Hi

Assuming that your question in regarding with UPSC civil services examination.

No, for Paper A i. e compulsory indian language, you can not attempt your paper ine English as it is not available for compulsory Indian language,   you need to answer this paper in the language you choose for this paper itself.

For paper A i. e compulsory indian language,  you can choose any one of the language which are there in 8th schedule of the Constitution listed below

-) Assamese

-) Bengali

-) Gujarati

-) Hindi

-) Kannada

-) Kashmiri

-) Konkani

-) Malayalam

-) Manipuri

-) Marathi

-) Nepali

-) Odia

-) Punjabi

-) Sanskrit

-) Sindhi

-) Tamil

-) Telugu

-) Urdu

-) Bodo

-) Dogri

-) Maithili

-) Santhali

If you are from the north-eastern states i.e Sikkim/ Arunachal Pradesh/Meghalaya, Manipur/Mizoram / Nagaland then you are exempted from  giving mains paper A i. e compulsory Indian language paper examination but yes to avail this exemption, you will have to upload  scanned copy of a document which supports that you hail from aforesaid north-eastern states, while submitting your Detailed Application Form i. e DAF for your UPSC Mains examination.

To help you for further, here's a brief of UPSC examination pattern

UPSC civil services examination  has 3 stages listed below :-

----------------) 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:-

-) paper A :- compulsory indian language.

-) paper B :- 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 detailed information , I will recommend you to go through our page the link for the same is provided below

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

Thank you

There are no such rules about the compulsory indian language paper. You can select any language as your compulsory elective provided the paper you are choosing must be known to you. This is because if you enroll for a new language and try to learn it then you have to devote more time to it and as a result your preparation of other GS papers may get hampered.

So I would say you can choose any paper but its better to choose a language which you know and you can read and write the language fluently.

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

I am an aspirant. Just having one question. Did you study Hindi in class 11 &12?

Hello Student,

Hope you are doing well

Basically it is completely depend upon your passion. But I can suggest you to not go for Telugu and Malayalam because they both were basically more complicated then Tamil and Kannada.

My advice is that you can choose between Kannada and Tamil to learn from Hindi easily it can take about 44 weeks or 1100hours to learn, according according to a survey.

You can watch a lots of Tamil films with Hindi subtitle this can help here. But I cannot guarantee you with Tamil written form. Tamil has less number of letters as well. It will help you to learn Kannada.

Hello,

When it comes to Paper A of Mains syllabus for UPSC, it includes languages that are there in the eight schedule of the Indian Constitution which are Assamese,BengaliBodo,Dogri,Gujarati,Hindi,Kannada,Kashmiri,Konkani,Malayalam,Manipuri,Marathi,Maithili,Nepali,Oriya,Punjabi,Sanskrit,Santhali,Sindhi,Tamil,Telugu,Urdu. English doesn't feature in the list, hence you cannot opt for the same, however those who belong to north-eastern states that of Sikkim, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram are exempted from taking this compulsory paper of Indian Language, however the concerned candidate need to submit the proof in the form of uploading the scanned documents issued by authorities such as district officer/sub-divisional officer pertaining to the district where his/her parents live in, this is to be done while filling the DAF for the Mains Exam of UPSC, Paper A is qualifying by nature, out of 300 marks only 25% which is 75 marks is to be obtained in order to pass.

Hi sanathoi,

There are 22 languages and we can write all our exams in any of the language if u fail in the morden Indina languages you would try exams for the next year you will have some rules and regulations and should follow and you will have some particular age limit to write the exam so write or attempt the exam next year u may get good marks so prepare well for the exam and score good marks in the exam All the best i think my suggestions and knowledge may be helpful to u.