paper. There is no ceiling on the number of attempts for a candidate belonging to Scheduled Caste/Tribe, subject to the age limit with relaxation & OBC candidate is allowed seven attempts (up to 33 age).

Application form (common UPSC form) for the Preliminary Examination only can be obtained from leading post office in city. Candidates, who are declared by the Commission to have qualified for admission to the Main Examination, will have to apply again in the detailed application form which will be supplied to them directly by the UPSC.

The notification for the examination is published in December/January every year in all leading Newspapers, Employment News/Rozgar Samachar and Gazette of India.

Qualifying nature, But most of Rejections (95%) are done here only. The Preliminary Examination will have two papers of Objective (Multiple Choice) type questions, and carry a maximum of 400 marks.

(100 Qs)         200 Marks and

(100 Qs)         200 Marks.

Each paper will be of two hour's duration. Roughly 2-3 lakh candidates fill the form & appear for this exam & just 12 to 13 times of the actual vacancies clear this stage. Safe cut -off percent is roughly above 60%-65%. Since 2008 Prelims exam negative marking(.33%) has also been started for each wrong answer.

The Preliminary Examination is held by the UPSC on 2 ND or 3 RD Sunday in May/June every year.

The written examination will consist of 9 papers of the conventional essay-type questions, in the subjects prescribed by the Commission. The question papers (III to IX) will be set both in Hindi and English. Candidates have the option to answer all papers, except Paper-I and Paper-II, either in English or in one of the Indian languages as per Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India.
The Main Examination usually held in October or November every year.

Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore , Bhopal, Bombay, Calcutta, Cuttak, Delhi, Dispur (Gowhati), Hyderabad, Jaipur, Madras, Patna, Shillong, Shimla, Trivandrum , Lucknow, Jammu and Chandigrah etc.

The number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Examination will be about 12 to 13 times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filled in the year in the various services and posts.

Only those who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in an year, are eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year, provided they are otherwise eligible for admission to the Main Examination.

The papers will be broadly of the Honours degree level, i.e. a level higher then the Bachelor's degree and lower than the Master's degree. In the case of Engineering and Law, the level corresponds to the Bachelor's degree.
The Main Examination is intended to assess the overall intellectual traits and the depth of understanding of the candidates, rather than merely the range of their information and memory. Sufficient choice of questions will be allowed in the question papers.

(i) The aim of Paper-I and II is to test the candidate's ability to read and understand serious discursive prose, and to express his ideas clearly and correctly in English/the Indian language concerned. The questions in these papers will be of the Matriculation level.
(ii)The above Papers (I and II) are of a qualifying nature only. The marks obtained in them will not count for ranking purposes.
(iii) Paper-I on Indian Languages will not, however, be compulsory for candidates hailing from the North Eastern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram Meghalaya, and Nagaland or the state of Sikkim.
* Indian Languages as per Schedule VIII of the Constitution of India:
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi (Devanagari Script), Sindhi (Arabic Script), Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.

The number of candidates called for the interview is usually twice the number of likely vacancies.
Marks for the interview: 300

The total marks obtained in the Main Examination - both written and interview - will determine the candidate's rank in the final selection.

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Various states conduct their own civil services (eg. RAS,UPPSC, MPPSC, BPSC, JPSC) exams on more or less same exam pattern as that of IAS.Their syllabus is almost the old/new syllabus of the IAS along with the some portion of the respective state in GK as well as in the optional subjects like history ,geography,pol.sc., pub. ad.,econ.etc.

The notification, detail and results of these examinations are available on various state public service commission sites from time to time; those site names have been given separately on our website www.rpsc.gov.in

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) holds a national level Joint CSIR-UGC Examination (NET) twice a year in the month of June and December for the examination announced in the month of January and July respectively, for determining the eligibility of Indian national candidates for the award of Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) and eligibility for Lectureship in certain subject areas falling under the faculty of Science. The award of JRFship (NET) to the successful eligible candidate depends on their finding admission placement in a university/national laboratory/institution of higher learning and research, as applicable.

Two separate merit lists, one comprising the candidates qualifying for the award of JRF (NET) and the second of those candidates qualifying the Eligibility Test for Lectureship (NET) are made on the basis of their performance in the Test. Candidates qualifying for JRF (NET) will also be eligible for LS (NET). The candidates qualifying for LS (NET) will be eligible for recruitment as Lecturers, as well as eligible to be considered for position of JRFship under various research schemes subject to fulfilling the conditions for appointment under the schemes. If a candidate is found to be overage for JRF (NET) he/she will automatically be considered for Lectureship (NET) only.

The notification details and results of the examination are available o n UGC Webiste: www. csirhrdg.res.in

The University Grants Commission will generally hold a National Level Test on last Sunday of the month of June and December respectively every year for determining the eligibility of Indian National Candidates for the award of Junior Research Fellowships (JRF) and for determining eligibility for recruitment of Lecturers in Universities and Colleges in the subjects falling in the Faculties of Humanities including languages, Social Sciences and others listed in Item No. 9. The award may be made to the candidates who qualify this test by the Universities/ lITs in accordance with the procedure prescribed by them within the quota allocated to them or under various quality programs such as Centre of Advance Study, Department of Special Assistance, Departmental Research Support, Major Research Projects, Area Studies, etc. Similarly recruitment to the post of Lecturer may be made from the qualified candidates by the Universities/Colleges as per their prescribed procedure. Candidates appearing in the above test should clearly specify in item (I) of the application form whether they are a candidate for JRF and Lectureship eligibility OR for lectureship eligibility alone. For both the options, Selection Criterion is the same. Award of JRF will depend on the performance in the test. Candidates qualifying for JRF will also be eligible for lectureship. However, candidates qualifying exclusively for eligibility for Lectureship will not be considered for award of JRF. SC/ST applicants may be given such special consideration as may be decided by the Commission.

Candidates who qualify for Junior Research Fellowship Award are eligible to do interdisciplinary research in the related subject of their Post-Graduation and they will be eligible for Lectureship in the specialized interdisciplinary field after obtaining Ph.D. in it.

The notification and results of the examination are available on UGC Website: www. ugc.ac.in

Various states conduct their own SLET exams on more or less same exam pattern as that of NET .their syllabus is almost the same as that of the net along with the some portion of the respective state in the optional subjects like history ,geography, pol. sc., pub. ad.,econ. etc.

The notification,detail and results of these examination are available on various state public service commission sites from time to time, those site names have been given separately on our website.

The notification, detail and results of these examinations are available on UPSC Website: www. upsc.gov.in

We provide our postalguidance in selected subjects for IFS (call for any particular subject)

No standard pattern / syllabus followed in such exams conducted at the state level.The notification,detail and results of these examination are available on various state public service commission sites from time to time, those site names have been given separately on our website.