ALL ABOUT ICS
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The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is conducted every year by the
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) as a common examination for
recruitment to various services like the Indian Administrative Service,
Indian Foreign Service and Indian Police Service, as well as Group
A and Group B Central Services. The notification for the examination,
(giving rules and the syllabus for all subjects included in the exam)
is published in the month of November/December every year in
Employment News/Rozgar Samachar and Gazette of India as well
as in some Newspapers. All students are advised to get a copy of this
notification from the Employment News or other publications.
The Civil Services Examination, will consist of
- The Civil Services Preliminary Examination (Objective Type) for the
- selection of candidates for the Main Examination
- Civil Services Main Examination (Written) and
- A Final Interview for those who pass the Main Exam.
SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
I. Prelim Test
The Prelim Test will be held by the UPSC normally on a Sunday in the
latter half of May every year. The exact date will be published in the
Notification.
The Prelim Test will have two papers (Papers I & II) of the Objective
(Multiple Choice) type questions and carries a maximum of 200 marks
each. Each paper will be of two hour duration.
Penalty for Wrong Answers
i) There will be a penalty (negative marking) for wrong answers marked
by a candidate in the objective papers except for some questions where
the negative marking will be inbuilt in the form of different marks
being awarded to most appropriate and not so appropriate answer
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* All information furnished herein is based on the UPSC Notification for CSE 2011. The Notification
for CSE 2014 is expected to be published in January 2014.
for such questions. For each question for which a wrong answer has
been marked, 1/3rd of the marks assigned to that question will be
deducted as penalty.
ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as
a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be
correct and there will be the same penalty as in i) above for that
question.
iii) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate,
there will be no penalty for that question.
The Examination Centres for the Aptitude Test are: Agartala, Ahmedabad,
Aizawl, Aligarh, Allahabad, Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Bareilly, Bhopal,
Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwad, Dispur,
Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jodhpur, Jorhat,
Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji
(Goa), Patna, Puducherry, Port Blair, Raipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur,
Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Tirupati, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur and
Vishakhapatnam.*
II. Main Examination
Only those who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the
Preliminary Examination in a year, are eligible for admission to the Main
Examination of that year, provided they are otherwise eligible for admission
to the Main Examination.
The number of candidates admitted to the Main Examination is generally
about 12 to 13 times the total approximate number of vacancies to be
filled in the year in the various services and posts.
3
The written part of the Main Examination is usually conducted in October/
November every year spread over a period of 3 weeks this are conventional essay-type questions, in
the subjects prescribed by the Commission.
The Main Examination is intended to assess the overall intellectual traits
and the depth of understanding of the candidates, rather than merely the
range of their information and memory. Sufficient choice of questions
will be allowed in the question papers.
The Question Papers (III to IX) will be set both in Hindi and English.
The Level of Optional Subject Papers
One subject must to be selected from the prescribed list of optional
subjects. The papers are broadly of the Honours degree level, i.e. a level
higher than the Bachelor’s degree and lower than the Master’s degree.
In Engineering, Law and Medical Sciences, the level corresponds to the
Bachelor’s degree.
I. Prelim Test
The Prelim Test will be held by the UPSC normally on a Sunday in the
latter half of May every year. The exact date will be published in the
Notification.
The Prelim Test will have two papers (Papers I & II) of the Objective
(Multiple Choice) type questions and carries a maximum of 200 marks
each. Each paper will be of two hour duration.
Penalty for Wrong Answers
i) There will be a penalty (negative marking) for wrong answers marked
by a candidate in the objective papers except for some questions where
the negative marking will be inbuilt in the form of different marks
being awarded to most appropriate and not so appropriate answer
2
* All information furnished herein is based on the UPSC Notification for CSE 2011. The Notification
for CSE 2014 is expected to be published in January 2014.
for such questions. For each question for which a wrong answer has
been marked, 1/3rd of the marks assigned to that question will be
deducted as penalty.
ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as
a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be
correct and there will be the same penalty as in i) above for that
question.
iii) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate,
there will be no penalty for that question.
The Examination Centres for the Aptitude Test are: Agartala, Ahmedabad,
Aizawl, Aligarh, Allahabad, Aurangabad, Bengaluru, Bareilly, Bhopal,
Chandigarh, Chennai, Cuttack, Dehradun, Delhi, Dharwad, Dispur,
Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Jodhpur, Jorhat,
Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Madurai, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji
(Goa), Patna, Puducherry, Port Blair, Raipur, Ranchi, Sambalpur,
Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Tirupati, Thiruvananthapuram, Udaipur and
Vishakhapatnam.*
II. Main Examination
Only those who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the
Preliminary Examination in a year, are eligible for admission to the Main
Examination of that year, provided they are otherwise eligible for admission
to the Main Examination.
The number of candidates admitted to the Main Examination is generally
about 12 to 13 times the total approximate number of vacancies to be
filled in the year in the various services and posts.
3
The written part of the Main Examination is usually conducted in October/
November every year spread over a period of 3 weeks this are conventional essay-type questions, in
the subjects prescribed by the Commission.
The Main Examination is intended to assess the overall intellectual traits
and the depth of understanding of the candidates, rather than merely the
range of their information and memory. Sufficient choice of questions
will be allowed in the question papers.
The Question Papers (III to IX) will be set both in Hindi and English.
The Level of Optional Subject Papers
One subject must to be selected from the prescribed list of optional
subjects. The papers are broadly of the Honours degree level, i.e. a level
higher than the Bachelor’s degree and lower than the Master’s degree.
In Engineering, Law and Medical Sciences, the level corresponds to the
Bachelor’s degree.
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