UPSC Mains 2021 Timetable: CSE Starts on January 7, 2022

UPSC will conduct Civil Services Main Exams for 2021-2022 from January 7, 2022. Check the detailed UPSC Mains 2021 Timetable here.

As per the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC),  Civil Services Mains Examination 2021 will be conducted on January 7, 8, 9, 15 and 16, 2022.

UPSC CSE  Mains 2021 Admit Card is now available to download.

UPSC CSE Mains exam is descriptive in nature (written exam). Mains is conducted in offline mode.

The final rank – to get selection into various services like IAS, IPS, IFS etc – will be calculated by adding the Main Exam marks and Interview marks.

ClearIAS Team wish all the candidates writing UPSC CSE Mains 2021, all the very best!

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UPSC Mains 2021 Timetable (CSE)

Note: For more details on each paper, refer UPSC Syllabus.

No Change in UPSC CSE Mains 2021 Timetable

After carefully reviewing the situation prevailing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission has decided to conduct the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2021 as per schedule i.e. on 7th, 8th, 9th, 15th and 16th January 2022.

Keeping in view the restrictions/curbs being imposed by the Governments to contain the disease, the Commission has requested the State Governments for ensuring that no inconvenience is caused to the candidates/ examination functionaries in their movement, especially those who are coming from containment / micro-containment zone(s).

If necessary, the candidates’ eAdmit Cards and ID Cards of the examination functionaries are to be used as movement passes.

Public Transport be made operational to the optimum level, UPSC requests state governments

The State Governments have been requested that public transport be made operational to the optimum level, at least on a day before the Examination till the date of conduct of the Examination i.e. from 06.01.2022 to 09.01.2022 and 14.01.2022 to 16.01.2022 for ensuring smooth movement of the candidates/examination functionaries.

All the competent District Authorities and the Venue Supervisors have been provided with the Guidelines of the Commission for the conduct of the Examinations in these times of pandemic.

Covid Related Guidelines for UPSC CSE Mains 2021

The guidelines mainly contain personal hygiene of the candidates/examination functionaries, maintenance of social distancing and wearing of masks by the candidates/ examinations functionaries all the time, provision of sanitisers at convenient places in the Venue and to the examination functionaries, candidates to carry their own sanitisers in transparent bottles, and sanitization of each Venue on regular basis.

 2 Surplus Examination rooms in each venue

Two surplus examination rooms will be provided at each venue for accommodating the candidates who would be coughing, sneezing, having breathlessness, feeling feverish so that they can take the Examination under appropriate safety protocols etc.

UPSC CSE Syllabus

UPSC Civil Services Exam (CSE) consists of 3 stages. The stages are (1) Preliminary Exam (objective) (2) Main Exam (written) and (3) Interview (personality test).

The Civil Services Preliminary exam comprises two compulsory papers of 200 marks each (General Studies Paper I and General Studies Paper-II). The questions will be of multiple-choice, objective type. The marks in prelims will not be counted for final ranking, but just for qualification for the main exam.

A candidate’s rank in the UPSC Civil Service Exam depends only on the mark scored in Main and Interview. The main exam has 1750 marks while the interview has 275 marks.

The written examination (main) will consist of the following nine papers, but only 7 papers will be counted for the final merit ranking. For the rest two papers, the candidate should secure minimum marks prescribed by UPSC each year.

For more details, refer to the ClearIAS information page on UPSC CSE Syllabus or refer to the UPSC website.