UPSC Civil Services Exam
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To be an IAS you need to clear UPSC civil services examination you can download UPSC civil services examination previous year question papers of both prelims and Mains examination by going through our page for which link is given below:-
https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-question-papers
Solving these papers will be very beneficial for you, it will help you to :-
------) know the pattern of the examination.
------) know the kind / types of questions which are there in your examination.
------) it will give you an idea of the difficulty level of the examination .
------) you will get to know the important topics which are covered and asked often in the exam , so that you can accordingly plan for your examination.
------) it will help you to check and gauge your level for preparation for the examination,
------) it will let you know your areas or the topics you are weak at so that you can work on them and can perform even better in your examination.
------) will help you to improve your time management skills so that in your actual examination you can solve questions with better speed and accuracy .
To help you further,
A brief of examination pattern is given below:-
name Of the exam
UPsc Civil services examination
Mode of the Exam
Offline
Exam stages
There are 3 levels :-
---------) Preliminary - MCQ/ objective
---------) Mains - Descriptive Mode)
---------) Interview
Total papers
---------) Prelims: 2 papers.
*** general studies 1
*** general studies II ( csat )
---------) Mains: 9 papers are there:-
*** 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
Marking scheme for prelims
---------) Paper 1: +2 marks
---------) Paper 2: +2.5 marks
***** Negative marking: 1/3rd of marks allotted for each question
Exam Duration
---------) Prelims: 2 hours for Each paper
---------) Mains: 3 hours for Each paper
Type of questions
---------) Prelims: Objective type
---------) Mains: Subjective type
For detailed examination pattern check out :- https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-exam-pattern
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Hello aspirant
Hoping you are doing good. As you must be knowing to become an IAS officer you have to clear three stages of exam that is prelims mains and interview.
Now the first step to start for the preparation of an upsc cse exam to make your basics clear and to clear it you need to be very good in all your previous classes mostly in the social studies one.
So study thoroughly all the ncert books of social studies as they will be helping you so much. Start from class 6 and do upto class 12 and after that you can do standard books.
That will be very easy for you.
Best of luck !
Thank you !
Hey there
Well, you are going to be civil services aspirant like many who says today -becoming IAS was my dream since childhood (Including me).It is good to have such a highest inspiration as it keeps u motivated towards working hard.
Since you are in highschool i will suggest totaly focus on your school complete your 10+2 with dedicated effort.Read your subjects properly have good command over them, also you can read books on social and economic issues in order to diversify your horizone if you are interested and if you are able to managed time but not when exam is near.
Try to find where you are interested in, analyse your personality what kind of person you are and how u wants to become.Once you are in graduation there is plenty of time in between, go through the syllabus, identify area where you comfortable, get the study material of Genaral Studies read it seriously in a preparation mode as you are going to give this attempt.
Hope this helps!
thank you
As you know so much on the things about age limit and all so you also must be knowing that to crack UPSC exam a candidate must be a graduate from any recognised University doesn't matter in which stream you did your graduation.
As you have mentioned that you don't want to do engineering so no problem you are having lots of choices to do in your graduation.
See you don't want to do engineering then you can do graduation in bachelor of arts which most of the students who want to prepare for UPSC exam and it helps them so much because most of the syllabus coincide with the syllabus of UPSC CSE exam but still if you don't want to do to this graduation you can do some technical things also not engineering but Bachelor of Science which would not be that much Lengthy like engineering and you will be getting a lot of time to prepare for UPSC CSE exam.
Again if you don't find these things helpful you can do anything in whichever you feel interest as academics too matter very much.
Hope it helps!
thank you!
Hello there
Hope you are doing well. As you must be aware that for the beginning of upsc preparation you most important thing is your syllabus. Same as like that one most important thing is your basics.You must clear your basics firstly so fir that ncert books are preffered so firstly do reading of ncert from class 6 to class 12 as they will create you base.
Now after doing that you must do some standard books also for the reference as they will be helping you to understand the upper level of the things.
Hope you understand!
Best of luck!
Thank you!
I appreciate your dedication that at a very early age you're determined to become an IAS officer.
See at this age you must be focused on your academics too as they play a very vital role. Now coming on to the IAS preparation you can join any college any stream whichever you like it couldn't be working as a obstacle in your aim of becoming IAS officer.
As you are asking of any specific college so i would not recommend you or even there's no any specific school who'll provide you the preparation of upsc exam at this age. If there is so, then that's not worth it.
From my own point of view firstly do your 11 and 12 class with dedication and the from your graduation period start your preparation.
It means, you have atleast 5–6 years before you can appear for UPSC.
And there might be some possibilities of change in exam pattern not the Syllabus .
All you need is to spend your time in Reading newspaper .
Make a habit of reading it on daily basis.
*The Hindu*
Get a handy of syllabus for UPSC.
In next 2 years when you will be in spending your time in 11th and 12th.
You should read all the NCERT books from class 6 to class 12 which is required according to Syllabus.
Making a target of completing a book with in a month, that is going to be quite easy for you.
Spending 30 days to complete 5–6 chapters.
If you still have time , you should take a look over magazines like Yojana, Science Reporter so you can have a interest in reading these magazine..
When you will be in 1st year, you should start reading some standard book on GS paper , which you will come to know very easily when you will be in touch with other Aspirants.
One more thing, you will get a lot of standard videos, on various subject, over YouTube.
Predicting books name which you should refer , after 4–5 years is just a way to waste your time and mine too.
Just make habit of looking over the previous year question paper too.
Hello,
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Hope you are satisfied with the answer.
If you any doubts, feel free to ask.
Hope you're doing good. For your kind information I want to grab your attention that to become an IAS officer there is no any government college or private college where you have to take admission to become a IAS officer.
Basically you have to give an UPSC CSE examination which is of three stages preliminary mains and interview and in that you have to excel and make yourself in the cutoff list and thereafter you will be getting various services according to your rank.
Prepare well for it you also need not to be worry about your graduation stream as it accepts all dynamic students.
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