Earlier, the Prelims exam was
scheduled to be held on May 31, 2020, but the Commission decided to postpone
it in view of the COVID-19 outbreak in India.
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Agencies
New Delhi: Union Public Service
Commission (UPSC) has released a notification stating that it will announce the
UPSC IAS Prelims Exam Date 2020 on June 5 after analysing the COVID-19 situation
in the country. Those candidates who submitted their application to appear for
this examination should visit the official website-https://upsc.gov.in/ to know
the revised schedule for the preliminary examination.
Notably, the UPSC will conduct the Civil Services Prelims
Exam for the recruitment of as many as 796 vacant posts of IAS/IPS/IFS/MISC.
Earlier, the Prelims exam was scheduled to be held on May 31, 2020, but the
Commission decided to postpone it in view of the COVID-19 outbreak in India.
The candidates who applied for the UPSC Civil Services
Recruitment 2020 should now start their preparation as the schedule for the
upcoming exams will ne announced in the first week of June.
The UPSC Prelims 2020 exams will be held in two sessions: GS
Paper 1 and GS Paper 2 CSAT. It will be held offline in pen and paper mode and
the candidates will be required to mark their answers in the OMR Sheet.
The candidates would be expected to answer questions on
current events, Indian History, Indian Geography, World Geography, Indian
Polity, Indian Economy, General Science, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning
Ability and English Language.
Both the papers will be held on the same day in a duration
of 2 hours. The paper will be based on the negative marking pattern under which
1/3rd marks for every wrong answer would be deducted.
The total marks allotted for each paper is 200 marks. The GS
CSAT paper is qualifying in nature, therefore, candidates need to score atleast
33% percent marks to pass this paper.
It may be noted that Personality Tests of the candidates who
qualified the mains exams fo the last year have also been deferred. The UPSC
stated, "Due to the prevailing conditions caused by the Novel Corona Virus
(COVID-19), as a precautionary measure, the Personality Tests (Interviews) of
the candidates of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2019 scheduled from
23rd March, 2020 to 3rd April, 2020 are deferred till further orders."
"New dates for the Personality Tests (Interviews) will
be informed to the candidates in due course of time," it added.
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