IAS Exam and IAS Exam eligibility

When I was a kid, Most of my friends used to say they wanted to give IAS Exam to be an IAS officer and work for the country. This profession has its own charm and, of course, being a prestigious post, it attracts the very people. Same is the case today itself. It has been a much-preferred option for the Indian youth of all-time to be an IAS after giving IAS Exam. Even today for an IAS Exam, every year lakhs of applications are considered with utmost esteem. This is the root cause why youth from every corner is attracted and are craving to apply for admission into IAS.  Consequently, there is a need to make them aware of this post responsibility and requirements too.

AS stands for Indian Administrative Service and IAS Exam is nothing but UPSC CSE.

Is this enough for you to know about this post and IAS Exam?

No, you need a deeper study, so here we enter the world of IAS and IAS Exam from where we will study about this more and transform this in passion.

Well, the Govt. of India has authorized the UPSC to conduct Civil Services Examination (CSE) for selecting the aspirants the 24 major posts in India, three most important and prestigious all India service posts are IAS, IPS, and IFS. Focusing on IAS and IAS Exam, Exposure in this very field is in diverse roles like the collector, commissioner, head of public sector units, chief secretary, cabinet secretary etc.  It is not just because of its adventurous nature, but also the opportunity of making positive changes in the life of millions in India makes IAS a unique career choice to opt.

Talking about government service, the IAS (Indian Administrative Services) which is known for the category ‘A’ government service is a very special and esteem government post.

The Indian Administrative Services is a treasured service for a country because it works internally for the perfect functioning of law and order without any encumbrances. However getting into IAS is not a child’s play,moreover, you have to earn an IAS. The IAS Exam is a pen-paper based competitive exam i.e. CSE (Civil Service Examination) held every year. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)  controls offers a standard aptitude test for this exam or an IAS Exam and other civil services like IFS, IPS, Group A and Group B central services. Although there is no need to mention that, it is one of the toughest exams that perhaps requires more than one attempt to pass IAS Exam.

How can one be Eligible for IAS Exam?

sure The Aspirants applying for this IAS Exam should make sure that they fulfill all eligibility conditions for admission to the examination. Their access to all the stages of the examination will be purely provisional subject to satisfying the prescribed eligibility requirements. Aspirants cannot be sure about their candidature with the Mere issue of admission certificate. Commission even holds the verification of eligibility conditions with reference to their original documents after the candidate has qualified for Interview/ Personality Test and hence there is no space for frauds in IAS Exam.

Some more important things to remember about IAS Exam are:

• Civil Services Examination and most popularly termed ( IAS Exam) is one of the most trending competitive exam organized by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) of India. The UPSC exam is held every year for granting various Civil Service Officers including Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), and Indian Revenue Service (IRS).
• The exam is organized every year in two stages, i.e. Civil Services Preliminary and Mains Exams.
• The Preliminary exam consists of multiple choice question type of paper which is going to check a candidate’s General Studies and Aptitude.
• Civil Services Mains examination is a personal paper that tests a candidate on basically nine essays and an interview.
• The whole process for UPSC / IAS exam from the news of the Preliminary examination test dates to the announcement of the UPSC results takes almost a year.
• Civil Services Exam is organized in three major levels also called the Phases of IAS or IAS Exam.

Phase I: Civil Services examination – Preliminary is organized every year in the month of August, whose results are normally declared in mid-October.

Phase II: Civil Services Mains examination is organized every year in the month of December for those who has passed the Civil Services Preliminary exam. The result for the Civil Services Mains examination is generally declared in the month of March.

Phase III: Civil Services Personality Test (Interview) is the last stage normally organized in the month of May every year. Notifications for the forms are normally notified by April.

After the final results are announced, selected aspirants are sent for further training programs.

Being one of the most important posts for the country, the UPSC board keeps an eye on the needs for the candidature for the post and accordingly make changes in the selection process and here is the new eligibility criteria that the board has introduced for the reason we were discussing above:

• The government has changed the upper age limit and the number of attempts of applicants for an aspirant of the UPSC Civil Service Examination with from 2016.

• According to information published on the website of the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, the upper age limit will be 37 years for SC/ST aspirants with a fortunate choice of infinite attempts; 35 years for OBC with 9 attempts; and 32 years for the general category aspirants with 6 attempts.

• For physically handicapped aspirants, the age limit tends to 42, 45 and 47 years for General, OBC, and SC/ST category respectively while the number of chances to pass is 9 for General and OBC and infinite for SC/SC category.

Table of IAS Exam Age Limit

Category	Maximum Age Limit	Number of Attempts
General Category	32 Years	6
OBC Category	35 Years	9
SC/ST Category	37 Years	Till you complete your age Limit
Physically disabled(Orthopedic |Deaf-mute|Blind)	42 Years	General -9| OBC-9| SC/ST – Complete age Limit
Jammu and Kashmir domicile	General- 37| OBC- 42|SC/ST- 42| PH- 50-
Ex-serviceman with five years duty*	General- 37| OBC- 42|SC/ST- 42
Disabled Serviceman Discharged From Duty	General- 35| OBC- 38S| C/ST- 40