Published on : 12-FEB-2014
Civil
services aspirants can now take a sigh of relief. The Central
Government on 10 February has announced 2 additional attempts permitted
to the candidates of all the categories aspiring to make it in the
prestigious competitive civil services examination, which is conducted
by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), GOI. The 2 additional
attempts will take effect from Civil Services 2014 Examinations.
After the orders issued by Department of
Personnel and Training, announcing the centre’s approval for 2 more
attempts, the Civil Service Aspirants of a General category will now be
able to appear for the Civil Services Examination 6 times in total,
while OBC aspirants would be able to attempt the exam 9 times in total.
As per the eligibility mentioned in the
notification, a candidate who has attained the age of 21 years but not
attained 30 years is eligible to apply for the civil services
examination. However, the upper age limit criteria remains same and
only attempts have been increased, adhering to the upper age limit
prescribed for the candidate’s category.
The ST/SC was already having no cap on
the number of attempting limits. However, the upper age limit to appear
in the examination is relaxed for the ST/SC categories to up to a
maximum of five year and for OBC aspirants the relaxation is up to a
maximum of three years. The upper age relaxation is also set for
Physically Handicapped candidates, for up to a maximum of 10 years.
The centre’s decision of allowing 2 more
examination attempts for all categories came after knowing about the
grievances of aspirants who were moved by the "sudden" changes made in
the Civil Services examination by the UPSC, in both exam syllabus as
well as paper pattern for the Civil Services Mains exam 2013. Unpleasant
with the change, the aspirants demanded for more time to be able to
adapt themselves to the new modifications in Syllabus and other changes,
effected in the civil services examination pattern from March 2013
examination.
The revised paper notified by UPSC on
March 5, 2013 doubled the number of papers for General Studies and
significantly increasing its weightage vis-a-vis optional subjects,
months ahead of the Mains 2013 exam.
The Civil Service Examinations is
conducted by the UPSC to select Indian Administrative Service (IAS),
Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Foreign Service (IFS) among
others. The examination is held in three stages - preliminary, mains and
interview to select the eligible candidate for this job of high repute.
This year the Civil Services examination (Preliminary) is scheduled to be held on 24 August, 2014 (Tentatively).
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