IAS

IAS Syllabus for Prelims and Main, Pattern

IAS Exam is conducted in 3 successive stages- Prelims, Main and Interview test. The prelims stage is an objective test of 400 marks whereas Main is subjective paper of 1750 marks followed by personality test of 275 marks. IAS Prelims is qualifying in nature while performance in main and interview round determine the merit of successful candidates.

Both prelims and main exam have different syllabi viz:

• Stage 1:IAS Preliminary Exam – 2 papers of 200 marks each
• Stage 2:IAS Main Exam – Written exam (9 papers)
• Stage 3: Interview Round – 275 marks

The Indian Administrative Service exam officially called as Civil Services Examination (CSE) is the premier administrative civil service of the Government of India. Hierarchy-wise, IAS is the highest administrative post among the 24 services like IPS, IFS (Foreign), IAAS, IRS, IDAS, CAPF-AF to name a few.

IAS Prelims Syllabus

• UPSC civil services preliminary exam is the first stage of IAS selection process, candidates must clear prelims to qualify for the main exam.
• It is meant to serve as a screening test only; marks scored in IAS Prelims will not be counted for the final merit list.
• Preliminary Stage of IAS has two papers viz. General Ability test (GAT) (Paper-1) and the Civil Service Aptitude Test (CSAT) (Paper-2).

IAS Syllabus for Paper I

• Paper I of IAS Prelims includes different topics which hold a weightage of 200 marks.
• All questions will be objective in nature.
• Candidates must solve the paper in 2 hours.
• Marks obtained in Paper 1 will be counted for the merit rank.

IAS Syllabus for Paper 2

• All questions will be objective in nature.
• The total weightage of questions in Paper II is 200 marks.
• The total duration of the Paper II is 2 hours.
• Marks obtained in Paper 2 will not be counted for the merit rank in Prelims but will be considered as a qualifying Paper.
• Candidates need 33% marks to clear IAS Mains.

Civil Services (Preliminary) Exam Pattern

Section-wise Questions Distribution

Given below is the topic wise weightage of IAS Prelims Paper I:

Topic wise weightage of  IAS Paper 2 (CSAT paper)

Civil Services (Main) Exam Facts

IAS Main Exam Pattern

• IAS Main has 9 papers out of which 7 Papers are compulsory and 2 are optional papers that candidates have to choose.
• Out of the 7 papers, 2 are language papers (A and B).
• For paper A, candidate has to choose one of the Indian Language that is included in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution. Paper B will have questions from English.
• Questions will be subjective in nature.
• Each paper is of 250 marks while language papers are of 300 marks each.
• The marks obtained in the language papers are not counted in the formation of IAS Merit List as they are qualifying  in nature.
• The total time duration of IAS Main exam is 3 hours.
• Blind candidates will be given 20 minutes extra for each paper.

Here is the brief about all the papers in IAS Main:

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