Hello there

Good to see that you want to become an IAS officer after your graduation and you want to prepare for UPSC CSE. Now you must be knowing to give UPSC CSE you must have an undergraduate degree in whichever stream from any recognised University and that's you are having in BSC nursing. So yes you are finally fine the minimum eligibility criteria and you can appear in UPSC CSE.

As you might be knowing that UPSC CSE is consisting of three stages:

• Preliminary examination
• Mains
• Interview

And after qualifying these three stages if you got your name in the merit list then you would be getting the rank according to your index number and also the different posts.

Now the basic thing comes that from which step you should start your UPSC CSE preparation. As you are from Science background so I think you are having some lack in Humanities subject,so the first step is very important is you must have to clear your basics for which you can refer to NCERT books up 6th to 12th and it's suppose you are finding it very easy then you can leave some books also.

After completing your basics you must switch to some standard books for preliminary examination and about these things like syllabus you can find from UPSC CSE website also.

Start your preparation from now onwards as it is the best time to start UPSC CSE because you have completed your graduation and I hope you can excel in it.

For more references I'm attaching the link where you can see some more information:

https://competition.careers360.com/exams/upsc-civil-services-exam

Best of luck!

Thank you!

Hello there

Good to see that at a very early age you are determined to crack UPSC CSE examination in your first attempt.

And i would suggest you to firstly complete your class 11th and 12th with good academic grades as they matters a lot and do that stream in which you feel interested and can give much of the time.

You can start your better preparation from your graduation onwards but still if you want to prepare from class 11 onwards when you can firstly clear your basics of NCERT from 6th to 12th level as they are very much important for the preliminary examination as you must be knowing. As this would be enough because you have to maintain your class 11th and 12th grades to so firstly do this thing and from your first year of graduation you can start with some standard books and can excel in your preparation.

Best of luck!

Thank you!

Firstly, lets clear a very old misconception. Having a BA degree don't help you to get a UPSC job instead its all about your preparation. If you see the past year statistics then you will find that there are toppers of UPSC who are from engineering background or medical background. So in order to crack UPSC you should have the courage to prepare well as well as you should be very keen about your interest. If your UG subject becomes burden for you then the habit of learning gets hampered and as a result, a student can't prepare well.

So you should take BA if you are interested in arts else its better to take a subject of your interest as UPSC didn't have any subject specification, all you need to have is a bachelors degree.

Now Bachelor of Arts is a 3 year Undergraduate degree program in Arts which in detailed studies the appreciation and the sense under the arts. For example, in english literature, they learn the Psychology of the writer, the portions of life which the author have portrayed and what does that mean etc. So Arts is all about interpretation. You give a red stroke on a white canvas and you can image it to be the redness of rose petals or the blood. And the way you should decide the meaning is a relative thing. But Arts try to figure out the beauty not only as a stimuli but also a thought process and the reason what it is the underlying thought process that makes the artist to portray a beauty be it a story or a drawing or a sculpture etc.

Above I have just provided the analysis of Arts and what role it play. If you want to know more about the academic regions of arts then follow the link below:

https://www.careers360.com/courses/b-a-bachelor-of-arts

I hope this answer helps. All the very best for your future endeavors!

Hello,

All About IAS Interview, which begins with the basics and takes the aspirants to a virtual tour of the interview chamber at the end, is indeed very useful as well as motivating.

Divided into six major sections, All About IAS Interview will help the UPSC aspirants in understanding the basics of the interview and also prepare them for the d-day. The content in the book is written in a friendly but innovative manner and you will see it once you get the book and start reading it.

Good Luck !!

Dear aspirant!

Hope you are doing great! Firstly kindly forgive me because your question in my opinion is not clear.if you want to say that can you prepare for both of them then answer is yes,why not then if you are on any post in india after graduation you can appear for upsc ,there should be a graduation degree in your hand for giving IAS exam.now I hope I help you to some extent

Thanking you!

Hi

To become an IAS officer you need to clear UPSC civil services examination

You can choose any subject or course like BA, Btech, Bsc, bcom, Mbbs etc based on your interest for your graduation/degree

This is because,

to be eligible for UPSC  examination there is no compulsion to be a graduate in a particular subject,

all you need to be eligible is that you should be a graduate in any discipline .

For reference, UPSC eligibility  criteria is provided below:-

******** You  must  have  a  bachelor's  degree in any, discipline    from a  recognised university .

********Minimum  age  limit :-  you  need to  be at least  21  years  old   to be  eligible as on 1st of August of the year of filling the form i. e as on 1st August 2021 for UPSC 2021.

********Maximum  age  limit :-  32 years , also there's 3  year  relaxation on upper age limit for  obc and of  5 years  for sc/st category.

For detailed  information related to UPSC eligibility criteria ,  you can visit our page at

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-eligibility-criteria/amp

Your UPSC civil services examination consists of three stages

********prelims exam :- it is objective paper and is of qualifying nature , so you just  need to at least qualify it to be eligible for mains examination, the score /marks obtained by you in your prelims examination is not added up or used in your final merit. Your prelims exam consist of 2 papers: -

-) general studies  1

-) general studies II ( csat )

You get 2 hours for each paper

********Mains exam. :- it is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers  which are listed below:-

-) compulsory indian language.

-) english

-) essay

-) general studies I

-) general studies II

-) general studies III

-) general studies IV

-) optional I

-) optional II

The compulsory indian language and english are qualifying in nature . You just need to qualify them. The marks obtained by you in these two papers will not be counted towards merit list.

*********Interview :- After qualifying mains, you have to go through interview round, and it is more of test of your personality rather than knowledge.

For detail examination pattern check out :- https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-exam-pattern

Thank you

If you have the time and resources to prepare simultaneously for both the exams then by all means!