Indian Civil Services Examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), as a common examination for recruitment to various following services:

• The Indian Administrative Service [IAS]
• The Indian Foreign Service (IFS)
• The Indian Police Service [IPS]
• The Indian P&T Accounts and Finance Services
• The Indian Audit and Accounts Service
• The Indian Customs and Central Excise Service
• The Indian Defence Accounts Service
• The Indian Revenue Service
• The Indian Ordinance Factories Services
• The Indian Postal Service
• The Indian Civil Accounts Service
• The Indian Railway Traffic Service
• The Indian Railway Accounts Service
• The Indian Railway Personnel Service
• The Indian Defence Estates Service
• The Indian Information Service
• The Indian Trade Service
• The Assistant Commandant In The Central Industrial Security Service Force
• The Central Secretariat Service
• The Railway Board Secretariat Service
• The Armed Force Headquarters Civil Service
• The Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Administrative Services
• The Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Police Services

NOTE: UPSC will allot above said services as per his/ her preference and rank in the above said examinations.

• For General Merit Candidates – 4 + 2 attempts. [Minimum age 21 years & Maximum age 32 years as on 1st August of appearing year ]
• For other Backward Class Candidates – 7 + 2 attempts. [Minimum age 21 years & Maximum age 35 years as on 1st August of appearing year]
• For SC/ST Candidates – No attempts limit [Minimum age 21 years & maximum age 35 years as on 1st August of appearing year]
• ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Graduate / under graduate (UPSC will not consider percentage of marks or class in Degree)
• PLAN OF IAS, IPS, IFS……… EXAMINATION CONSISTS OF PRELIMINARY EXAM, MAIN EXAM & INTERVIEW