UPSC Exam Pattern: Prelims, Mains Exam & Interview

Overview of the UPSC Syllabus Without beating much around the bush let me get straight to the point. The UPSC exam is a 3-phase affair: Phase 1 is the UPSC Preliminary Examination, also called UPSC Prelims. This exam contains questions of the objective type. Phase 2 is the UPSC Mains Examination, also called UPSC Mains. This exam contains descriptive-type questions. Phase 3 is the Personal Interview round conducted to test the Personality of the Candidate. Having said that I will now start off with the first part of the article which is the UPSC prelims syllabus. Are you ready? Oh, and if by any chance you want to directly get to know the UPSC Syllabus without going through the article, I have prepared for you a UPSC syllabus PDF. In this PDF of the UPSC syllabus, I have mentioned the syllabus of both, Prelims and Mains in much detail.     Also, this UPSC Syllabus PDF is made as per the latest UPSC CSE 2021 official notification.   You can Download the UPSC Syllabus...

  UPSC Prelims Syllabus Starting off with the UPSC Prelims syllabus, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to you if I say that the syllabus is pretty vast in its own right. However, the  UPSC Prelims examination  is basically conducted for the purpose of  screening only.  Thus if you clear the Prelims exam, you will be eligible for the Mains exam. Also, your Prelims marks will not be considered in your final order of merit, provided you manage to make it through to the interview round. The UPSC prelims examination comprises  2 papers , namely the  General studies  paper and the  CSAT  paper or the Civil Services Aptitude Test. If you want to   know about the UPSC Prelims exam pattern in further detail , you can check out my article on the same.   We will start with the syllabus for Paper 1 i.e., General Studies (GS) paper. Prelims Syllabus Highlights UPSC Prelims Syllabus for Paper 1: General ...

  UPSC Previous Year Question Papers Knowing that you might have already gotten an idea about how important the UPSC prelims question papers of the past years and the previous year papers are to a sincere UPSC aspirant, I shall not be dwelling on the topic much. In this section of the blog, I would like to categorically elaborate on the many benefits of solving the UPSC prelims question papers of the past years and the previous year papers and talk about how to use the previous year papers. So basically, the best way to study for the IAS exam would be to first practice on a random previous year question paper. With that done, you’ll be able to gauge your strengths and weaknesses. Then, according to those, you can begin  covering the UPSC syllabus  in a way where you’d first cover the topics that you are weak at, and then eventually go over to the ones you are strong at. After you are done going through the entire UPSC course materials, you can try solving another previous...

  Benefits of  Solving   UPSC Mock Tests   The immediate benefit that you’d notice after solving the UPSC mock tests and  previous years’ papers  is that you’d be able to commit the exam structure to your memory.That would in turn facilitate your understanding of things such as the sections to attempt first and the ones to leave out for later, based on your strengths and weaknesses. The next benefit is an obvious one. More practice would mean better speed of comprehension and the ability to solve more in littler time The next one is that with greater practice you’d be able to tell the questions that would be asked in the actual exam, from the ones that are not as likely to be asked. One important benefit would be that you’d be able to easily decipher questions on the basis of their difficulty levels and the topics they encapsulate. With greater practice, it would become easier for you to gauge your performances segment-wise, subject-wise, and level of difficulty-wise...

  UPSC Admit Card Now, let’s look into the final section of this blog where I’ll explain how to download the UPSC admit card. Before we continue any further, I would like to bring to your attention that the  UPSC admit card  for the  2021 Mains exam, which is going to be held from 7th January 2022 onwards , will be out on the  UPSC’s official website .   The UPSC admit cards are  electronic in nature . That means it will not be sent to you by post, rather you’d have to  download it from the official website  of the UPSC and take a printout of it. Let us now take a look at the  steps to download UPSC Admit card for IAS prelims. Steps to Download Admit Card:     To download your UPSC admit card you need to first go over to  upsc.gov.in  and click on the “Admit Cards” link on the right side of the page. You can also choose to go to  upsconline.nic.in  and click on the link called, “E-Ad...

  The  official  UPSC notification 2021 was released by the  Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)  on the 4 th  of March 2021. You can also check the notification on  UPSC ’ s official website  as well.    According to the official notification, the  2021 Civil services recruitment process will fill up 712 civil servant posts . Also written in the UPSC notification 2021 is that the  prelims of the CSE 2021 were scheduled to be conducted on the 27 th  of June 2021 .  But due to the second wave of COVID-19, it got postponed to 10 th  October 2021.   You should also note that the  2021 UPSC  exam dates for the CSE Mains are 7, 8, 9, 15, and 16 January 2022.   The release date of the UPSC notification 2021, i.e., the  4 th  of March 2021  was  the  start date  for the  online registration process  for the UPSC exam 2021. The  last date to apply o...