UPSC Civil Services Syllabus PDF 2024 IAS Exam Pattern

Get Details Regarding UPSC Civil Services Syllabus PDF 2024 IAS Exam Pattern

Updated on May-07-2024

Exam Name:	UPSC Civil Services Examination (IAS)
No Of Papers:	Prelims, Mains and Interview
Eligibility:	Any Graduate
Edu. Qualification:	Graduation
Exam Form:	in the month of March and April 2024
Official Website:	upsc.gov.in
Application Fees:	General / OBC - Rs. 100/- ST/SC/PWD - Nil.
Age Limit:	Minimum Age is 21 Years and Maximum is 32 For General, 35 Years for OBC and 37 Years for SC/ST Candidates.
Exam-Date:	06-Nov-2024
Apply Online:	upsc.gov.in
Syllabus:	Click the Button below to Download

UPSC Civil Services Syllabus PDF 2024 For Preliminary and Mains Examination is provided below. candidates those who wants to check IAS Syllabus PDF 2024 online can check it below in the given tables, if aspirants wants to download UPSC Syllabus and Exam Pattern PDF, then they shall proceed by downloading it from the above given download buttons.

S.No	Type	Total Marks
1.	Prelims (A)	400 Marks
2.	Mains (B)	1750 Marks.
3.	Interview (C)	275 Marks.
TOTAL MARKS (B+C)		2025 Marks.

UPSC IAS Prelims Syllabus PDF 2024 & Exam Pattern

Paper No.	Subjects	Total Marks	Duration
1.	General Studies (G.S.)	200 marks.	2 Hours
2.	CSAT	200 marks.	2 Hours

UPSC Civil Services Mains Syllabus PDF 2024 & Exam Pattern

Paper	Subject	Total Marks
Exam - 1.	Essay (Any Medium and Language)	250 marks.
Exam - 2.	General Studies (G.S.) - 1 (Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society)	250 marks.
Exam - 3	General Studies (G.S.) - 2 (Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations)	250 marks.
Exam - 4.	General Studies (G.S.) - 3 (Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)	250 marks.
Exam - 5.	General Studies (G.S.) - 4 (Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)	250 marks.
Exam - 6.	Optional Subject - Paper 1	250 marks.
Exam - 7.	Optional Subject - Paper 2 (A Candidate can also take up literature as an optional subject and candidate need not be a graduate in that language’s literature.)	250 marks.

UPSC IAS Optional Subjects

Optional Subjects	Literature Language
Agriculture	Assamese
Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science	Arabic
Anthropology	Bengali
Botany	Bodo
Chemistry	Dogri
Civil Engineering	French
Commerce and Accountancy	German
Economics	Gujarati
Electrical Engineering	Hindi
Geography	Kannada
Geology	Kashmiri
History	Konkani
Law	Maithili
Management	Malayalam
Mathematics	Manipuri
Mechanical Engineering	Marathi
Medical Science	Nepali
Philosophy	Oriya
Physics	Persian
Political Science and International Relations	Punjabi
Psychology	Russian
Public Administration	Sanskrit
Sociology	Santhali
Statistics	Sindhi
Zoology	Tamil
---	Telugu
---	Urdu
---	English