Indian Civil Services/ IAS/ UPSC/ IPS Preparation Help

Hi Future DM!

This page on the web might be of help if you are preparing for the Indian Civil Services conducted by UPSC. We hope that it eases the burdens of information gathering without information overload.

The ICS (Indian Civil Services)

The ICS (the test for a job in the coveted all India Services like Indian Administrative Services, Indian Police Services, Foreign Services, Revenues, Customs etc.) is a three staged exam. It consists of two stages of written exam and the third stage of Interview. The three stages are as follows:

1. Preliminary held in May in which one has to take one optional paper and a compulsory General Study (GS) Paper. This is an objective exam. The forms come out in the Employment News during the first week of December.

2. Mains exam to be held in November if you clear the Prelims. In this you have to take 9 papers. Two optional subjects with two papers each, two GS paper, One essay paper and two papers of qualifying nature in language (English and one regional language)

3. After mains there is the personality test which is basically an interview taken by senior officials of the Indian Government..

How to start preparing for the ICS

New to Civil Services preparations? Get exam-taking tips from people who have qualified in the exams (those who gave and couldn't qualify might give better pointers), a look at the previous years question papers before selecting your optionals, and then tonnes and tonnes of hard work. Much strategies and knowledge you need to beat the exam might be got from various magazines for the Civil Services.

How and Why does this site intend to offer help to you?

Here you will find many articles on the Indian Civil Services preparations collected over the years. But why I this site? Well, Once upon a time I used to prepare for the Indian Civil Services and in my free time I used to hone my skills in HTML :-) On a more serious note, I was lost and had no clue as how to approach the exam. So I thought I could do something for my fellow aspirants. You can become a member of ias_2003@yahoogroups.com. It was meant to be for people preparing for Civil Services 2003 and is still rocking. It shall answer MOST of your queries. Be sure to read through its archives, has lots of valuable information. Yeah and special thanks to CS for being the first visitor on my page :-) You can send me messages using yahoo messenger at jazz_on_the_clouds@yahoo.com. I don't check mails on this id but will try to answer your queries on messenger.

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Various Links Containing Information that might be of Help!

Previous Year's Question Papers

Interview with the toppers

Strategies for Cracking Various Optionals

Probable Cutoffs for Prelims Examination for various subjects

Results of 2003 with marks of toppers and number of recruitments for various services

List of Various Coaching Centers across the country for IAS preparations

Links to Dailies/ Periodicals

List of Various Egroups catering to Civil Services Information

IAS! Why? How?

Official Rules Governing the Indian Administrative Services

A newcomers introduction to IAS preparation