UPSC Civil Services 2019 Notification | Applications from 19th February 2019

UPSC civil services 2019: 

The registration for the civil services preliminary examination will start by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on its official website – www.upsc.gov.in on February 19. 

All those who are interested in applying for this competitive exam are required to check out the registration and other important details such as that of eligibility, exam scheme, patter etc at the website itself. 

The exam is conducted to select candidates to fill administrative positions in different All-India Services and central civil services including IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS, and IRTS.

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The Civil Services Examination is based on the British Raj Era Imperial Civil Service tests, as well as the civil service tests conducted by old Indian empires such as in the Mauryan Empire and Mughal Empire. The Civil Services Examination is considered to be one of the most difficult competitive examination in India. On an average, 900,000 to 1,000,000 candidates apply every year and the number of candidates appearing to sit in the preliminary examination is approximately 500,000. The examination consists of the following stage. Results are published in mid-August.

• Stage I: Prelimnary Examination - Held in June every year. Results are announced in August.
• Stage II: Mains

1. Examination - Held in October every year. Results are announced in January.
2. Personality Test (interview) - Held in March. Final results are usually announced in May.

The training program for the selected candidates usually commences the following September.

Eligibility

Nationality

• For the Indian Administrative Service and the Indian Police Service, the candidate must be a citizen of India.
• For other services, the candidate must be one of the following:

1. A citizen of India
2. A citizen of Nepal or a subject of Bhutan
3. Tibetan refugee who came to India before January 1, 1962 to settle permanently.
4. A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia or Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India

Educational Qualification

All candidates must have as a minimum one of the following educational qualifications:

• A degree from a Central, State or a Deemed university
• A degree received through correspondence or distance education
• A degree from an open university
• A qualification recognized by the Government of India as being equivalent to one of the above

The following candidates are also eligible, but must submit proof of their eligibility from a competent authority at their institute/university at the time of the main examination, failing which they will not be allowed to attend the exam.

• Candidates who have appeared in an examination, the passing of which would render them educationally qualified enough to satisfy one of the above points.
• Candidates who have passed the final exam of the MBBS degree but have not yet completed an internship.
• Candidates who have passed the final exam of ICAI, ICSI and ICWAI.
• A degree from a private university.
• A degree from any foreign university recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.

Age

The candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years (for the General category candidate) on August 1 of the year of examination. Prescribed age limits vary with respect to caste reservations.

• For Other Backward Castes (OBC) the upper age limit is 35 years.
• For Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), the limit is 37 years.
• For Defence Services Personnel disabled in operations during hostilities, the limit is 35 years.
• For Candidates belonging to ex- servicemen including Commissioned officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered Military services for at least five years as on August 01, of the year and have been released
  1. on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year from August 01 of the year otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or
  2. on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service or
  3. on invalidment or
  • Relaxation of up to a maximum of five years will be given in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as on August 01 of the year and whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case the Ministry of Defence issues a certificate that they can apply for civil employment and that they will be released on three months’ notice on selection from the date of receipt of offer of appointment, the limit is 37 years.
• For ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service, the limit is 37 years.
• For PwD candidates, the limit is 42 years.
• For Domiciles of Jammu and Kashmir from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 1989, the limit is 37 years.

Number of attempts

The number of times a candidate can appear for the exam are given below.

• General category candidates = 8.
• OBC category candidates = 9.
• SC/ST candidates = unlimited attempts till 37 years of age.

Appearing to attempt one of the papers in the preliminary examination is counted as an attempt, including disqualification/ cancellation of candidature. However, applying to sit the exam but failing to attend is not counted as an attempt.^[9]

Vacancies and Selection

Generally the number of vacancies varies every year. The number of candidates that pass the preliminary examination is generally 11 or 12 times the number of vacancies, and the number of candidates selected for the final interview is twice the number of vacancies. As per existing policies, reservation for SC/ST/OBC is applied to each level of the selection process.

Vacancies&Selection in different years

Year	No. of candidates applied for Prelims	No. of candidates appeared for		No. of cadidates appeared for interviews	No. of candidates who got selected	Final Vacancies
		Prelims	Mains
2010	5,47,698	2,69,036	11,865	2,589	965	1,043
2011	4,99,120	2,43,236	11,237	2,415	999	1,001
2012	5,50,080	2,71,442	12,190	2,674	998	1,091
2013	7,76,604	3,23,949	14,178	3,003	1,122	1,228
2014	9,47,428	4,51,602	16,286	3,308	1,236	1,364
2015	9,45,908	4,65,882	15,008	2,797	1,078	1,164
2016	11.36 lakhs	5 lakhs	15,452	2,961	1,099	1,209
2017	10 lakhs (Approx.)	500,000 (Approx.)	13,366	2,568	1,960 (Approx.)	980

Cut-Off

The cut-off marks of the examination of the previous years' are given below:

Cut-off marks in different years 

Year	Prelims			Main (out of 1750)		Total (out of 2025)		Ref.
	Category	Marks	Total Marks	Category	Marks	Category	Marks
2013	General	241	400	General	564	General	775
	OBC	222		OBC	534	OBC	742
	SC	207		SC	518	SC	719
	ST	201		ST	510	ST	707
	PH-1	199		PH-1	510	PH-1	725
	PH-2	184		PH-2	502	PH-2	718
	PH-3	163		PH-3	410	PH-3	613
2014	General	205	385	General	678	General	889
	OBC	204		OBC	631	OBC	844
	SC	182		SC	631	SC	830
	ST	174		ST	619	ST	811
	PH-1	167		PH-1	609	PH-1	816
	PH-2	113		PH-2	575	PH-2	778
	PH-3	115		PH-3	449	PH-3	713
2015	General	107.34	200	General	676	General	877
	OBC	106		OBC	630	OBC	834
	SC	94		SC	622	SC	810
	ST	91.34		ST	617	ST	801
	PH-1	90.66		PH-1	580	PH-1	802
	PH-2	76.66		PH-2	627	PH-2	830
	PH-3	40.00		PH-3	504	PH-3	697
2016	General	116	200	General	787	General	988
	OBC	110.66		OBC	745	OBC	951
	SC	99.34		SC	739	SC	937
	ST	96		ST	730	ST	920
	PH-1	75.34		PH-1	713	PH-1	927
	PH-2	72.66		PH-2	740	PH-2	951
	PH-3	40		PH-3	545	PH-3	817
2017	General	105.34	200	General	809	General	1006
	OBC	102.66		OBC	770	OBC	968
	SC	88.66		SC	756	SC	944
	ST	88.66		ST	749	ST	939
	PH-1	88.88		PH-1	734	PH-1	923
	PH-2	61.34		PH-2	745	PH-2	948
	PH-3	40		PH-3	578	PH-3	830

Source: Wikipedia