Eligibility Condition

• Nationality
  • A candidate must be
    • ❖ a citizen of India or
    • ❖ a subject of Nepal or
    • ❖ a subject of Bhutan or
    • ❖ a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
    • ❖ a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.


• Age Limit
  • A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years.
  
  
  • Relaxation
    • ❖ Up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Schedule Tribe
    • ❖ Up to a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to OBC (Non Creamy layer)
    • ❖ Up to a maximum of three years in the case of Defence Services Personnel, disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof
    • ❖ Up to a maximum of five years in the case of ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have rendered at least five years Military Service
    • ❖ Up to a maximum of 10 years in the case of
      • ➢ Blindness and low vision;
      • ➢ Deaf and hard of hearing;
      • ➢ Locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy;
      • ➢ Autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness


• Minimum Educational Qualification
  
  • A candidate must hold a Bachelor's degree with at least one of the subjects namely
    • ❖ Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science
    • ❖ Botany
    • ❖ Chemistry
    • ❖ Geology
    • ❖ Mathematics
    • ❖ Physics
    • ❖ Statistics
    • ❖ Zoology or
  • A Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Forestry or in Engineering of any of 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.

Note: Candidates who have appeared at an examination the passing of which would render them educationally qualified for the Commission’s examination but have not been informed of the result as also the candidates who intend to appear at such a qualifying examination will also be eligible for admission to the Preliminary Examination.

• Number of Attempts
  • Every candidate appearing at the examination shall be permitted six attempts at the examination.
  
  
  • NO restriction on the number of attempts in the case of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
  
  
  • Candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes shall be permitted nine attempts at the examination.
  
  
  •  Candidate of Persons with Benchmark Disability belonging to the General and EWS Category shall be eligible for nine attempts.

Note: An attempt at a Preliminary Examination shall be deemed to be an attempt at the Examination.

If a candidate actually appears in any one paper in the Preliminary Examination, as a candidate for the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination, it will be deemed that the candidate has made an attempt at the Examination.

Notwithstanding the disqualification/cancellation of candidature, the fact of appearance of the candidate at the examination will count as an attempt.

Center of Preliminary Examination

Agartala	Agra	Ajmer	Ahmedabad	Aizawl
Aligarh	Anantapur (AP)	Aurangabad	Bangalore	Bareilly
Bhopal	Bilaspur	Chandigarh	Chennai	Coimbatore
Cuttack	Dehradun	Delhi	Dharwad	Dispur
Faridabad	Gangtok	Gaya	Ghaziabad	Gorakhpur
Gurgaon	Gwalior	Hyderabad	Imphal	Indore
Itanagar	Jabalpur	Jaipur	Jammu	Jodhpur
Jorhat	Kochi	Kohima	Kolkata	Kozhikode
Lucknow	Ludhiana	Madurai	Mumbai	Mysore
Nagpur	Navi Mumbai	Gautam Buddh Nagar	Panji	Patna
Port Blair	Prayagraj	Puducherry	Pune	Raipur
Rajkot	Ranchi	Sambalpur	Shillong	Shimla
Siliguri	Srinagar	Thane	Thiruvananthapuram	Tiruchirapalli
Tirupati	Udaipur	Varanasi	Vellore	Vijayawada
Visakhapatnam	Warangal

Note: Allotment of Centers will be on the "first-apply-first allot" basis, and once the capacity of a particular Centre is attained, the same will be frozen. UPSC reserves the right to change the Centers at its discretion if the situation demands.

Center of Mains Examination

Bhopal	Chennai	Hyderabad	Kolkata
Port Blair	Shimla	Delhi	Lucknow
Dispur	Nagpur

Fees

Every Candidates are required to pay fee of Rs. 100/- (Rupees One Hundred only) Except

• ❖ Female
• ❖ Scheduled Cast (SC)
• ❖ Scheduled Tribes (ST)
• ❖ Persons with Benchmark Disability

Plan of Examination

• Two stage of Examination
  • ❖ Preliminary Examination (Only for Selection for Main Examination)
    • ➢ Objective Type
    • ➢ Two Paper
      • ■ Paper (I)
        • ● 200 Marks
        • ● 100 Question
        • ● Each Question have 2 Marks
      • ■ Paper (II)
        • ● 200 Marks
        • ● 80 Question
        • ● Each Question have 2 .5 Marks
  
  
  • ❖ Main Examination (Selection for various Services and Post)
    • ➢ Written Exam
      • ■ Paper I
        • ● General English
        • ● 300 Marks
      • ■ Paper II
        • ● General Knowledge
        • ● 300 Marks
      • ■ Paper III, IV, V & VI
        • ● Two Optional Subject selected from given list
        • ● Each subject will have two papers, 200 marks for each paper.
    • ➢ Interview : 300 marks with no minimum qualifying marks

Note: Union Public Service Commission will hold a Screening Test for selection to Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination through Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination in accordance with the Rules published by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change in the Gazette of India.

Syllabus of the Preliminary Examination

• ❖ Paper (I): 100 (Q) ; 200 (M) ; 2 hours
  • ➢ 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, Biodiversity and Climate Change - that do not require subject specialization.
  • ➢ General Science


• ❖ Paper (II): 80 (Q); 200 (M); 2 hours
  • ➢ 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 magnitude, etc.) (Class X level)
  • ➢ Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. — Class X level)

Notes: Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.

Syllabus of the Mains Examination

• ❖ General English
  • ➢ Candidates will be required to write an essay in English. O
  • ➢ the questions will be designed to test their understanding of English and workmanlike use of words.
  • ➢ Passages will usually be set for summary or précis.


• ❖ General Knowledge
  • ➢ knowledge of current events
  • ➢ Indian Polity including the political system
  • ➢ Constitution of India
  • ➢ History of India
  • ➢ Geography of a nature



Notes: The candidate should be able to answer the question without special study in this paper.

• ❖ Optional Subject

  Agriculture	Agricultural Engineering	Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science	Botany
  Chemistry	Chemical Engineering	Civil Engineering	Forestry
  Geology	Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering	Physicss
  Statistics	Zoology




Candidate will not be allowed to offer the following combination of subjects.



• ❖ Agriculture and Agriculture engineering
• ❖ Agriculture and Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science
• ❖ Agriculture and Forestry
• ❖ Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering
• ❖ Mathematics and Statistics
• ❖ Of the Engineering Subject viz. Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering—not more than one subject.

How to Apply

• Candidates are required to apply online using the website http://www.upsconline.nic.in
• Detailed instructions for filling up online applications are available on the above mentioned website