Union Public Service Commission

Name of the examination: Civil Services Examination

Pattern of examination: The Civil Services Examination consists of two successive stages: (I) Civil Services Preliminary Examination; and (ii) Civil Services Main Exam (Written & Interview) for selection of candidates for the various services and posts given below:

1. Indian Administrative Service

2. Indian Foreign Service

3. Indian Police Service

4. India P&T Accounts & Finance Service, Group A

5. Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group A

6. Indian Customs and Central Excise Service, Group A

7. Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group A

8. Indian Revenue Service, Group A

9. Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group A

10.Indian Postal Service, Group A

11.Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group A

12.Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group A

13.Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group A

14.Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group A

15.Posts of Assistant Security Officer, Group A in Railway Protection Force

16.Indian Defence Estates Service, Group A

17.Indian Information Service(Junior Grade), Group A

18.Posts of Assistant Commandant, Group A in Central Industrial Security Force

19.Posts of Deputy Superintendent of Police Group A in the Central Bureau of Investigation

20.Central Secretariat Service, Group B(Section Ofiicers' Grade)

21.Railway Board Secretariat Service(Section Officers' Grade)

22.Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group B

23.Customs Appraisers' Service, Group B

24.Pondicherry Civil Service, Group B

The Prelims

The Preliminary Examination consists of two papers of objective type (multiple- choice questions) carrying a maximum of 450 marks.
The Question Papers (Test Booklets) are set in English & Hindi

Paper - I	General Studies	150 Marks
Paper - II	One of the optional subjects to be selected from the prescribed optional subjects	300 Marks

List of Optional Subjects CS (Preliminary) - Total 23

Agriculture	Mathematics
Animal Husbandry & Vetinary Science	Mechanical Engineering
Botany	Medical Science
Chemistry	Philosophy
Civil Engineering	Physics
Commerce	Political Science
Economics	Psychology
Electrical Engineering	Public Administration
Geography	Sociology
Geology	Statistics
Indian History	Zoology
Law

The Mains

Paper- I	One of the Indian Languages to be selected by the candidate from the 18 languages included in the VIIIth Schedule to the Constitution (Qualifying Paper)	300 Marks
Paper- II	English (Qualifying Paper)	300 Marks
Paper- III	Essay	200 Marks
Papers IV & V	General Studies (300 Marks for each paper)	600 Marks
Papers VI, VII, VIII & IX	Any two subjects (each having 2 papers) to be selected from the prescribed optional subjects (300 marks for each paper)	1200 Marks
Total Marks for Written Examination		2000 Marks
Interview Test		300 Marks
Grand Total		2300 Marks

List of Optional Subjects - CS (Main)- (Total 25)

Agriculture	Management
Animal Husbandry & Vetinary Science	Mathematics
Anthropology	Mechanical Engineering
Botany	Medical Science
Chemistry	Philosophy
Civil Engineering	Physics
Commerce & Accountancy	Political Science & International Relations
Economics	Psychology
Electrical Engineering	Public Administration
Geography	Sociology
Geology	Statistics
Indian History	Zoology
Law

List of Optional Subjects (Literature) - CS (Main) - (Total 26)

Arabic	Gujarati	Manipuri	Sanskrit
Assamese	Hindi	Nepali	Sindhi
Bengali	Kannada	Oriya	Tamil
Chinese	Kashmiri	Pali	Telugu
English	Konkani	Persian	Urdu
French	Marathi	Punjabi
German	Malayalam	Russian

Note :

Total Optional Subjects : 51

Candidates have the option to answer all the question papers, except the language papers, viz, Paper- I and Paper- II, in any one of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution or in English

Candidates who have opted for an Indian Language as language medium for the Main Examination have an option of being interviewed either in English or in the same language which they have opted for the Main Examination.