Civil Service Mains

Exam Scheme 


Each Paper 250 Marks

Paper 1  Essay
Paper 2  English Comprehension
Paper 3  hindi Comprehension

Paper 4 General Studies-I      History, Society andGeography
Paper 5 General Studies-II     Polity, Governance, Social Justice And IR
Paper 6 General Studies-III    Economy, Environment, Science and technology, Internal Security
Paper 7 General Studies-IV    Ethics, Intergrity and Aptitude


Paper 8-9 Optionals Paper
Candidates can choose only one optional instead of two, and there will be two papers from a single optional (Paper VI and Paper VII); Also only students who have graduated with language as a major subject can chose that language literature as their optional. i.e., people with BE, MBBS or B.Sc., BA (History) can not opt for English/Kannada/Tamil/Telugu or any other language as their optional for mains)



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List of Optionals subjects
a) Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science
b) Anthropology
c) Botany
d) Chemistry
e) Civil Engineering
f) Commerce and Accountancy
g) Economics
h) Electrical Engineering
i) Geography
j) Geology
k) History
l) Law
m) Management
n) Mathematics
o) Mechanical Engineering
p) Medical Science
q) Philosophy
r) Physics
s) Political Science and International Relations
t) Psychology
u) Pubic Administration
v) Sociology
w) Statistics
x) Zoology
y) Literature of one of the following languages:
Arabic, Assamese, Bodo, Bengali, Dogri, Chinese, English, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Pali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.


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