IAS Exam How to Prepare

Can you please provide me the tips to crack Indian Administrative Service IAS exam as I want to clear this exam with good marks? Also provide me the syllabus and the last year question papers of Indian Administrative Service IAS exam for the preparation?

Can you provide me some good tips for preparation of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Exam conducted by UPSC (Union Public Service Commission)?

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Some good tips for preparation of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Exam conducted by UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) are as follows:


Make a Time Table and stick to it

Know the UPSC Syllabus

Making Notes

Answer Writing Practice

Solving Previous Years’ UPSC Question Papers

Solve Mock Test Series

Revision is a Key for success

Understand the UPSC pattern and procedure first

Read the newspaper regularly

Right Choice of IAS Preparatory Books

Discuss current issues with your friends

Always stay focussed

Read all basic NCERTs before reading reference books

Get enrolled in a test series

Avoid partying and roaming around with Friends


IAS Paper Pattern

Civil Services - Preliminary Examination - Exam Pattern

The Preliminary Examination basically serves as a screening test to shortlist candidates for the next stage, the Main examination.

The Preliminary Exam consists of two objective type papers (multiple-choice questions) for a total of 400 marks.

Each paper has 200 marks each and two hours allotted. However, blind candidates would be provided an extra 20 minutes for each paper.

Since this is a qualifying exam, the marks obtained in this test are not counted for determining the final order of merit of a candidate if he qualifies for the main exam as well.

There will be negative marking (of one-third marks for that answer) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the objective type question papers.

Only a black ballpoint pen may be used for both writing and marking answers in the OMR sheet (answer sheet). Pens of any other colour, pencils or ink pens are prohibited.

The medium of the question paper is both English and Hindi.


Civil Services - Main Examination - Exam Pattern

Written Exam

The main examination will have the 2 qualifying papers and 7 papers to be counted for merit. All the 9 papers will have essay-type questions.

Qualifying papers

Paper A (300 marks) - One of the Indian Language to be selected by the candidate from the languages included in the 8th Schedule to the Constitution

Paper B (300 marks) - English

The papers on Indian Languages and English (Paper A and Paper B) will be of matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualifying nature. The marks obtained in these papers will not be counted for ranking.

However, paper A on Indian Language will not be compulsory for candidates hailing from the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim.


Personality Test/Interview
The interview or personality round is also included as a part of the "Main Examination" and is worth 275 marks, which is added to the grand total.