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Indian Forest Service (Preliminary) Examination, through CS (P) Examination
The INDIAN FOREST SERVICE (IFS) Competitive Examination Comprises two successive stages :
(i) UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective Type) for the screening & selection of candidates for Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination; and
(ii) Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates against the vacancies identified and reported for the Indian Forest Service Examination.
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This UPSC Preliminary examination is meant to serve as a screening test only; the marks obtained in the UPSC Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Main Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit.
Only those candidates who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the UPSC Preliminary Examination in the year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year provided they are otherwise eligible for admission, to the Main Examination.
UPSC PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION :
The UPSC CS Examination shall comprise of two compulsory Papers of 200 marks each.
(i) Both the UPSC CS question papers will be of the objective type (multiple choice questions).
(ii) The UPSC General Studies Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.
(iii) The UPSC CS question papers will be set both in Hindi and English.
(v) Each paper will be of two hours duration.
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UPSC CS Paper I -
Total Marks : 200 Marks;
Duration: Two Hours;
Number of Questions: 100
Subject Area :
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.
UPSC CS Paper II -
Total Marks : 200 Marks;
Duration: Two Hours;
Number of Questions: 80
Marking Scheme: Total 80 questions have 200 marks, thus each question is of 2.5 marks.
Subject Area :
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 magnitudes) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. -Class X level)
There is a negative marking of 33% or 0.83 marks.
The UPSC questions are of multiple choice, objective type.
INDIAN FOREST SERVICE (IFS) MAIN EXAMINATION :
(A) The written examination consisting of the following papers:-
Paper I General English : 300 Marks
Paper II General Knowledge : 300 Marks
Paper III & Paper IV , Paper V & Paper VI Any two subjects to be 200 marks for each paper selected from below
(B) Interview for Personality Test Maximum Marks : 300 Marks
List of optional subjects :
(i) Agriculture
(ii.) Agricultural Engineering
(iii) Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science
(iv) Botany
(v) Chemistry
(vi) Chemical Engineering
(vii) Civil Engineering
(viii) Forestry
(ix) Geology
(x) Mathematics
(xi) Mechanical Engineering
(xii) Physics
(xiii) Statistics
(xiv) Zoology
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