Beginner’s Guide
About civil service (Civil Service Exam)
Civil service examination is the most challenging exam in the country. It is conducted by UPSC every year for recruiting various reputed central government posts. There are three stages in Civil service examination which are Preliminary, mains, and personality test.
About Preliminary stage
Preliminary exam is the first stage consisting of two papers. Both papers are objective and are of 200 marks each. Paper 1 called General Studies. It has 100 questions of two marks each. Second paper is known as CSAT ( Civil service aptitude test ). It has 80 question of 2.5 marks each. It is qualifying in nature and only those securing more than 66 out of 200 in this paper shall be eligible for mains exam. The mark scored in the first paper only considered for ranklist of preliminary exam. The marks scored in preliminary exam will not considered for final ranking.
About mains examination
Civil Services (Main) Examination is the ‘written stage’ of the examination. It consists of nine papers of which, marks of only seven papers are counted in deciding the final merit list. In the remaining two papers, a candidate has to secure the minimum qualifying marks decided by UPSC each year. The question papers for the Mains examination are of conventional (essay) type.
How to Apply
Candidates are required to apply Online using the official website of UPSC that is www.upsconline.nic.in
Candidates need to complete the Online Application Form containing two stages viz. Part-I and Part-II as per the instructions available in the above-mentioned website.
The candidates are required to pay a fee of Rs.100/- Rupees One Hundred only) [excepting SC/ST/ Female/Persons with Benchmark Disability candidates who are exempted from payment of fee] either by depositing the money in any branch of State Bank of India by cash, or by using net banking facility of State Bank of India or by using any Visa/Master/RuPay Credit/ Debit Card.
Before start filling up Online Application form, a candidate must have his/her photograph and signature duly scanned in the jpg format in such a manner that each file should not exceed 40 KB and must not be less than 3 KB in size for the photograph and 1 KB for the signature.
Applicants should avoid submitting multiple applications. In case of multiple applications, the applications with higher Registration ID will be considered by the Commission.
The applicants must ensure that while filling their Application Form, they are providing their valid and active E-Mail IDs as the Commission may use electronic mode of communication while contacting them at different stages of examination process.
