Qualifying Papers:
PaperI
Section 1: Essay "200 Marks"
Section 2: English Comprehension & English Precis (of Matriculation/ Xth Standardlevel) 100 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 "250Marks"
(Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)
Paper- VI
Optional Subject – Paper 1 "250Marks"
Paper VII
Optional Subject – Paper 2 "250 Marks"
Sub Total (Written test) 1800 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 Notification
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 forranking.
(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 qualifyingmarksin any
or all ofthese papers.
(v) For the Language medium/literature of languages, the scripts to be used by the
candidates will be as under:—(all)
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
x. 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, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani,
Maithili, 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 unauthorizedmedium.
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
