Re: Which exam should I clear to become an IPS officer?
IPS Exam Eligibility Criteria
Educational Qualification and Age:
The minimum educational qualification of an IPS officer is Graduation (10+2+3/4) under any recognized Indian University.
A plain graduation degree is enough; you need not to have first class or any minimum grade or result to be eligible.
You are equally eligible to be an IPS officer if you are a Pass Graduate, i.e. without Honours.
Technical students like an Engineering graduate or an MBBS pass out may appear for the exam to be an IPS officer.
The minimum age requirement for General (UR) category students is 21 to 30 years. The OBC students will get 3 years age relaxation while the SC/ST students will get 5 years.
Physical Qualification:
The service is for Police forces where fitness is a must. So, you should have to possess the ability to do hard works.
Height: To be an IAS you need have to have a minimum height of 165 cm for men and 160 cm for women. Some particular races and tribes like Gorkhas and Garhwalis will get 5cm height relaxation, because genetically there average height is lower and they are famous as martial races.
Chest: The minimum chest girth for men is 84cm while for women it is 79cm. In both cases it should be expandable to 5cm.
General fitness: Your body should be totally fit. If you are a handicap then you are not eligible for the job. If you have some physical deformity then you may be discarded during medical examination.
Vision: Corrected vision is allowed, i.e. if you have spectacles though you will be eligible. But myopia is allowed up to -4D and Hypermetropia is up to +4D.
Color blindness and lack of binocular vision are not allowed.
UPSC Exam: to become an IAS officer
To become an IAS officer you should have to appear in UPSC exam. It is conducted every year and has three stages: Preliminary, Main and Interview.
Preliminary Exam:
This is the first stage of the selection process. Most of the applicants do not qualify this stage. Approximately 1 out of 50 students can go to the Main examination.
In this examination there are two papers: i)General Studies (300Marks) and ii)an optional subject chosen by you (150 Marks).
This is a multiple choice type examination.
Main Exam:
This exam is much tougher. Here the examinations will be traditional type, no MCQ. You have to appear in these papers:
i) One Indian Language Paper -300 marks ( qualifying )
ii) English � 300 marks ( qualifying )
iii) General Essay-200 marks
iv) Two General Studies papers � 300 + 300
v) Two Optional subjects with two papers each-4x300
List of optional subjects for IAS Main Examination
The list of the optional subjects are as follows:
�Agriculture �Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science �Anthropology �Botany �Chemistry �Civil Engineering �Commerce and Accountancy �Economics �Electrical Engineering �Geography �Geology �History �Law �Management �Mathematics �Mechanical Engineering �Medical Science �Philosophy �Physics �Political Science and International Relations �Psychology �Pubic Administration �Sociology �Statistics �Zoology � One Language and Literature
