UPSC Exam Eligibility

This is a very important criterion of eligibility for UPSC.
To be eligible to appear for the UPSC exam, you need to 
make sure that you meet the required educational
qualifications.

The educational qualifications necessary to appear for the UPSC exams are 
not as steep as those required to appear for certain other 
exams like UGC NET and RBI Grade B. 

UPSC Exam Eligibility – Academic Qualifications
I have written the UPSC eligibility based on educational
qualifications in detail below:

To appear for the UPSC IAS exam you must have proof that 
you are a graduate from a centrally or state-recognized 
university. This means that you should have a bachelor’s 
degree certificate from any university incorporated by an
Act of the State and Central Legislature of India, or any 
institute of education established by an Act of the 
Parliament of India, or one that is declared to be a 
deemed university under Section-2 of the University Grants
Commission Act of 1956 or possess a qualification 
equivalent to that.

UPSC IAS Eligibility – Age Limit
Long story short – Gen:32, OBC:35, SC/ST: 37, Pwd:42

UPSC Age Limit and Number of Attempts

If you are a candidate of the general category,
you must belong to the age bracket of 21 to 31 years on 
the 1st day of August of the year of examination. The 
upper age limit for IAS and all the other services are 
relaxed for aspirants belonging to the categories of 
SC/ST/OBC/others.

UPSC Eligibility Criteria – Nationality
To appear for the UPSC IAS & IPS exams you need to be a 
citizen of India, for all other services, you must be 
either:

A citizen of India,
Or a subject of Nepal,
Or a subject of Bhutan,
Or a refugee from Tibet that came to India before the
1st of January 1962 with the intention of settling in 
India permanently. Or an individual with Indian origin 
who has migrated from Burma, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, East
African countries of Uganda, Zambia, Zaire, Kenya, the 
united republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, & Vietnam,
with the purpose of settling permanently in India. 

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