IAS SYLLABUS AND

PATTERN

Important dates:

The official notification was out

on

22nd February 2017

Final date for submitting the

application form

17th March 2017

The Civil Services Exam

2017(Pre)

18th June 2017

Date of main examination

28th October 2017

Eligibility Criteria:
The appearing candidates must have a degree from a recognized
university.
Category

Upper
age limit

No. of
attempts

General

32 Years

06 Attempts

OBC

35 Years

09 Attempts

SC/ST

37 Years

No bar

se refer to the official notification for other age relaxation de

Application fee:
The application fee is Rs. 100/- and can be paid either in
the form of cash or net banking. The female and reserved
category candidates will be exempted from application
fee.
Selection Procedure:
1. Civil Services (Preliminary) Exam
2. Civil Services (Main) Exam- (I) Written Examination, (II)
Personal Interview
3. Final Selection

Civil Services Prelims Exam

There will be 2 compulsory papers in preliminary examgeneral Ability Test (GAT) and Civil Services Aptitude Test
(CSAT) to test the analytical skills of the applicants.
Both the papers will be of objective in nature with MCQ type
questions.
There will be a penalty of 1/4thmarks for each wrong
answers.
The General Studies Paper II, minimum qualifying marks is
33%. The applicants will be selected on the basis of total
qualifying marks of general studies paper I.
The question paper will be available in Hindi & English
language (except the section of English Language
Comprehension).

S. No.

Name of Paper

Allotted marks

Paper I

General Ability Test

200 marks

Paper II

English Language &

aptitude

200 marks

Total

400 marks

Civil Services (Main)

Exam
(I) Written Exam-
There will be total 9 papers of conventional essay type in the subjects given in
notification out of which 2 papers will be of qualifying nature.
The duration of each paper will be 3 hours.
The applicants will have the option to answer all the question papers,
except Paper I (English Comprehension & English Prcis) in English & Hindi.
The applicants who score minimum qualifying marks in written part of the
main exam as may be fixed by the UPSC at their discretion will be
summoned by them for a personal interview test. The no. of applicants
selected for personal interview will be just twice the no. of vacancies to be
filled.

(II) Personal Interview

The personal interview will have 275 marks (with no minimum qualifying
marks).
The applicants will be asked questions on general interest of the
interviewers.
The main object of the interview is to assess the personal suitability of the

Mains exam pattern

There will be 2 papers in the examination- qualifying papers & papers to be

counted for merit formation.
The applicants will have to appear in both the parts.
Failing in the qualifying papers will lead to the cancelling of the applicants
candidature.
There will be total 7 papers in Civil Services Main examination of 250 marks each.
There will be 2 optional papers that applicants have to choose as per their choice.
You can check the detailed list of subjects from the official website of UPSC.
Qualifying papers:

Paper A- One of the Indian language to be selected by the applicants from the
languages included in the 6thschedule of the constitution- 300 marks.
Paper B- English- 300 marks.
NOTE-The paper of Indian language & English (Paper A & B) will be matriculation
or equivalent standard & will be of qualifying nature. The marks obtained in the
qualifying papers will not be counted for merit formation.

S. No.

Title of the paper

Marks
allotted

Paper I

Essay writing

250

Paper II

General studies- I )Indian

heritage & culture, history &
geography of the world &
society)

250

Paper III

General studies- II
(Governance, constitution
Polity, social justice &
international & international
relations)

250

Paper IV

General studies- III (Technology, 250

economic development, biodiversity, environment, security
& disaster mgmt.)

Paper V

General studies- IV (Ethics,

integrity & aptitude)

250

Paper VI

Optional subject- Paper I

250

Paper VII

Optional subjects- paper II

250

Subtotal in written exam

1750

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