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. UPSC  Preliminary   Exam   Syllabus Starting  with  the  UPSC  Prelims  syllabus,  it  should  come  as  no  surprise  that  the  syllabus  is  quite  extensive  in  and  of  itself. The  UPSC  Prelims  examination,  on  the  other  hand,  is  mostly  used  for  screening  purposes.  As  a  result,  if  you  pass ...

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...