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Civil Services Exam Pattern Details: union public service commission upsc conducts civil service exam yearly once for the vacancies of IAS, IFS, IPS and the central Govt Jobs group A and group B. upsc civil services examination conducts of two successive stages.
1) Preliminary Examination (written)
2) Main examination (written and interview)
A) preliminary examination :The applied candidates who are eligible go to the first stage of preliminary examination .In this exam consists 2 papers with objective type questions Maximum marks for each paper 200 .Question papers given in English and Hindi languages .Each paper time duration 2hrs.
Paper-I -maximum marks -200
Paper-II -maximum marks -200
B.1.Main examination: The candidates who are qualified in civils preliminary examination go for second stage main examination. Main exam consists of written test and interview. In written test consists of 9 papers with essay type questions. The question papers other than language papers will be given both Hindi and English languages.
| Paper | subject | Maximum marks |
| I | Selected Indian language | 300 |
| II | English | 300 |
| III | Essay | 200 |
| IV | General studies paper-1 | 300 |
| V | General studies paper-2 | 300 |
| VI | Optional subject 1
paper-1 |
300 |
| VII | Optional subject 1
paper-2 |
300 |
| VIII | Optional subject 2 –
paper -1 |
300 |
| IX | Optional subject 2-
Paper -2 |
300 |
B.2.Interview: on the basis of main examination qualified candidates are called for interview in 1:2 ratios (The number of candidates called for Interview will be twice the number of vacancies) .Total marks obtained by the candidate in the Main Examination would determine the candidate’s final ranking.
1) Civil Services Eligibility Criteria
2) Civil services selection procedure
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after v ve comppleted upsc final’s interview then they can appiont us anywhere or it depnds on choices made by us
when the upsc exams to be conducted
@anjali
The civil services preliminary exam is going to be held on 20-05-2012.
Dear Sir/Mam
Can you be please more clear about optional subjects.
How to choose them and from which options.
Thanking you
YUSRA JALAL
this information is so good.
thanku
thanks for providing us the correct information.