Hello,

In order to appear for UPSC, you just need to be 21 years old and passed graduation in any discipline from a recognized university,you can apply even in your final year. UPSC doesn't discriminate among aspirants and hence allow people from all background to appear for this exam.

See, it's important to understand where your interest lies, and accordingly choose career path. As UPSC is more humanities oriented, it's becomes comparatively easier for arts students to prepare for this exam as they're already well acquainted with this syllabus while science students didn't have any of these subjects at +2 level. But, let me tell you as per previous year trends, many people belonging to engineering and medical too have succeeded, and the only reason being eventually it's the planning and strategy that matters. So, think out clearly about your areas of interest, if you're absolutely clear about UPSC and have liking for any arts subject such as law, political science, history, economics etc you may go ahead, secondly if you're not sure, go with your choice it may be medical, management, engineering or anything else, even if you later feel like giving UPSC,  you can definitely go ahead after gaining some experiences in your related career field like so many successful candidates have done in the past.

Hello,


The eligibility criteria for appearing in UPSC civil services examination is to have a graduate degree and age above 21.First of all you should start studying newspapers daily either The Hindu or The Indian Express.
Every topper recommends that your resources should be limited because there are tonnes of materials in the market and indulging in each one of them will waste your time and you will get confused ending up in messing everything.
There are few standard books recommended by toppers,these are :

• NCERT books from 6 to 12.
• Laxmikant for Polity
• Spectrum fo Modern India
• Tamil Nadu board book of class 11th for Ancient and Medieval india
• Shankar IAS book for Environment
• GC Leong for Gerography
• Ramesh Singh for Economy.
• Nitin Singhnia for Art and Culture

Apart from that keep and eye on everything happening around world and be curious.
For Mains,GS 1,2,3 above books and current affairs and for GS 4 you should study Lexicon.Apart from that you should study ARC Reports,NITI Ayog action agenda,PIB,PRS,Indian year book,Budget and Economic survey(of the year in which you will appear in the exam)

Good Luck

Dear Aspirants,

IAS preparation you can start from 12th standard but u you have to qualify bachelor degree.But there is no such courses duration for the IAS.IAS you only qualify appearing UPSC exam conducted by government of India and you can start appearing test from 21 years age.

I hope it will helpful

Thanks

Hello,

After doing UPSC exam there are two groups of services :

Group A Services

Gropu B Services

After doing UPSC you can do different jobs like :

IAS , IPS , IFS , IRS , ICAS(Indian Civil Accounts Service) , ICLS(Indian Corporate Law Services) and many other .

Hello Sethok,

There are different kind of jobs in different fields of the UPSC. You will get the jobs in different sectors if this UPSC.

1) Indian Administrative Service

2) Indian Railway services

3) Indian Postal Services

4) Indian Defence Services

5) Indian trade services

6) Indian police services

7) Armed forces

8) civil services

9) Indian revenue services

10) DANICS

11) DANIPS

Candidate get the jobs as an officer, as a manager, as a commander, as a head officer etc. and different types of posts for different types of fields.

These are some of fields in which you can get after doing you UPSC.

Hello dear student,

First of all I would ask you to see what you want to be . Choose one thing. Don't be in dilemma of doing Everything because that won't be helpful. Choose wisely what you want to become. If you want to prepare for IAS  so it's better to choose subjects wisely and focus on the target. While you can prepare for IIT JEE and become an engineer after that . Totally depends on you . Although after doing IIT you can try for IAS too that's not an issue.

I hope this helps

Thank you

Hello,

In order to appear for UPSC you just need to be 21 years old and passed graduation in any discipline from a recognized university,you can apply even in your final year. UPSC doesn't discriminate among aspirants and hence allow people from all background to appear for this exam.


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 consists of the following topic such as History of India and Indian national movement, Indian and World geography, Economic and social development- sustainable development, poverty,inclusion demographics, social sector initiatives etc,Indian polity and governance-constitution,political system,Current Events nationally and Internationally,
General Science,General Issues on environmental ecology,biodiversity and climate change.

and CSAT includes topics such as basic numeracy, comprehension, logical reasoning and analytical ability, general mental ability, decision making and problem solving, interpersonal skills including communication skills. Both consists of 200 marks, MCQs based. Prelims is mcq based, but still it requires knowledge coupled with speed.


Mains is more of a subjective type, one needs to write answer for Four General Studies Paper(GS-I includes Indian Heritage and Culture,History and Geography of the World and Society, GS-II includes Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations, GS-III includes Technology, Economic Development, Bio-Diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management, GS-IV includes Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude),Two Optionals, One Essay, two language paper, there are total nine papers here. 250 marks for each paper, total is 1750 marks followed by Personality Test of 275 marks.


Now,coming to your question pursuing BA Political Scienece(Hons) fulfill the basic eligibility to appear for UPSC, you need to qualify prelims,mains as well interview,eventually it's your preparation and strategy that will sail you through this. If you're pursuing graduation, then the biggest advantage you've right now is time, and if you use it wisely,you'll succeed in your very first attempt. Just to give you example, there are lot of people who have pursued graduation in similar discipline to yours and have succeeded, so there's no reason why you shouldn't. The toughest thing about UPSC is perseverance, because it's one year of preparation and another year of appearing for the exam, it's not going to be an easy journey,there will be moments of doubts and anxiety, you've to fight your battle and you can only succeed if there's immense drive within you. Your reason to appear has to be really strong because that's what going to help you never give up on your dreams in the first place. Achieving the top post will entirely depend upon how you fare well in the examination,mains and interview as prelims is only qualifying in nature.


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.