What is the full form of IAS?

The full form of IAS is Indian Administrative Service.

What is Indian Administrative Service (IAS)?

IAS is one of the prestigious services among the 24 civil services like IPS, IFS, etc for which the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts Civil Services Examination (CSE) for selecting the candidates.

An officer selected into the Indian Administrative Service gets exposure in very diverse roles like the collector, commissioner, head of public sector units, chief secretary, cabinet secretary, etc.

Not only the experience and challenges but also the scope of making positive changes in the life of millions in India makes IAS a unique career choice.

What is the salary of an IAS officer?

The basic pay of entry-level IAS officers is Rs.56100. The salary of civil servants (Salary = Basic Pay + DA + TA + HRA) will increase as experience increases. The basic pay of the Cabinet Secretary is fixed at Rs.2,50,000.

How to become an IAS officer?

Even though the exam to be undertaken is popularly known as the IAS exam, it is officially called UPSC Civil Services Exam. The UPSC CSE consists of 3 stages – Prelims, Mains, and Interview.

Getting into Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is not easy considering the competition involved, but not impossible for a candidate with the right attitude and approach.

Civil Services Examination(CSE)

UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) is the government agency responsible for selecting the right candidates for this service. Every year only around 1000 candidates are selected for all 24 services combined.

The number of candidates who applied for the UPSC Civil Service Exam each year is approximately about 10 lakh, out of which around 5 lakh candidates appear on the exam day (prelims).

UPSC Civil Services Examination is widely considered the toughest exam in the world, considering the exam duration (extends 1 year), depth of the syllabus, and the competition involved.

The exam has 3 stages:

• The first stage of the exam – Preliminary (objective) – is usually conducted around June.
• The second stage, Mains (written), is conducted around September-October.
• Those who clear Mains will have to face an interview/personality test during the March-May period.

The final result usually comes in May end.

 

How to Clear the Civil Services Exam?

To clear the IAS Exam, aspirants are advised to have a long-term strategy. Though most serious candidates start preparation 9-12 months before the exam date, there are candidates who successfully achieve top ranks with only a few months of dedicated study.

• What matters in the UPSC Civil Services Exam is not the duration of the preparation, but the quality of the same.

A disciplined and focused mind with a passion for learning and reading is the basic trait of all successful candidates. The UPSC Civil Services exam is more a test of the analytic and presentation skills along with knowledge gained by the candidate rather than a test that checks a candidate’s mathematical or verbal skills.