Dear Aspirant

Candidates will have the option to answer all the question papers, except the Qualifying Language Papers, Paper-A and Paper-B, in any one of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India or in English. Notwithstanding this, the Candidate will have the choice to write the Optional Papers in English also if candidates opt to write Paper I-V except the Qualifying Language Papers, Paper-A and Paper-B, in any one of the language included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India.”

Therefore, one can write the exam in any of the below mentioned 23 languages (22 -from the Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution and 23rd-English).

• Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.

Thank you

Hi

The UPSC Prelims and Mains examination question paper are set in both English and Hindi while prelims examination is objective, Mains examination is subjective and you have the option to write your answers in English or in any one of the Eighth Schedule languages .

So, beside English , you have the option to write answers in the language included
in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution which consists of 22 languages listed below, out of these you can choose any language you are comfortable at :-
) Assamese
-) Bengali
-) Gujarati
-) Hindi
-) Kannada
-) Kashmiri
-) Konkani
-) Malayalam
-) Manipuri
-) Marathi
-) Nepali
-) Odia
-) Punjabi
-) Sanskrit
-) Sindhi
-) Tamil
-) Telugu
-) Urdu
-) Bodo
-) Dogri
-) Maithili
-) Santhali


But yes, paper B is English itself in UPSC Mains examination and for that you will have to clear it ,you cannot choose any other language for paper B but don't worry it is just qualifying in nature.

To help you for further, here's a brief of UPSC examination pattern
UPSC civil services examination has 3 stages listed below :-

*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:-

-) paper A :- compulsory indian language.
-) paper B :- 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.

So, if you managed to sail through all the three stages then congratulations you can become an ias officer depending upon rank obtained by you in UPSC civil services examination ,your preference of services and your category .

For detailed information , I will recommend you to go through our page the link for the same is provided below

https://school.careers360.com/articles/how-to-become-an-ias-officer

If you have any other doubt then feel free to ask them :) we are always here to help you out and guide you

Thank you

Hello,

If your question is related to the medium of UPSC exam, then it entirely depends on which language you're comfortable, though English is chosen by greater number of aspirants, it also has certain benefits like availability of study materials easily for all subjects in UPSC, there are also candidates who qualify this exam writing in Hindi, so it's more dependent as I said you can express in which language better, in Prelims the paper is set in English and Hindi though in mains apart from these two languages candidates can choose from any of the Indian Language in the eight schedule of Indian constitution. I would say if your English is good enough then opt for it, as I said that it has added advantage of availability of study materials which might can be barrier when it comes to any other language.