Civil Services Examination 2020
Exam
conducted by - Union Public Service
Commission
Exam
Notice No. 05/2020-CSP
Helpline
No - 011-23381125/011-
23385271/011-23098543
Total
Posts - 796
Important Dates
Date
to Apply - 12/02/2020
Last
Date for Apply Online - 03/03/2020
Upto 6 PM Only
Last
Date for Fee payment - 03/03/2020
Exam
Date - 31/05/2020
Admit
Card – Three Week Before Exam
Last Date
For
Online Submission - 3rd March, 2020 till
6:00 PM
Withdrawal
of Applications - 12.03.2020 to
18.03.2020 till 6.00 PM
Fees
Application
Fees for General / OBC - Rs 100/-
Application
Fees for SC / ST / PH / Female – No Fees
Mode
of Payment - Debit Card / Credit Card /
Net Banking / E-Challan.
Age
Age
Limit As on - 01/08/2020
Minimum
Age - 21 years
Maximum
Age - 32 Years
He
must have been born not earlier than 2nd
August, 1988 and not later than 1st
August, 1999.
Upper Age Limit Relaxation
SC
and ST – 5 Years
OBC
– 3 Years
Eligibility
Bachelor Degree in Any Stream
in Any Recognized University in India
Number of attempts
For
General – 6
For
SC / ST – No Limit
For
OBC – 9
Note -
If a candidate actually appears in any one paper in the Preliminary
Examination, he/she shall be deemed to have made an attempt at the Examination.
Civil Services Prelims Exam
Objective Type
Paper I - General Studies
Total Marks - (200 marks)
Duration: Two
hours
The
question papers will be set both in Hindi
and English.
Qualifying paper with minimum 33% Marks
Note 1: Preliminary Examination is only a screening
test, no marks sheets will be
supplied to successful or unsuccessful candidates
Note 2: Marks
of Preliminary Examination will not be
counted for determining their final order of merit
Note 3: The
number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Examination will be about twelve to thirteen times the total
approximate number of vacancies
Note 4: There
are four alternatives for the answers to
every question. Negative Marking is one-third (0.33)
Civil Services Main Examination
Written and Interview
Conventional Essay
Type -
Qualifying Papers
(One
of the Indian Language to be
selected by the candidate from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to
the Constitution).
English
Papers to be Counted for Merit
(Indian Heritage and Culture, History and
Geography of the World and Society)
Paper III - General Studies II
Total Marks - 250 Marks
Paper III - General Studies II
Total Marks - 250 Marks
(Governance,
Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations)
Total Marks - 250 Marks
(Technology, Economic
Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)
Total Marks - 250 Marks
(Ethics, Integrity
and Aptitude)
Total Marks - 250 Marks
Paper-VII Optional Subject - Paper 2
Total Marks - 250 Marks
Sub Total (Written test) - 1750 Marks
Personality Test - 275 Marks
Grand Total - 2025 Marks
Note 1: Each paper will be of three hours duration
Note 2: Papers
on Essay, General Studies and Optional Subject of only such candidates will be
taken cognizance who attain 25% marks in
‘Indian Language’ and 25% in English
as minimum qualifying standards in these qualifying papers.
Note 3: The
main Examination is intended to assess
the overall intellectual traits and depth of understanding of candidates
rather than merely the range of their information and memory.
Note 4: The
nature and standard of questions in the General
Studies papers (Paper II to Paper V) will be such that a well-educated person will be able to answer
them without any specialized study.
Note 5: The
number of candidates to be summoned for
interview will be about twice of the number of vacancies to be filled. The interview will carry 275 marks (with no minimum qualifying marks).
Note 6: Marks
thus obtained by the candidates in the Main
Examination (written part as well as interview) would determine their final
ranking.
Note 7: Candidates
will be allotted to the various Services
keeping in view their ranks in the examination and the preferences expressed by them for the various Services and posts.
List of optional subjects for Main Examination
1.
Agriculture
2.
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary
Science
3.
Anthropology
4.
Botany
5.
Chemistry
6.
Civil Engineering
7.
Commerce and Accountancy
8.
Economics
9.
Electrical Engineering
10.Geography
11.Geology
12.History
13.Law
14.Management
15.Mathematics
16.Mechanical
Engineering
17.Medical Science
18.Philosophy
19.Physics
20.Political Science and
International Relations
21.Psychology
22.Public Administration
23.Sociology
24.Statistics
25.Zoology
26.Literature of any one
of the following languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi,
Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali,
Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and English.
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