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Rachit Kumar Saxena

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The UPSC examination recruits candidates for 24 different Civil Services posts through the Civil Service Examination (CSE) conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.Some of the various posts that are recruited through the UPSC examination include:Indian Administrative Service (IAS)Indian Foreign Service (IFS)Indian Police Service (IPS)Indian Revenue Service (IRS)Indian Audit and Accounts ServiceIndian Civil Accounts ServiceIndian Corporate Law ServiceIndian Defence Accounts ServiceIndian Defence Estates ServiceIndian Information ServiceIndian Ordnance Factories ServiceIndian Postal ServiceIndian Railway Accounts ServiceIndian Ra
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The UPSC Result PDF typically includes crucial details such as the list of recommended candidates, their roll numbers, names, community, PwBD status, written total marks, PT marks, final total marks, and serial numbers. This comprehensive document serves as an official record of the candidates who have successfully cleared the Civil Services (Main) Examination. Additionally, the UPSC Result PDF may also contain information on the cutoff marks, merit list, and mark sheets of the candidates. These details are essential for candidates to assess their performance and understand their standing in the competitive examination process. Ov
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Approximately, 13 Lacs candidates apply online for the UPSC Prelims in 2023. The number of candidates who apply for the UPSC exam varies each year, with around 11 Lacs candidates in 2021 and approximately 10.5 Lacs in 2020. However, the number of candidates who successfully clear the exam and are selected as IAS officers is much lower, with only 180 candidates being selected annually.The number of candidates who appear in the UPSC Prelims exam is just 40 to 50% of the total number of applications. So around 6.5 Lacs candidates were appeared in UPSC prelims 2023 exam.

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The candidates should note that there is no minimum marks that can be ascretained for the IAS. The final UPSC merit list is based on the marks secured in the main (written) and personlaity test condcuted at Dholpur House, UPSC. The Commission arrange the candidates in the order of their merit and select top candidates for the Indian Administrative Service if they have opted for it as their first choice. The minimum marks for IAS cannot be asertained as the cutoff for each year differs from year to year.

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Rachit Kumar Saxena

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No, the Union Public Service Commission does not change the IAS syllabus every year. The Commission is required to take the approval of the Ministry of Personnel before changing the syllabus of the IAS exam. So we can say that, the IAS syllabus does not change every year. The candidates need to read the Civil Service Exam Notification (IAS notification) as released by the Union Public Service Commission to know all the topics mentioned in the IAS syllabus.

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The Ethics paper in the UPSC IAS main exam is a relatively new paper. It is recently introduced and the candidates are required to prepare all the topics mentioned in the official syllabus and the case studies. The candidates face difficulty in answering the questions having case studies because the questions have the inter-twined problem involving the problem related to more than one basic principle of probity in the administration. The candidates are tested for their clarity of the behaviour in the Public life. It tests, how the candidate prioritise and choose from the various options available to them. The UPSC mentioned the fo
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The Union Public Service Commission releases the IAS syllabus as a part of the Civil Service Exam notification PDF. The candidates are required to download the Notification PDF to get the IAS syllabus PDF. The candidates can download the IAS syllabus PDF available here. The candidates can download here the IAS Syllabus PDF

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The Union Public Service Commission releases the IAS question papers for prelims and main exam. The Commission releases the question papers on its official website - upsc.gov.in. The candidates can download the IAS prelims and Mains question paper from the official website.The candidates are not required to login with their credentials to download the IAS question papers. The Commission release the question papers in PDF.

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The Union Public Service Commission did not provide the UPSC CSE application withdrawal facility last year. This year also, the UPSC CSE 2024 notification was released online on February 14, 2024. The Commission did not mention about this facility in the official UPSC CSE 2024 notification.The last date to apply for the UPSC CSE 2024 exam is March 5, 2024. 

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The Union Public Service Commission released the IAS 2024 notification online on February 14, 2024. The Commission is expected to release the IAS 2024 admit card online on May 1, 2024. The UPSC will conduct the IAS 2024 exam on May 26, 2024. The Commission will conduct the IAS 2024 exam in online mode in the pen and paper mode. The exam will be conducted at the designated exam centres.IAS 2024 notification was released online on February 14, 2024 mentioning that there will be 1056 vacancies for the exam.

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