IAS Exam Requirements

Hi I am interested in knowing about the Civil Service in India as well as the Qualification Criteria for Civil Services (IAS and IPS) Exam?

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Civil Service is the most coveted employment in India. Determination for the employments under Civil Services is done through the three pronged exam design Prelims – Mains –Interview that is directed by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

Qualification Criteria for Civil Services (IAS and IPS) Exam

i) Academic Eligibility

The applicant must hold a PASS BACHELOR'S degree from any of the Universities fused by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other instructive organizations set up by an Act of Parliament or announced to be considered as a University, under Section-3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, or have a comparable capability.

Competitors who have showed up or mean to show up for the last examination and are anticipating results are likewise qualified to apply for the Preliminary Examination.

Every such hopeful who qualify the Prelims examination must create a proof of Pass Bachelor Degree to show up for the Civil Services Main Examination. This Degree must be joined with their application for the Main Examinations.

The UPSC may in extraordinary cases treat a hopeful without the previous imperative capability as a qualified competitor in the event that he/she have passed an examination led by different organizations, the standard of which legitimizes his/her confirmation in the sentiment of the Commission. The criteria may apply to hopefuls having four year certification from any presumed outside college for instance Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard and so forth.

Hopefuls with expert and specialized four year college educations that are perceived by the Government are additionally qualified to apply case MBBS, BE and so forth.

Hopefuls who have passed the last year of MBBS however are yet to finish the temporary position can likewise show up for the Main Examination. Be that as it may, they should present an endorsement from the concerned power of the University/Institution that they have passed the last proficient therapeutic examination alongside their Main Examination application. At the Interview organize they should create an endorsement from a skilled power that they have finished (counting entry level position) and every one of the necessities for the honor of the Medical Degree.

ii) Age limits

A hopeful probably achieved the age of 21 years and must not have accomplished the age of 32 years on the first of August, 2016 i.e., he/she more likely than not been conceived not sooner than second August, 1984 and not later than first August, 1995.

iii) Number of Attempts and Age Limit

The UPSC has raised the upper age point of confinement and number of endeavors of candidates of the Civil Service Examination with impact from 2015. The upper age farthest point will be 32 years for the open (general) classification with 6 endeavors. It will be 35 years for OBC competitors with 9 endeavors; and will be 37 years for SC/ST hopefuls with boundless number of endeavors. For physically debilitated hopefuls as far as possible is 42, 45 and 47 years for General, OBC and SC/ST classification separately while the quantity of endeavors is 9 for General and OBC and boundless for SC/SC classification.

iv) Other Eligibility Criteria:

Nationality:

The applicant must be a native of India to be qualified for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS), for different administrations, a hopeful must be either:

A citizen of India,
Or a subject of Nepal,
Or a subject of Bhutan,
Then again a Tibetan outcast who approached India before first January, 1962 with the expectation of forever settling in India,

then again a man of Indian inception who has relocated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the expectation of forever settling in India.
Given that an applicant having a place with classifications (c), (d), (e) and (f) might be a man in whose support a declaration of qualification has been issued by the Government of India.

Given further that applicants having a place with classifications (c), (d) (e) and (f) above won't be qualified for arrangement to the Indian Foreign Service