UPSC Syllabus

                   UPSC (CSE) Syllabus

The Civil Services Examination (CSE) is a nationwide competitive examination in India conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for recruitment to various Civil Services of the Government of India.It including the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), and Indian Police Service (IPS). Also simply referred to as the UPSC examination.It cunducted in three phases .i.e. Preliminary examination,Mains examination and Personality test.
Following are the services which one gets on qualifying the Civil Service Examination.

All India Services

• Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
• Indian Police Service (IPS)

Central Services (Group A)

• Indian Foreign Service (IFS)
• Indian Audit and Accounts Service (IA&AS)
• Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS)
• Indian Corporate Law Service (ICLS)
• Indian Defence Accounts Service (IDAS)
• Indian Defence Estates Service (IDES)
• Indian Information Service (IIS)
• Indian Ordnance Factories Service (IOFS)
• Indian Postal Service (IPoS)
• Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Service (IP&TAFS)
• Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS)
• Indian Railway Personnel Service (IRPS)
• Indian Railway Protection Force Service (IRPFS)
• Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS)
• Indian Revenue Service (IRS-IT)
• Indian Revenue Service (IRS-C&CE)
• Indian Trade Service (ITrS)
• Group B Services

• Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Services (AFHCS)
• Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Civil Service (DANICS)
• Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police Service (DANIPS)
• Pondicherry Civil Service (PCS)
• Pondicherry Police Service (PPS)

The following Phases are:

Phase I 

For UPSC (CSE) Examination

• Preliminary Examination paper I
• Preliminary Examination paper II

Phase II

For UPSC (CSE) Mains Examination

The mains examination consists written examination and will consists of following papers:

Paper -I

Section 1

• Essay 250 Marks
• English Comprehension & English Precis (Xth standard) 100 Marks

Paper -II

General Studies-I 250 Marks 
(Indian Heritage and Culture,History and Geography of the World and Society)

Paper III

General Studies-II 250 Marks
(Governance, Constitution,Polity ,Social Justice and International relation)

Paper IV

General Studies-III 250 Marks

(Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity,Environment, Security and Disaster Management)

Paper V

General Studies-IV 250 Marks

(Ethics,Integrity and Aptitude)

Paper VI

Optional Subject-Paper 1 250 Marks 

Paper VII 

Optional Subject-Paper 2 250 Marks

Phase III

Interview-Personality Test 275 Marks

Sub Total (Written Test) = 1750

Personality Test = 275

Grand Total=2025

List of Languages:
The examination is more than the following languages, with the name of the script in brackets

• Assamese (Assamese)
• Bengali (Bengali)
• Bodo (Devanagari)
• Dogri (Devanagari)
• English (English)
• Gujarati (Gujarati)
• Hindi (Devanagari)
• Kannada (Kannada)
• Kashmiri (Persian)
• Konkani (Devanagari)
• Maithili (Devanagari)
• Malayalam (Malayalam)
• Manipuri (Bengali)
• Marathi (Devanagari)
• Nepali (Devanagari)
• Odia (Odia)
• Punjabi (Gurumukhi)
• Sanskrit (Devanagari)
• Santhali (Devanagri or Ol Chiki)
• Sindhi (Devanagari or Arabic)
• Tamil (Tamil)
• Telugu (Telugu)
• Urdu (Persian)

Optional Subjects:

The subjects available for Papers VI and VII are

• Agriculture
• Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
• Anthropology
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Commerce and Accountancy
• Economics
• Electrical Engineering
• Geography
• Geology
• History
• Law
• Literature of any one of the languages listed above
• Management
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Medical Science
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science and International Relations
• Psychology
• Public Administration
• Sociology
• Statistics
• Zoology

Civil Services New Mains Format

Paper	Subject	Marks
Paper A	(One off the Indian language listed below,to be selected by the candidates(from the language listed in the Eighth schedule to the Constitution of India)(Qualifyinf)	300
Paper B	English (Qualifying)	300
Paper I	Essay	250
Paper II	General Studies I (Indian heritage and Culture,History and Geography of the World and Society)	250
Paper III	General Studies II (Governance,Constitution,Polity ,Social Justice and International Relation)	250
Paper IV	General Studies III (Technology,Economic development, Biodiversity, Environment ,Security and disaster management)	250
Paper V	General Studies IV (Ethics ,Integrity and Aptitude	250
Paper VI,VII	Two paper on one subject to be selected by the candidate from the list of optional subject below (250 marks for each paper)	500
Sub Total (Written Test)		1750
Personality Test (Interview))		275
Total Marks		2025