Friends, we all know about the importance of a government job, but when it comes to which is the best, that is, the highest position and the most prestigious job in a government job, then the name of an IAS officer is also the first name in this. come in. At present, lakhs of students dream of becoming an IAS officer in the future, and for that they prepare for its exam for years. Students who dream of IAS, they know so much that for this they have to pass UPSC exam, but many students have confusion about how much rank is required to become an IAS? DoonIAs Academy

Today here in this article we will talk about how much rank should come to become an IAS?

In civil services, the students who dream of getting selected as IAS have to come under how many ranks?

 

What is the rank required for IAS?

Actually, how much rank should come to become an IAS, for the correct answer, we have to understand the whole process of UPSC examination very well, and we will understand about it further, how many rank students in different sections will become IAS, it is many. Depends on the things, but if we talk as an average first, then general category students should come under 90 rank to become IAS, OBC and EWS category students should be less to become IAS. Should come within 300 rank, and if sc/st class students want to get selected as IAS then they have to get rank within 450.

We are talking about the UPSC exam here, so it is important to understand the whole process of how these ranks are determined in the UPSC exam.

 

How is the rank decided in UPSC?

To understand the process of deciding the rank, let us talk a little bit about UPSC.

Union Public Service Commission of India conducts Civil Services Examination every year through which candidates are appointed in a total of 24 services like IAS and IPS.

There are two types of categories under the services of UPSC, first All India Services and second Central Services.

IAS and IPS posts are recruited in the All India Services, which are given to the cadre of the state and union territories.

The rest comes from IFS, IRS and other such services of Group A and B. But here we will focus only on IS.

Now talk about UPSC exam, it is conducted in 3 phases, in which prelims then mains and finally interview i.e. interview.

 

UPSC prelims – (preliminary exam)

It consists of two papers of two hours each.

The first paper is of general studies, on the basis of which the cut off is prepared, only the candidates who clear the cut off can sit in the further examination.

The second paper is CSAT, a qualifying paper, that is, getting only 33% marks in it, the candidate gets the job done.

For example, it is necessary to get 67 marks in a paper of 200 marks.

It is to be noted that if the candidate has cleared the cut off in the first paper but did not score the qualifying marks in the second paper then the prelims will not be considered as clear.

Both the prelims papers are there in 2 shifts.

 

UPSC mains –

After clearing the prelims candidates can appear for the mains exam, and that is what you can call the real written exam of UPSC. Because it is actually tougher than prelims.

Altogether 9 papers are to be given in Mains. First of all, there are two papers of language (eng + Indian/regional language), which are qualifying papers. That is, the same 33% marks have to be scored. The marks of this paper are not counted in making the merit list, after that there is an essay paper. In this too two essays have to be written in three hours. Different topics are available for writing both these essays, which you can choose according to your own. Then there are four general studies papers of 3-3 hours each. Maximum two papers are taken in a day, followed by optional papers. It consists of paper l and paper ll. Students can choose the optional papers according to their own, in whichever they are good, in this way there are a total of 9 papers. Except for the language paper, the marks of all the papers are added at the time of preparation of the merit list. And after all this comes the interview. Many candidates consider the interview to be the most difficult stage. In this, according to the information given by you, the interviewer, who is himself a civil service officer, asks you questions, and accordingly gives you marks out of the whole number. The final result is prepared by adding the marks of all three prelims mains and interviews. And what we are talking about in this article, how to determine the rank, it happens from this.

 

Ranking determination process

Above we have learned that a candidate has to get marks in UPSC in this way. Now talk about the bank, first of all it depends on the vacancy. Meaning how many vacancies have come out for which posts that year. And which option candidates have chosen in different categories. Here option means, some candidates first give preference to IAS, some to IPS and some to IFS.

And of course, the category means General, SC, ST, OBC and EWS (i.e. those who come under the Economically Weaker Category). All the candidates who appear in the UPSC exam, they already clear their preference, whether their first preference is IAS or IFS or IPS while filling the mains exam form.

The final result is obtained by adding up the marks of Pre, Mains and Interview and then accordingly the IAS who get the highest number of marks are made, if they have the same preference. If someone who brings a higher rank does not choose IAS, then IAS with subsequent ranks are made, similarly the posts after IAS are found with gradually decreasing marks. Like if there is a vacancy of 100 posts, and there are 30 vacancies for IAS in it, then all the top 30 people will get IAS. It may also happen that some of those top 30 people prefer some other post (like IPS or IRS etc.).

So in this way people who are a little behind in merit, if they keep their preference IAS, then they can get this post.

 

In this way some backward ranked candidates can also get IAS.

For example, in the UPSC results of 2018, there were 812 vacancies till the results were announced, the rank of the last IAS post in the general category was 92.

Similarly if there are 70 vacancies for IAS in general category, then even top rankers of 90-95 can get IAS in general category.

Similarly this rank goes up to 300 for OBC/EWS and 450 for sc/st.