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ALL INDIA CIVIL SERVICES​

  • Indian Administrative service
  • Indian Police Services
  • Indian Foreign Service

GROUP ‘A’ CIVIL SERVICES

  1. Indian Foreign services 
  2. Indian Audit and Accounts Services 
  3. Indian Civil Accounts Service 
  4. Indian Corporate Law Service 
  5. Indian Defence Accounts Service 
  6. Indian Defence Estates Service 
  7. Indian Information Service 
  8. Indian Ordnance Factories Service
  9. Indian Communication Finance Services 
  10. Indian Postal Service 
  11. Indian Railway Accounts Service 
  12. Indian Railway personnel Service 
  13. Indian Railway Traffic Service 
  14. Indian Revenue service 
  15. Indian Trade Service 
  16. Railway Protection Force

GROUP ‘B’ CIVIL SERVICES

  1. Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service
  2. DANICS 
  3. DANIPS 
  4. Pondicherry Civil Services 
  5. Pondicherry Police Service

UPSC Cut Off

Plan of Examination

The competitive examination comprises two successive stages:

  1. Civil services (Preliminary) Examinations (objective Types) for the selection of candidates for Main Examination
  2. Civil Services (main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the various service and posts.

The preliminary Examination will consists of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice Questions) and carry a maximum of 400 marks in the subjects set out in below section. This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only; that marks obtained in the preliminary Examination by the candidate 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 to be admitted to the Main Examination will be about twelve to thirteen times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filed in the ear in the various Services and Posts. Only those candidates’ who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year provided they are otherwise in the year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination.

 

Candidates who obtained 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 a personality Test (interview for). The number of candidate to be summoned for interview will be about twice the number of vacancies to be filled.

 

Marks thus obtained by the candidates in the Main Examination (written Part as well as interviewo would determine their final ranking. Candidates will be allotted to the various servicing keeping inn view their ranks in the examination and the preferences expressed by them various Services and posts.

Preliminary Examinaton

The Examination shall comprise two compulsory paper of 200 marks each.

The question will be multiple choices, objective type.

Paper-1-(200 marks) Duration: Two hours

Current events of national and international importance.

History of India and Indian National Movement.

Indian and world Geography- Physics, social, Economic geography of India and the World

Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, political System, Panchayat Raj, Public policy, Rights Issue, etc.

Economic and Social Development Sustainable Development, poverty, inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector initiatives, etc. General issues on Environmental Ecology, Bio-Diversity and Climate changes-that do not require subject specialization. General Science.

Paper-2-(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 (number and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc.,- Class X level)

 

The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English.

Exception- Question relating to English Language Comprehension skills of class X level (last item in the syllabus of paper ii) will be tested through passages from English language only without providing Hindi translation thereof in the question paper.

 

Note: The marks of these two papers are added to qualify candidates for the Main Examination. There is no individual cutoff for papers 1 and 2.

 

Mains Examination

Apart from this there will be papers on English and regional language, 300 marks each. But theses will be only of qualifying nature. There marks will not be counted in final analysis.
Marks obtained by the candidates for all paper (paper I-VII) will be counted for merit ranking. However, the commission will have he discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all papers of the examination.