Hello!

It may not appeal to you but the NCERT books starting from VIII standard and going up to XII are very important resources and fall under the category of 'must read' in order to crack UPSC. The topics you should cover from these NCERT books are ancient history(NCERT Class VI and Rs Sharma XI), modern history(NCERT Bipin Chandra Class XII), polity(NCERT XI and XII), economics(NCERT XI and XII, Macroeconomics), geography(NCERT VII, X, XI, XII), environment(NCERT VII and XI) and world history(NCERT story of civilization vol 1 and 2).

Apart from this, you can refer any good coaching material to cover up the general studies. You can also refer to leading newspapers for current affairs part.

You can get an elaborate guide about UPSC preparation using the link below:-

https://www.google.com/amp/s/competition.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-upsc-ias/amp

Hope this helps!

Hello,

Hope you are doing good.

Coming to your question, There are three stages in the IAS selection process :

1. Stage I: Preliminary Examination (IAS Prelims)

2. Stage II: Mains Examination (IAS Mains)

3. Stage III: UPSC Personality Test (IAS Interview)

IAS Prelims

It is a qualifying exam and candidates have to get a minimum of 33 % to be qualified for the Mains.Consists of 2 compulsory papers- General Ability Test (GAT) and the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT). All questions are objective in nature with negative marking for each wrong answer, where One-third of marks allotted to each question is deducted for a wrong answer.

IAS Mains

It is a written descriptive examination and comprises 9 papers and these are as follows: Paper-A (Compulsory Indian Language); Paper –B (English) which are qualifying in nature, while the other papers like Essay, General Studies Papers I, II, III, and IV, and Optional Papers I and II are considered for the final ranking. Candidates who score above the prescribed cut-off marks in the IAS exam (Mains) will get the summons for the Personality Test. The final ranking is based on the marks obtained by the candidate  in the Main Examination and Personality Test/Interview Round of the IAS exam.

IAS Interview

This is a face-to-face discussion round with the board members where the candidates are assessed by the board members on their personality traits to know if they are fit for a career in the civil services or not. The UPSC personality test will be held only in the UPSC Bhavan in New Delhi.

Hope this was useful

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Hello aspirant!
Hope you are doing well!

You can chose any stream for graduating your class 11 and 12 - arts, science, engineering, medical, economics, commerce, literature etc. All degree holders in any stream of subjects are eligible for writing the IAS exams.

There is nothing to be particular about any stream in IAS exam. The best way is  to choose subjects in which you see future. What would you like to do in future.

UPSC conducts a separate exam in 3 stages.

• Preliminaries
• , Mains
• personality tests.

Only if you succeed in all the stages, you can become an IAS officer.

till class 10 you must have studied subjects such as

• English,
• Mathematics
• BIOLOGY,
• History,
• Geography.

Take subject which interests you in class +2. After end of 1st or 2nd year , you can seriously concentrate on IAS. But, be a good student till then .

Dont let laziness take over your hardwork

There are no such applications available which will help you for UPSC preparation . Even if such applications exist, they won't help you for UPSC preparation . So here I will help you with the links for syllabus for UPSC. You can refer them for preparation. If you can afford higher budget then go for bjyus. Even they train students for UPSC examination

IAS syllabus link

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-syllabus/amp

IPS syllabus link

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/ips-syllabus/amp

Hello aspirant,

UPSC is highly competitive which requires good strategy along with some consistent hardwork.You can start preparation with your second year.As you become eligible for giving exam at the age of 21. You have two routes whether you prepare by your own or go for coaching.

Inculcate habit of reading newspaper.It Will surely help you in your journey. You can start reading 'the Hindu' or the Indian express'.

Hope this answer is helpful for you.

Hello aspirant!
The passing of the said final year exam should render the candidates eligible for the UPSC civil services exam, i.e., it should be a graduation-level degree from a recognised university. It can also be a professional or technical degree.
final year students can also sit for the UPSC prelims exam. But there are conditions attached to this:

The passing of the said final year exam should render the candidates eligible for the UPSC civil services exam, i.e., it should be a graduation-level degree from a recognised university. It can also be a professional or technical degree.

All such candidates who are declared as eligible for theUPSC mainsby the board (i.e., those who clear the UPSC prelims) should produce the proof of their passing the required university examination along with their mains application. Only then will they be permitted to take the IAS mains exam.

If they fail to produce the required proof, they will not be admitted to the mains exam. This will result in the loss of a precious attempt because an attempt at the prelims is counted as one attempt.

Hope this helps you...

Good luck.
Regards...!

Hii!
The basic eligibility criteria for applying into UPSC examination is that the candidate must have completed the graduation degree in any subject discipline from a recognised University. So, yes. After you complete your graduation degree, you can apply for the examination. But, to be on a safer side, you can enroll as private candidate via an open University or school and complete your class 12th examination.
Hope this helps.
Good luck!

Hi Somya,

I think you will be eligible to applyfor UPSC examination.

Although only a diploma certificate would not have let you sit for the exam, but since you do have mentioned about graduating and that too (I hope) from a recognized university, I do not think you will face any problem while applying.

As per the eligibility criteria, the applicants must have a degree of any University or other  educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University.

Also I have researched to some extent to find that, the Candidates who have a (technical/professional) educational qualifications as equivalent to ( technical/professional) degree which are recognised by the Indian Government would also be eligible for admission to the CSE examination.

Hope this helps!

Hello,

The syllabus of UPSC is humongous, hence it's important to have limited resources, read one book many times instead of many books one time, revision is the key here.



For Prelims, you can refer the following books:

History ;

NCERT Class XI and XII
India's Struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra
For Indian Culture, refer art and culture by Nitin Singhania

Geography ;

NCERT Class VI to XII
GC Leong's Physical Geography
World Atlas

Economics ;

NCERT Class XI
Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh

International Relations & Polity ;

NCERT XII Political Science with current affairs
Indian Polity by Laxmikanth

CSAT ;

Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning by RS Agarwal
M Tyra's Quicker Maths


Coming to Mains Exam, you can refer the following books for four General Studies Paper;


GS I - For History , Class XI NCERT book with India's struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra,India after Independence by Bipan Chandra,History of Medieval India by Satish Chandra. For Geography refer World Geography and Geography of India by Majid Hussain, GC Leong's Physical and Human Geography with NCERT Class XI book.
For GS II - Polity and International Relations , refer Indian Polity by Lamikanth,India's Foreign Policy by Rajiv Sikri
For GS III - For Economics refer Indian Economy by Ramesh Singh, read ARC report along with Economic Survey and Fiscal Budget.
For GS IV - For Ethics refer a book named Lexicon by Niraj Kumar, also you can go through study material of IGNOU.


NCERTs are your foundation here, you must have a good grasp in the basics, upsc doesn't demand you to be expert, you just need to be well aware of the basics, readings newspaper on a daily basis is must and take a print out of UPSC syllabus and keep it in your study table, go through it regularly as this will help you know what to read and what to skip.

Dear aspirant, Hope you are doing well. Asper the guidelines for sitting for the UPSC exam, there is a age limit criteria of 21years upto 31 years, so if you are falling in the age bar. For OBC age limit is 35 years. You can definitely sit for the exam after your degree is completed. You can attempt the exam every year but you must be careful about the restrictions on the attempts. As per UPSC guidelines, there are 6 attempts for general category, 9 for OBC and no limits for ST, SC.

All the best!