Civil Services Exam Exam Pattern

I am planning to apply for Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services Examination want details about exam. Can you tell what the exam pattern of Civil Services Examination also provide important dates for this exam so that I can apply on time?

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The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is India's central agency authorised to conduct the Civil Services Examination, Indian Forest Service examination and many other exams.

List of services under UPSC:

All India Services
Indian Administrative Service
Indian Police Service

Exam pattern:

The IAS Preliminary exam (objective / multiple choice questions type) has two papers:

i. Paper – I (General Studies: duration – 2 hours; Marks – 200)

ii. Paper – II (Civil Services Aptitude Test duration – 2 hours; Marks – 200)

Note:

i. The minimum qualifying marks for Paper II is 33 percent.

ii. In both Paper I and Paper II for each wrong answer there is a negative marking of 1/3rd of the allotted marks of that question.

The second stage of the civil services is IAS Mains Exam (subjective or descriptive type) and it consists a total of 9 papers which is divided as given below:

Essay
English
General Studies Paper I (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society)
General Studies Paper II (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations)
General Studies Paper III (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)
General Studies Paper IV (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)
Optional Subject Paper I
Optional Subject Paper II
Language Paper

Important dates (Tentative)

The official notification was out on 22nd February 2017
Final date for submitting the application form 17th March 2017
The Civil Services Exam 2017(Pre) 18th June 2017
Date of main examination 28th October 2017