Hi

Your UPSC civil services examination consists of three stages:-

1. Prelims

2. Mains

3.Interview

UPSC PRELIMS :-

Your prelims exam consist of 2 papers : -

-) general studies  1 :   - You have History, Indian Polity, Geography, Environment, Current Affairs, Science and technology, etc.

-) general studies II ( csat ) :-    You have :-Reasoning, Maths, English, Hindi, etc.

For reference,

Here's detailed prelims syllabus

MAINS :-

It is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers which are listed below:-

Paper 1 :- Essay

Paper 2 :- GS-I :- You have

• *indian heritage and culture

• *History and geography of the world and society

Paper 3 :- GS-II   :- it includes

• * Governance,

• *Polity

• *Constitution,

• *Social Justice and International Relations.

Paper 4 :- GS-III :- it includes

• *Technology,

• *Economic Development,

• *Security and Disaster Management

• *Bio-Diversity,

• *Environment,

Paper 5   :- GS-IV :- it has

• * Ethics

• *Integrity

• *Aptitude

Paper 6 : - optional I paper

Paper 7 :- optional II paper

Out of the 9 papers, the remaining two papers are:-

Language paper A :-  compulsory indian language

Language paper B :- English

You can get complete UPSC civil services examination syllabus for both PRELIMS & MAINS by visiting our page in the link for which is provided below:-

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

Thank you

Hello Aspirant,

For IPS you must concentrate on the following subjects

Polity

History

Geography

Economics

Current affairs

General knowledge

English language

Logical reasoning

Mathematics

International affairs

You can find the entire article discussing the skills and topics required in the link provided below

https://www.careers360.com/careers/ips-officer

Hope this helps and Good luck