UPSC is the Union Public Service Commission, It conducts various exams to give jobs in various public sector. The most common exams are the Civil services, NDA, ESE, CDS. The Civil services exam also known as UPSC CSE is the exam conducted to select civil servants which includes IAS, IPS, IRS, IFS. To become IAS officer, you have to give UPSC CSE. UPSC CSE is compulsory to become an ias. Without it, you can't become an IAS. UPSC CSE is considered as a toughest exam because the rate of passing the exam is very low, Out of 1Million people who give this exam, only 1000 are selected to get jobs. Also, IAS is very reputed post, so only few get the opportunity to become IAS.

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UPSC conducts Civil Sevice Exam for recruitment of various posts and IAS is the top post here, there are various other posts such as Indian Police Service, Indian Revenue Service, Indian Railway Service etc, eventually it's dependent on the rank you acquired which determine your post, also you are given options to select the desired option, the rank varies when it comes to IAS for instance in 2018 results, General Catgory people with rank less than 100 were selected for IAS, this will not be the same for other reserved categories their rank can go higher in number, so to answer your question if you want to become IAS you'll only have to appear for UPSC Civil Service Exam, there's no other alternative, yes there are state level civil service exams as well which you can appear too, but IAS is the most coveted post as an IAS officer gets diverse work opportunities as well as the power and position in regards to other post is higher.

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