Hi,

Yes you can apply for different posts. Those who wish to apply for different post can be applied seperately for each post and paying for each post. The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is working on a plan to cut the number of preliminary exams for Group-A government services by the year 2020.

Hello,

The specified deadline for upper age limit for UPSC official notification over the year has been on 2nd August, now in the year 2019 as per the notification age relaxation up to five years was offered to candidates domiciled in the state of Jammu and Kashmir during the period from the 1st day of January, 1980 to the 31st day of December, 1989 however as per this year official notification there has been no such mention on age relaxation criteria, so only if UPSC applies the age relaxation criteria in 2021 then only you can appear next year otherwise applying through general category will not possible the reason being the upper age limit will be not born before 2nd August, 1989

For your further clarity, I'm attaching the official notification of UPSC for the two years;

2019 @ https://upsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/Final_Notice_CSPE_2019_N.pdf

2020 @ https://www.upsc.gov.in/sites/default/files/Notification-CSPE_2020_N_Engl.pdf

Yes, in the final year of your graduation you will be eligible for UPSC examination. Coming to your course, BA is all time suggested and one of the best course for cracking UPSC examination. Once you clear your UPSC examination your graduation and the College or your course are not consider. So no matter where you have done your graduation, you will get a job only if you crack it.
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If you are going for any company rather then UPSC your graduation, College and your score will be given preference

Hello Dear Student,

In the era of Technology now it's possible to prepare for UPSC CSE from Home.

Here are the important points to prepare from Home:

1. General Studies are the main portion in UPSC CSE Preparation, you should read NCERT Books of History, Geography, Economy, Indian Polity, Science and Environment from Class 6th to 12th. It will help you to build your foundation for General Studies.

2. For Current Affairs Please Read Daily Newspapers like The Hindu, The Indian express, you can also use Current Affairs material of famous UPSC Coachings like Vision IAS, Vajiram and Ravi, Rau's IAS, Insight IAS Etc.

3. You should join a Online Test Series to practice questions for Prelims and Mains Examination, Many Famous UPSC Coachings provide Online Test Series Facilities like Vajiram and Ravi, Vision IAS, Rau's IAS, Insight IAS Etc.

Use Disha Publications or Arihant Publications Solved Old Question Papers of UPSC CSE for Practice.

4. List of Refrence Books to Follow:

For Indian Economy: Ramesh Singh or Sri Ram Economy

For Modern History: Spectrum or Bipin Chandra

For Indian Polity: Laxmikant or D.D Basu

For International Relations: Pavneet Singh's Book

For Geography: G.C Leong and Majid Hussain Indian Geography

For Art & Culture: Nitin Singhania's Book

For Enviornment: Vaishali Anand's Book or Shankar IAS Environment

For Ethics: Use Lexicon

For World History: Norman Lowe

To know more about UPSC CSE Exam, Visit: https://competition.careers360.com/exams/upsc-civil-services-exam

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

All the Best

Greetings,

There are a few ways to look at this:

- Would you be willing to take your undergraduate subject as optional during UPSC?

If yes, then you can opt for engineering subjects later which have considerably higher chances of success as per data.

- How much time would you spend doing a course?

In an ideal situation, it is always great to get into the civil services at the earliest to have a few years of advantage over others in terms of retirement, seniority and higher posts, etc.

In that respect, Engineering would be good since it is a 4 year course and you do not have to do any internships afterwards, whereas BAMS would take you 5.5. years to finish.

- How much free time would you get?

considering the kind of university or college you join your time would be divided amongst various activities. If you are joining any good Engineering or BAMS university then chances are you won't get much time for your UPSC prep so research on that.

bottom line is - I'd personally recommend you join Engineering as it would be the shortest and will probably offer more free time to prepare for UPSC and you can also choose one of your Engg subjects as optional if you take a liking to them.

do not rush it, decide with ease, best of luck!

Hi, Aspirant

UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) is open for any degree holder or graduate. It really doesn't matter what you studied during your Bachelor's degree.

If you have great passion for subjects like Political Science, Ecomics, History, Polity, English and Current Affairs then you must opt for UPSC.

All The Best!!

Hello

There is compulsory rule of 2 optional subjects. There are 7 papers in total and then interview out of which Paper 6 & paper 7 are kept for optional subjects.

. There are 25 optional subjects in UPSC civil services exam OPTIONAL SUBJECTS IN UPSC

• Agriculture

• Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science

• Anthropology

• Botany

• Chemistry

• Civil Engineering

• Commerce & Accountancy

• Economics

• Electrical Engineering

• Geography

• Geology

• History

• Law

• Management

• Mathematics

• Mechanical Engineering

• Medical Science

• Philosophy

• Physics

• Political Science & International Relations

• Psychology

• Public Administration

• Sociology

• Statistics

• Zoology

hope you found this useful

Hello

There are actually two sets of optional subjects one are the subject or course related and the other is literature. There are 25 optional subjects in UPSC civil services exam and 23 literature optional subjects.

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS IN UPSC

• Agriculture

• Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science

• Anthropology

• Botany

• Chemistry

• Civil Engineering

• Commerce & Accountancy

• Economics

• Electrical Engineering

• Geography

• Geology

• History

• Law

• Management

• Mathematics

• Mechanical Engineering

• Medical Science

• Philosophy

• Physics

• Political Science & International Relations

• Psychology

• Public Administration

• Sociology

• Statistics

• Zoology

OPTIONAL LITERATURE LANGUAGES ARE:

• Assamese

• Bengali

• Bodo

• Dogri

• Gujarati

• Hindi

• Kannada

• Kashmiri

• Konkani

• Maithili

• Malayalam

• Manipuri

• Marathi

• Nepali

• Oriya

• Punjabi

• Sanskrit

• Santhala

• Sindhi

• Tamil

• Telugu

• Urdu

• English

hope you found this useful

Good Luck

Hello Dear Student,

The Syllabus of UPSC CSE General Studies is Same for all the Students irrespective of their degrees.
But Syllabus varies in Optional Papers according to your opted Subject in Optional Papers.

There are Three Stages in the UPSC CSE Exam:
1. Preliminary exam
2. Mains exam
3. Interview

1. Preliminary exam: Multiple Choice Question based.
Consist of 2 Papers:
Paper 1: General Studies
Subjects included : Indian Polity, Geography, History, Indian Economy, Science and Technology, Environment & Ecology and International Relations

Paper 2: CSAT (Civil Services Aptitude Test) (Qualifying in Nature)
Syllabus: Comprehension, Logical reasoning and analytical ability, Decision making and problem solving, General mental ability, Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc.)

2. Mains exam (Discriptive Written Exam) :
Consist of 9 papers, Out of which 2 are qualifying papers.
Two Qualifying Papers are:
1. Any Indian language Paper like Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Marathi etc.
2. English language paper.

Rest 7 Papers are:
Paper 1: Essay
Paper 2: General Studies-1 (Indian Heritage & Culture, History & Geography of the World & Society).
Paper 3: General Studies-2 (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice & International Relations).
Paper 4: General Studies-3 (Technology, Economic Development, Biodiversity, Security & Disaster Management).
Paper 5: General Studies-4 (Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude).
Paper 6: Optional Subject-Paper 1.
Paper 7: Optional Subject-Paper 2.

3. Interview: UPSC Personality Test.
The Objective of Interview is to assess the personal suitability of the candidate, to explore the mental qualities and analytical ability of the candidate.

List of available optional Subjects: you have to choose only 1 Subject for Both Paper 6 & 7.
1. Agriculture
2. Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
3. Anthropology
4. Botany
5. Chemistry
6. Civil Engineering
7. Commerce & Accountancy
8. Economics
9. Electrical Engineering
10. Geography
11. Geology
12. History
13. Law
14. Management
15. Mathematics
16. Mechanical Engineering
17. Medical Science
18. Philosophy
19. Physics
20. Political Science & International Relations
21. Psychology
22. Public Administration
23. Sociology
24. Statistics
25. Zoology

All the Best!