Hello,

The only eligibility for UPSC Civil Service Exam is to have attained 21 years age and have compated graduation in any discipline from a recognized university. There's no minimum aggregate for this.Even final year students are eligible to apply.

So, to answer your question YES!!, you're eligible to apply for UPSC Civil Service Exam

Hi Anurima,

You can refer previous question paper for this as they contain detailed outline related to this.

For more information on exam pattern or which books to refer for the syllabus you can refer below link:

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-exam-pattern

Hello,

To start with, UPSC Civil Service Exam consists of three level-

Preliminary

Mains

Interview

Preliminary numbers are not added in the final list, you just need to score the required cut offs against your category.It mainly consists of GS Paper-I and CSAT. Both consists of 200 marks, MCQs based.

Mains is more of a subjective type, one needs to write answer for Four General Studies Paper,Two Optionals, One Essay, two language paper, there are total nine papers here. 250 marks for each paper, total is 1750

You can go through the gradual steps as mentioned below in order to start your preparation for UPSC:

Be well acquainted with UPSC Syllabus, learn it by heart, that's the most crucial step to crack this exam, to know what to read and what to skip. In addition to this, never ever make a differentiation between prelims and mains, what I mean is do not prepare separately for each, because nowadays what's happening is even in prelims, UPSC frame questions based on Mains syllabus, So, the first towards preparation shall be a combined preparation for both.

Read any newspaper like The Hindu, or Indian Express on a regular basis to be updated as well as gaining knowledge which shall be highly useful to you in future exam preparation part.

Start with basics, for each subject, you can do with NCERTs for this.

As you progress, move on to other relevant books, keep your resources minimum like Polity by Laxmikanth, History of Modern India by Bipin Chandra etc.

Start practicing answer writing in advance, even in a little way, writing mains is a huge task for nine paper, it requires immense practice along with knowledge.

Practice previous year question paper which you can get from the site of UPSC,in addition mock papers, and test series which you can get it from any of the sites extensively dedicated to UPSC, , it's highly important to evaluate your performance while doing so.

Prelims is mcq based, but still it requires knowledge coupled with speed, and for mains, as I already mentioned the importance of answer writing.

Hello,

You can visit the official website of Vision IAS and click on "Resources", you'll get plethora of options, choose "Current Affairs" amidst all, it'll lead to "Hindi Magazine", also you can download stuffs such as Current Affairs, Mains365, PT 365 etc from here.

hi,

the basic eligibility criteria for appearing in ias civil service exam is candidate need to have a graduation degree in any discipline from a recognized university. candidates in final year of graduation may also appear in upsc IAS exam.

so after clearing 10+2 course you need to do graduation then you may appear in upsc civil services exam.

No IAS officer cannot simultaneously work as an educationist because it is as per the terms of the service that you cannot do any other work and you should discharge your duties properly without devoting your time to any other  for financial benefit. However from time to time many IAS officer in visit school from inspection and any other purposes that's a different part but for a monetary benefit you cannot do simultaneously both work.

Hello dear student !

Civil services examination (for IAS) is the most toughest and top level examination of India. The only eligibility criteria to apply for the same is that you need to have a completed graduation degree from any institution in any subject and you have to be 21 years of age. So there is no specific degree which is best for IAS as people from different backgrounds have cleared IAS examination with flying colours be it medical background, engineering background or simply humanities background. But if you can take any humanities subject in your graduation that will be a plus point for you in the sense that you will get help for your GS part. Also, you will simultaneously be able to prepare for your PRE as well as MAINS as syllabus will match upto a limit and GS includes a lot of humanities part.

Hope this will help you !

• The first stage of the exam is Preliminary examination , it is objective type examination
• The second stage, Mains it is written type examination
• If you manage to clear both prelims and mains then you are to go through interview/personality test .

• Age Limit is 21 to 32 years
• Educational qualification for UPSC is graduation in any stream
• Only Indian citizens are eligible