Latest information on UPSC IES ISS 2018 exam with its notification, exam dates, eligibility, application form also including paper pattern, syllabus, test centres and UPSC IES ISS result.

Union Public Service Commission has announced UPSC IES and ISS exam dates 2017. This is a combined competitive examination conducted as part of recruitment to Grade IV vacancies in  the Indian Economic Service and the Indian Statistical Service.

UPSC IES / ISS Exam 2018 Dates:-

Date of Notification - 21.03.2018

Eligibility Criteria:-

Age Limits:- 

A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years.

The upper age-limit prescribed above will be relaxable as follows :—
 
(i)  up to a maximum of five years if a candidate belong to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe;
(ii)  up to a maximum of three years in the case of candidate belonging to Other Backward Classes who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates;

Minimum Educational Qualifications:-
    
(a) A candidate for the Indian Economic Service must have obtained a Post-Graduate Degree in Economics/Applied Economics/Business Economics/Econometrics from a University incorporated by of an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other Educational Institutes established by an Act Parliament or declared to be deemed as University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or a Foreign University approved by the Central Government from time to time.
            
(b)  A  candidate for the Indian Statistical Service must have obtained a Bachelor's Degree with Statistics/Mathematical Statistics /Applied Statistics as one of the subject or a Master's degree in Statistics / Mathematical Statistics /Applied Statistics from a University incorporated by an Act of the Central or State Legislature in India or other Educational Institutes established by an Act of  Parliament or declared to be deemed as University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or a Foreign University approved by the Central Government from time to time.

NOTE 1.- A candidate who has appeared at an examination the passing of which would render them eligible to appear at this examination, but has not been informed of the result, may apply for admission to the examination. A candidate who intends to appear at such a qualifying examination may also apply. Such a candidate will be admitted to the examination, if otherwise eligible, but his/her admission would be deemed to be provisional and subject to cancellation, if his/her does not produce the proof of having passed the requisite qualifying examination along with the Detailed Application Form  which will be required to be submitted by the candidate who  qualify on the results of the written part of the examination.

NOTE 2.- In exceptional cases, the Union Public Service Comm ission may treat a candidate, who has none of the foregoing qualification, as a qualified candidate provided that he/she has passed examinations conducted by other institutions the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission, justifies his/her admission to the examination.

NOTE 3.- A candidate who is otherwise qualified but who has taken a degree from a Foreign University may also apply to the Commission and may be admitted to the examination at the discretion of the Commission.
 

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