UPSC IAS Exam Eligibility 2022

 

UPSC Exam Eligibility

To be qualified to sit the IAS exams, you must first hold a bachelor's degree, and this is just one of the qualifying requirements.

There are other UPSC qualifying requirements that you should investigate before applying for the IAS exam online.

To be eligible to take the UPSC exam, you must first ensure that you have the necessary educational requirements.

The educational requirements for UPSC tests are not as stringent as those for other exams such as the UGC NET and RBI Grade B. 

By not steep, I mean that there is no requirement for a minimum passing grade on your degree certificate to be eligible for UPSC.

Make no mistake, though. 

This should not lead you to believe that the UPSC exam is any simpler to pass than the others. 

The UPSC IAS examinations are without a doubt one of the most difficult tests in India today. 

To become an IAS officer, you'll need a superb IAS preparation technique and a lot of hard work.

You'll also need the appropriate IAS books to study and solve all IAS previous year question papers, which you may learn more about in my articles.

Anyway, tough or not, the very experience of attempting the IAS exams for the first time is something that is out of this world.

The sheer vastness of the IAS syllabus and the cleverness of the questions in the papers are sure to make you marvel at the scale of the exam.

Anyway, all talks aside, let me get straight to the topic at hand beginning with the UPSC exam eligibility of nationality. 

UPSC IAS Exam Eligibility: Nationality

To appear for the UPSC IAS & IPS exams you need to be a citizen of India, for all other services, you must be either:

1. A citizen of India,
2. Or a subject of Nepal,
3. Or a subject of Bhutan,
4. Or a refugee from Tibet that came to India before the 1st of January 1962 with the intention of settling in India permanently.
5. Or an individual with Indian origin who has migrated from Burma, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, East African countries of Uganda, Zambia, Zaire, Kenya, the united republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, & Vietnam, with the purpose of settling permanently in India. If you belong to categories b), c), d), and e), then you’d need a certificate issued by the govt. of India to be eligible. Also belonging to the b), c), d), and e). Categories will bar you from being eligible to be appointed to the Indian Foreign Services.

UPSC IAS Eligibility Criteria: Age Limit

Long story short – Gen: should not have touched age of 32 years, OBC: should not have touched age of 35 years, SC/ST: should not have touched age of 37 years, PWD: should not have touched age of 42 years.

Compared to the criterion of educational qualification (which I shall be getting to in the next sections), the UPSC IAS Exam eligibility criteria of age limit, and nationality are things over which you, as a candidate, have no control.  

The most you can do is be done with your minimum educational qualification as soon as possible. 

That way you’ll be able to save yourself the required number of attempts that you’d need to crack the UPSC exams. 

However, there are certain variations to this rule as well, depending on a number of factors. 

Table of IAS Age Limit Eligibility

Category	Maximum Age (should not have touched the age of:)
General	32
OBC	32+3=35
SC/ST	32+5=37
Physically disabled	32+10=42
(Blind, Deaf-mute, Orthopedically handicapped)
J&K domicile	General: 32+5=37
	OBC: 32+5+3=40
	SC/ST: 32+5+5=42
	PH: 32+5+10=50
Ex-serviceman discharged from duty due to disability	General: 32+3=35
	OBC: 32+3+3=38
	SC/ST: 32+3+5=40
Ex-serviceman discharged after 5 years duty	General: 32+5=37
	OBC: 32+5+3=40
	SC/ST: 32+5+5=42

With that, comes to end the section of UPSC IAS Eligibility Criteria: Age Limit. Now it’s time we shifted our focus to the Eligibility criteria of the minimum educational qualification. 

UPSC IAS Eligibility Criteria: Minimum Educational Qualification

I have written the UPSC eligibility based on educational qualifications in detail below:

To appear for the UPSC IAS exam you must have proof that you are a graduate from a centrally or state-recognized university. This means that you should have a bachelor’s degree certificate from any university incorporated by an Act of the State and Central Legislature of India, or any institute of education established by an Act of the Parliament of India, or one that is declared to be a deemed university under Section-2 of the University Grants Commission Act of 1956, or possess a qualification equivalent to that. 

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