Civil Servant (IAS/PCS)

After clearing the PCS-J exam, you get posted as a Civil Judge (Junior Division) in your state. It is the post of a second-class judicial magistrate. Later on, with the recommendation of the district or session judge, you get posted as a judicial magistrate of first class.
1. The first official promotion a civil judge from PCS J gets is that of additional civil judge (senior division), which is later promoted to chief judicial magistrate.
2. The further promotion is to the post of Additional District Judge.
3. With further advancement, you can become a district judge or a session judge (in some cases, both).
4. The next promotion is to the post of Registrar of the High Court.
5. The registrar of the HC is promoted to the post of High Court judge after 5 years of service. You need a minimum of five years of service at each post to be considered for promotion.

The PCS-J exam in Uttar Pradesh is one of the most challenging exams. It is carried out in three stages and takes about a year to complete. You can follow the given expert tips to prepare for this exam:
1. Check the exam pattern and syllabus to understand overlapping concepts in the prelim and main stages.
2. The law sections form an important part of the preliminary stage. It dominates with 300 marks, and hence you need to prepare this section well.
3. Finalize the study material for both stages with the help of the syllabus and previous year's papers.
4. Prepare short notes for important topics like IPC, judgments, and bare acts to revise during the exam.
5. You can take the help of a monthly Current Affairs magazine and NCERTs to prepare the GK section.
6. For the Mains, you need to focus on answer writing and an in-depth understanding of law.
7. You can take the help of your law coursebooks from graduation to score well in the law papers of the main stage.
8. Initially, you need to prepare for both stages together; later on, you can focus on separate stages before two months of exams.
9. In the final two months, concentrate on revision and mock exam practice to improve accuracy.
10. You can join a test series in the final month to do well in the main stage. You have to build command over the law and communication skills over time to qualify for the interview stage.

Physical Eligibility Criteria for UPSC IAS:
There is no height, weight and chest girth minimum requirement as such for candidates for the IAS unlike the technical services. However, if the candidates measurements are disproportionate as regarded by the medical board, the candidates can be hospitalized for investigation and chest X-ray can be taken. Please note the technical services have certain minimum requirements. Candidates should have a proper vision in the eyes. Corrections permitted are spectacles, CL and refractive surgery like LASIK, ICL, IOL, etc. Those who have myopia with macular degenerative changes will be declared unfit for service in the IAS. People with a squint in the eyes are fit for service. Night blindness is also not a ground for candidates to be declared unfit. Blood pressure over 140/90 should be subjected to further testing in the hospital to ascertain whether the abnormal BP is temporary due to excitement, etc. And not an indication of any disease. Only candidates free from any complication of hypertension will be declared fit for service. Only candidates free from any complication of diabetes mellitus will be declared fit for service. The hearing ability of the candidate should be good in each ear and he/she should also be free from any disease of the ear. In case of a defect, the candidate should be subjected to further tests to SEE if the defect can be remedied by a hearing aid or an operation. Pregnant female candidates will be fit except for those services that require physical training. In such cases, the candidates will be declared fit after confinement. Candidates teeth should be in good order. The heart and lungs of the candidate should be fine. There should not be any abdominal disease. The feet, hands and limbs are well-formed and there should be no restriction on joint movements. There should not be any congenital malformation or defect. There should not be any sign of acute or chronic disease indicating an impaired constitution. Candidates should bear marks of efficient vaccination. The candidates should not have any communicable diseases. Candidates with grade I haemorrhoids are declared fit. Diseases like hernia, varicose veins, hydrocele, haemorrhoids, etc. Are declared temporarily unfit and should be declared fit after successful surgery. Candidates with malignancies at the time of entry to service are declared unfit. Candidates with transplanted organs are declared unfit.

Yes, you may get a job even if you don't clear the IAS interview. Generally, those who do not get selected after reaching this stage have three options:
1. Work in another government or related sector: You can work as an assistant director in SAI or apply to the PSUs that recruit CSE Mains-qualified candidates.
2. Work in a private organisation: Some teaching institutions and education field-related institutions also prefer IAS interview candidates. Some start their own institute.
3. Start preparation again: Some others decide to give CSE one more try. For this, they are required to start from the first stage again. You have plenty of options, as reaching the CSE interview is a big achievement. Only a few thousand applicants out of a total of 6-7 Lacs make it to this stage each year.

Clearing the IAS interview is the dream of every civil service aspirant. This is the final and most challenging stage. After the CSE interviews are over, UPSC publishes a list containing the names of recommended candidates. For these recommended candidates, the procedure is as follows:
1. The list of marks is released first for these candidates on the official portal.
2. The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) begins registration for its foundation training course. The selected candidates will receive mail from LBSNAA.
3. The department of personal training comes into the picture to start the process of document verification and service allocation.
4. Those who decide to attend FC will receive their appointment letters from the respective services.
5. After service allocation, cadre allocation will begin for IAS and IPS by the time FC is over. With the completion of FC, each service will begin its training, which will last approximately one and a half years. The selected candidates will be known by their service and get postings to their respective offices.

There are no special marks allotted to extracurricular activities, but they can be important during an interview. Before the IAS interview stage, there is a procedure where you need to fill out a detailed application form known as DAF 2. In this form, you need to mention in detail your family information, earnings, experiences, academics, and extracurricular activities in which you have ever participated. This information is presented to the interview panel in the form of a summary sheet. This summary sheet forms the basis of interview questions about you, as the panel only knows you through this summary sheet. You should honestly list specific hobbies and accomplishments in your response. For instance, if you never played cricket but mentioned it in the hobby section, you will be asked related questions in the interview. If you failed to answer correctly or appeared unaware, it will give a poor impression, and you may lose precious marks. Similarly, if you have never competed in any competition, do not fill out the form with made-up information; otherwise, the panel will question you about it. As a result, the DAF's extracurricular activities section must be carefully filled out.