Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the notification for Civil Services IAS and Indian Forest Service IFS 2022 Preliminary Examination.
Interested and Eligible Candidates can apply online from 22 February 2022 through the official website.
Get all details about IAS and IFS Examination 2022.
Here you will get information about UPSC recruitment 2022, UPSC exam date 2022, UPSC vacancy 2022, UPSC eligibility 2022, UPSC age limit 2022, UPSC selection process 2022, UPSC exam pattern 2022, UPSC syllabus 2022, UPSC salary per month.
Recruitment Authority |
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) |
Post Name |
IAS/IFS |
Total Number of Vacancies |
1012 |
Application Starting Date |
2 February 2022 |
Application Last Date |
22 February 2022 |
Prelims Exam Date |
05 June 2022 |
Official Website |
Category |
Fees |
Gen/EWS/OBC |
100/- |
SC / ST / PH |
0/- |
Starting Date for Apply Online |
02.02.20220 |
Last Date for Apply Online |
22.02.2022 |
Exam Date |
05.06.2022 |
Admit Card Available |
Updated Soon |
Post Name |
Total Post |
Indian Administrative Service IAS (Civil Services) |
861 |
Indian Forest Service (IFS) |
151 |
Under UPSC Eligibility Criteria, Nationality, Education Qualification, Age Limit, and Age Relaxation are as follows -
Practice Group D Previous year exam paper: 4 Dec 2018
For Indian Administrative Service (IAS): Bachelor's Degree in Any Stream in Any Recognized University in India.
For Indian Forest Service (IFS): Bachelor's Degree as one of Subject Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology, Agriculture or Equivalent.
Minimum Age: 21 Years
Maximum Age: 32 Years
There is also age relaxation of some years for reserved category candidates:
The number of times an applicant can appear for the IAS exam is pre-defined by UPSC. Even if you appear only for the preliminary examination, it will be counted as an attempt. Check out the table below:
UPSC IAS/IFS Selection Process 2022
UPSC IAS/IFS selection process consists of three stages. These three stages are given below -
Click here for UPSC IFS Exam Pattern
Sr. No. |
Name of the Paper |
Duration of the Exam |
Questions |
Marks |
1 |
Paper – I: General Studies |
2 Hours |
100 |
200 Marks |
2 |
Paper-II: General Studies (CSAT) |
2 Hours |
80 |
200 Marks |
The second stage of the IAS Exam is called the Mains Exam, which is a written descriptive examination and comprises 9 papers. The 9 papers in IAS Exam (Mains) are as follows: Paper-A (Compulsory Indian Language); Paper –B (English) which are qualifying in nature, while the other papers like Essay, General Studies Papers I, II, III, and IV, and Optional Papers I and II are considered for the final ranking.
Sr. No. |
Exam Paper |
Name of the Paper |
Duration of the Exam |
Marks |
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1 |
Paper-A |
Compulsory Indian Language |
3 Hours |
300 Marks |
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2 |
Paper-B |
English |
3 Hours |
300 Marks |
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3 |
Paper-I |
ESSAY |
3 Hours |
250 Marks |
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4 |
Paper-II |
General Studies I |
3 Hours |
250 Marks |
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5 |
Paper-III |
General Studies II |
3 Hours |
250 Marks |
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6 |
Paper-IV |
General Studies III |
3 Hours |
250 Marks |
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7 |
Paper-V |
General Studies IV |
3 Hours |
250 Marks |
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8 |
Paper-VI |
Optional Paper I |
3 Hours |
250 Marks |
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9 |
Paper-VII |
Optional Paper-II |
3 Hours |
250 Marks |
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TOTAL |
1750 Marks |
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Interview or Personality Test |
275 Marks |
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GRAND TOTAL |
2025 Marks |
The maximum marks for an interview are 275 marks. The candidate will be interviewed by a Board of competent and unbiased observers who will have before them a record of his/ her career. The object of the Interview is to assess the personal suitability of the candidate for the Service. The candidate will be expected to have taken an intelligent interest not only in his/ her subjects of academic study but also in events which are happening around him/ her both within and outside his/ her own state or country, as well as in modem currents of thought and in new discoveries which should arouse the curiosity of well-educated youth.
The aim of the paper is to test the candidates' ability to read and understand serious discursive prose and to express ideas clearly and correctly, in English and the Indian language.
The pattern of questions would be broad as follows :
(i) Comprehension of given passages.
(ii) Precis Writing.
(iii) Usage and Vocabulary.
(iv) Short Essays.
Indian Languages:—
(i) comprehension of given passages.
(ii) Precis Writing.
(iii) Usage and Vocabulary.
(iv) Short Essays.
(v) Translation from English to the Indian Language and vice-versa.
Note 1: The papers on Indian Languages and English will be of Matriculation or equivalent standard and will be of qualifying nature only. The marks obtained in these papers will not be counted for ranking.
Note 2: The candidates will have to answer the English and Indian Languages papers in English and the respective Indian language (except where the translation is involved).
Candidates may be required to write essays on multiple topics. "They will be expected to keep close to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in an orderly fashion and to write concisely. Credit will be given for effective and exact expression."
UPSC always gave topics from Philosophy, Public Administration, and International scenarios. The worldview of the candidates is tested through these essays. How the candidate sees the engrossed problems and how they suggest the solution to the problems.
General Studies-I: Indian Heritage and Culture, History, and Geography of the World and Society.
General Studies Paper-II: Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice, and International relations.
General Studies Paper III: Technology, Economic Development, Biodiversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management
General Studies Paper IV: Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude
This paper will include questions to test the candidates’ attitude and approach to issues relating to integrity, probity in public life, and his problem-solving approach to various issues and conflicts faced by him in dealing with society. Questions may utilize the case study approach to determine these aspects. The following broad areas will be covered :
Optional Subject for IAS/IFS Mains Exam
There are 25 optional subjects in the IAS main exam and the candidates need to choose only one out of them. The optional subject carries 500 marks out of 1750. It is around 30% of the total. So the candidates are suggested to select the optional subject very carefully because it can make or break the dream of becoming an IAS officer.
The following is the official list of IAS's main optional subjects. The candidates can choose any one subject as the optional subject.
The candidates can choose the Literature of any one of the following languages as their optional subject:
Assamese |
Bengali |
Bodo |
Dogri |
Gujarati |
Hindi |
Kannada |
Kashmiri |
Konkani |
Maithili |
Malayalam |
Manipuri |
Marathi |
Nepali |
Odia |
Punjabi |
Sanskrit |
Santhali |
Sindhi |
Tamil |
Telugu |
Urdu |
English |
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The Preliminary Examination will be held at the following Centers:
Centers of Civil Services (Main) Examination:-
Official Website |
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Official Notification for Civil Service |
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Official Notification for Indian Forest Service |
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Apply Online |
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Pay Exam Fee |
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