HPSC HCS Prelims Exam Pattern Changed: See details here

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Updated on Jul 22, 2020 18:35 IST

HPSC HCS Prelims Exam pattern changed. Read below for details.

The Haryana Government has changed the Haryana Civil Service (Executive Branch) Rules, 2008 and implemented the HCS (Executive Branch) Rules 2020 making the Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) Paper-II in the HCS prelims exam as qualifying only.

The Haryana Cabinet under the leadership of Chief Minister Manohar Lal approved the HCS (Executive Branch) Rules 2020 on July 6. The cabinet decision made the CSAT paper of Preliminary exam for the posts of HCS (Executive Branch) and other Allied Services conducted by Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) a qualifying paper on the pattern of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

As per the amendment, now Civil Services Aptitude Paper (Paper-II) of preliminary examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks of 33 per cent and the result of preliminary examination will be based on the marks obtained in Paper-I of General Studies only provided that the candidate has qualified the CSAT (Paper-II). The new rules were notified to bring the uniformity in the examination pattern of HPSC HCS exam with the UPSC IAS exam.

Now the HPSC HCS prelims exam will continue to have two papers, but the HPSC HCS result will be prepared based on the marks secured in the General Studies Paper I only. The candidates need to qualify in the CSAT paper II. Earlier, the result of this preliminary examination and its merit was prepared based on marks secured by the candidate in both the papers.

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The HPSC HCS Prelims exam serves as a screening exam only and the marks secured in the HPSC HCS prelims exam is only considered for the prelims merit list have no say in the final HCS result. The HPSC HCS Syllabus is not changed and will remain the same for both the papers in HPSC HCS prelims exam. The HPSC HCS prelims exam pattern is as follows.

HPSC HCS Prelims Exam	Number of Questions	Marks
General Studies	100	100
Civil Services Aptitude Test(CSAT) (Qualifying only)	100	100
Total Marks		200

See here: HPSC HCS Exam Pattern

The provisions related to the negative marking for the wrong answers will remain unchanged in the HPSC HCS prelims exam.

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