The Civil Services Examination (CSE)
is a nationwide competitive examination in India conducted by the Union
Public Service Commission for
recruitment to various Civil
Services of the Government of India, including Indian Administrative
Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian
Police Service (IPS), Indian
Revenue Service (IRS) among others. The examination is the
toughest examination in India
with success rate of 0.1%-0.3% with more than 900,000 applicants and also has
the least success ratio in the entire World(Only top 0.03% get the prestigious
IAS). The Civil Services Examination consists of two successive
stages:
I. Civil Services Preliminary Examination (Objective type) for
the selection of candidates for the Main Examination;
II. Civil Services Main Examination (Written and Interview) for
the selection of candidates for the various Services and post.
Civil Services Preliminary Examination
The Preliminary Examination will
consist of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions) and carry a
maximum of 400 marks in the subjects set out in sub-section (A) of Section-II.
This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only; the marks obtained
in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates 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 filled in the year through this examination. 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 eligible for admission to
the Main Examination.
Preliminary Examination The
Examination shall comprise of two compulsory papers of 200 marks each. The
Examination shall comprise of two compulsory Papers of 200 marks
each. Both the question papers will be of the objective type (multiple
choice questions). The General Studies Paper-II of the Civil Services
(Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying
marks fixed at 33%. The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English.
Each paper will be of two hours duration. Blind candidates and the candidates
with locomotor disability and cerebral palsy where dominant (writing) extremity
is affected to the extent of slowing the performance of function (minimum of
40% impairment will; however, be allowed an extra time of twenty minuts per
hour for each paper
The Commission will draw a list
of candidates to be qualified for Civil Service (Main) Examination based on the
criterion of minimum qualifying marks of 33% in General Studies PaperII of
Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination and total qualifying marks of General
Studies Paper-I of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination as may be
determined by the Commission
There will be negative marking
for incorrect answers for all questions except some of the questions where the
negative-marking will be inbuilt in the form of different marks being awarded
to the most appropriate and not so appropriate answer for such questions.There
are four alternatives for the answers to every question. For each question for
which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one-third (0.33) of the
marks assigned to that question will be deducted as penalty. If a candidate
gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even if one of
the given answers happen to be correct and there will be same penalty as above
for that question. If a question is left blank, i.e. no answer is given by the
candidate; there will be no penalty for that question.
Syllabi for Civil
Services Preliminary Examination
Paper I -(200
marks) Duration : Two hours
(1) Current events of National and International Importance. (2) History of
(3) Indian and World Geography - Physical, Social, Economic Geography of
(4) Indian Polity and Governance - Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.
(5) Economic and Social Development - Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector initiatives, etc.
(6) General issues on Environmental Ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change - that do not require subject specialisation
(7) General Science.
Paper II-(200 marks) Duration: Two hours
- 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)
It is mandatory for the candidate to appear in both the
Papers of Civil Services (Prelim) Examination for the purpose of evaluation.
Therefore a candidate will be disqualified in case he/she does not appear in
both the papers of Civil Services (Prelim) Examination.
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