Change
in the UPSC Mains Syllabus and Pattern
After witnessing
widespread opposition by the various states as well as by the various member of
the parliament, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has withdrawn
changes suggested by it in civil services mains examination process and has now
dropped the mandatory English language paper requirement which was earlier
slated for 100 marks which would have been added in the preparation of the
final merit list.UPSC by issuing a corrigendum have brought back the earlier practice of having two qualifying papers in any Indian language mentioned in the eighth schedule of the constitution of India and English. Both the papers of Indian Language and English will strictly be only for the qualifying purposes and the marks obtained in those papers will not be counted for ranking.
Main
Examination
The
written examination will consist of the following
papers:
Qualifying
Papers:
Paper‐
A
(One of the
Indian Language to be selected by the
candidate
from the Languages included in the Eighth
Schedule to
the Constitution). 300 Marks
Paper‐
B
English 300
Marks
Papers
to be counted for merit
Paper‐I
Essay 250
Marks
Paper‐II
General
Studies–I 250Marks
(Indian
Heritage and Culture, History and
Geography
of the World and Society)
Paper‐III
General
Studies –II 250 Marks
(Governance,
Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and
International
relations)
Paper‐IV
General
Studies –III 250 Marks
(Technology,
Economic Development, Bio‐diversity,
Environment,
Security and Disaster Management)
Paper‐V
General
Studies –IV 250 Marks
(Ethics,
Integrity and Aptitude)
Paper‐VI
Optional Subject – Paper 1 250 Marks
Paper‐VII
Optional
Subject – Paper 2 250 Marks
Sub
Total (Written test) 1750 Marks
Personality
Test 275 Marks
Grand
Total 2025 Marks
Candidates may choose any one of the optional subjects
from amongst the list of subjects given in para 2 below :‐
NOTE:
(i) The
papers on Indian Languages and English
(Paper A
and Paper B) will be of Matriculation or
equivalent
standard and will be of qualifying nature.
The marks
obtained in these papers will not be
counted for
ranking.
(ii)
Evaluation of the papers, namely, ‘Essay’,
‘General
Studies’ and Optional Subject of all the
candidates
would be done simultaneously along with
evaluation
of their qualifying papers on ‘Indian
Languages’
and ‘English’ but the papers on ‘Essay’,
General
Studies and Optional Subject of only such
candidates
will be taken cognizance of who attain such
minimum
standard as may be fixed by Commission at
their
discretion for the qualifying papers on ‘Indian
Language’
and ‘English’.
(iii) The
paper A on Indian Language will not,
however, be
compulsory for candidates hailing from
the States
of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizoram,
Nagaland and Sikkim.
(iv) Marks
obtained by the candidates for the
Paper I‐VII
only will be counted for merit ranking.
However,
the Commission will have the discretion to
fix
qualifying marks in any or all of these papers.
(v) For the
Language medium/ literature of languages,
the scripts
to be used by the candidates will be as
under:—
Language
Script
Assamese
Assamese
Bengali
Bengali
Gujarati
Gujarati
Hindi
Devanagari
Kannada
Kannada
Kashmiri
Persian
Konkani
Devanagari
Malayalam
Malayalam
Manipuri
Bengali
Marathi Devanagari
Nepali Devanagari
Oriya Oriya
Punjabi
Gurumukhi
Sanskrit
Devanagari
Sindhi
Devanagari or Arabic
Tamil Tamil
Telugu
Telugu
Urdu
Persian
Bodo
Devanagari
Dogri
Devanagari
Maithilli
Devanagari
Santhali
Devanagari or Olchiki
Note:
For Santhali language, question paper
will be
printed in
Devanagari script; but candidates
will be
free to answer either in Devanagari
script or
in Olchiki.
2. List of
optional subjects for Main Examination:
(i)
Agriculture
(ii) Animal
Husbandry and Veterinary Science
(iii)
Anthropology
(iv) Botany
(v)
Chemistry
(vi) Civil
Engineering
(vii) Commerce
and Accountancy
(viii)
Economics
(ix)
Electrical Engineering
(x)
Geography
(xi)
Geology
(xii)
History
(xiii) Law
(xiv)
Management
(xv)
Mathematics
(xvi)
Mechanical Engineering
(xvii)
Medical Science
(xviii)
Philosophy (xix) Physics
(xx)
Political Science and International Relations
(xxi)
Psychology
(xxii)
Public Administration
(xxiii)
Sociology
(xxiv)
Statistics
(xxv)
Zoology
(xxvi)
Literature of any one of the following
languages:
Assamese, B
e n g a l i , Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi,
Kannada,
Kashmiri, Konkani, M a i t h i l i ,
Malayalam,
Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi,
Sanskrit,
Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu and
English.
NOTE:
(i) The
question papers for the examination will be of
conventional
(essay) type.
(ii) Each
paper will be of three hours duration.
(iii)
Candidates will have the option to answer all the
question
papers, except the Qualifying Language papers
Paper‐A and
Paper‐B, in any of the languages included
in the
Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India or in
English.
(iv)
Candidates exercising the option to answer
Papers in
any one of the languages mentioned above
may, if
they so desire, give English version within
brackets of
only the description of the technical terms,
if any, in
addition to the version in the language opted
by them.
Candidates should, however, note that if
they misuse
the above rule, a deduction will be made on
this
account from the total marks otherwise accruing
to them and
in extreme cases; their script(s) will
not be
valued for being in an unauthorized medium.
(v) The
question papers (other than the literature of
language
papers) will be set in Hindi and English only.
(vi) The
details of the syllabi are set out in Part B of
Section III.
