Is social work subject available as optional paper in the prescribed list of UPSC Civil Services Mains exam?

Sir,
Is social work subject available as optional paper in civil services mains?

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Yes dear the Social Work subject is available for mains exam in Civil Services and the subject name is Sociology and you may choose any two subjects of the following in your mains exam :

1. Agriculture
2. Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
3. Anthropology
4. Botany
5. Chemistry
6. Civil Engineering
7. Commerce and Accountancy
8. Economics
9. Electrical Engineering
10. Geography
11. Geology
12. History
13. Law
14. Management
15. Mathematics
16. Mechanical Engineering
17. Medical Science
18. Philosophy
19. Physics
20. Political Science and International Relations
21. Public Administration
22. Psychology
23. Sociology
24. Statistics
25. Zoology

you may choose any two subjects for your mains exams but you would be allowed to choose your subjects only after qualifying the preliminary exam means if you got failed in prelims then you would be declared as ineligible for your mains exam and you can not apply for that exam so that you have to prepare hard for exam and try to get more and more marks and qualify the prelims then you will get the time of at least 4-5 months to prepare for your mains exam and you would easily be qualified in mains.

Dates for upcoming Civil Services Exams :

Start Date for Online Application : 02-02-2013

Last Date for Online Application : 04-03-2013

Date for Preliminary Exam : 19-05-2013

All the best

Hello Friend,

Social work subject is not there in mains paper list of UPSC exam. However, it is there in the list of UPPCS mains papers. For UPSC exam, you can choose among other subjects like Sociology, Anthropology etc. which you can find a little bit near to Social Work subject.

Thanks,
goyalk

Hello Mr. Badoniya,

I think there is some confusion here. Social work is totally different subject than Sociology. UPSC mains exam does not have "Social work" as a subject but "Sociology". If you have any doubt about the difference, you can see available subjects for UPPSC exam. The list contains both subjects which is a clear pointer that both subjects are different.

Thanks,
goyalk