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UPSC Civil Services 2024 registration last date today

Eligible and interested candidates can apply online at the official website – upsconline.nic.in.

UPSC Prelims 2024 Registration: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on March 5 extended the registration deadline for Civil Services Examinations (CSE) 2024. As per the official announcement, the last date for registration has been extended till March 6 (6 pm).

Eligible and interested candidates can apply online at the official website – upsconline.nic.in. 

“The last date for submission for CS(P)-IFoS(P)-2024 has been extended till 06-03-2024 (06:00 PM),” the official website stated.

According to the official notification released in mid February, the UPSC CSE prelims exam will be held on May 26, 2024 and the mains exams are set to be held from September 20 for five days.

While the Commission notified 1,056 vacancies for the civil services exam this year, the number saw a decline from last year’s 1105 vacancies, while it was 712 in 2021 and 796 in 2020.

Eligibility

A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 32 years on the 1st of August, 2024 i.e., the candidate must have been born not earlier than August 2, 1992 and not later than August 1, 2003, UPSC said while releasing the CSE notification.

A candidate, according to UPSC, must hold a graduate degree from any of the universities incorporated by an Act of the central or state legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a university under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956 or possess an equivalent qualification to become eligible for UPSC CSE 2024 exam.

The UPSC CSE exam is held in three stages — prelims, mains and the personality test. UPSC CSE preliminary exam will consist of objective-type questions. Candidates scoring above the cut-off marks will become eligible to register for the UPSC IAS Main examination. Meanwhile, UPSC CSE Main will be descriptive. The CSE Mains exam will be followed by an interview round for the selection of candidates for the various services and posts.

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