Hii Prince,

Hope you are doing well.

For your basics you should know that Economics is one of the optional subjects offered by the UPSC in the civil services mains exam. Although it is not as popular as other subjects like Public Administration or Geography,but Economics has a good success rate among candidates.

But failing in one might not affect your eligibility for UPSC examination. If you hold a valid graduation degree with the overall pass certificate of 12th/equivalent examination, you are perfectly eligible for UPSC examination.

Age limit:

Candidate should be at least 21 years old to be eligible as on 1st of August of the year of filling the form i. e as on 1st August 2021 for UPSC 2021.

link below will guide you further::

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-exam-pattern

This is all about your query.

Hopefully this will help you.

Ask if you have any further questions.

Best wishes ahead.

Hello

To be eligible for UPSC civil services examination you need a graduate degree.

So, it is completely ok even if you have failed in Economics in your class 12th as you are  overall passed in your class 12th board examination with 5 subjects and your result status is pass , so now you need get admission in any graduation course like BA etc and after completing your graduation you will become eligible for UPSC civil services examination

For reference, UPSC eligibility  criteria is provided below:-

******** You  must  have  a  bachelor's  degree in any, discipline    from a  recognised university.

******** Minimum  age  limit :-  you  need to  be at least  21  years  old   to be  eligible as on 1st of August of the year of filling the form i. e as on 1st August 2021 for UPSC 2021.

******** Maximum  age  limit :-  32 years , also there's 3  year  relaxation on upper age limit for  obc and of  5 years  for sc/st category.

For detailed  information related to UPSC eligibility criteria ,  you can visit our page at

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

Your UPSC civil services examination consists of three stages

********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.

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

Thankyou