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UPSC Eligibility Criteria 2020 - Education, Age limit, & Nationality

(I)Nationality 

(1) For the Indian Administrative Service candidate must be a citizen of India. 

(2) For other services, a candidate must be either:— 

        (a) a citizen of India, or 

        (b) a subject of Nepal, or 

        (c) a subject of Bhutan, or 

        (d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 with the                       intention of permanently settling in India, or 

        (e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia, and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d), and (e) shall be a person in whose favor a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India. 

A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the examination but the offer of appointment may be given only after the necessary eligibility certificate has been issued to him/her by the Government of India.

(II) UPSC IAS Eligibility – Age Limit

Long story short – Gen:32, OBC:35, SC/ST:37, PWD:42

Compared to the criterion of educational qualification, the UPSC eligibility criteria of age limit, and nationality are things over which you, as a candidate, have no control.

The most you can do is be done with your minimum educational qualification as soon as possible.

That way you’ll be able to save yourself the required number of attempts that you’d need to crack the UPSC exams.

However, there are certain variations to this rule as well, depending on a number of factors.

I will be enumerating each one in detail in the lines below.

I mention the issue of attempts here because it is common knowledge that very few candidates are able to crack the UPSC IAS exams in their first attempt itself.


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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.

(III) Minimum Educational Qualification: 

A candidate must hold a degree of 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.

(IV) Medical and Physical Standards:

Candidates must be physically fit according to physical standards for admission to Civil Services Examination, 2021 as per guidelines given in Appendix-II of Rules for Examination published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 4th March 2021.

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