IPS 2024 Exam

The IPS Exam is the gateway to becoming a police officer in the Indian Police Service. Today, the IPS exam is one of the most competitive exams in the world, with over 1.5 million applicants every year.

The Indian Public Service Commission (UPSC) is responsible for conducting examinations for various government jobs in India. The most commonly known of these is the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) examination. The UPSC organizes and conducts these examinations in accordance with a set pattern that is reviewed and updated from time to time.

IPS 2023 exam date has been released by the Union Public Service Commission on its official website. As per the timetable, the IPS Prelims 2023 will be held on 28 May 2023. 

To become an IPS officer, aspirants must qualify for the Civil Service Examination which is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission. The eligibility criteria required for an IPS Officer has been listed below:

1. Nationality – Indian citizen
2. Age limit – Minimum of 21 years and maximum age depends upon category and physical disability.
3. Education Qualification – Graduate degree from a recognized university.
4. Number of Attempts – Six attempts for Unreserved and EWS (More for other categories)
5. Restriction on Applying – Officers already serving on the post of the IAS or IFS aren’t eligible
6. Physical Standards – As per the Rule book of Exam.

IPS is the only position that has a uniform code. The position of IPS officers power and respect to the selected candidate. An IPS officer plays a huge role in maintaining peace and order.

There are 5 papers that you should clear if you are looking to be an IPS offers. Following are the papers and their syllabus and patterns you must be aware of:

It includes the ancient level of history, medieval, and modern levels of history with the National Movement of India.
 

Here, you’ve to prepare for all the geographical aspects of India if you are looking to crack UPSC IPS services. Apart from that, you need to fetch the subject information about world geography to make increase your knowledge base.
 

You must have proper information about the national and international level of current affairs and recent events.
 

It basically includes the Indian Constitution, the Rights of people, the political system, public policy, and the essence of India in today’s context.
 

How the Climate is changing its nature, biodiversity, and issues on Ecology.
 

Here, you have to study social development including inclusion, poverty, demographics, and other social issues in Indian society. Also, you must also cover the topic of Indian Economic growth before you appear for the examination.
 

• Modern Indian history along with Art Forms and Literature of Indian Culture.
• Understanding of architecture from ancient times to modern times.
• The freedom struggle along with all its various stages.
• Essential contributors/contributions from different corners of the country.
• World history includes the industrial revolution, the redraw of national boundaries, colonization, and decolonization.
• Political philosophies such as socialism, capitalism, communism, and other effects and forms on Indian society.
• Key features of Indian Society and understanding of Indian diversity
• Women’s organization and their problems and their one-stop solutions.
• Poverty and developmental issues.
• Effects of globalization and the world’s physical geography.
• Changes in critical geographical features.
• Vital Geophysical phenomena such as Volcanic Activity, Tsunami, Earthquakes, Cyclones, and many more.
• Primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors are responsible for various parts of the world.
• Natural resources across the world along with the effects of any changes.

• Indian Constitution: Amendments, IPC, CRPC, features, evolution, and the fundamental structure of the Indian polity.
• Responsibilities of the Union, devolution of powers, and federal structure issues and challenges.
• Indian constitutional scheme and separation of powers mechanisms.
• Parliament and State legislatures.
• Representation of People’s Act and its salient features.
• Concepts and structure of Government Ministries and Departments.
• Formal/informal associations with organization and functioning.
• Constitutional posts and responsibilities
• Several various Constitutional Bodies and various judicial bodies.
• Government policies along with interventions and implementation.
• Effect of policies and politics when it comes to other developing countries.
• Bilateral, regional, and global groupings with international institutions and agencies.
• Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections according to the Indian population.
• The protection and betterment laws and policies with important aspects of governance
• Transparency and accountability of civil services in Indian democracy and e-governance applications.
• India and its neighborhood developments and relations with agreements of India’s interests.

• Indian Economy and Government budgeting along with the mobilization of resources and issues relating to planning and growth of the development and employment.
• Inclusive and exclusive growth when it comes to food processing and supply chain management. In addition, you can also get to know about the upstream and downstream requirements.
• Major crops-cropping patterns, irrigation systems storage, different types of irrigation, and marketing of agricultural produce.
• Direct and indirect farm subsidies with minimum support prices and other resources.
• Public Distribution System where you need to understand objectives, limitations, functioning, revamping, and others.
• Land reforms in India, investment models, and infrastructure including Airports, Railways, Energy, Ports, Roads, and others.
• Various security challenges and their management with the help of security forces and agencies.
• Effects of liberalization on the industrial growth or on the economy of the Indian aspects.
• Achievements of Indians in various backgrounds such as science, indigenization of technology, and developing new concerns.
• Environmental impact assessment, environmental pollution, conservation, and environmental degradation.
• Computers, Space, and Robotics awareness along with information about Bio-technology, Nano-technology, and intellectual property rights.
• Role of non-state actors, an external state in handling the challenges with the help of internal security.

• Private and public relationships
• Consequences of Ethics when it comes to in-human actions.
• Dimensions of ethics.
• The role of family society
• The essence of educational institutions.
• Human Values to understand the lives of great administrators, leaders, and reformers of India

• Moral and political attitudes
• Social influence along with the foundational values for Civil Service.
• Utilities of the Indian Governance
• Application in administration and dedication to civil/ public service.
• Impartiality and non-partisanship
• Tolerance for the weaker-sections
• Compassion towards those who belong to the weaker section.

• Right to Information to make transparency in government.
• Concept of public service and information sharing.
• Codes of Conduct with the utilization of public funds and challenges of corruption.
• Utmost quality of service delivery and ethical basis of probity.

• Status and problems in public administration
• Dilemmas in government along with ethical worries and concerns.
• Rules, laws, and regulations of private institutions in India.
• Moral values in governance
• Fetching sources of ethical guidance for public and civil services.
• Ethical issues in internal relations or international affairs.
• Corporate governance, funding, and social accountability.

In this section, we describe the entire UPSC IPS Exam Syllabus for both mains and prelims courses so if you were searching detailed syllabus for both exams then this can be the one-stop section for you to grab the entire information so let’s draw your attention to the below section and get to know syllabus details here.
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Introduction to IPS Syllabus for Prelims 2023, this syllabus will help the students to prepare for their prelim exams. The topics are divided into sections and each section has a number of subtopics. The sub-topics are further divided into smaller topics. Each topic is further explained to make it easier for the students to understand the concepts. Here we have covered IPS Syllabus for Prelims 2023 so draw your attention and grab it to prepare for your upcoming exam.

This is the whole part of the entire IPS Mains Syllabus 2023. This part is all about the objectives of the syllabus. It also contains the pre-classification of the topics which will be covered in the syllabus. In this part, we have provided the details about the syllabus, its pattern, the topics which will be covered in it, and also the duration of each lesson. Let’s draw your eyes to the below section to grab IPS Mains Syllabus 2023

The IPS Exam pattern is designed to test the overall intellectual traits and understanding level of the candidates. IPS exam is conducted in three stages, Prelims, Mains and Interviews. The aspirants must understand the exam pattern in order to come up with a strategic approach to fetch good marks in each stage of the exam. Below we have mentioned the IPS paper pattern for each stage.

The IPS Exam for Prelims consists of two papers – General Studies-1 and General Studies-2 (CSAT).

• Both papers will be objective in nature and the time duration will be two hours.
• Paper-2 or CSAT will be qualifying in nature with a minimum passing mark of 33%.
• Each paper carries 200 marks, and the merit list will be decided on the basis of marks obtained in the GS-1.

The candidates who crack IPS Exam for the Prelims round will be called for the Mains exam. The Mains exam has a total of 9 papers. Two papers- Paper A and Paper B are qualifying in nature, Paper-I is an essay paper, Paper II to Paper V are General Studies Papers, and two optional papers. Candidates can choose any subject as their optional from the list of 48 UPSC optional subjects. Check out the complete IPS Mains exam pattern below.

Following are some of the simple steps a candidate needs to follow in order to register for the IPS Exam 2023.

• Visit the official website of UPSC
• Then go to the CSE secretion
• Click on the “Apply” optional
• Fill in all the required information and upload your latest photo and signature.
• Check your application preview and submit it.

Candidates who are interested in applying for IPS Exam 2023 will be asked to pay Rs 100/- as the exam fee. They can pay through Visa/Master/Rupay Credit/ Debit Card, and offline payment can be made through the medium online net banking facility of SBI. candidates from SC/ST/PwD and Females are exempted from paying the IPS application fee.