UPSC IES, ISS 2024 will be conducted to fill 48 vacancies in the Indian Economic Services and the Indian Statistical Services.
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Subscribe NowVagisha Kaushik | May 22, 2024 | 09:59 AM IST
NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has announced the schedule for the Indian Economic Services and Indian Statistical Services examinations 2024. The exams will be held on June 21 in multiple shifts for different subjects. Candidates who applied for the tests can check the UPSC IES 2024 and UPSC ISS 2024 exam schedule on the official website, upsc.gov.in.
The commission will conduct the exams to fill up a total of 48 vacancies including 18 vacancies in the Indian Economic Service and 30 vacancies in the Indian Statistical Service.
The subject-wise exam timings and dates are given below.
Date | Subject | Timings |
June 21, 2024 | General English(Descriptive) | 9 am to 12 noon |
General Studies(Descriptive) | 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm | |
June 22, 2024 | General Economics-I (Descriptive) | 9 am to 12 noon |
Statistics – I (Objective) | 9 am to 11 am | |
General Economics-II (Descriptive) | 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm | |
Statistics – II (Objective) | 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm | |
June 23, 2024 | General Economics-III (Descriptive) | 9 am to 12 noon |
Statistics –III (Descriptive) | 9 am to 12 noon | |
Indian economics (Descriptive) | 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm | |
Statistics – IV (Descriptive) | 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
The UPSC IES, ISS 2024 exams will be held in two parts. Part 1 will be a written exam carrying a total of 1,000 marks while part 2 will be a viva voce of 200 marks for candidates selected in part 1.
The part 1 subject-wise maximum marks and duration are given below.
IES
Subject | Maximum marks | Time allotted |
General English | 100 | 3 hours |
General Studies | 100 | 3 hours |
General economics - I | 200 | 3 hours |
General economics - II | 200 | 3 hours |
General economics - III | 200 | 3 hours |
Indian economics | 200 | 3 hours |
ISS
Subject | Maximum marks | Time allotted |
General English | 100 | 3 hours |
General Studies | 100 | 3 hours |
Statistics - I | 200 | 2 hours |
Statistics - II | 200 | 2 hours |
Statistics - III | 200 | 3 hours |
Statistics - IV | 200 | 3 hours |
The commission informed that the Statistics I and II papers will contain objective type questions. Statistics III and IV will comprise descriptive type questions having short answer or Small
Problems Questions (50%) and long answer and comprehension problem questions
(50%). At least one short answer and one long answer question from each section is compulsory. In Statistics-IV, there will be seven sections and candidates will have to choose any two sections. The General English and General Studies papers and all others will be subjective.
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