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Rachit Kumar Saxena
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New Delhi, Updated on Jun 16, 2021 22:17 IST

IES Prelims 2021 Exam timetable released. The Engineering Services 2021 Prelims Exam will be conducted on July 18. See here details

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UPSC released the IES timetable on June 16. The Engineering Services Prelims 2021 will be conducted on July 18 as per the UPSC exam calendar. The IES Prelims 2021 exam will be conducted in two shifts on July 18, across the nation. Some candidates were demanding to postpone the IES 2021 Prelims exam because the IAS Prelims 2021 was postponed, but the UPSC put a break on such apprehensions.

IES Prelims exam is a yearly Megha event for lakhs of engineering graduates. The IES exam postponed, the opportunity to serve the nation. The candidates are directly appointed to the position of Executive Engineer in various Central Government departments.

IES Prelims 2021 will be an objective type exam where the candidates need to solve two papers in two sessions. The first paper is the General Studies paper that is common to all the candidates. The second objective paper is the selective one and the candidate can opt for the specialised engineering subject from the list of subjects in the official IES 2021 notification.

There will be a negative marking for each of the wrong answer marked by the candidates. For each wrong answer, one-third of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted from the aggregate score of the candidate. There will be no deduction of marks in case the candidates do not mark the answer in the OMR answer sheet.

The IES prelims exam is a qualifying exam only and the marks secured in the IES Prelims exam is not considered for the final merit. The candidate needs to score more than the IES prelims cut off decided by the UPSC after the exam. The IES prelims cut off is different for each of the category based on the number of IES vacancies in that category. The IES Prelims 2021 will be conducted as per the timetable given below.

Subject

Duration

Maximum Marks

Paper-I (General Studies and Engineering Aptitude)

2 hrs.

200

Paper-II (Civil Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering/ Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)

3 hrs.

300

Total

500

UPSC released the IES Prelims 2021 timetable reiterating that the exam will be conducted as per the released calendar.             

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Offical UPSC IES 2021 Prelims Time Table

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