ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION
The eligibility norms for the examination are as follows  

Nationality

• For the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, a candidate must be a citizen of India.
• For the Indian Revenue Service, a candidate must be one of the following:
  • A citizen of India
  • a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India
• For other services, a candidate must be one of the following:
  • A citizen of India
  • A citizen of Nepal or a subject of Bhutan
  • a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India

Education

All candidates must have a minimum of any of the following educational qualifications:

• A degree from a Central, State or Deemed university.
• A degree received through Correspondence Education or Distance Education
• A degree from an Open University.
• A qualification recognized by the Government of India as being equivalent to either of the above.

The following candidates are also eligible, but have to submit proof of their eligibility from a competent authority at their institute/university at the time of the main examination, failing which they will not be allowed to attend the exam.

• Candidates who have appeared in an examination, the passing of which would render them educationally qualified enough to satisfy any of the above points.
• Candidates who have passed the final exam of the MBBS degree but have not yet completed their internship

Age

Prescribed age limits are minimum 21 years and maximum of 30 years as on 1 August of the year of Examination. A candidate who turns 21 on 1 August is eligible whereas a candidate who turns 30 is not.

Upper age limit relaxation is provided to candidates as follows:

• A maximum of three years for OBC candidates [Non Creamy Layer only]
• A maximum of three years in 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
• A maximum of five years for candidates belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe
• A maximum of five years if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 1 January 1980 to 31 December 1989
• A maximum of five years in case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service as on 1 August and have been released on either of the following basis:
  • on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from 1 August) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency
  • on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service
  • on invalidment
• A maximum of five years in case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years Military Service as on 1 August 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.
• A maximum of ten years in case of blind, deaf-mute and orthopaedically handicapped persons

The age relaxation will not be admissible to Ex-Servicemen and Commissioned Officers including ECOs/SSCOs who are released on own request.

Numbers of attempts

The number of attempts a candidate can give the exam is limited as follows:

• Four attempts for General category candidates and OBC category candidates under the Creamy layer
• Seven attempts for OBC category candidates
• To SCs/STs, there is no limit on the number of attempts.
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However these candidates are requested to bear in mind:

1. An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be deemed to be an attempt at the Examination.
2. If a candidate actually appears in any one paper in the Preliminary Examination, he/she shall be deemed to have made an attempt at the Examination.
3. Notwithstanding the disqualification/cancellation of candidature, the fact of appearance of the candidate at the examination will count as an attempt.
4. Candidates just applied but not appeared at the exam is not an attempt.

Vacancies and Selection

Generally the number of vacancies varies every year. In the preliminary examination, the number of candidate selected for the mains is 11 or 12 times the number of vacancies and in case of the main examination, the number of candidates selected for the interview is twice the number of vacancies. As per existing policies, reservation for SC/ST/OBC is applied to each level of the selection process. For example, if the number of vacancies in a given year is 1000, and 100,000 candidates appear for the preliminary examination; the top 11,000 or 12,000 scorers will be selected for the mains and similarly, out of those 12,000 only the top 2,000 scorers will be called for the interview subject to their respective reservation quota.

In 2006, around 400,000 candidates applied for fewer than 500 vacancies and around 7,500 got through the preliminary and appeared in the Mains exam. In 2010, 5,47,698 candidates appeared for the preliminary exam.

To secure a place in the highly sought after Indian Administrative Service (IAS), a candidate must secure a rank in the top 70, a success rate of around 0.025 percent.

The number of vacancies in 2011 was approximately 880.

Exam Statistics
Year	Preliminary	Mains
	Candidates Applied(Appeared)	Category-wise Vacancies(Selection)
		SC	ST	OBC	General	Total
1995	NA(NA)	98(101)	49(49)	165(192)	333(303)	645(645)
1996	NA(NA)	125(138)	57(59)	174(212)	383(330)	739(739)
1997	2,65,761(1,30,198)	89(94)	43(46)	166(215)	323(266)	621(621)
1998	2,71,517(1,22,363)	53(60)	28(30)	114(142)	275(238)	470(470)
1999	3,09,501(1,35,086)	53(63)	27(30)	97(127)	234(191)	411(411)
2000	2,25,555(1,19,398)	54(58)	29(34)	100(128)	244(207)	427(427)
2001	2,56,673(1,38,240)	47(52)	39(42)	97(131)	234(192)	417(417)
2002	3,01,585(1,57,486)	38(38)	22(22)	88(88)	162(138)	310(286)

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