mains syllabus ias ( civil services)

Main Examination

Paper-A:

Paper 1:Any Indian Language

For this examination candidates have to choose one language from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution. This exam is not compulsory for applicants hailing from the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim.

Paper 2:English

This paper is conducted to test eligibility of aspirants and to check skills of aspirants in English and Indian Language concerned. Aspirants are selected on basis of some facts like how they understand these languages and how they express their ideas clearly and correctly.

The pattern of questions would be generally as follows:-

(i) Comprehension of given passages

(ii) Precis Writing

(iii) Usage and Vocabulary

Paper B:

Paper 1: Essay

Candidates may be required to write essays on multiple topics. They will be expected to keep closely to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in orderly fashion and to write concisely Credit will be given for effective and exact expression.

Paper 2: General Studies 1

• (Indian Heritage/ Culture, World History & Geography)
• Indian culture will cover the main feature of Art Forms, Literature and Architecture from olden to present times.
• Modern Indian history from about the middle of the eighteenth century until the present- significant events, personalities, issues
• The Freedom Struggle – its various stages and important contributors /contributions from different parts of the country.
• Post-independence consolidation and restructuring within the country.

Part 3: General Studies 2

• (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations)
• Functions and duties of the Union and the States, issues and challenges pertaining to the federal structure, devolution of powers and finances up to local levels and challenges therein.
• Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.
• Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora.
• Important International institutions, agencies and fora- their structure, mandate.
• Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
• Development processes and the development industry- the role of NGOs, SHGs, various groups and associations, donors, charities, institutional and other stakeholders.
• Parliament and State Legislatures – structure, functioning, conduct of business, powers & privileges and issues arising out of these.
• Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies.

Paper 4: General Studies 3

• (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-Diversity, Environment, Security & Disaster Management)
• Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
• Government Budgeting.
• Development, Bio diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management.
• Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism.
• Food processing and related industries in India- scope and significance, location, upstream and downstream requirements, supply chain management.
• Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate.
• Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization of resources, growth, development and employment.
• Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.
• Disaster and disaster management.
• Linkages between development and spread of extremism.
• Land reforms in India.

Paper 5: General Studies 4

• (Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude)
• Ethics and Human Interface: Essence, determinants and consequences of Ethics in human actions; dimensions of ethics; ethics in private and public relationships.
• Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political attitudes; social influence and persuasion.
• Emotional intelligence-concepts, and their utilities and application in administration and governance.
• Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world.
• Human Values – lessons from the lives and teachings of great leaders, reformers and administrators; role of family, society and educational institutions in inculcating values.

Paper 6 and 7: Optional 1 (Of your choice)/ Optional 2 (Of your choice)

Candidates can choose any optional from the subjects, which are given below:

• List of optional subjects for Main Examination
• Agriculture
• Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
• Anthropology
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Commerce and Accountancy
• Economics
• Electrical Engineering Geography
• Geology
• History
• Law
• Management
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Medical Science
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science and International Relations
• Psychology
• Public Administration
• Sociology
• Statistics
• Zoology
• Literature of any one of the following languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.

IAS Exam Pattern

Indian Administrative Service Exam is conducted in three parts. In the below section you may check pattern of your examination. According to this patter you may know weightage of any subject. So with the help of this you can easily qualify this exam. IAS exam is organized in three parts.

• Preliminary Exam (Written)
• Main Exam (Written Exam And Interview)
• Interview

Preliminary Examination:

Exam	Papers	Total Marks	Duration
Preliminary exam	Paper 1: General Studies	200 marks	2 hours
	Paper 2: Aptitude Skills	200 marks	2 hours

Main Examination:

Exam	Papers	Total Marks
Main examination	Paper 1: One of the Indian languages chosen from the prescribed list	300
	Paper 2: English	300
	Paper 3: Essay	250
	Paper 4th/5th/6th/7th : General Studies (250 marks for each paper)	1000
	Paper 8th & 9th : Optional subject 1	500
Total Marks for written examination (Marks of English and Language will not be counted )		1750

Interview Test:

Aspirants who will qualify Preliminary and Main examination will be called for Interview. This Interview will be of 275 marks.In short, aspirants, who are going to appear in the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Indian Revenue Service, Indian Forest Service and other examination, may get the UPSC IAS Syllabus and exam pattern through online mode. As per the official information, Union Public Service Commission recently published IAS, IPS, IRS, IFS posts Syllabus for selecting the concerned and qualified candidates so for better preparation, you may check 10 Useful Technique to Qualify IAS Examfrom our web portal.

Note:

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