The Indian Civil Services examination is directed by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) consistently. The examination calendar is declared amid January - February after which the choice is done in 3 phases. Applicants are sifted at each phase through a procedure of end.

The focused examination involves three progressive stages :

Common Services - Preliminary Examination - Objective Type (Qualifier)

Common Services - Main Examination - Written Test

Meeting/Personality Test

The Prelims are held in May-June and the outcomes are declared in July-August. The Main examination is held in October-November and the competitors who qualify at this stage are welcome to the meeting in March-April next. The last enrollment and posting of competitors relies on upon their positioning and the accessible opportunities for various presents on be filled amid that specific year.

Understudies need to first apply for the Preliminary Examination as it were. Applicants who are proclaimed by the Commission to have fit the bill for admission to the Main Examination will need to apply once more, in the Detailed Application Form which would be supplied to them.

Preliminary Examination

The Preliminary Examination will comprise of two papers of target sort (various decision inquiries) and convey a greatest of 400 imprints. This examination is intended to serve as a screening test as it were.

Just those applicants who are proclaimed by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year will be qualified for admission to the Main Examination of that year gave they are generally qualified to admission to the Main Examination.

The imprints acquired in the Preliminary Examination by the applicants who are pronounced fit the bill for admission to the Main Examination won't be meant deciding their last request of legitimacy.

The quantity of possibility to be admitted to the Main Examination will be around twelve to thirteen times the aggregate rough number of opening to be filled in the year for different Services and Posts.

Main Examination

The Main Examination will comprise of 9 papers altogether containing traditional exposition sort questions.

Hopefuls who acquire least qualifying marks in the Main Examination as might be settled by the Commission at their tact, should be summoned by them for a meeting/for a Personality Test.

The quantity of possibility to be summoned for meeting will be about double the quantity of opening to be filled.

Meeting/Personality Test

The meeting will convey 275 imprints (with no base qualifying marks).

Checks consequently got by the competitors (in the Main Examination and in addition meeting) would decide their last positioning.

Competitors will be presented on different administrations keeping in perspective their positions in the examination and the inclinations communicated by them for the different Services and Posts.

Please find the file attached below which has the detailed examination pattern for the IAS examination

IAS Exam Pattern