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I want to apply for Indian Administrative Services IAS Exam so can you please provide me the details of exam?

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Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the Civil Services Examination conducted by Union Public Service Commission UPSC for the recruitment to various Civil Services of the Government of India.

IAS Eligibility Criteria

Candidate must hold a Bachelor's Degree from any of the recognised universities

Candidates who have appeared for the qualifying examination and are awaiting results or those who are yet to appear for the qualifying examination are also eligible for the Preliminary Examination.

Candidates with professional and technical qualifications recognised by the Government or its equivalent are also elgible to apply

Candidates who have passed the final year of MBBS or any Medical Examination but are yet to complete the internship can also appear for the Main Examination.

Age Limit :

A candidate should be minimum 21 years and maximum 32 years

The upper age limit prescribed above is relaxable for the following candidates:

5 years - Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST)
3 years - Other Backward Classes (OBC)
5 years - if a candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from the 1st January, 1980 to the 31st December, 1989.
3 years - Defence Services personnel
5 years - ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least 5 years Military Service as on 1st August, 2015
5 years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs
10 years - Blind, deaf-mute and orthopedically handicapped persons

IAS Exam Syllabus

IAS Preliminary Examination 2016 would consist of two papers- Paper I and Paper II.

Paper 1 (200 marks) - Duration : Two hrs.

Current events of national and international importance
History of India and Indian national movement
Indian and World Geography- physical, social, economic geography of India and the world
Indian Polity and governance – constitution, political system, panchayati raj, public policy, Rights issues, etc.
Economic and social development – sustainable development, poverty, inclusion, demographics, social sector initiatives etc.
General issues on environmental ecology, bio-diversity and climate change-that donot require subject specialization
General science.

Paper 2 (200 marks) - Duration : Two hrs.

Comprehension
Interpersonal skills including communication skills
Logical reasoning and analytical ability
Decision making and problem solving
General mental ability
Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude etc. (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. –Class X level)
English language comprehension skills (Class X level)

IAS Main Examination taken to assess the overall intellectual qualities and depth of understanding of candidates rather than merely the range of their information and memory. It will consist of a written examination and an interview test.

The written examination will consist of 9 papers of conventional essay type in the selected subjects for main examination. Each paper is of 3 hours duration.