Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Syllabus | Civil Services Exam Pattern

Every year candidates in Lakhs appears in this exam but only few students clear it successfully. This examination is the toughest one and UPSC conducts IAS exam in three rounds namely; Preliminary Exam, Mains Exam and Personal Interview.

A candidate is allowed six attempts only and appearance in any one of the two papers of the Prelim Test will be measured as an attempt. Here team Privatejobshub.in are providing detailed UPSC IAS Prelims/Mains Exam Syllabus and exam pattern in the below of this page. Interested candidates have a look and start their preparation according to them. The complete exam pattern and format of the exam is stated well in the below context.

Civil Services Exam Pattern

IAS Exam Pattern, Further Information: Written Test (Preliminary), Main (Written & Interview), at last there is an Interview which each and every elected applicant has to appear for.

Preliminary Examination Pattern/ Duration: Preliminary exam will hold in two papers of objective types (General Studies and Aptitude Skills) in which the questions will be multiple choices.

Exam/Papers names with their Total Marks and the allotted time is well mentioned below.

Preliminary exam consist of namely; Paper 1 and paper 2 i.e. General Studies and Aptitude Skills, each section contains 200 marks   thus in total they are of 400 marks with the time duration of 2 hours each.

Main Examination;

It will consist of written exams and interview. Written exam will contain 9 papers of conventional essays. Main examination Paper 1: One of the Indian languages chosen from the prescribed list 300 English; 300 marks, Essay: 250 marks, General Studies (250 marks for each paper) and 1000 marks and there is also Optional subject 1: 500 marks. The Total Marks for written examination is 1750 marks

After all Interview test, After Pre and Main test, selected candidates are invited for Interview round. And this section of Interview will be of consisting 275 marks. IAS Syllabus and Important topics which are covered in preliminary examination - Syllabus of paper-I, Syllabus of paper-II

• Current events of national and international importance: Interpersonal skills including communication skills.
• History of India and Indian National Movement: Logical reasoning and analytical ability
• Indian and World geography: Decision making and problem solving
• Economics and Social Development: General mental ability
• Sectors initiatives etc: Basic numeracy, Data Interpretation
• Development, poverty, inclusion, demographics: English language comprehension skills

IAS Prelims Syllabus

There are 2 papers in Prelims exam – General Studies and Aptitude

General Studies Paper I Syllabus

• Current events of national and international importance
• History of India and Indian national movement
• Indian and World Geography- physical, social, economic geography of India and the world
• Indian Polity and governance – constitution, political system, panchayati raj, public policy, Rights issues, etc.
• Economic and social development – sustainable development, poverty, inclusion, demographics, social sector initiatives etc.
• General issues on environmental ecology, bio-diversity and climate change-that do not require subject specialization
• General science.

Aptitude Syllabus

• 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)
• Questions relating to English Language Comprehension skills of Class X level. (will be tested through passages from English language only without providing Hindi translation)

Then lastly, if you’ll qualify the “main examination” phase, go for an interview. In an interview, one elected on basis of his/her personality and ability etc. It the above complete procedure takes around a year to be completed.

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