Civil Services Exam:

Civil Services Exam is conducted by UPSC every year for following posts:


(i) Indian Administrative Service.
(ii) Indian Foreign Service.
(iii) Indian Police Service.
(iv) Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Group ‘A’.
(v) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(vi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group ‘A’.
(vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(viii) Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Group ‘A’.
(ix) Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group ‘A’ (Assistant Works Manager, Administration).
(x) Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’.
(xi) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’.
(xii) Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group ‘A’.
(xiii) Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group 'A'.
(xiv) Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group ‘A’.
(xv) Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, Group ‘A’
(xvi) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’.
(xvii) Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group ‘A’.
(xviii) Indian Trade Service, Group 'A' (Gr. III).
(xix) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group "A".
(xx) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade).
(xxi) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra &
Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group 'B'.
(xxii) Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra &
Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group 'B'.
(xxiii) Pondicherry Civil Service, Group 'B'.
(xxiv) Pondicherry Police Service, Group 'B'.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:

Nationality

A candidate must be either:
(a) A citizen of India, or

(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan

Educational Qualifications

The candidate must hold a degree of any of Universities incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University Under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification.

Age Limits

 A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on 1st August, in the year of examination. 

The upper age limit prescribed above will be relaxable in the follwing cases:

• Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe: upto a maximum of five years.
• Other Backward Classes: upto a maximum of three years.
• State of Jammu & Kashmir (Domiciled during the period from the 1^st January, 1980 to 31^st December, 1989): upto a maximum of five years. 
• Defence Services personnel : upto a maximum of five years

Number of attempts

• General candidates: four attempts.
• Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates: No restriction.
• Other Backward Classes: seven attempts.

HOW TO APPLY:

(a) Candidates may apply Online by using the website http://www.upsconline.nic.in

Detailed instructions for filling up online applications are available on the abovementioned

website.

(b) Candidates may also apply Offline in the Common Application Form devised by

the Commission for its examinations, which can be purchased from the designated

Head Post Offices/Post Offices (specified in Appendix III of the Notice) throughout the

country against cash payment of Rs. 30/- (Rupees Thirty only). Each such Form can

be used only once and only for one examination.