UPSC CSE Mains 2024 Exam schedule out now; Exam from 20 September, Read more details here
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UPSC CSE Mains 2024: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has issued the schedule for the Civil Services Examination (CSE) Mains 2024 schedule today. According to the released schedule, the UPSC CSE Mains exam 2024 will be conducted from 20 to 29 September 2024 in two shifts i.e. from 9 am to 12 noon and the afternoon session will commence from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm. 

Candidates who qualified for UPSC CSE Prelims 2024 can appear for the IAS examination. The UPSC CSE prelims result in 2024 was declared on 1 July 2024 for the preliminary exam. The prelims exam was conducted on 16 June 2024. A total of 14,627 candidates were declared to pass the prelims exam.

This recruitment drive will fill out a total of 1,056 vacancies including 40 seats reserved for the Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) in the commission. 

UPSC CSE Mains 2024: Official Schedule
 
Date, day  Forenoon session Afternoon session
20 September 2024 Paper 1 Essay No paper
21 September 2024 Paper 2 General Studies 1 Paper 3 General Studies 2
22 September 2024 Paper 4 General Studies 3 Paper 5 General Studies 4
28 September 2024 Paper A Indian Language[Assamese / Bengali / Bodo / Dogri/ Gujarati / Hindi / Kannada / Kashmiri/ Konkani / Maithilli / Malayalam / Manipuri / Marathi / Nepali / Odia / Punjabi / Sanskrit / Santhali (Devanagari / Olchiki Script)/ Sindhi (Devanagari / Arabic Script) / Tamil / Telugu / Urdu] Paper B English
29 September 2024 Paper 6 Optional Subject paper-1[Agriculture / Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science / Anthropology / Botany / Chemistry / Civil Engineering / Commerce & Accountancy / Economics / Electrical Engineering / Geography / Geology / History / Law / Management/Mathematics / Mechanical Engineering /Medical Science / Philosophy / Physics/ Political Science & International Relations / Psychology / Public Administration / Sociology / Statistics / Zoology / Literature of any one of the languages] Paper 7 Optional Subject paper-2 [Agriculture / Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science / Anthropology / Botany / Chemistry / Civil Engineering / Commerce & Accountancy / Economics / Electrical Engineering / Geography / Geology / History / Law / Management/ Mathematics / Mechanical Engineering /Medical Science / Philosophy / Physics/ Political Science & International Relations / Psychology / Public Administration / Sociology / Statistics / Zoology / Literature of any one of the languages]