After your Inter and Secondary (10th and 12th), you need to pursue Graduation in any stream be it Commerce, Arts or Science based courses followed by UPSC CSE Preparation. UPSC CSE is the exam or perhaps the first barrier to being an IAS.  For more information do follow the link below

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To become an IAS you have to give the Civil services exam conducted by UPSC every year. The minimum eligibility criteria ot give cse is that you are undergraduate. It doesn't care about which course you had done. All the graduate students can give UPSC CSE only if they fulfill the criteria of number of attempts and caste and age. The CSE consists of three stages .

The Prelims exam
Mains exam
Personality exam or Interview
You have to clear all stages in order to become an IAS officer. For this you have to study according to the syllabus of CSE. For Mains exams, you can opt your optional subject according to your undergraduate degree.

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