UPSC IAS 2022 Notification expected today. See the IAS exam process in detail

UPSC IAS 2022 notification expected today. Read here the Civil Service exam process in detail.

UPSC IAS 2022 notification is expected today. Union Public Service Commission released the exam timetable earlier that mentioned the Civil Service Exam 2022 advertisement dates. UPSC 2022 application link will be activated with the release of notification. The candidates will get twenty days to fill out the application online. The last date to apply online for the IAS 2022 exam is February 22.

UPSC IAS exam is the premiere exam conducted by the apex government recruiting organisation. It conducts the Civil Service exam to recruit the candidates for the IAS (highest post under direct recruitment). It takes more than a year to complete the IAS selection process. There are three stages in the IAS exam process –

• IAS Prelims Exam
• IAS Main Exam (written)
• IAS Main (Personality Test)

Let us see each stage in little detail.

IAS Prelims Exam

UPSC IAS Prelims exam serve as the screening exam only because it just filters out the candidates and reduces the number of candidates for the IAS Main Exam. The marks scored in the IAS prelims exam is not considered for the final merit list. It has two papers and the candidates need to qualify in each of the papers to become eligible for the selection. The candidate needs to score equal to or more than the cutoff marks to get selected for the next phase.

The structure of the exam is as follows:

There is a negative of ¼ marks for each incorrect answer. The candidates who qualify the prelims exam become eligible to appear in the main exam.

IAS Main Exam (written)

It is called main because the marks secured in this stage are considered for the final merit list. IAS main exam has two parts.

1. Written Exam
2. Personality test

There are nine papers in the main exam. They can be summarised as below:

The written exam is the main component of the exam process, as it has the highest weightage in the IAS exam. It has the following nine papers. The merit list is prepared and the number of candidates selected for the personality test is only 2.5 times of the vacancies.

IAS Main Personality Test

IAS personality test is the face-to-face interview with the UPSC interview board members. Every year, interview boards are constituted to take interviews. UPSC members serve as the head of the interview board. It includes members from all walks of life. There is no prescribed syllabus for the interview and the board is free to ask anything.

The final merit is prepared based on the marks secured in the written and personality test. There are various permutations and combinations of calculations for arriving at the final merit list, such as the category of the candidate. After releasing the result, service allocation is done based on the options filled by the candidate, category, vacancy in the state and the insider and outsider consideration for the state.

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