Important Dates:
Notification Announced | 12th February 2020 |
Availability of Application form | 12th February 2020 |
Last date to submit Online Application Form | 3rd March 2020 |
Prelims Admit Card | 2nd week of May 2020 |
Preliminary Exam Date | 31st May 2020 |
Prelims exam result | August 2020 |
Main Exam Admit Card | September 2020 |
Main Exam Date | 18th September 2020 |
Declaration of Final Result | January 2021 |
Eligibility Criteria:
Nationality:
Application Fee:
Exam Pattern:
Papers | Details of the question papers | Total Marks | Total Time |
I | General Studies - This paper will be counted for qualifying to write the Civil Services Mains exam. | 200 | 2 hrs |
II | Aptitude test (CSAT) - This paper is of qualifying nature, but the candidate must score at least 33% marks in this paper. However, marks of this paper are not counted for writing the Mains examination. | 200 | 2 hrs |
Total | 400 | 4 hrs |
For Main Exam:
The Mains exam will be conducted in Descriptive test mode.
It consists of 9 different papers and paper-1 & paper-2 are necessary for all.
Remaining will be optional subjects.
Paper | Subject | Marks |
A | Regional Language (Qualifying) | 300 |
B | English Language (Qualifying) | 300 |
1 | Essay | 250 |
2 | General Studies - 1 | 250 |
3 | General Studies - 2 | 250 |
4 | General Studies - 3 | 250 |
5 | General studies - 4 | 250 |
6 | Optional Paper - 1 | 250 |
7 | Optional Paper - 2 | 250 |
Written test Total | 1750 | |
Personality Test | 275 | |
Final Total | 2025 |
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(-pa...@ on April 21, 2023)
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- Examrace(contactus@examrace.com) on April 21, 2023
I want study materials for IAS
(-ar...@ on April 21, 2023)
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- Examrace(contactus@examrace.com) on April 21, 2023
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