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Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination
The first stage of India's civil services exam, the route into the Indian Administrative Service, Police Service, Foreign Service and other central services; passing it qualifies you for the written Mains.
The exam
- Set by
- India's Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
- The paper
- General Studies: 100 multiple-choice questions in two hours; CSAT: 80 questions, qualifying at 33%; one-third mark off per wrong answer
- How it is sat
- Once a year on a fixed date, on paper at centres across India; the number of attempts is limited
- Where
- India, in English
What Licento would give you
- Practice questions written to this exam's syllabus, scheduled up to your exam date.
- Mock exams in the real exam's format, timed and marked the same way.
- How ready you are, topic by topic, so you know where to spend your time.