UPSC MAINS TEST SERIES

PLAN OF EXAMINATION of UPSC EXAM

The Civil Services Examination comprises two successive stages:

(i)              
Civil Services (Preliminary)
Examination (Objective Type) for the selection of candidates for Civil Services
(Main) Examination; and

 (ii) Civil
Services (Main) Examination (Written and Interview/Personality Test) for the
selection of candidates for the various Services and posts.

 2. The Civil Services
(Preliminary) Examination will consist of two papers of Objective type
(multiple choice questions) and carry a maximum of 400 marks.

This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only; the marks obtained in the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination by
the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Civil Services
(Main) Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of
merit.

The
number of candidates to be admitted to the Civil Services (Main) Examination
will be about twelve to thirteen times the total approximate number of
vacancies to be filled in the year through this Examination.

Only those candidates who are declared by the Commission to have
qualified in the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination in the year will be
eligible for admission to the Civil Services (Main) Examination of that year
provided they are otherwise eligible for admission to the Civil Services (Main)
Examination.

 Note : The Commission will draw a list of candidates to be qualified for
Civil Services (Main) Examination based on the criterion of minimum qualifying
marks of 33% in General Studies Paper-II of Civil Services (Preliminary)
Examination and total qualifying marks of General Studies Paper-I of Civil Services
(Preliminary) Examination as may be determined by the Commission.

Note  : There will be negative marking
for incorrect answers as detailed below :

(i)              
There are four alternatives for
the answers to every question.For each question for which a wrong answer has
been given by the candidate, one-third (0.33) of the marks assigned to that
question will be deducted as penalty.

 (ii) If a
candidate gives more than one answer, it will be treated as a wrong answer even
if one of the given answers happen to be correct and there will be same penalty
as above for that question. (iii) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is
given by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.

3. The Civil Services (Main) Examination will consist of a Written Examination
and an Interview/Personality Test.The Written Examination will consist of 9
papers of conventional essay type out of which two papers will be of qualifying
in nature.

Marks obtained for all the
compulsory papers (Paper-I to Paper-VII) and Marks obtained in
Interview/Personality Test will be counted for ranking.

 4.1 Candidates who obtain such
minimum qualifying marks in the written part of the Civil Services (Main)
Examination as may be fixed by the Commission at their discretion, shall be
summoned by them for an Interview/Personality Test.

The
number of candidates to be summoned for Interview/Personality Test will be
about twice of the number of vacancies to be filled

. The Interview/Personality Test will carry 275 marks
(with no minimum qualifying marks).

 4.2 Marks thus obtained by the
candidates in the Civil Services (Main) Examination (Written part as well as
Interview/Personality Test) would determine their final ranking.

Candidates will be allotted to the various Services keeping in view their
ranks in the examination and the preferences expressed by them for the various
Services and posts.

UPSC Main exam is the second level and most
important written component of UPSC CSE exam.It is a test which has a weightage
of 1750 marks and these marks are taken into account in preparation of the
final merit list(along with interview/personality test which carries 275
marks).Candidates who clear the UPSC CSE main exam are selected to appear in
UPSC CSE interview/persponality test.The questions asked in UPSC mains exam are
subjective type and answers must be written in fixed number of words.It
consists of 9 papers of General Studies,Optional papers,essay and language
papers.

    UPSC
CSE EXAM PATTERN-Mains

Paper        Subjects         IAS Total Marks

Paper A  Compulsory
Indian         300

                 
Language              (Qualifying)

Paper B         
English                     300

                                               
(Qualifying)

Paper I            Essay                     250

Paper II     General Studies-I        250

Paper III     General Studies-II       250

Paper IV     General Studies-III       250

Paper V     General Studies-IV       250

Paper VI        Optional-I                   250

Paper VII        Optional-II                 250

Personality
test/Inteview                275

i)The papers on Indian languages and English (Paper A and paper B) will
be of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualifying nature.The marks obtained in these papers will not be
counted for ranking.

 (ii) Evaluation of the papers,
namely, ‘Essay’, ‘General Studies’ and Optional Subject of all the candidates
would be done simultaneously along with evaluation of their qualifying papers
on ‘Indian Languages’ and ‘English’ but
the papers on Éssay’, General Studies and Optional Subject of only such
candidates will be taken cognizance who attain 25% marks in ‘Indian Language’
and 25% in English as minimum qualifying standards in these qualifying papers.

(iii) The paper A on Indian Language will not, however, be compulsory for
candidates hailing from the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalya,
Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim.

(iv) The paper A on Indian Language will not, however, be compulsory for
Candidates belonging to Persons with Benchmark Disability (only Hearing
Impairment sub-category) provided that they have been granted such exemption
from 2nd or 3rd language courses by the concerned education Board/University.
The candidate needs to provide an undertaking/self declaration in this regard
in order to claim such an exemption to the Commission.

 (v) Marks obtained by the
candidates for the Paper I-VII only will be counted for merit ranking. However,
the Commission will have the discretion to fix qualifying marks in any or all
of these papers.

The most
pressing question in the minds of aspirants,however, is  How many students appeared for UPSC 2022.Every year around 10 lakh
students apply for UPSC prelims exam and around 5 lakh candidates appear the
UPSC prelims exam.Eventually around 800-1200 clear the overall UPSC(all 3
stages) exam.In 2022 around 11.52 lakh candidates had applied for UPSC prelims exam and 13090
candidates have cleared prelims and qualified for UPSC mains exam.According to
UPSC results 2529 candidates have cleared UPSC main exam and have qualified for
UPSC interview 2022.In 2021, around 10.93 lakh candidates had applied for UPSC
prelims 2021;around 5 lakh appeared for UPSC prelims 2021 and 10000 qualified
for UPSC main exam.Overall 761 were recommended by UPSC who cleared the final
stage in 2021..

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