How to be Eligible for IPS Exam?

If you are applying for  IPS Exam, you have to make sure that you have earned all its eligibility conditions to get admitted for  IPS Exam. The Just issue of the application form cannot make you sure about your candidature for this exam. Actually, UPSC holds a sperate verification of eligibility conditions with relation to aspirant’s original documents after the candidate has qualified for Interview/ Personality Test and hence there is no place to misdirect.

Some more important things to remember about  IPS Exam are:

·         CSE is the most popular competitive exam is organized by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) of India. The UPSC exam is conducted annually for selecting differentiate Civil Service Officers including Police Service (IPS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), and Indian Revenue Service (IRS).

·         Being the most awaited CSE or IPS Exam, it is conducted in three stages i.e.

Phase I: Civil Services examination – Prelims (occurs once in a year in the August month, and results in mid-October).

Phase II: Civil Services Mains examination– Mains (occurs once in a year in the month of December and results in March).

Phase III: Civil Services Personality Test (Interview)-(occurs once in a year in the month of May). It basically checks their virtues and aptitude.

·         The civil service Preliminary exam includes a set of multiple choice question type of paper which checks a candidate’s General Studies and Aptitude.

·         Civil Services Mains examination is further a subjective paper whose objective is to check a candidate on nine main papers and a personality test.

·         This full process for UPSC (  IPS Exam ) from the news of the Preliminary examination test dates to the announcement of the UPSC results takes almost a whole year to complete.

Training programs are then conducted for the candidate who  qualifies the UPSC Exam or  IPS Exam

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

IPS Syllabus for Main Examinations

Your rank in UPSC CSE will only depend on Main Examinations and your Interview (Personality Test). Your UPSC CSE Main consists of 1750 marks and Interview (Personality Test) section consists of 275 marks.

Your UPSC syllabus for the main examination contains nine papers, but only seven papers are considered for final ranking. In the remaining two papers, you have to secure minimum marks which are declared by UPSC every year and

The main Exam of UPSC Civil Services is the totally written examination and it consists of following papers which are mentioned below.

·         Two papers which only qualifying papers and not counted for your final ranking.

Paper-A

(You have to select any one Indian Language from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Indian Constitution). Total Marks 300.

Note: – If you belong to Sikkim, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, and Arunachal Pradesh, these papers are not necessary for you.

Paper-B

English language. Total Marks 300.

IPS syllabus and papers which are counted for final merits.

Paper, Subject and Content, Marks 

Paper-I, Essay ( It Can be written in the medium or language of the candidate’s choice),250

Paper-II, General Studies-I (Culture and Indian Heritage|History and Geography of the World and Society),250

Paper- III, General Studies –II (Constitution| Governance| Social Justice| Polity| and International relations),250
Paper-IV, General Studies –III (Economic Development| Technology| Environment| Biodiversity| Disaster Management and Security),250
Paper-V, General Studies –IV (Aptitude| Integrity| and Ethics),250
Paper-VI,Optional Subject – Paper 1,250
Paper-VII, Optional Subject – Paper 2,250

NEW ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR UPSC, IPS, IAS or  IPS Exam

Since it is one of the most mandatory posts for our country.  The board authorized by the govt.(UPSC) carry out frequent changes in the selection process and criteria to make sure it recruit the best for the post and thus a new eligibility criteria has been introduced is as follow:

·         UPSC board have changed the upper age limit and number of attempts of application for a candidate of the Civil Service Examination with from 2015.

·         Updates shows that, the upper age limit is going to be 37 years for reserved castes like scheduled caste and scheduled and no limit on them to apply for this exam; 35 years for other backward castes with a fortunate count of nine attempts; and 32 years of age to be as upper limit for general caste with 6 chances to qualify for this exam.

·         For candidates struggling with physical impurities the age limit will be 42,45, a 47 for general, OBC and SC/STs respectively whereas the no. of attempts remain 9 for the general and other backward castes and infinite for SC/SC people.