UPSC Civil Services Exam Pattern

UPSC Civil Exam Pattern

UPSC CSE Pattern – Prelims

Paper	Type	No. of questions	UPSC Total Marks	Duration	Negative marks
General Studies I	Objective	100	200	2 hours	Yes
General Studies II (CSAT)	Objective	80	200	2 hours	Yes
Total UPSC marks for Prelims	400 (where GS Paper II is qualifying in nature with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%)

UPSC CSE Pattern – Mains

Paper	Subject	Duration	Total marks
Paper A	Compulsory Indian language	3 hours	300
Paper B	English	3 hours	300
Paper I	Essay	3 hours	250
Paper II	General Studies I	3 hours	250
Paper III	General Studies II	3 hours	250
Paper IV	General Studies III	3 hours	250
Paper V	General Studies IV	3 hours	250
Paper VI	Optional I	3 hours	250
Paper VII	Optional II	3 hours	250

UPSC CSE Pattern – Interview

Stage	Total Marks
UPSC Interview	275

Examination Cities:

UPSC Prelims Centres
Agartala	Gurgaon	Puducherry	Aurangabad	Jodhpur	Almora (Uttarakhand)
Gorakhpur	Port Blair	Aizawl	Jaipur	Shimla	Itanagar
Patna	Ajmer	Imphal	Sambalpur	Bhopal	Rajkot
Agra	Gwalior	Pune	Bengaluru	Jorhat	Ananthapuru
Srinagar	Prayagraj (Allahabad)	Aligarh	Jammu	Siliguri	Jabalpur
Chandigarh	Ahmedabad	Indore	Shillong	Bilaspur	Ranchi
Kohima	Hyderabad	Raipur	Bareilly	Kochi	Dharwar
Srinagar (Uttarakhand)	Navi Mumbai	Coimbatore	Leh	Tiruchirapalli	Madurai
Chennai	Warangal	Kozhikode (Calicut)	Thiruvananthapuram	Delhi	Udaipur
Kolkatta	Ghaziabad	Thane	Dehradun	Ludhiana	Dispur
Surat	Panaji (Goa)	Cuttack	Lucknow	Tirupati	Gangtok
Mumbai	Varanasi	Faridabad	Mysuru	Vellore	Gaya
Nagpur	Vijayawada	Gautam Buddh Nagar	Nasik	Vishakhapatnam

UPSC Mains Exam Centres
Ahmedabad	Dispur	Chandigarh	Dehradun	Chennai	Raipur
Delhi	Prayagraj	Jammu	Mumbai	Shimla	Bhopal
Patna	Bengaluru	Shillong	Vijayawada	Cuttack	Jaipur
Aizawl	Hyderabad	Kolkata	Thiruvananthapuram	Lucknow	Ranchi