Scheme Of Civil Services Main Examination
The Main written examination comprises a total of nine (9) papers of two types:
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2 papers of non-ranking types
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7 papers of ranking type
Non-ranking Papers
Two papers of non-ranking type include:
Paper A:
Indian language, to be selected by the candidate out of languages included in
the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution
Paper B:
English, which is a compulsory paper
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Both the papers of non ranking type will be 300 marks and for 3 hours duration
each.
Ranking Papers
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Paper - I : Essay
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Four (4) papers of General Studies in the following manner:
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Paper – II: General Studies – I on
Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society
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Paper – III: General Studies – II on
Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations
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Paper – IV: General Studies – III on
Technology, Economic Development, Bio‐diversity,
Environment, Security and Disaster Management
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Paper – V: General Studies – IV on
Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude
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Paper VI & Paper VII: Two (2) papers in any one optional subject (candidates may
choose any one optional subject from amongst the UPSC’s list of optional
subjects in the Mains Examination).
All the 7 papers of ranking type will be 250 marks and for 3 hours duration
each. Blind candidates will, however be allowed an extra time of thirty minutes
at each paper.
Notes:
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The paper on Indian Language and English will be of Matriculation or equivalent
standard and will be of qualifying nature only. The marks obtained in these
papers will not be counted for ranking.
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The paper on Indian Language will not,
however, be compulsory for candidates hailing from the North-Eastern States of
Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland and also for
candidates hailing from the State of Sikkim.
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Evaluation of the ranking papers, namely,
‘Essay’, ‘All the papers of 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 ‘Essay’,
‘General Studies’ and ‘Optional Subject’ of only such candidates will be taken
cognizance of who attain such minimum standard as may be fixed by Commission at
their discretion for the qualifying papers on ‘Indian Language’ and ‘English’.
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Candidates will have the option to answer
all the question papers, except the Qualifying Language papers, Paper – A &
Paper - B, in any of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the
Constitution of India or in English. For the Language medium/ literature of
languages, the scripts to be used by the candidates will be as under:
Language Script
Assamese Assamese
Bengali
Bengali
Gujarati Gujarati
Hindi
Devanagari
Kannada
Kannada
Kashmiri
Persian
Konkani Devanagari
Malayalam Malayalam
Manipuri
Bengali
Marathi Devanagari
Nepali Devanagari
Oriya
Oriya
Punjabi
Gurumukhi
Sanskrit
Devanagari
Sindhi
Devanagari or Arabic
Tamil
Tamil
Telugu Telugu
Urdu Persian
Bodo Devanagari
Dogri Devanagari
Maithilli Devanagari
Santhali Devanagari or Olchiki
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Candidates exercising the option to answer the papers in any one of the
languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution may, if they so
desire, give English version within brackets of only the description of the
technical terms, if any, in addition to the version in the language opted by
them. (Candidates should, however, note that if they misuse the above rule, a
deduction will be made on this account from the total marks otherwise accruing
to them and in extreme cases, their script(s) will not be valued for being in an
unauthorised medium).
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The question papers other than language papers will be set both in Hindi and
English.