Hi Everyone
Going throught the UPSC website, wherein they have mentioned
List of Optional Subjects (Literature) - CS (Main) - (Total 26)
Arabic Gujarati Manipuri Sanskrit
Assamese Hindi Nepali Sindhi
Bengali Kannada Oriya Tamil
Chinese Kashmiri Pali Telugu
English Konkani Persian Urdu
French Marathi Punjabi
German Malayalam Russian
My question is, in the present format of the examnination, wherein Paper I of the main examination assesses a candidate on one of the the "Indian Languages" and the list of those optional languages being aforementioned
Can i choose english as an optional language for Paper I while Paper II also being an English Qualifying Paper???