NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Thursday introduced its resolution to postpone the June 27 civil services preliminary examination amid a surge in COVID-19 circumstances.
The exam will now be held on October 10, reported information company PTI.
“Due to the prevailing conditions caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the Union Public Service Commission has deferred the civil services (preliminary) examination, 2021, which was scheduled to be held on 27th June 2021. Now, this examination will be held on 10th October 2021,” an announcement issued by the fee mentioned.
The IAS 2021 prelims exam was earlier scheduled to be carried out on June 27. The IAS 2021 notification was issued on March 4. The final date to apply for the IAS 2021 exam was March 24. The IAS 2021 notification was issued for 712 vacancies.
Last yr the UPSC IAS prelims exam was scheduled for May 31, nevertheless it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Later it was carried out on October 4 throughout the nation.
The fee conducts civil services examination yearly in three phases — preliminary, fundamental and interview — to choose officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) amongst others. The IAS exam is among the hardest exam carried out throughout the nation due to its passing share and syllabus.
The IAS exam is carried out throughout the nation concurrently and it requires a big scale mobilisation of assets on the state degree. The IAS exam centres are finalised by the district Justice of the Peace and the affirmation of exam centres is shipped to the UPSC via the Chief Secretaries of the respective states. The police personnel are mobilised for the safety of the IAS query papers and on the UPSC exam centres.
The IAS Prelims exam is an goal kind exam carried out offline within the pen and paper mode. There are two query papers within the IAS Prelims exam and each the papers are of qualifying in nature. The marks secured within the IAS prelims exam is just not thought of for the UPSC end result. The IAS Prelims exam is carried out within the following sample.
