UPSC CSE Prelims Eligibility Criteria 2024: Educational Qualification, Age Limit, Nationality and Number of Attempts

UPSC CSE Eligibility Criteria 2024: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will release the UPSC CSE Prelims Notification 2024 today, February 14, 2024. Candidates must submit the online UPS

Eligibility Criteria for UPSC CSE 2024: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will release UPSC CSE Prelims Notification 2024 today, February 14, 2024. Candidates must submit it online UPSC Application Form at upsconline.nic.in and upsc.gov.in. Before you use the UPSC CSE Preliminaries applications, candidates are advised to go through the educational qualification, age limit, nationality and number of attempts. Speaking of UPSC CSE Prelims Eligibility Criteria 2024, a candidate must hold a degree from any of the universities established by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or from other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed to be universities on under section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or hold an equivalent qualification.

How many times can an IAS aspirant appear for Civil Services (Preliminary) Exam, 2024?

SC/ST: Unlimited
Post navigation: 09
PwBD: 09 for GL/EWS/OBC Unlimited for SC/ST

Attention aspirants! An attempt at a Preliminary Exam is considered an attempt at the Civil Service Exam. If a candidate appears on a particular paper in the preliminary exam, the candidate is considered to have attempted the exam.

UPSC CSE Eligibility Criteria 2024: Age Limits

Talking about the eligibility criteria of the UPSC CSE Prelims, a candidate must have completed the age of 21 years and must not have completed the age of 32 years by August 1, 2023, i.e. the candidate should have been born not earlier than August 2. 1991 and no later than August 1, 2002.

(1) A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years by 1 August 2023, i.e. the candidate must have been born not earlier than 2 August 1991 and not later than 1 August. August 2002.
(2) The age limit prescribed above has been relaxed:
(a) up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belongs to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe;
(b) up to a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes who are eligible for any reservation applicable to such candidates;
(c) up to a maximum of three years in the case of Defense personnel, disabled during operations during hostilities with another country or in a disturbed area and released as a result;
(d) up to a maximum of five years in the case of ex-military personnel, including non-commissioned officers and emergency non-commissioned officers (ECOs)/short service non-commissioned officers (SSCOs) who have completed at least five years of military service and have been released on 1 August 2023:
(i) upon completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is to be completed within one year from August 1, 2023, other than by dismissal or dismissal for misconduct or inefficiency); or
(ii) due to a physical disability attributable to military service; or
(iii) upon annulment.
(e) up to a maximum of five years in the case of ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial assignment period of five years of military service on August 1, 2023 and whose assignment has been extended for more than five years and in whose case the Ministry of Defense issues a certificate that they may apply for a civilian job and that they will be released upon selection upon three months' notice from the date of receipt of the offer of appointment.
(f) up to a maximum of 10 years in the case of candidates belonging to the categories of Persons with Benchmark Disability (PwBD), viz.
i) blindness and visual impairment;
(ii) deaf and hard of hearing;
(iii) movement disorders, including cerebral palsy, cured leprosy, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy;
(iv) autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disabilities and mental disorders;
(v) multiple disabilities between persons under clauses (i) to (iv), including deaf-blindness.

UPSC CSE Eligibility Criteria 2024: Nationality

(I) Nationality

(1) For the Indian Administrative Service, the Indian Foreign Service and the Indian Police Service,
candidate must be a citizen of India.

(2) For other services a candidate must:–

(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject from Nepal, or
(c) a subject from Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came to India before 1 January 1962 with the intention of settling permanently in India, or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, the East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of settling permanently in India settle .
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be a person in whose favor a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
A candidate for whom a declaration of suitability is required may be admitted to the examination
but the offer of appointment should not be made until the necessary suitability certificate has been issued
him/her by the Government of India.