Government of India Press Release regarding Weightage to General Studies in UPSC Examination.
Press Information Bureau
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
15-March-2017 15:57 IST
Weightage to General Studies in UPSC
The changes in the syllabus of Civil Services (Prelims) took place
from Civil Services Examination (CSE), 2011 followed by changes in the
Civil Services (Main) from CSE 2013 in which four papers of General
Studies carrying 250 marks each were included. Thus General Studies is
having 1000 marks out of 1750 marks in written part of examination. From
CSE 2015 onwards, the General Studies Paper-II of the preliminary
examination was made qualifying with minimum marks fixed at 33%.
Further, UPSC has constituted an Expert Committee under chairmanship of
Shri B.S. Baswan to comprehensively examine the various issues, raised
from time to time regarding the CSE, with respect to the eligibility,
syllabus, scheme and pattern of the Examination vide notice dated
12.08.2015. The report of Baswan Committee is currently under the
consideration of the UPSC and the recommendations of the UPSC on the
report are yet to be received.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public
Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s
Office, Dr. Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question by Shri
Ramsinh Rathwa in the Lok Sabha today.