The minimum educational qualification required to take on the IAS exam is graduation. You have to have a degree from a recognized university to attempt the IAS exam conducted by the UPSC every year.  It is advised to take up a graduation course that involves history and polity. These subjects are of immense importance to the UPSC syllabus. During your graduation, study these subjects really well keeping in mind the UPSC syllabus. Also, you should start reading public administration, economics, etc. You should study your graduation course sincerely.

However, you should not lose touch with basic maths that you learned in school. This is needed for the CSAT paper in the IAS Prelims. Introduce in yourself the habit of reading the daily newspaper and keep note of the latest happenings in the country and the world. You should also work on your interpersonal skills and communication skills. Try to develop a good personality that would help you in the IAS interview later. You will also be needing your  school NCERT textbooks. These are the basic books to study for the UPSC exam.  Practicing previous years IAS question papers is very important.

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There is no such restriction in terms of streams or even aggregate for that matter, you need to pass graduation in any discipline from a recognized University with no specific aggregate required for this, you have to be 21 years old, and can apply even in the final year.

Now, to answer your question, there are two ways to look at, if you're wholly and solely dedicated about qualifying UPSC only then graduation in subjects like political science, public administration, history, geography, economics can help to a large extent as UPSC itself is more humanities oriented. If you have other back up plans, you too can go ahead with it, this year itself many topper's have from engineering, CA background so this proves eventually your preparation and planning which matters the most.

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