The Civil Services Examination offers the widest range of jobs in our country and is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). There are about twenty-three (24) services offered through this single examination.
Some of the top services offered are the two All India Services, viz., the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS) along with the other central services, viz., Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Revenue Service (IRS) etc. Due to the importance and nature of such civil/public service jobs, UPSC takes utmost care in selecting the right people.
The Services are Listed below:
(i) Indian Administrative Service. |
(ii) Indian Foreign Service. |
(iii) Indian Police Service. |
(iv) Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group ‘A’. |
(v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. |
(vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group ‘A’. |
(vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. |
(viii) Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group ‘A’. |
(ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’ (Assistant Works Manager, Administration). |
(x) Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’. (xi) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’. |
(xii) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’. |
(xiii) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group 'A'. |
(xiv) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’. |
(xv) Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, Group ‘A’ |
(xvi) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’. |
(xvii) Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group ‘A’. |
(xviii) Indian Trade Service, Group 'A'. |
(xix) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group ‘A’. |
(xx) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade). |
(xxi) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group 'B'. |
(xxii) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group 'B'. |
(xxiii) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group 'B'. |
(xxiv) Pondicherry Police Service, Group ‘B’ |
The Preliminary Examination will consist of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions – there are four alternatives for the answer to every question) and carry a maximum of 400 marks.
Paper I – is a paper on General Studies – 200 marks
Paper II – is a paper on Aptitude Test- 200 marks
The Preliminary Examination is meant to serve as a screening test only and the marks obtained by the successful 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 admitted to the Main Examination will be about twelve to thirteen times the total approximate number of vacancies (across all services and posts) to be filled in the year through this examination.
Only those candidates who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in a year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year provided they are otherwise eligible for admission to the Main Examination.
The Main Examination (a written test) will consist of 9 papers of conventional essay type of the following nature:
For the optional papers in the Main Examination, UPSC has a list of about twenty-six subjects out of which any one subject has to be selected by the candidate.
1.Agriculture
2.Animal husbandry and Veterinary Science
3.Anthropology
4.Botany
5.Chemistry
6.Civil Engineering
7.Commerce and Accountancy
8.Economics
9.Electrical Engineering
10.Geography
11.Geology
12.History
13.Law
14.Management
15.Mathematics
16.Mechanical Engineering
17.Medical Science
18.Philosophy
19.Physics
20.Political Science
21.Psychology
22.Public Administration & International Relations
23.Sociology
24.Statistics
25.Zoology
26.Literature of any one of the following Languages Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithali, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit,Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urudu and English.
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 an Interview or a Personality Test. The number of candidates to be summoned for interview will be about twice the number of vacancies to be filled.
The Interview (the final leg of the examination) will carry 275 marks with no minimum qualifying marks. 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 and posts keeping in view their Ranks in the examination and the preferences expressed by them for the services and posts.
