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3 months agoBeginner-Level 5
Yes, the Union Public Service Commission mention the main exam (written) and main exam (interview) in the official notification. The candidates should note that the marks secured in the UPSC main exam is considered for the final result.
The face to face interview is the part of the main exam and hence we can say that the UPSC conduct the Civil Service Main exam is conducted in two parts.
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3 months agoBeginner-Level 5
The UPSC Civil Service Exam Notification mention that the Civil Service Prelims exam is qualifying only. The UPSC IAS prelims exam is a MCQ based exam conducted offline at the designated exam centre. The marks scored in the UPSC prelims exam is not considered for the final selected process.
The prelims exam was introduced to filtering of candidates and restricting the number of candidates for the main exam.
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4 months agoBeginner-Level 1
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4 months agoContributor-Level 10
Institute of Advanced Studies has multiple affiliated colleges across the region. Institutes are located in Kolkata as well as the surrounding suburbs and satellite towns. The sister institutions of Institute of Advanced Studies is located in the towns of Burdwan and Bolpur.
Below are the IAS Krishnapur affiliated colleges:
RN Tagrore Institute, Kolkata |
SC Bose Institute, Burdwan |
St Teresa Academy, Bolpur |
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4 months agoContributor-Level 10
Admissions at Institute of Advanced Studies, Kolkata are conducted based on the merit criteria. Students must appear for their prescribed qualifying exams and achieve valid scoring. IAS does not require any specific entrance-test like CUET, CLAT, etc. Students must clear their Higher Secondary exams with the valid scoring and the same must be presented at the time of admissions. The same methodology applies to the PG admissions procedure at Institute of Advanced Studies.
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4 months agoBeginner-Level 5
The UPSC Prelims consists of two papers: General Studies Paper-I (current affairs, history, geography, polity, economy, environment, and science) and CSAT Paper-II (comprehension, reasoning, and basic numeracy).
Paper-I is used for merit ranking, while Paper-II is qualifying with 33% as the minimum score.
Both papers are objective-type with negative marking and are conducted on the same day.
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4 months agoBeginner-Level 5
The Union Public Service Commission dropped 3 (three) questions from the UPSC Civil Service Prelims (CSP) exam 2024. The marks of the candidates were assigned marks from 97 questions only. The candidates should check their answers from the official answer key and compare them with the cutoff mentioned in the official UPSC CSP cutoff 2024.
In case their marks are more than their category cutoff. they should send representation against the prelims and final UPSC result 2024.
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4 months agoBeginner-Level 5
Yes, the Union Public Service Commission has released the UPSC Civil Service Prelims exam 2024 on May 21, 2025. The Commission dropped 3 questions from the General Studies paper. The final marks are calculated from 97 questions only in the UPSC prelims exam 2024.
The Commission did not dropped any questions from the UPSC CSE prelims General Studies Paper 2.
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5 months agoBeginner-Level 5
There is no objective answer to this question. It depends on various factors which are beyond the control of the candidates. Every year is different and so the UPSC Prelims question paper. The Commission does not mention the weightage to any section and can ask any number of questions from any section. This is the reason, the candidates find it difficult to predict the questions and the difficulty level is also a subjective factor.
None the less, we can say Good attempts vary by subject. For instance, in the General Studies Paper I, good attempts might be:
- Geography: 10-13 questions
- History: 8-12 questions
- Polity: 9-11 questions
- Environment
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