Civil Services Exam Pattern 2020

Civil Services Exam Pattern 2020- Check Details for CSAT

UPSC schedule civil services preliminary examination every year. Civil services preliminary is a common examination for civil services examination and forest service examination. The applicants interested in civil services or IFS can apply for the civil services preliminary exam. This is a screening exam to select the eligible applicants for admission. Here you can check the details regarding Civil services exam pattern.

Civil services examination is conducted in 2 stages- preliminary exam and main exam. The preliminary examination will be held in August, and the main examination will be held in the month of December. The IAS 2020 examination will be held in 3 stages- Civil Services Preliminary Examination (MCQ type), Civil Services Main Examination (Written) and Personal Interview.

CSAT- Civil Services Exam Pattern (Preliminary)

• There will be 2 compulsory papers in the preliminary exam- general Ability Test (GAT) and Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) to test the analytical skills of the applicants.
• These 2 papers will be objective in nature with MCQ type questions.
• There will be a penalty of 1/4^th marks for each wrong answers.
• The question paper will be available in Hindi & English language (except the section of English Language Comprehension).

Sr. No.	Name of Paper	Allotted marks
Paper I	General Ability Test	200 marks
Paper II	English Language & aptitude	200 marks
	Total	400 marks

The General Studies Paper II, minimum qualifying marks are 33%. The applicants will be selected on the basis of total qualifying marks of general studies paper I.

Civil Services Main Exam Pattern

• There will be 2 papers in the examination- qualifying papers & papers to be counted for merit formation.
• The applicants will have to appear in both parts.
• Failing in the qualifying papers will lead to the canceling of the applicants’ candidature.
• There will be total of 7 papers in Civil Services Main examination of 250 marks each. There will be 2 optional papers that applicants have to choose as per their choice. You can check the detailed list of subjects from the official website of UPSC.

Qualifying Papers                  

• Paper A- One of the Indian language to be selected by the applicants from the languages included in the 6^th schedule of the constitution- 300 marks.
• Paper B- English- 300 marks 

NOTE- The paper of Indian language & English (Paper A & B) will be matriculation or equivalent standard & will be of qualifying nature. The marks obtained in the qualifying papers will not be counted for merit formation.

Papers which are counted for merit calculation

Sr. No.	Title of the paper	Marks allotted
Paper I	Essay writing	250
Paper II	General studies- I )Indian heritage & culture, history & geography of the world & society)	250
Paper III	General studies- II (Governance, constitution Polity, social justice & international & international relations)	250
Paper IV	General studies- III (Technology, economic development, biodiversity, environment, security & disaster mgmt.)	250
Paper V	General studies- IV (Ethics, integrity & aptitude)	250
Paper VI	Optional subject- Paper I	250
Paper VII	Optional subjects- paper II	250
	Subtotal in written exam	1750
	Personal interview	275
	Grand total (for merit calculation)	2025

Personality Test

The personality test will be carried out for those applicants who have qualified the preliminary exam 2016. This test will include psychometric test, assessment test, and personal interview as well. The marks obtained in this test will be added to do the calculation for merit list. 

List of the optional subjects for the main examination

Agriculture	Anthropology	Chemistry	Geography
History	Political science & International relations	Commerce & accountancy	Economics
Management	Mathematics	Mechanical engineering	Psychology
Public administration	Sociology	Electrical engineering	Physics
Zoology	Medical science	Animal husbandry & veterinary science	Botany
Civil engineering	Geology	Law	Philosophy
Statistics

Languages included in 8^th schedule of the constitution

Assamese	Bengali	Bodo
Dogri	Gujarati	Tamil
Hindi	Kannada	Kashmiri
Konkani	Maithili	Malayalam
Manipur	Marathi	Nepali
Oriya	Punjabi	Santhali
Sindhi	Telugu	Urdu
English

Note- For more details regarding UPSC Civil Services Exam Pattern, you are requested to check official notice of Civil Services examination.