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Kamal Kishor Chaurasiya 27th Aug, 2020

Hi Vinod,

Hi

In order to become IAS officer you have to complete your graduation first after passing your higher secondary examination.

Then you will have to crack Civil service examination conducted by UPSC.

UPSC takes three examination for civil services.
* Preliminary examination
* Mains examination
* Personal Interview

To know more please visit the link below:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias/amp

Ayush jain 27th Aug, 2020

Hello,

Here I am going to tell complete information regarding eligibility, Exam,No of attempts etc -:

IAS is the highest administrative post among the 24 services like IPS, IFS etc. Popularly known as the IAS exam, officially it is called as Civil Services Examination (CSE), which is conducted every year by the central recruiting agency, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) has been termed as one of the prestigious services among the 24 government services like IPS, IFS (Foreign), IFS (Forest), IP & TAFS, IAAS, IRS, IDAS, CMSE, IRTS, IRAS, IRPS, ITS, CAPF-AF to name a few.

The IAS Exam pattern is:

1.Stage I: Preliminary Examination (IAS Prelims)

Sl. No. Name of the Paper Nature of the Paper Duration of the Exam Question Marks
1 IAS Exam Paper – I: General Studies Merit Ranking Nature 2 Hours 100 200 Marks
2 IAS Exam Paper – II: General Studies (CSAT) Qualifying Nature 2 Hours 80 200 Marks

2.Stage II: Mains Examination (IAS Mains):

Sl. No. IAS Exam Paper Name of the Paper Nature of the Paper Duration of the Exam Marks
1 Paper – A Compulsory Indian Language QUALIFYING NATURE 3 Hours 300 Marks
2 Paper – B English 3 Hours 300 Marks
3 Paper – I ESSAY MERIT RANKING NATURE 3 Hours 250 Marks
4 Paper – II General Studies I 3 Hours 250 Marks
5 Paper – III General Studies II 3 Hours 250 Marks
6 Paper – IV General Studies III 3 Hours 250 Marks
7 Paper – V General Studies IV 3 Hours 250 Marks
8 Paper – VI Optional Paper I 3 Hours 250 Marks
9 Paper – VII Optional Paper II 3 Hours 250 Marks
TOTAL 1750 Marks

Interview or Personality Test 275 Marks

GRAND TOTAL 2025 Marks

3.Stage III: UPSC Personality Test (IAS Interview) :

Candidates who clear the Mains stage of the IAS exam with the required cut-off marks qualify for the final stage of the IAS exam i.e., the Personality Test or Interview round with the UPSC Board Members


Exam: - Civil Services Examination

Exam level :-National

Organising body :-Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)

Exam type:-  Pen and paper-based (offline)

Number of services :- 24

Number of attempts :- 6 attempts (based on caste criteria )

Number of Vacancies :- Approximately 900 Admit card  online

Expected registrations :- More than 8 lakh

Hope this will help you

Best of Luck


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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 27th Aug, 2020

Hi

IAS stand for Indian administrative services, one can become an IAS officer through UPSC examination.

UPSC eligibility is provided below :-


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


*Minimum age limit :-  21 years


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



If you want to become an IAS officer then first of all you need to be a graduate in any discipline of your choice as per the above eligibility criteria mentioned and then you need to appear in one of the toughest examination called UPSC, and it has 3 stages which are listed below :-


*The first stage of the exam is Preliminary examination (objective )


*The second stage, Mains (written).


*If you manage to clear both prelims and mains then you are to go through third stage i.e interview/personality test .


And if you managed to clear all the three rounds mentioned above, then congratulations you may become an ias officer

For detailed information visit

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

I hope you find this helpful


Thankyou

Pritam Singh 27th Aug, 2020

hey there

IAS is a post given to a candidate who clears UPSC civil services exam and gets the opportunity of achieving this post out of various. if you are asking about civil services then civil services exam happens in  phase

1. prelims, 2. mains, 3. interview

after clearing each hurdle final ranking is made and candidates are aloowed to choose their posts.

check the link

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

good luck


Deepa Ghosh 27th Aug, 2020
Hello Aspirant,

Here I'm sharing a link below for UPSC IAS from which you can get the correct information about it all.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias/amp

Hope it helps.
All the best!

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