The UPSC had taken special precautions for the prelim examinations owing to the coronavirus guidelines. About 10.58 lakh candidates had registered for the UPSC civil services examination prelims.
The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the timetable for the UPSC CSE Main 2020 exams. Interested candidates can download the schedule from the official website-upsc.gov.in
The exams will start on January 8, 2021, and would end on January 17, 2021.
The exams will be held in two slots:1. morning session-9 AM to 12 noon, 2. afternoon session-2 PM to 5 PM.
The UPSC Prelims 2020 for Civil Services Preliminary and Indian Forest Services Preliminary Examination 2020 was held on October 4 this year amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
The board declared the result on October 23.
Only those candidates who cleared the prelims exams can attend the UPSC main exams.
There would be 7 papers in total.
Here is the schedule for the UPSC Main 2020 exams:
| Date |
Morning session |
Afternoon session |
| Janauary 8, 2021 |
Paper‐I Essay |
N/A |
| January 9, 2021 |
Paper‐II General Studies‐I |
Paper‐III General Studies‐II |
January 10, 2021 |
Paper‐IV General Studies‐III |
Paper‐V General Studies‐IV |
January 16, 2021 |
Paper‐A Indian Language {Assamese/Bengali/Bodo/Dogri/ Gujarati/Hindi/Kannada/Kashmiri/ Konkani/Maithilli/Malayalam/Manipuri /Marathi/Nepali/Odia/Punjabi/Sanskrit / Santhali (Devanagari/Olchiki Script)/ Sindhi (Devanagari/Arabic Script)/ Tamil/Telugu/Urdu} |
Paper B- English |
| January 17, 2021 |
Paper‐VI Optional Paper‐I {Agriculture/Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science/Anthropology/ Botany/Chemistry/Civil Engineering/ Commerce & Accountancy/Economics/ Electrical Engineering/Geography/ Geology/History/Law/Management/ Mathematics/Mechanical Engineering/ Medical Science/Philosophy/Physics/ Political Science & International Relations/Psychology/Public Administration/Sociology/Statistics/ Zoology/Literature of any one of the following languages: Assamese/Bengali/Bodo/Dogri/ Gujarati/Hindi/Kannada/Kashmiri/ Konkani/Maithilli/Malayalam/Manipuri /Marathi/Nepali/Odia/Punjabi/Sanskrit /Santhali/Sindhi/Tamil/Telugu/Urdu/ English} |
Paper‐VII Optional Paper‐II {Agriculture/Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science/Anthropology/ Botany/Chemistry/Civil Engineering/ Commerce & Accountancy/Economics/ Electrical Engineering/Geography/ Geology/History/Law/Management/ Mathematics/Mechanical Engineering/ Medical Science/Philosophy/Physics/ Political Science & International Relations/Psychology/Public Administration/Sociology/Statistics/ Zoology/Literature of any one of the following languages: Assamese/Bengali/Bodo/Dogri/ Gujarati/Hindi/Kannada/Kashmiri/ Konkani/Maithilli/Malayalam/Manipuri /Marathi/Nepali/Odia/Punjabi/Sanskrit /Santhali/Sindhi/Tamil/Telugu/Urdu/ English} |
The UPSC had taken special precautions for the prelim examinations owing to the coronavirus guidelines. Candidates who had appeared for the exam rated the paper as difficult, and the paper followed the pattern of prelims of previous years.
About 10.58 lakh candidates had registered for the UPSC civil services examination prelims.
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