Hello aspirant,

To become an Ias officer you need to clear UPSC exam that is civil services exam with good score.

I hope this was helpful

Good luck!

Dear Aspirant,

You first have to do graduation in order to become IAS. You can prepare for UPSC exam from your second year of graduation. For that you first have to chose the graduation field. If you are interested in IAS, then it is better to go for BA or BA Hons in subjects like Economics, etc.

After that you can join coaching in the second year and give the exam in the final year. For IAS, the syllabus is very big and therefore you must spent a good amount of time in preparation in order to get a good rank.

You can refer to the following links for more details:-

https://competition.careers360.com/exams/upsc-civil-services-exam

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

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-upsc-ias

Hope this helps. Thank you.

Hello,

In order to appear for UPSC, you need to pass graduation in any discipline from a recognized University, there's no specific aggregate required in this case, you can apply even in the final year, you need to be 21years old.


UPSC Civil Service Exam consists of three stages namely

Preliminary
Mains
Interview

To give you a brief about the exam;

Preliminary consists of 200 Marks for each paper in MCQs format,
you just need to score the required cut offs against your category GS Paper-I, second is CSAT, overall its numbers aren't added in the final list.

GS Paper-I consists of topics such as History of India and Indian national movement, Indian and World geography, Economic and social development- sustainable development, poverty,inclusion demographics, social sector initiatives etc,Indian polity and governance-constitution,political system,Current Events nationally and Internationally, General Science,General Issues on environmental ecology,biodiversity and climate change. you just need to score the required cut offs against your category.

And then we have qualifying CSAT(you need to score 33%, only 66 marks out of 200) which includes topics such as basic numeracy, comprehension, logical reasoning and analytical ability, general mental ability, decision making and problem solving, interpersonal skills including communication skills.


Coming to Mains it's more of a subjective type, one needs to write answer for Four General Studies Paper such as

GS-I includes Indian Heritage and Culture,History and Geography of the World and Society,
GS-II includes Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations,
GS-III includes Technology, Economic Development, Bio-Diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management,
GS-IV includes Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude

In addition to four GS Papers, there are two optionals, one essay, two language paper, there are total nine papers here. 250 marks for each paper, total is 1750 marks followed by Personality Test of 275 marks.


To start your preparation you can follow certain steps;

Be acquainted with the syllabus, take a print out and go through it to know what to read and what to skip.
Start newspaper reading on a daily basis, you can choose The Hindu or The Indian Express.
Start with NCERT books and then move towards standard books.
Go through previous year paper available at upsc site.
Practice answer writing in advance, as in mains you'll be writing for 1750 marks.

If you need any other information, do mention in the comment box  below.

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