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give me the paper of ias exam 2021


Nazakat Nabi 9th Nov, 2021
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 9th Nov, 2021

Hi

To be an IAS you need to clear UPSC civil services examination you can download UPSC civil services examination previous year question papers of both prelims and Mains examination by going through our page for which link is given below:-

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-question-papers

Solving these papers will be very beneficial for you, it will help you to :-

------) know the pattern  of the examination.

------)  know the kind / types  of questions which are there in your  examination.

------)  it will give you an idea of the difficulty level  of  the examination .

------)  you  will get to know the important   topics  which  are  covered and asked often in the exam , so  that  you  can  accordingly plan for your examination.

------) it  will  help  you  to check and gauge your level  for  preparation for the examination,

------) it will let you  know  your areas or the topics you are weak at so that you can work on them  and   can  perform  even better in your examination.

------)  will   help you to improve your time management skills so that in your actual examination you can solve questions with better speed and accuracy .

To help you further,

A brief of examination pattern is given below:-

name Of the exam

UPsc Civil services examination

Mode of the Exam

Offline



Exam stages

There are 3 levels :-

---------) Preliminary - MCQ/ objective

---------) Mains - Descriptive Mode)

---------) Interview

Total papers

---------) Prelims: 2 papers.

  • *** general studies  1

  • *** general studies II ( csat )

---------) Mains: 9 papers  are there:-

  • *** Paper A :-Compulsory Indian language

  • *** Paper B :- English

  • *** Essay

  • *** General Studies I

  • *** General Studies II

  • *** General Studies III

  • *** General Studies IV

  • *** Optional I

  • *** Optional II

Marking scheme for prelims

---------) Paper 1: +2 marks

---------) Paper 2: +2.5 marks

***** Negative marking: 1/3rd of marks allotted for each question

Exam Duration

---------) Prelims: 2 hours for Each paper

---------) Mains: 3 hours for Each paper

Type of questions

---------) Prelims: Objective type

---------) Mains: Subjective type


For detailed examination pattern check out :- https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-exam-pattern


Thank you

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