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Ayush Maurya 5th Dec, 2021

Hey there

To become an IAS officer you don't need any specific subject specialisation or you have to study any one subject for the exam.

The most of the parts of upsc cse exam is covered with humanities field so you can choose that stream if you are totally dedicated to become an IAS officer.

Otherwise you can give opt your own choice optional subject in whatever stream you want to. As in upsc cse exam you have multiple subject.

Please do check on upsc cse website for all the related details.

Best of luck.

Thank you!

Shivanshu 26th Nov, 2021

Dear aspirant !

Hope you are doing great ! There is not any subject to be an IAS ,you need to be perfect in all subjects ,even from every stream science , commerce as well as art student give this exam and qualify also.So you need to be an all-rounder like in cricket who can bowl as well as bat , similarly here also be perfect everywhere.

For more information about upsc , please visit the link given below;

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


Hope it helps you !!

Thanking you!!

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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 19th Nov, 2021

Hi


You don't need to be perfect in a particular subject in order to become an IAS officer.

This is because,

If you want to become an IAS officer you need to clear UPSC civil services examination and the syllabus of UPSC civil services examination is wide, there are various papers which you have to clear having different subject so you need to have  good command over these subjects like history, polity, geography etc



Your UPSC civil services examination consists of three stages

******** prelims exam

******** Mains exam.

******** Interview

For your reference,

The syllabus of prelims and mains is given below :-

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.

UPSC papers( Prelims)

Subjects

Topics

GS Paper I

  • History,

  • Indian Polity,

  • Geography,

  • Environment,

  • Current Affairs,

  • Science and technology, etc.


----------)General issues on Biodiversity and Climate Change

---------)Current events of national and international importance.

---------)Environmental ecology

---------)Economic and Social Development

---------)General Science

---------)Indian Polity and Governance

---------)Indian and World Geography

---------)Art and culture

---------)Indian history

---------)Ancient history, etc.

GS Paper II(csat)

  • Reasoning,

  • Maths,

  • English,

  • Hindi, etc.


-------)Comprehension (english and hindi)

---------)Interpersonal skills including communication skills

---------)Fill in the blanks (english and hindi)

---------)Logical reasoning

---------)Analytical ability

---------)Decision making and problem-solving

---------)Questions on General mental ability

---------)numbers and their relations, basic numeracy - orders of magnitude,  (10th level)

---------)Data interpretation - graphs, charts, data sufficiency, tables etc.( 10th level)


MAINS :-

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


---------)GS-I  :- You have

* indian heritage and culture

*History and geography of the world and society


--------)GS-II :- it includes

* Governance,

*Polity

*Constitution,

*Social Justice and International Relations .


--------) GS-III :- it includes

* Technology,

*Economic Development,

*Security and Disaster Management

*Bio-Diversity,

*Environment,


--------) GS-IV :- it has

* Ethics

*Integrity

*Aptitude


---------) compulsory indian language paper

---------) english paper

---------) essay paper

---------) optional I paper

---------) optional II paper

So , you need to have a good hold on this Syllabus of UPSC if you want to become an IAS officer

You can choose any  of the language included in the 8th Schedule of Indian Constitution for compulsory indian language paper and also select optional subject of your choice from the available list of subjects.

The compulsory indian language and english are qualifying in nature . You just need to qualify them. The marks obtained by you in these two papers will not be counted towards merit list.

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



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