UPSC CS – GenAI Prompt Engineering Academy

Union Public Services Commission Civil Services

Civils Exam Pattern – Prelims
Paper	Type	No. of questions	UPSC Total Marks	Duration	Negative marks
General Studies I	Objective	100	200	2 hours	Yes
General Studies II (CSAT)	Objective	80	200	2 hours	Yes
Total UPSC marks for Prelims	400 (where GS Paper II is qualifying in nature with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%)

UPSC Interview Total Marks

275

General Studies	General Studies Paper – I General Studies Paper – II General Studies Paper – III General Studies Paper – IV
General	Essay

General	Essay
General Studies	General Studies – I General Studies – II General Studies – III General Studies – IV

General	Essay
General Studies	General Studies Paper – I General Studies Paper – II General Studies Paper – III General Studies Paper – IV

General Studies	General Studies Paper – I General Studies Paper – II General Studies Paper – III General Studies Paper – IV
General	Essay

General

General Studies

Optional Subjects

#	Optional Paper I	Optional Paper II
1	Agricultural Paper – I	Agricultural Paper – II

2	Ani Hus. and Vet. Sc. Paper – I	Ani Hus. and Vet. Sc. Paper – II

3	Anthropology Paper – I	Anthropology Paper – II

4	Botany Paper – I	Botany Paper – II

5	Chemistry Paper – I	Chemistry Paper – II

6	Civil Engineering Paper – I	Civil Engineering Paper – II

7	Commerce and Accountancy Paper – I	Commerce and Accountancy Paper – II

8	Economics Paper – I	Economics Paper – II

9	Electrical Engineering Paper – I	Electrical Engineering Paper – II

10	Geography Paper – I	Geography Paper – II

11	Geology Paper – I	Geology Paper – II

12	History Paper – I	History Paper – II

13	Law Paper – I	Law Paper – II

14	Management Paper – I	Management Paper – II

15	Mathematics Paper – I	Mathematics Paper – II

16	Mechanical Engineering Paper – I	Mechanical Engineering Paper – II

17	Medical Science Paper – I	Medical Science Paper – II

18	Philosophy Paper – I	Philosophy Paper – II

19	Physics Paper – I	Physics Paper – II

20	Pol Science and IR Paper – I	Pol Science and IR Paper – II

21	Psychology Paper – I	Psychology Paper – II

22	Public Administration Paper – I	Public Administration Paper – II

23	Sociology Paper – I	Sociology Paper – II

24	Statistics Paper – I	Statistics Paper – II

25	Zoology Paper – I	Zoology Paper – II

#	Literature Paper I	Literature Paper II
1	Bengali Literature Paper – I	Bengali Literature Paper – II

2	English Literature Paper – I	English Literature Paper – II

3	Gujarati Literature Paper – I	Gujarati Literature Paper – II

4	Hindi Literature Paper – I	Hindi Literature Paper – II

5	Kannada Literature Paper – I	Kannada Literature Paper – II

6	Maithili Literature Paper – I	Maithili Literature Paper – II

7	Malayalam Literature Paper – I	Malayalam Literature Paper – II

8	Manipuri Literature Paper – I	Manipuri Literature Paper – II

9	Marathi Literature Paper – I	Marathi Literature Paper – II

10	Punjabi Literature Paper – I	Punjabi Literature Paper – II

11	Sanskrit Literature Paper -I	Sanskrit Literature Paper -II

12	Sindhi Devanagari Literature Paper – I	Sindhi Devanagari Literature Paper – II

13	Tamil Literature Paper – I	Tamil Literature Paper – II

14	Telugu Literature Paper – I	Telugu Literature Paper – II

15	Urdu Literature Paper – I	Urdu Literature Paper – II

#	Compulary Subjects
1	Assamese Compulsory
2	Bengali Compulsory
3	Bodo Compulsory
4	English Compulsory
5	Gujarati Compulsory
6	Hindi Compulsory
7	Kannada Compulsory
8	Maithili Compulsory
9	Malayalam Compulsory
10	Manipuri Compulsory
11	Marathi Compulsory
12	Nepali Compulsory
13	Odia Compulsory
14	Punjabi Compulsory
15	Sanskrit Compulsory
16	Sindhi Devanagari Compulsory
17	Tamil Compulsory
18	Telugu Compulsory
19	Urdu Compulsory

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