UPSC Engineering Services(IES) 2020 Main Exam Student Reaction Video

IES 2020 Main exam was conducted on October 18. See here the students' reaction video

IES main exam 2020 was conducted across the nation on October 18, 2020. The IES main 2020 exam was conducted in two shifts and a good number of candidates appeared in the exam. The IES main exam is conducted to select the candidates in the Engineering Services across the different departments in the Union Government departments.

The IES main 2020 exam was conducted for four engineering branches and the unanimous reaction of the students were that the paper was a bit difficult and lengthy. The compulsory questions number 1 and 5 were difficult and tricky. Most of the candidates accept that barring on or two questions, the IES main exam papers were following the trend of the past. The IES 2020 main papers were balanced and UPSC asked for more theory part in the papers.

IES 2020 Student Reaction Video

Most of the student believed that the questions were doable and one can attempt a good number of questions but attempting the full papers were a bit tough. Only very accurate planning and fast thinkers can do the full paper.

The IES 2020 main paper of all the engineering branches were from the syllabus given in the notification and nothing major can be said to come from outside the syllabus. The IES main question papers for all the Engineering branches were balanced and the lengthy.

See here: IES Syllabus

IES 2020 main Expected Cutoff

All the candidates were expecting the lower cutoff for the IES 2020 main exam. Because of some tricky and lengthy questions, the IES 2020 cut off will remain lesser than the previous year. But the number of vacancies was less from the previous year, so the merit will increase in correspondence to that. So the resultant cut off will be the dynamics of the following factors.

• The difficulty level of the paper
• Number of vacancies
• The number of candidates appeared in the IES main 2020 exam.

The number of candidates appearing in the IES 2020 main exam will be approximately less than the previous year because of two reasons. Firstly, the number of candidates selected for the IES main 2020 will be less because of the less number of vacancies and secondly because of the coronavirus pandemic the absent ratio will increase.

See here: IES Cutoff 2020

The candidates were allotted to the UPSC IES exam centres nearest to their place of residence even if it is up to 200 km away from their place of residence. At the UPSC exam centres, all the necessary arrangements were made to prohibit the spread the COVID-19 infection in addition to the security.

See here: IES Vacancies