Section-I
PLAN OF EXAMINATION
PLAN OF EXAMINATION
The competitive examination comprises two successive stages :
(i) Civil Services (Preliminary) Examina-tions (Objective Type) for the selection of candidates for Main Examination; and
(ii) Civil Services (Main) Examination (Writ-ten and Interview) for the selection of can-didates 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 sub-section (A) of Section-II. This examination
is meant to serve as a screening test only; the marks obtained in the Preliminary Ex-amination by the candidates who are de-clared qualified for admission to the Main Examination will not be counted for deter-mining 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 va-cancies 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 Examina-tion in the year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year pro-vided they are otherwise eligible for admis-sion to the Main Examination.
3. The Main Examination will consist of a written examination and an Interview Test. The written examination will consist of 9 papers of conventional essay type in the subjects set out in sub-section (B) of Section-II. Also see Note (ii) under para I of Section-II (B).
4. 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/for a Personality Test vide sub-section ‘C’ of Section-II. However, the papers on Indian Languages and English will be of qualify-ing nature. Also see Note (ii) under para 1 of Section-II (B). The marks obtained in these papers will not be counted for rank-ing. The number of candidates to be sum-moned for interview will be about twice the
number of vacancies to be filled.
The inter-view will carry 300 marks (with no mini-mum 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 keeping in view their ranks in the examination and the prefer-ences expressed by them for the various Services and Posts.
Section-II
Scheme and subjects for the Preliminary and Main Examinations.
A. Preliminary Examination
The Examination shall comprise two compulsory papers of 200 marks each.
NOTE (i) Both the question papers will be of the objective type (multiple choice ques-tions).
(ii) The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English. However, questions relating to English Language Comprehen-sion skills of Class X level will be tested through passages from English Language only without providing Hindi translation thereof in the question paper.
(iii) Details of the syllabi are indicated in Part A of Section III.
(iv) Each paper will be of two hours dura-tion. Blind candidates will however, be al-lowed an extra time of twenty minutes at each paper.
B. Main Examination
The written examination will consist of the following papers :Paper I : One of the Indian languages to be selected by the candidate from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. : 300 marks
Paper II : English : 300 marks
Paper III : Essay : 200 marks
Papers IV and V : General Studies : 300 marks for each paper
Papers VI, VII, VIII and IX : Any two subjects to be be selected from the list of the optional subjects set
out in para 2 below. Each subject will have two papers : 300 marks for each paper.
Interview Test will carry 300 marks.
NOTE (i) The papers on Indian Languages and English will be of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualify-ing nature; the marks obtained in these papers will not be counted for ranking.
NOTE (ii) Evaluation of the papers, namely, 'Essay, 'General Studies' and Optional Sub-jects of all candidates would be done si-multaneously along with evaluation of their qualifying papers on 'Indian languages' and English' but the papers on 'Essay', Gen-eral Studies' and 'Optional Subjects' of only
such candidates will be taken cognizance of as attain such minimum standard as may be fixed by the Commission at their discretion for the qualifying papers on 'In-dian language' and 'English' and, there-fore, the marks in 'Essay' 'General studies and Optional subjects' will not be disclosed to those candidates who fail to obtain such minimum qualifying standard in 'Indian lan-guage and 'English'.
NOTE (iii) The paper-I on Indian Lan-guages will not, however, be compulsory for candidates hailing from the North-East-ern States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland and also for candidates hailing from the State of Sikkim.
NOTE (iv) For the Language papers, the script to be used by the candidates will be as under:–
Language : Script
Assamese : Assamese - Click Here for Syllabus
Bengali : Bengali - Click Here for Syllabus
Bodo : Devanagari - Click Here for Syllabus
Dogri : Devanagari - Click Here for Syllabus
Gujarati : Gujarati - Click Here for Syllabus
Hindi : Devanagari - Click Here for Syllabus
Kannada : Kannada - Click Here for Syllabus
Kashmiri : Persian - Click Here for Syllabus
Konkani : Devanagari - Click Here for Syllabus
Maithili : Devanagari - Click Here for Syllabus
Malayalam : Malayalam - Click Here for Syllabus
Manipuri : Bengali - Click Here for Syllabus
Marathi : Devanagari - Click Here for Syllabus
Nepali : Devanagari - Click Here for Syllabus
Oriya : Oriya - Click Here for Syllabus
Punjabi : Gurumukhi - Click Here for Syllabus
Sanskrit : Devanagari - Click Here for Syllabus
Santali : Devanagari or Olchiki - Click Here for Syllabus
Sindhi : Devanagari or Arabic - Click Here for Syllabus
Tamil : Tamil - Click Here for Syllabus
Telugu : Telugu - Click Here for Syllabus
Urdu : Persian - Click Here for Syllabus
NOTE : For Santali language, question pa-per will be printed in Devanagari script; but candidates will be free to answer ei-ther in Devanagari script or in Olchiki.
2. List of optional subjects for Main Examination
Agriculture - Click Here for Syllabus
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science - Click Here for Syllabus
Anthropology - Click Here for Syllabus
Botany - Click Here for Syllabus
Chemistry - Click Here for Syllabus
Civil Engineering - Click Here for Syllabus
Commerce and Accountancy - Click Here for Syllabus
Economics - Click Here for Syllabus
Electrical Engineering - Click Here for Syllabus
Geography - Click Here for Syllabus
Geology - Click Here for Syllabus
History - Click Here for Syllabus
Law - Click Here for Syllabus
Management - Click Here for Syllabus
Mathematics - Click Here for Syllabus
Mechanical Engineering - Click Here for Syllabus
Medical Science - Click Here for Syllabus
Philosophy - Click Here for Syllabus
Physics - Click Here for Syllabus
Political Science and International -Click Here for Syllabus
Relations - Click Here for Syllabus
Psychology - Click Here for Syllabus
Public Administration - Click Here for Syllabus
Sociology - Click Here for Syllabus
Statistics - Click Here for Syllabus
Zoology - Click Here for Syllabus
Literature of one of the following lan-guages:
Arabic, Assamese, Bodo, Bengali, Chi-nese, Dogri, English, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.
NOTE (i) Candidates will not be allowed to offer the following combinations of subjects:–
(a) Political Science & International Re-lations and Public Administration;
(b) Commerce & Accountancy and Man-agement;
(c) Anthropology and Sociology;
(d) Mathematics and Statistics;
(e) Agriculture and Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science.
(f) Management and Public Administration;
(g) Of the Engineering subjects, viz., Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering–not
more than one subject.
(h) Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Sci-ence and Medical Science.
(ii) The question papers for the examina-tion will be of conventional (essay) type.
(iii) Each paper will be of three hours dura-tion. Blind candidates will, however, be al-lowed an extra time of thirty minutes at each paper.
(iv) Candidates will have the option to an-swer all the question papers, except the language papers viz. Papers I and II above in any one of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution or
in English.
(v) Candidates exercising the option to answer papers III to IX in any one of the languages included in the Eighth Sched-ule to the Constitution may, if they so de-sire, give English version within brackets of only the description of the technical terms, if any, in addition to the version in the language opted by them.
Candidates should, however, note that if they misuse the above rule, a deduction will be made on this account from the total marks otherwise accruing to them and in extreme cases, their script(s) will not be valued for
being in an unauthorised medium.
(vi) The question papers other than lan-guage papers will be set both in Hindi and English.
(vii) The details of the syllabi are set out in Part B of Section-III.
"General Instructions (Preliminary as well as Main Examination)" :
(i) Candidates must write the papers in their own hand. In no circumstances, will they be allowed the help of a scribe to write the answers for them. However, blind can-didates will be allowed to write the exami-nation with the help of a scribe.
(ii) An extra time of twenty minutes per hour shall be permitted for the candidates with locomotor disability and cerebral palsy where dominant (writing) extremity is af-fected to the extent of slowing the perfor-mance of function (minimum of 40% im-pairment) in the Civil Services (Main) Ex-amination only. However, no scribe shall be permitted to such candidates.
NOTE 1 : The eligibility conditions of a scribe, his/her conduct inside the exami-nation hall and the manner in which and extent to which he/she can help the blind candidate in writing the Civil Services Ex-amination shall be governed by the instruc-tions issued by the UPSC in this regard.
Violation of all or any of the said instruc-tions shall entail the cancellation of the candidature of the blind candidate in addition to any other action that the UPSC may take against the scribe.
NOTE 2 : For purpose of these rules the candidate shall be deemed to be a blind candidate if the percentage of visual im-pairment is 40% or more. The criteria for determining the percentage of visual im-pairment shall be as follows :
NOTE 3 : For availing of the concession admissible to a blind candidate, the candi-date concerned shall produce a certificate in the prescribed proforma from a Medical Board constituted by the Central/State Gov-ernments alongwith his application for the Main Examination.
NOTE 4 : (i) The concession admissible to blind candidates shall not be admissible to those suffering from Myopia.
(ii) The Commission have discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all the subjects of the examination.
(iii) If a candidate’s handwriting is not eas-ily legible, a deduction will be made on this account from the total marks otherwise accruing to him.
(iv) Marks will not be allotted for mere su-perficial knowledge.
(v) Credit will be given for orderly, effective and exact expression combined with due economy of words in all subjects of the examination.
(vi) In the question papers, wherever re-quired, SI units will be used.
(vii) Candidates should use only interna-tional form of Indian numerals (i.e. 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc.) while answering question papers.
(viii) Candidates will be allowed the use of Scientific (Non-Programmable type) Cal-culators at the conventional (Essay) type examination of UPSC. Programmable type calculators will however not be allowed
and the use of such calculators shall tanta-mount to resorting to unfair means by the candidates. Loaning or interchanging of calculators in the Examination Hall is not permitted.
It is also important to note that candidates are not permitted to use calculators for an-swering objective type papers (Test Book-lets). They should not therefore, bring the same inside the Examination Hall.
C. Interview test
1. 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 ob-servers. The test is intended to judge the mental calibre of a candidate. In broad terms this is really an assessment of not only his intellectual qualities but also social traits and his interest in current affairs. Some of the qualities to be judged are mental alertness, critical powers of assimilation, clear and logi-cal exposition, balance of judgement, vari-ety and depth of interest, ability for social co-hesion and leadership, intellectual and moralintegrity.
2. The technique of the interview is not that of a strict cross-examination but of a natu-ral, though directed and purposive conversation which is intended to reveal the men-tal qualities of the candidate.
3. The interview test is not intended to be a test either of the specialised or general knowledge of the candidates which has been already tested through their written papers. 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 cur-rents of thought and in new discoveries which should rouse the curiosity of well educated youth.
Section-III
SYLLABI FOR THE EXAMINATION
PART-A
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
The Examination shall comprise two com-pulsory papers of 200 marks each. SYLLABI FOR THE EXAMINATION
PART-A
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Paper I - (200 marks) Duration : Two hours
- Current events of national and inter-national importance.
- History of India and Indian National Movement.
- Indian and World Geography - Physi-cal, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.
- Indian Polity and Governance - Con-stitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.
- Economic and Social Development -Sustainable Development, Poverty, In-clusion, Demographics, Social Sector initiatives, etc.
- General issues on Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change - that do not require subjectspecialisation
- General Science.
Paper II- (200 marks) Duration: Two hours
- Comprehension
- Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
- Logical reasoning and analytical ability
- Decision-making and problem-solving
- General mental ability
- Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation(charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. - Class X level)
- English Language Comprehension skills (Class X level).
Hindi translation thereof in the question paper.
Note 2 : The questions will be of multiple choice, objective type.
Note 3: It is mandatory for the candidate to appear in both the Papers of Civil Services (Prelim) Examination for the purpose of evaluation. Therefore a candidate will be disqualified in case he/she does not appear in both the papers of Civil Services (Prelim) Examination.
PART-B
MAIN EXAMINATION
The scope of the syllabus for the optional subject papers for the examination is broadly of the honours degree level i.e. a level higher than the bachelors degree and lower than the masters degree. In the case of Engineering and law, the level corre-sponds to the bachelor's degree.
COMPULSORY SUBJECTS ENGLISH AND INDIAN LANGUAGES
The aim of the paper is to test the candidate's ability to read and understand serious discursive prose, and to express his ideas clearly and correctly in English/Indian language concerned. The pattern of questions would be broadly as follows :-
(i) Comprehension of given passages.
(ii) Precis Writing
(iii) Usage and Vocabulary
(iv) Short Essay
INDIAN LANGUAGES
(i) Comprehension of given passages.
(ii) Precis Writing
(iii) Usage and Vocabulary.
(iv) Short Essay
(v) Translation from English to the Indian language and vice-versa.
Note 1 : The Papers on Indian Languages and English will be of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualify-ing nature only. The marks obtained in these papers will not be counted for rank-ing.
Note 2 : The candidates will have to an-swer the English and Indian Languages papers in English and the respective In-dian language (except where translation is involved).
ESSAY
Candidates will be required to write an essay on a specific topic. The choice of subjects will be given. They will be ex-pected to keep closely to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fash-ion, and to write concisely. Credit will be given for effective and exact expression.
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