Hello aspirant

The IPS syllabus has two categories

Preliminary exam- objective type for selection of candidates for main examination.

Syllabus for paper1-

Current events of National and international importance

History of India

Indian and world Geography, physical, social, economic

Indian polity and governance

Economic and social development

General issues on Environmental ecology

Papar2

Comprehension

Interpersonal skills

Logical reasoning

Decision making and problem solving

General mental ability

Basic numeracy

SYLLABUS FOR MAINS

PAPAER A 300 MARKS

COMPREHENSION

PRECISE WRITING

USAGE AND VOCABULARY

SHORT ESSAYS

TRANSPORTATION FROM ENGLISH TO INDIAN LANGUAGE

PAPER B

COMPREHENSION

PRECISE WRITING

USAGE AND VOCABULARY

SHORT ESSAYS

GENERAL STUDIES IN PAPER 3 PAPER 4.

PAPER 5

ETHICS, BIODIVERSITY, ENVIRONMENT, SECURITY

TOTAL MARKS 1750

Hello,

UPSC syllabus is same for all the posts, it's not that there's separate syllabus of IAS and IPS, after declaration of results based on ranks candidates are assigned posts.

Now,coming to UPSC Exam you must be aware of that it consists of three stages such as which as as follows;

Preliminary
Mains
Interview

Preliminary consists of 200 Marks for each paper. It mainly consists of GS Paper-I consists of the following topic such as History of India and Indian national movement, Indian and World geography, Economic and social development- sustainable development, poverty,inclusion demographics, social sector initiatives etc,Indian polity and governance-constitution,political system,Current Events nationally and Internationally, General Science,General Issues on environmental ecology,biodiversity and climate change. candidates just need to score the required cut offs against their respective category.

And then we have qualifying CSAT for which candidates need to score 33% and it includes topics such as basic numeracy, comprehension, logical reasoning and analytical ability, general mental ability, decision making and problem solving, interpersonal skills including communication skills.

Both the papers of Prelims consists of 200 marks each in MCQs format. in order to ace it, knowledge is required coupled with speed , its numbers are not added in the final list.


Coming to Mains it's more of a subjective type where candidates need to write answer for Four General Studies Paper such as

GS-I includes Indian Heritage and Culture,History and Geography of the World and Society,
GS-II includes Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International Relations,
GS-III includes Technology, Economic Development, Bio-Diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management,
GS-IV includes Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude

Two Optionals, One Essay, two language paper, there are total nine papers here. 250 marks for each paper, total is 1750 marks followed by Personality Test of 275 marks.

Hi

UPSC IAS/IPS Examination is conducted into two levels-

• prelims exam
• Mains exam.

Prelims syllabus

• It has two papers - General Studies Paper I and General Studies Paper-II.

Syllabus is :-

• Indian Polity,
• History,
• Indian Economy,
• Science and Technology,
• Environment and Ecology,
• International Relations and associated current affairs etc.

Similarly , you can get complete Syllabus of UPSC for both prelims and Mains examination by going to our page, the link is given below

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-syllabus

Thankyou