Civil Services Exam Subjects

Can you please provide me the list of optional subjects which come under IAS Civil Service main exam?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

I will let you know the names of optional subjects which come under IAS Civil Service main exam, so that you can check it easily.

Here are the optional subjects
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, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and, English.

Important Note:-
The question papers for the examination will be of conventional (essay) type.
Each paper will be of three hours duration.

Candidates will have the option to answer all the question papers, except the Qualifying Language papers

Paper-A and Paper-B, in any of the languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India or inEnglish.

Candidates exercising the option to answer Papers in any one of the languages mentioned above may, if they so desire, give English version within brackets of only the description of the technical terms, if any, in addition to the version in the language opted by them.

Candidates should, however, note that if they misuse the above rule, a deduction will be made on this account from the total marks otherwise accruing to them and in extreme cases; their script(s) will not be valued for being in an unauthorized medium.

The question papers (other than the literature of language papers) will be set in Hindi and English only.

The details of the syllabi are set out in Part B of Section III.