UPSC Civil Service prelims 2020: Check previous year question papers here

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts Civil Service Examination for the recruitment to the various services.

The selection process of UPSC Civil Service recruitment includes Preliminary examination, Main examination and Personality Test or Interview.

The candidates who qualify the UPSC Civil Service examination will be eligible for the appointment to the following services — Indian Administrative Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Police Service, Indian P & T Accounts & Finance Service, Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Indian Defence Accounts Service, Indian Revenue Service (I.T.), Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Indian Postal Service, Indian Civil Accounts Service, Indian Railway Traffic Service, Indian Railway Accounts Service, Indian Railway Personnel Service, Post of Assistant Security Commissioner in Railway Protection Force, Indian Defence Estates Service, Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Indian Trade Service, Indian Corporate Law Service, Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Pondicherry Civil Service, Pondicherry Police Service.

The commission is scheduled to conduct the Civil Service preliminary examination on May 31, 2020.

Scheme and subjects for the Preliminary Examination:

The Examination comprises two compulsory Papers of 200 marks each.

(i) Both the question papers will be of the objective type (multiple choice questions) and the duration of each paper will be two hours.
(ii) The General Studies Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.
(iii) The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English.

Candidates should note that there will be penalty (negative marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the Objective Type Question Papers.


Here are the UPSC Civil Service prelims previous year question papers for the candidates to enhance their exam preparation. Preparing with the previous year question paper will give you a better idea about exam pattern and scheme.


UPSC Civil Service preliminary question papers 2019



General Studies Paper-I


General Studies Paper-II

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