IAS Prelims 2021 Exam is likely to be postponed. See here details

IAS 2021 Prelims Exam is likely to be postponed. See here details

The IAS 2021 prelims exam is scheduled to be conducted on June 27. The IAS 2021 notification was issued on March 4. The last date to apply for the IAS 2021 exam was March 24. The IAS 2021 notification was issued for 712 vacancies. Last year the UPSC IAS prelims exam was scheduled for May 31, but it was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later it was conducted on October 4 across the nation.

See here: IAS Prelims 2021 Postponed

The situation is not different this year as well. The condition is even worse than last year when the IAS Prelims was postponed. This year, UPSC has already postponed the IAS personality test to a future date. The Union Public Service Commission is yet to notify the new dates. IAS Prelims 2021 is most likely to postpone to September or October because the number of cases is four times compared to last year, and this year the new variant is 15 times more contagious than the last year. This is one of the reasons why UPSC has postponed the IAS interviews.

The IAS Prelims exam is an objective type exam conducted offline in the pen and paper mode. There are two question papers in the IAS Prelims exam and both the papers are of qualifying in nature. The marks secured in the IAS prelims exam is not considered for the UPSC result. The IAS Prelims exam is conducted in the following pattern.

But the final decision lies with the UPSC and Ministry of Personnel because last year the Minister of State for Personnel department Jitendra Singh announced postponing the IAS prelims exam on a television interview.

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