Commission : Union Public Service Commission
Examination : Civil Services (Main)
Exam Date : 18.12.2016 to 23.12.2016
Official Website : www.upsc.gov.in
The civil services examination is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission annually in three stages -- preliminary, main and interview -- to select officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.
A total of 15,008 candidates have qualified in this year's civil services preliminary examination, results of which were declared on October 12.
As against a record number of 9,45,908 candidates who had applied for the exam, about 4.63 lakh had sat in the test on August 23, which is about 49 per cent of the total applicants.
TIME TABLE FOR CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION, 2015
| Date/Day | Forenoon Session 9.00 A.M. to 12.00 P.M. | Afternoon Session 2.00 P.M. to 5.00 P.M. |
| 18.12.2015 (Friday) | Paper‐I Essay | Paper‐B English |
| 19.12.2015 (Saturday) | Paper‐II General Studies‐I | Paper‐III General Studies‐II |
| 20.12.2015 (Sunday) | No Paper (Rest Day) | |
| 21.12.2015 (Monday) | Paper‐IV General Studies‐III | Paper‐V General Studies‐IV |
| 22.12.2015 (Tuesday) | Paper‐A Indian Language {Assamese/Bengali/Bodo/Dogri/ Gujarati/Hindi/Kannada/Kashmiri/ Konkani/Maithili/Malayalam/Manipuri/ Marathi/Nepali/Oriya/Punjabi/Sanskrit/ Santhali/Sindhi (Devanagari/Arabic Script)/Tamil/Telugu/Urdu} | No Paper |
| 23.12.2015 (Wednesday) | Paper‐VI Optional Paper‐I {Agriculture/Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science/Anthropology/ Botany/Chemistry/Civil Engineering/ Commerce & Accountancy/Economics/ Electrical Engineering/Geography/ Geology/History/Law/Management/ Mathematics/Mechanical Engineering/ Medical Science/Philosophy/Physics/ Political Science & International Relations/Psychology/Public Administration/Sociology/Statistics/ Zoology/Literature of any one of the following languages: Assamese/Bengali/Bodo/Dogri/ Gujarati/Hindi/Kannada/Kashmiri/ Konkani/Maithili/Malayalam/Manipuri/M arathi/Nepali/Oriya/Punjabi/Sanskrit/San thali/Sindhi /Tamil/Telugu/Urdu/English} | Paper‐VII Optional Paper‐II {Agriculture/Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science/Anthropology/ Botany/Chemistry/Civil Engineering/ Commerce & Accountancy/Economics/ Electrical Engineering/Geography/ Geology/History/Law/Management/ Mathematics/Mechanical Engineering/ Medical Science/Philosophy/Physics/ Political Science & International Relations/Psychology/Public Administration/Sociology/Statistics/ Zoology/Literature of any one of the following languages: Assamese/Bengali/Bodo/Dogri/ Gujarati/Hindi/Kannada/Kashmiri/ Konkani/Maithili/Malayalam/Manipuri/Mara thi/Nepali/Oriya/Punjabi/Sanskrit/ Santhali/Sindhi /Tamil/Telugu/Urdu/English} |
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