The Lok Sabha was informed yesterday that there is no proposal before the government to either reduce the upper age limit or the number of attempts for civil services aspirants. The UPSC conducts the CSE annually to recruit candidates for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), Indian Police Service (IPS), etc. The three stages of the examination consist of the preliminary round, followed by the mains and interview.
On an issue pertaining to the scheme of Civil Services Examination (CSE), a decision has been made that the scores acquired by candidates in the English Language Comprehension Skills (ELCS) questions in Paper II of the Civil Services Preliminary (prelims) examination 2014 will not be counted for final gradation and merit. Whereas, the candidates who appeared for CSE 2011 will be granted one more attempt in CSE 2015, a daily reported.
As per the recommendation, the upper age bar for candidates under the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) categories would be 29 years and for candidates under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category it would be 28 years and for unreserved candidates it would be 26 years. Under each category, there would be an extra two years for physically challenged candidates. Currently, the upper age limit for SC/ST candidates is 35 years, for OBC it is 33 and for unreserved candidates the limit is 30 years.
On an issue pertaining to the scheme of Civil Services Examination (CSE), a decision has been made that the scores acquired by candidates in the English Language Comprehension Skills (ELCS) questions in Paper II of the Civil Services Preliminary (prelims) examination 2014 will not be counted for final gradation and merit. Whereas, the candidates who appeared for CSE 2011 will be granted one more attempt in CSE 2015, a daily reported.
As per the recommendation, the upper age bar for candidates under the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe (SC/ST) categories would be 29 years and for candidates under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category it would be 28 years and for unreserved candidates it would be 26 years. Under each category, there would be an extra two years for physically challenged candidates. Currently, the upper age limit for SC/ST candidates is 35 years, for OBC it is 33 and for unreserved candidates the limit is 30 years.
According to information from the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances website, the total number of attempts that candidates are allowed for taking the Civil Services Examination was proposed to be brought down to six for candidates under the SC/ST categories, five for OBC and three for unreserved candidates. The physically challenged candidates under each category would get two additional attempts.
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