UPSC Civil Services Exam Eligibility Criteria 2020, Exam Syllabus, Tips: – Every Indian Youth dreams to get job of Indian Administrative Service. Due to its demanding and capacity of remodeling million of Indian lives, makes it as the respected services. Besides IAS, there are 24 other services namely IFS, IPS, IRS etc which are also prestigious services of India. UPSC organizes civil services exams which are also known as IAS Exam where the most outstanding and creamy candidates are selected.

There are three steps as the selection rounds for short listing the candidates and they are Preliminary exam, main exam and screening test. Conclusively, the top rankers hold the offices of IAS. Thus, an IAS officer dominates on various grounds such as cabinet secretary, chief secretary, collector, head of many public sectors etc. UPSC Civil Service Exam 2020 which is also considered as IAS Exam is a three tire exam procedure and the candidates have to fight all the three stages to get the job in hand.

In the month of June, the preliminary exam is organized and November is the month where usually the main exam is held. Finally, in March the personal interview is conducted. The UPSC declares the final results in the month of May. Moreover, marks of prelims exam are not taken into consideration for ranking whereas the marks of main examination and interview session are counted for allotting the ranks.

Actually, it is very touch to crack the IAS Exam due to huge competition and lot of syllabus. Still, the candidates, who put smart work along with hard work, correct attitude, proper guidance and correct approach, they prove themselves as winner and get good rank in IAS Exam. UPSC is one of the government agency, who organizes Civil Services Exam and short lists the candidates to top most services. Nearly 4 to 5 lakh of candidates give the exam every year and something around 1000 gets selected. As a matter of truth, IAS exam is taken into account together of the toughest exams within the world. IAS Exam has high competition, lots of syllabus, and time duration of exam.

UPSC Civil Services Exam Eligibility Criteria 2020, Exam Syllabus, Tips

The Prelim examination is completely objective type and includes two papers CSAT and General Studies. The marks of General studies are taken into consideration for screening to main examination round at the same time CSAT is minimum qualifying in nature.

Coming to the main exam, there are 9 papers in which two are optional. The main exam is descriptive in nature. Besides this, regional language paper and English language paper are qualifying in nature. In order to prepare the merit list, the marks of essay paper, two optional paper, 4 general studies papers and interview session are taken into account.

Name of the Subject	Paper	Total Marks
Regional Language (Qualifying)	Paper A	300
English Language (Qualifying)	Paper B	300
Essay	Paper – 1	250
General Studies-1	Paper – 2	250
General Studies-2	Paper – 3	250
General Studies-3	Paper – 4	250
General Studies-4	Paper – 5	250
Optional Paper – 1	Paper – 6	250
Optional Paper – 2	Paper – 7	250
Written Test total		1750
Personality Test		275
Final total		2025

IAS Exam Eligibility Criteria

(For the IAS and IPS examination)

Indian Aspirants who have any degree from any well reputed university or institute of India are eligible.

Indian Aspirants who have equivalent qualification or any qualification from deemed university.

Even the final year students and the aspirants who are waiting for their results to arrive are also eligible. The results must be submitted during the application form submission for main exams. There are no percentage or marks criteria for applying for any of these services.

(For other examinations)

1. Aspirant should be citizen of India Or,
2. Aspirant should be subject of Bhutan Or,
3. Aspirant should be subject of Nepal Or,
4. Aspirant must be Tibetan refugee who came to India in order to get settle forever in India and came to India before 1^st January, 1962.
5. Aspirant who is Indian person but migrated from East African countries, Sri lanka, Burma, Pakistan, in order to settle down in India forever.

IAS Exam – Age Limit

The aspirant should have at least minimum age of 21 years and the age criteria will be determined as on 1^st August every year in which the exam is conducted.

Class	Total attempts	Upper Age Limit
General	6	32
OBC	9	35
SC/ST	Unlimited attempts	37
Jammu and Kashmir citizens		37
Persons with defense personnel disabilities in operations during disturbed area or hostilities with foreign countries		35
Ex service men		37
Disabled Person/ Physically handicapped	9	42

The aspirants from SC/ST and OBC category will get cumulative age relaxation. As an illustration, suppose a person is OBC and also ex service man, then he will get 5+7=12 years of extension. Now, his upper age limit will be 42 years.

UPSC Syllabus

Aspirants who are indulged in preparing for the IAS Exam must check the UPSC Syllabus also. The aspirants should work according to proper methodology and with the help of IAS Syllabus 2019-2019. We have listed here IAS Syllabus according to the UPSC.

UPSC Syllabus for prelims (Paper 1) General Studies

1. General Science
2. Economics: It includes demographics poverty, inclusion, sustainable development, social sector initiatives etc.
3. Indian Polity and governance: panchayati raj, political system, Constitution of India etc.
4. Environment: It will comprise of general science, general issues on climatic change, biodiversity, environment ecology.
5. Geography: It includes economic, social and physical geography.
6. History: It includes history of India and Indian national movement.
7. Current affairs: It comprises of matter about national and international significance, current events.

The time limit to finish the paper is 2 hours and total marks are 200.

UPSC Syllabus 2019 for Prelims CSAT Paper 2

1. Interpersonal skills including communication skills.
2. Data interpretation.
3. Analytical and logical reasoning .
5. General mental ability.
6. Problem- solving and decision- making.

The time limit to finish the paper is 2 hours and total marks are 200.

UPSC Syllabus 2020 for main examination

The participants will get rank on the basis of marks they score in the main exam and interview stage. The UPSC main exam will consist of 1750 marks and the interview round will consists of 275 marks. There are total 9 papers in the UPSC mains out of which marks of 7 papers will be taken into account for ranking basis. Moreover, the aspirant should get minimum marks in the rest two language papers. This exam system is prescribed by the commission and every year it is undertaken in this way only. However, there is exception for the aspirants who are from north eastern states and they will have to give the English language paper only.

Indian Language Paper (Part A)

Aspirants will have to choose any one of the Indian languages which is included in the eight schedule of constitution of India. However, this exam paper is not mandatory for the aspirants who are residing in the states of Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, and Mizoram.

UPSC Syllabus as per the subject

There are total 7 papers which are counted for final ranking. All the papers consist of 250 marks. Two papers are optional. The syllabus of rest 5 papers is mentioned below:

1. Syllabus (Paper 1): Ethics, integrity and Aptitude
2. Syllabus (Paper 2): Disaster management and security, Environment and biodiversity, Technology, and Economic development.
3. Syllabus (Paper 3): Social justice and international relations, polity, Governance and Constitution
4. Syllabus (Paper 4): History and Geography of world, Culture and Indian Heritage.
5. Syllabus (Paper 5): Essay

How to get high rank in IAS Exam?

• Aspirants must have to make proper strategy. For this, they need to follow the methodology of correct approach + right guidance + proper attitude + hard work + smart work.
• Aspirants should utilize the class room teaching and coaching academics through where they will get correct guidance and right approach.
• Last but not the least; mock tests should be given good importance.

Important tips to rank high in IAS Exam

• Besides the role of coaching institutes, aspirants must visit the online sites like iletsfly.in also.
• You will get guidance for subjects such as Economics, Geography, and History very easily.
• Most probably, the key importance is for clarity of thoughts and ideas as many questions are based on the opinion.
• In order to provide improved solutions to common man, condolence and fellow feeling is the most important factor.

UPSC IAS Exam Dates 2020 (Prelims and Mains)

For the 2020 year, the UPSC Exam dates and already announced.  Furthermore, the civil service main exams will be held from 1^st October 2019 and it will be 5 days exam program.

Release date of Notification	20th February 2020
Last date to submit application online	3rd  March 2020
UPSC Prelims Examination start date	31st May 2020
UPSC Mains Examination start date	18th September 2020

 How to apply for IAS exam 2020?

• Browse the official website upsconline.nic.in
• On the Home page, press the “Application form” link
• Choose Part 1 for registration and fill the details which are asked
• After the end of part 1 registration, the aspirant will get a registration number
• Now, you need to login with registration number
• Perform the Part 2 Registration and then fill the required details in the form
• Upload the scanned latest photograph and signature copy in valid format
• Now, pay the application fee (Rs. 100) through the payment mode
• You can pay fees through debit card/ credit card/ internet banking/ SBI etc
• Take a hard copy of application for further purpose