Indian Administrative Service Syllabus

Can you provide me the syllabus of IAS or Indian Administrative Services pre Examination as I need it for preparation of the exam for this year?

[Kiran Chandar]

The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the premier administrative civil service of the Government of India which is conducted by Union Public Service Commission.

Phase 1: Preliminary Examination
Syllabus for Paper 1:
• Current events (National and International)
• History of India
• Geography of the world (Physical, Social, Economic)
• Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution
• Economic and Social Development
• General Issues (Environmental Ecology, Bio-Diversity, Climate change etcs.)
• General Science
Syllabus for Paper 2:
• Comprehension
• Interpersonal Skills
• Logical Reasoning and Analytical Ability
• Decision making and problem solving
• General mental ability
• Basic Numeracy
• Data Interpretation
• Comprehension Skill (English)

Phase 2: Main Examination

This phase will test your academic and intellectual talent in depth. It consists of 9 papers, in which two are qualifying papers of 300 marks each:
I. Any Indian Language

II. English
These two papers just need to qualify which is mandatory and marks obtained will not be considered or counted.
Language for the rest seven papers can be any of the languages mentioned in Eighth Schedule of the constitution or you can opt for English. Rest seven papers are mentioned below, each weighing 250 marks:

III. Essay

IV. General Studies 1 (Indian Heritage/Culture, World History & Geography)

V. General Studies 2 (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations)

VI. General Studies 3 (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-Diversity, Environment, Security & Disaster Management)
1. General Studies 4 (Ethics, Integrity & Aptitude)
2. Optional 1 (Of your choice)

VII. Optional 2 (Of your choice)
These are the optional subjects from which you can choose your preference:
• Agriculture
• Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Commerce
• Economics
• Electrical Engineering
• Geography
• Geology
• Indian History
• Law
• Management
• Mathematics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Medical Science
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Public Administration
• Sociology
• Statistics
• Zoology
• Anthropology
• Assamese
• Bengali
• Chinese
• English
• French
• German
• Gujarati
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Kashmiri
• Konkani
• Malayalam
• Manipuri
• Marathi
• Nepali
• Oriya
• Punjabi
• Russian
• Sanskrit
• Sindhi
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Urdu