Friday, August 22, 2014

UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION PRESS NOTE ON AMENDMENT OF SCHEME OF CIVIL SERVICES (PRELIMINARY) EXAMINATION, 2014

As per decision taken by the Government of India, 
certain amendments have been made vide an Extra-Ordinary 
Gazette Notification No. 202 dated 16.08.2014, in the Rules 
of Civil Services Examination, 2014 notified earlier on 
31.5.2014. 

 The candidates appearing in the Civil Services 
(Preliminary) Examination, 2014 to be conducted by the Union 
Public Service Commission on 24.08.2014 (Sunday), may 
please note the following changes made in the scheme of Civil 
Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2014 as per above 
mentioned amendments made by the Government : 
a) Both Paper-I and Paper-II of Civil Services (Preliminary) 
Examination, 2014 to be conducted on 24.8.2014 will be of 
two hours duration each. 
b) The questions on English Language Comprehension 
skills (of Class X level) contained in each set of Test Booklets 
of Paper-II are not to be attempted as these questions shall not 
be evaluated for gradation or merit. The Candidates are, 
therefore, advised not to attempt questions on English Language Comprehension skills for which Hindi 
translation has not been given in the respective Test 
Booklets of Paper-II. 
c) The Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2014, shall 
thus comprise of two compulsory papers of which Paper-I will 
be of 200 marks and Paper II will be of 200 marks minus the 
maximum marks allocated to the questions on English 
Language Comprehension skills. 
d) Final merit for qualifying the candidates for the Civil 
Services (Main) Written Examination will be drawn by using 
the aggregate marks obtained in Paper-I out of 200 marks
and marks obtained in Paper-II out of 200 marks minus 
the maximum marks allocated to the questions on 
English Language Comprehension skills (i.e. those 
questions in Paper-II for which Hindi translation has not 
been given). 


NOTE : This circular is as same as the one notified in the website of UPSC

The Same can be downloaded : Click Here

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