UPSC Civil Service Examination 2025

All candidates (male/female/transgender) are requested to carefully read the Rules of Civil Services Examination notified by the Government (Department of Personnel and Training) and this Notice of Examination derived from these Rules. The Candidates applying for the examination should ensure that they fulfill all eligibility conditions for admission to examination. Their admission to all the stages of the examination will be purely provisional subject to satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions. Mere issue of e-Admit Card to the candidate will not imply that his/her candidature has been finally cleared by the Commission. The Commission takes up verification of eligibility conditions with reference to original documents only after the candidate has qualified for Interview/Personality Test.


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Preliminary Examination of the Civil Services Examination for recruitment to the Services and Posts mentioned below will be held by the Union Public Service Commission on 25th May, 2025 in accordance with the Rules published by the Department of Personnel & Training in the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 22nd January, 2025. All candidates must carefully read the Civil Services Examination2025 Rules together with all the Appendices along with the Annexures thereof and this Examination Notice derived from the CSE Rules-2025 in entirety for gaining awareness of the current Rules and Regulations as changes may have been incorporated since the previous Examination Rules. 

✔️ CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION

 (i) Indian Administrative Service 
 (ii) Indian Foreign Service 
 (iii) Indian Police Service 
 (iv) Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (v) Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (vi) Indian Corporate Law Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (vii) Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (viii) Indian Defence Estates Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (ix) Indian Information Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (x) Indian Postal Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (xi) Indian Post & Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (xii) Indian Railway Management Service (Traffic), Group ‘A’ 
 (xiii) Indian Railway Management Service (Personnel), Group ‘A’ 
 (xiv) Indian Railway Management Service (Accounts), Group ‘A’ 
 (xv) Indian Railway Protection Force Service, Group ‘A’ 
 (xvi) Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Indirect Taxes) Group ‘A’ 
 (xvii) Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) Group ‘A’ 
 (xviii) Indian Trade Service, Group ‘A’ (Grade III) 
 (xix) Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group ‘B’ (Section Officer’s Grade) 
 (xx) Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service (DANICS), Group ‘B’ 
 (xxi) Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Service (DANIPS), Group ‘B’ 
 (xxii) Pondicherry Civil Service (PONDICS), Group ‘B’ 
 (xxiii) Pondicherry Police Service (PONDIPS), Group ‘B’

 ✔️ INDIAN FOREST SERVICE EXAMINATION

IMPORTANT DATES

Application Starting : 22.01.2025

Application Closing : 11.02.2025 Extended to 21.02.2025

VACANCY

The number of vacancies to be filled through the IFS examination is expected to be approximately 150.

The number of vacancies to be filled through the Civil Service examination is expected to be approximately 979

Total : 1129

AGE LIMIT

A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years on 1st August, 2025, i.e. he must have been born not earlier than 2nd August, 1993 and not later than 1st August, 2004.  

The upper age-limit prescribed above will be relaxable: 

(a) up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe; 

 (b) up to a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates

EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

For CIVIL SERVICE

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.  

For IFS

Bachelor Degree as one of Subject Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statics and Zoology, Agriculture or Equivalent.



SELECTION PROCEDURE

Phase 1: Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective Type)

Phase 2: Civil Services (Mains) Examination (Descriptive Type)

Phase 3: Personal Interview (Personality Test)

HOW TO APPLY

Apply Mode : Online

Candidates are required to apply online by using the website http://upsconline.gov.in. It is essential for the applicant to register himself/herself first at One Time Registration (OTR) platform, available on the Commission’s website, and then proceed for filling up the online application for the examination. OTR Profile (Registration) has to be registered only once in life time. This can be done anytime throughout the year. If the candidate is already registered, he/she can proceed straightway for filling up the Online Application for the examination.

Last Date : 11.02.2025 Extended to 21.02.2025

APPLICATION FEE

Candidates (Except Female/SC/ST/Persons with Benchmark Disability Candidates who are exempted from payment of fee) are required to pay fee of Rs. 100/- (Rupees One Hundred only) either by remitting the money in any Branch of State Bank of India by cash or by using Net Banking facility of any bank or by using Visa/Master/RuPay/Credit/Debit Card/UPI Payment. Applicants who opt for "Pay by Cash" mode should print the system generat


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