UPSC CSE Mains 2024 from September 20-29; exam schedule out at upsc.gov.in

UPSC CSE Mains exam 2024 will be held on September 20, 21, 22, 28, and 29. Check shift timings, schedule.

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Vagisha Kaushik | August 9, 2024 | 01:11 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the schedule for the Civil Services Examination (CSE) Mains 2024 schedule today. Accordingly, the UPSC CSE Mains exam 2024 will be conducted between September 20 and 29 in two shifts – morning session from 9 am to 12 noon and afternoon session from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

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Candidates who qualified UPSC CSE Prelims 2024 will be eligible to appear for the IAS examination. The UPSC CSE prelims result 2024 was declared on July 1 for the preliminary exam conducted on June 16 this year. A total of 14,627 candidates were declared pass in the prelims exam.

Through the exam, the commission aims to fill 1,056 vacancies including 40 seats reserved for the Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD).

UPSC CSE Mains 2024 schedule

The paper-wise exam schedule for UPSC Mains exam 2024 is given below.

Date, day	Forenoon session	Afternoon session
September 20, 2024	Paper 1 Essay	No paper
September 21, 2024	Paper 2 General Studies 1	Paper 3 General Studies 2
September 22, 2024	Paper 4 General Studies 3	Paper 5 General Studies 4
September 28, 2024	Paper A Indian Language [Assamese / Bengali / Bodo / Dogri/ Gujarati / Hindi / Kannada / Kashmiri/ Konkani / Maithilli / Malayalam / Manipuri / Marathi / Nepali / Odia / Punjabi / Sanskrit / Santhali (Devanagari / Olchiki Script)/ Sindhi (Devanagari / Arabic Script) / Tamil / Telugu / Urdu]	Paper B English
September 29, 2024	Paper 6 Optional Subject paper-1 [Agriculture / Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science / Anthropology / Botany / Chemistry / Civil Engineering / Commerce & Accountancy / Economics / Electrical Engineering / Geography / Geology / History / Law / Management/Mathematics / Mechanical Engineering /Medical Science / Philosophy / Physics/ Political Science & International Relations / Psychology / Public Administration / Sociology / Statistics / Zoology / Literature of any one of the languages]	Paper 7 Optional Subject paper-2 [Agriculture / Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science / Anthropology / Botany / Chemistry / Civil Engineering / Commerce & Accountancy / Economics / Electrical Engineering / Geography / Geology / History / Law / Management/ Mathematics / Mechanical Engineering /Medical Science / Philosophy / Physics/ Political Science & International Relations / Psychology / Public Administration / Sociology / Statistics / Zoology / Literature of any one of the languages]

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