UPSC IES Exam Pattern

UPSC IES Exam Pattern 2024:

UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) will release the UPSC IES Exam Pattern 2024. The Exam Pattern 2024 will be mentioned in the official IES 2024 notification. UPSC IES Exam Pattern 2024 contains a total number of marks, negative markings, subject names, and more. Along with the UPSC Exam Pattern 2024, candidates should be aware of the IES syllabus. Knowing the Exam Pattern will help in better exam preparation.

The UPSC IES Exam will be completed in three stages named as stage-1 (Preliminary Examination), Stage-2 (Main Examination), and Stage -3 (Personal Interview). IES Preliminary Exam 2024 will be conducted in the month of January 2024. IES Main Exam 2024 will be held in the month of July 2024. UPSC IES Exam Application Form 2024 will be issued online in the month of September 2024.

UPSC IES Exam Pattern 2024:

Section I

The examination must be conducted according to the following plan:

Stage-I: Engineering Services (Preliminary/Stage-I) Examination (Objective Type Papers) for the selection of candidates for the Stage-II: Engineering Services (Main/Stage-II) Examination
Stage-II: Engineering Services (Main/Stage-II) Examination (Conventional Type Papers) and
Stage-III: Personality Test

The Engineering Services (Preliminary/Stage-I) Examination consists of two objective types (multiple choices) questions papers carrying a maximum of 500 marks (Paper 1 - 200 Marks & Paper II - 300 Marks). Only those aspirants who are acknowledged by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary/Stage-I Examination in the year will be eligible for further process to the Main/Stage-II Examination of that year otherwise eligible for admission to the Main/Stage-II Examination. The Marks obtained in the Preliminary/Stage-I Examination by the aspirants who are declared qualified for admission to the Main/Stage-II Examination will be counted for determining their final order of merit. The number of candidates to be eligible for the Main/Stage-II Examination will be about six to seven times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filled in the year through this IES examination.

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Note I: The Commission will propose a list of candidates to be qualified for the Engineering Services (Main/Stage-II) Examination based on the criterion of minimum qualifying marks in General Studies and Engineering Aptitude Paper (Paper-I) and Engineering Discipline specific paper (Paper-II) of Preliminary/Stage-I Examination.

Note II: There will be a penalty (Negative Marking) for each wrong answer marked by a candidate in the objective type question papers.

There will be four alternatives for the answers to every question. For every question for which a wrong answer has been assigned by the candidate, one-third (1/3rd) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as a penalty.
If a candidate gives more than one answer, it will be considered as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be the same penalty as above for that question.
If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is opted by the candidate, there will be no penalty for that question.

3.1 The Engineering Services (Main/stage-II) Examination consists of two conventional type papers in Engineering Discipline specific with a duration of three hours and maximum marks of 600 (300 Marks in each paper).

3.2 Stage-III consists of Personality Test carrying 200 Marks.

4.1 Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in Stage-I: Engineering Services (Preliminary/Stage-I) and Stage II: Engineering Services (Main/Stage-II) Examination as may be fixed by the Commission as per its discretion should be summoned by them for Stage-III (Personality Test). The number of aspirants to be summoned for the Personality Test will be about twice the number of vacancies to be filled. The Personality Test of the exam will carry 200 marks (with no minimum qualifying marks).

4.2 Marks obtained by the aspirants in Stage-I: (Preliminary/Stage-I) Examination, Stage-II: (Main/Stage-II) Examination, and Stage-III (Personality Test) will determine their final ranking. Candidates will be allotted the various services keeping in view their ranks in the examination and the preference expressed by them for the various services/posts.

Candidates are advised to read carefully all the special instructions to the candidates for conventional type tests and objective type tests given in Appendix-III (Part A and Part B) including the procedure regarding filing the Answer Sheet of objective type tests in the Examination Hall uploaded on the Commission’s website (www.upsc.gov.in) on 26.09.2018.
In the Personality Test, special attention will be given to assessing the candidate’s capacity for leadership, initiative and intellectual curiosity, tact and other social qualities, mental and physical energy, powers of practical application, and integrity of character.
Conventional papers must be answered in English. The question paper will be set in English only.
Details of the syllabi for Stage-I: (Preliminary/stage-I) and Stage-II: (Main/Stage-II) are in Section III.

Section II

Stage-I (Preliminary/Stage-I) Examination:-

The Examination shall comprise of two papers

Subject	Duration	Max. Marks
Category-I Civil Engineering
Paper-I (General Studies and Engineering Aptitude)	2 hours	200
Paper-II (Civil Engineering)	3 hours	300
Total		500

Subject	Duration	Max. Marks
Category-II Mechanical Engineering
Paper-I (General Studies and Engineering Aptitude)	2 hours	200
Paper-II (Mechanical Engineering)	3 hours	300
Total		500

Subject	Duration	Max. Marks
Category-III Electrical Engineering
Paper-I (General Studies and Engineering Aptitude)	2 hours	200
Paper-II (Electrical Engineering)	3 hours	300
Total		500

Subject	Duration	Max. Marks
Category-IV Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Paper-I (General Studies and Engineering Aptitude)	2 hours	200
Paper-II (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)	3 hours	300
Total		500

Stage-II (Main/Stage-II) Examination:-

The Examination shall comprise of two papers

Subject	Duration	Max. Marks
Category-I Civil Engineering
Paper-I ( Civil Engineering)	3 hours	300
Paper-II (Civil Engineering)	3 hours	300
Total		600

Subject	Duration	Max. Marks
Category-II Mechanical Engineering
Paper-I ( Mechanical Engineering)	3 hours	300
Paper-II (Mechanical Engineering)	3 hours	300
Total		600

Subject	Duration	Max. Marks
Category-II Electrical Engineering
Paper-I ( Electrical Engineering)	3 hours	300
Paper-II (Electrical Engineering)	3 hours	300
Total		600

Subject	Duration	Max. Marks
Category-II Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Paper-I (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)	3 hours	300
Paper-II (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)	3 hours	300
Total		600