UPSC Exam Eligibility
Right of the bat, you must have a bachelor’s degree if you want to be eligible to take the IAS exams, and that is just one of the eligibility criteria.
There are other criteria of eligibility for UPSC as well that you definitely need to look into before applying for the IAS exam online.
So first and foremost, to be eligible to appear for the UPSC exam, you need to make sure that you meet the required educational qualifications.
The educational qualifications necessary to appear for the UPSC exams are not as steep as those required to appear for certain other exams like UGC NET and RBI Grade B.
By not steep I mean that the eligibility for UPSC does not require a minimum passing mark in your graduation certificate.
However, make no mistake. Do not let this fool you into thinking that the UPSC exam is in any way easier to crack than the others. The UPSC IAS exams are by far one of the toughest exams in India today. It would take a perfect IAS preparation strategy and a lot of hard work to make it through to be an IAS officer.
You’d also need the right IAS books to read and solve all IAS previous year question papers, both of which you can read about in the blogs I have written.
Anyway, tough or not, the very experience of attempting the IAS exams for the first time is something that is out of this world.
The sheer vastness of the IAS syllabus and the cleverness of the questions in the papers are sure to make you marvel at the scale of the exam.
Anyway, all talks aside, let me get straight to the topic at hand beginning with the UPSC exam eligibility of nationality.
UPSC IAS Exam Eligibility: Nationality
To appear for the UPSC IAS & IPS exams you need to be a citizen of India, for all other services, you must be either:
- A citizen of India,
- Or a subject of Nepal,
- Or a subject of Bhutan,
- Or a refugee from Tibet that came to India before the 1st of January 1962 with the intention of settling in India permanently.
- Or an individual with Indian origin who has migrated from Burma, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, East African countries of Uganda, Zambia, Zaire, Kenya, the united republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, & Vietnam, with the purpose of settling permanently in India. If you belong to categories b), c), d), and e), then you’d need a certificate issued by the govt. of India to be eligible. Also belonging to the b), c), d), and e). Categories will bar you from being eligible to be appointed to the Indian Foreign Services.
UPSC IAS Eligibility Criteria: Age Limit
Long story short – Gen: should not have touched age of 32 years, OBC: should not have touched age of 35 years, SC/ST: should not have touched age of 37 years, PWD: should not have touched age of 42 years.
Compared to the criterion of educational qualification (which I shall be getting to in the next sections), the UPSC eligibility criteria of age limit, and nationality are things over which you, as a candidate, have no control.
The most you can do is be done with your minimum educational qualification as soon as possible.
That way you’ll be able to save yourself the required number of attempts that you’d need to crack the UPSC exams.
However, there are certain variations to this rule as well, depending on a number of factors.
I will be enumerating each one in detail in the lines below.
I mention the issue of attempts here because it is common knowledge that very few candidates are able to crack the UPSC IAS exams in their first attempt itself.
UPSC IAS Eligibility Criteria: Minimum Educational Qualification
I have written the UPSC eligibility based on educational qualifications in detail below:
To appear for the UPSC IAS exam you must have proof that you are a graduate from a centrally or state-recognized university. This means that you should have a bachelor’s degree certificate from any university incorporated by an Act of the State and Central Legislature of India, or any institute of education established by an Act of the Parliament of India, or one that is declared to be a deemed university under Section-2 of the University Grants Commission Act of 1956, or possess a qualification equivalent to that.
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