Since past few years, employment in India is at its best; never mind the insecurity that dangles over the Indian economy. Though the mushrooming of private sectors has produced plenty of employment opportunities for youths, but the pressure and deadline are few traits that today’s corporate world expect from their employees. After much dedication and hard work, the security of jobs keeps bothering employees. Keeping this thing in mind, there are many of us who aspire of attaining higher position in civil services. Civil Services not only offers job securities but also power, prestige, idealism and ability to change the system from within.  

As far as Civil Services are concerned, IPS has no analogous in terms of above mentioned traits. Like IAS, IPS too makes an integral part of the Indian system. IPS comprises of higher level police officials, especially concerned with the maintenance of law and order across the country. 

But, IPS service has an outer surface that reflects only few attributes like comfortable job and numerous benefits. However, the job consists of massive challenges that require a perfect skill to tackle. 

A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years on the 1st of August, 2023 (candidate must have been born not earlier than 2nd August 1991 and not later than 1st August 2002.)

The upper age-limit prescribed above will be relaxable -

Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe - up to a maximum of five years
Other Backward Classes - up to a maximum of three years

Minimum Educational Qualification -

A candidate must hold a Graduate degree of any of the Universities incorporated by an Act of the central or State Legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or possess an equivalent qualification.

Note - Candidates who have appeared at a qualifying examination the passing of which would render them educationally qualified for the Commission’s Examination but have not been informed of the result as also the candidates who intend to appear at such a qualifying examination will also be eligible for admission to the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination. All candidates who are declared qualified by the Commission for taking the Civil Services (Main) Examination will be required to produce proof of passing the requisite qualifying examination along with their application (i.e. Detailed Application Form-I) for the Main Examination, failing which such candidates will not be admitted to the Main Examination. Such proof of passing the requisite qualifying examination should be dated earlier than the due date (closing date) of Detailed Application Form-I of the Main Examination.

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IPS Syllabus

IPS 2023 Syllabus:-

Part A Preliminary Examination -

Paper I - 200 marks

Duration - 2 hours

Current events of national and international importance.

History of India and Indian National Movement.

Indian and World Geography-Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.

Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.

Economic and Social Development-Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.

General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change - that do not require subject specialization.

General Science.

Paper II- 200 marks

Duration - 2 hours

Comprehension;

Interpersonal skills including communication skills;

Logical reasoning and analytical ability;

Decision making and problem solving;

General mental ability;

Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. — Class X level);

Note 1 : Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.

Note 2 : The questions will be of multiple choice, objective type.

Note 3 : It is mandatory for the candidate to appear in both the Papers of Civil Services (Prelim) Examination for the purpose of evaluation. Therefore a candidate will be disqualified in case he/she does not appear in both the papers of Civil Services (Prelim) Examination.

 

Paper Pattern

IPS 2023 Pattern:-

A. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION -

The Examination shall comprise of two compulsory Papers of 200 marks each.

Note -

(i) Both the question papers will be of the objective type (multiple choice questions) and each will be of two hours duration.
(ii) The General Studies Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.
(iii) The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English.
(iv) Details of the syllabi are indicated in Part A of Section III

B. MAIN EXAMINATION -

The Written Examination will consist of the following papers:—

Qualifying Papers -

Paper A (One of the Indian Language to be selected by the candidate from the Languages included in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution) - 300 Marks

Paper B English - 300 Marks

Papers to be counted for merit:

Paper I Essay - 250 Marks

Paper II General Studies I - 250 Marks

(Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society)

Paper III General Studies II - 250 Marks

(Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice and International relations)

Paper-IV General Studies III - 250 Marks

(Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security and Disaster Management)

Paper-V General Studies IV - 250 Marks

(Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude)

Paper VI Optional Subject - Paper 1 - 250 Marks

Paper VII Optional Subject - Paper 2 - 250 Marks

Sub Total (Written test) - 1750 Marks

Personality Test - 275 Marks

Grand Total - 2025 Marks.

IPS Preparation

One of the essential tips to crack IPS 2023 exam is proper planning with devotion. Since IPS is among the toughest exams in India, it is recommendable for students to take up any of the top coaching institutes that prepare well to crack IPS. Candidates should improve writing skills as the exam includes important papers like English and Essay, in both the papers subjective questions are asked. Make sure that you have the best authors’ books that cover almost entire portions of the subjects that you have chosen. Having a glance at previous years’ papers is always conducive. 

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