Dear candidate,

To become an IPS officer, an individual must have completed their 12th class and holds a bachelors degree in any field.

Solely 10th class is not sufficient to make you eligible sit in the examination, you will need to pass class 12th as well. After that, you can go for bachelors in any field for 3-4 years or max. 5 years. Then, you will be eligible to sit for the UPSC examination.

You can complete your, class, on 12th in the Arts stream if you are fully focused on the IPS officer.

Eligibility criteria: A candidate should have passed their class 12th from a recognised board and holds a bachelors degree. If the candidate is in the last year then he/she is also eligible to give UPSC exams. The candidate must be between the age of 21- 32 years for general candidates.

Hope this helps you. Feel free to ask any queries.

Also, do check out this link for more detailed information: https://www.careers360.com/careers/ips-officer

Good luck:)

Hi

You can choose any of science ,commerce or arts stream based on your interest after your 10th for your 10 +2 and then for graduation if you want to become an IPS officer.

This is because,

to become an IPS officer you need to clear UPSC civil services examination and to be eligible for UPSC  examination there is no compulsion to have done 10+2 in a particular stream , also there's no compulsion to be a graduate in a particular subject, all you need to be eligible is that you should be a graduate in any discipline , so you are free to do 10+2 and graduation in any subject. You can check upsc eligibility criteria at

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-eligibility-criteria/amp

But yes,

choosing Arts or the humanities in your 10+2 and graduation can be really helpful for your UPSC  examination, this is because in Arts you will be learning subjects like history , polity etc which are a part of the UPSC syllabus so it will help you in your upsc examination.

To help you further here's a brief of your UPSC exam

UPSC civil services examination has 3 stages listed below :-

*prelims exam :- it is objective paper and is of qualifying nature , so you just  need to at least qualify it to be eligible for mains examination, the score /marks obtained by you in your prelims examination is not added up or used in your final merit. Your prelims exam consist of 2 papers: -

-) general studies 1

-) general studies II ( csat )

You get 2 hours for each paper

*Mains exam. :- it is descriptive /written examination . There are a total of 9 papers  which are listed below:-

-) compulsory indian language.

-) english

-) essay

-) general studies I

-) general studies II

-) general studies III

-) general studies IV

-) optional I

-) optional II

The compulsory indian language and english are qualifying in nature . You just need to qualify them. The marks obtained by you in these two papers will not be counted towards merit list.

*Interview :- After qualifying mains, you have to go through interview round, and it is more of test of your personality rather than knowledge.

So, if you manage to go through all the three stages  then  you can become an ips  officer depending upon  rank obtained by you in UPSC civil services examination ,your preference of services and your category .

Thankyou