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UPSC Indian Forest Service 2019 Recruitment Examination Details

The number of vacancies to be filled on the results of the examination is expected to be approximately 110. The number of vacancies is liable to alteration. Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Person with Benchmark Disability Categories in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.
Rule 19 of Indian Forest Service Examination. Candidates seeking reservation/relaxation benefits available for SC/ST/OBC/PD/Ex-servicemen must ensure that they are entitled to such reservation/relaxation as per eligibility prescribed in the Rules/Notice. They should also be in possession of all the requisite certificates in the prescribed format in support of their claim as stipulated in the Rules/Notice for such benefits, and these certificates should be dated earlier than the due date (closing date) of the application for the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination.

UPSC Indian Forest Service 2019 IFS Examination

PENALTY FOR WRONG ANSWERS: Candidates should note that there will be penalty (Negative Marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the Objective Type Question Papers. For both writing and marking answers in the OMR sheet [Answer Sheet], candidates must use black ball pen only. Pens with any other colours are prohibited. Do not use Pencil or Ink pen. Candidates are further advised to read carefully the “Special Instructions” contained in Appendix-III of the Notice.
UPSC Indian Forest Service Examination 2019 Recruitment Summary
Name of Exam – Union Public Service Commission UPSC
Board of Organization – Indian Forest Service Examination
No of Vacancy –110 Posts
Category – Syllabus & Exam Pattern
Official Website – www.upsc.gov.in
Date of Exam – Preliminary 3 June 2019

UPSC Indian Forest Service Examination 2019 Qualification Details

The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree with at least one of the subjects namely Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Forestry or in Engineering of any of 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.
In exceptional cases the Union Public Service Commission may treat a candidate who has not any of the foregoing qualifications as a qualified candidate provided that he/she has passed examination conducted by the other Institutions, the standard of which in the opinion of the Commission justifies his/her admission to the examination.

Examination Notifications

UPSC Indian Forest Service Examination 2019 Selection Method

Selection Process

The Indian Forest Service Examination will consist of two successive stages (vide Appendix I Section-I below).

• Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective type) for the selection of candidates for the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination; and
• Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the Indian Forest Service.

Applications are now invited for the Preliminary Examination only. Candidates who will be declared by the Commission to have qualified for admission to the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination will have to apply again, in the Online Detailed Application Form which would be made available on the Website of the Commission after declaration of Results of Preliminary Examination. The Main Examination is likely to be held in December, 2019.
As per the decision taken by the Government for increasing the access of unemployed to job opportunities, the Commission will publically disclose the scores of the candidates (obtained in the Written Examination and Interview/Personality Test) through the public portals. The disclosure will be made in respect of only those candidates who will appear in the Interview/Personality Test for the Indian Forest Service Examination and are not finally recommended for appointment.
UPSC Indian Forest Service Exam 2019: The information shared through this disclosure scheme about the non-recommended candidates may be used by other public and private recruitment agencies to appoint suitable candidates from the information made available in the public portal. Candidates will be required to give their options at the time of Interview/Personality Test, while acknowledging the e-summon letter mailed to them for interview. A candidate may opt out of the scheme also and in that case his/her details will not be published by the Commission.

UPSC Indian Forest Service Exam 2019 Examination Details

Preliminary Examination

The preliminary Examination will consist of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions) and carry a maximum of 400 marks in the subjects set out in sub-section (A) of Section II. This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only; the marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Main Examination will not be counted for determining their final order of merit.
The number of candidates to be admitted to the Main Examination will be about twelve to thirteen times the total approximate number of vacancies to be filled in the year through this examination. Only those candidates who are declared by the Commission to have qualified in the Preliminary Examination in the year will be eligible for admission to the Main Examination of that year provided they are otherwise eligible for admission, to the Main Examination.

Syllabus for UPSC Indian Forest Service Exam 2019 IFS

Part A-Preliminary Examination

Paper I – (200 marks) Duration: Two hours

• Current events of national and international importance
• History of India and Indian National Movement
• Indian and World Geography- Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.
• Indian Polity and Governance- Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj, Public Policy, Rights Issues,
• Economic and Social Development- Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.
• General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity and Climate Change – that do not require subject
• General Science.

Paper II-(200 marks) Duration: Two hours

• Comprehension
• Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
• Logical reasoning and analytical ability
• Decision making and problem solving
• General mental ability
• Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. – Class X level)

Note I: Since there may be common candidates for Civil Services Examination and the Indian Forest Service Examination, after the common Screening Test done through Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, separate lists will be prepared for the candidates eligible to appear in the Civil Service (Main) Examination and Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination, based on the criterion of minimum qualifying marks of 33% in General Studies Paper-II of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination and total qualifying marks of General Studies Paper-I of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination as determined by the Commission on the number of vacancies to be filled through the Civil Services Examination and Indian Forest Service Examination.
Note II: There will be negative marking for incorrect answers (as detailed below) for all questions except some of the questions where the negative marking will be inbuilt in the form of different marks being awarded to the most appropriate and not so appropriate answer for such questions.
UPSC Indian Forest Service Exam Interview: Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the written part of the Main Examination as may be fixed by the Commission at their discretion, shall be summoned by them for an interview for a Personality Test vide sub-section ‘C’ of Section II. The number of candidates to be summoned for interview will be about twice the number of vacancies to be filled. The interview will carry 300 marks (with no minimum qualifying marks). Marks thus obtained by the candidates in the Main Examination (written part as well as interview) would determine their final ranking.

Exam Pattern for UPSC Indian Forest Service Exam 2019 IFS

S. No	Subject Name	Marks
Prelims – Part A
1.	General Knowledge (Paper: I)	200
2.	General Studies (Paper: II)	200
Mains – Part B
3.	Paper I – General English	300
4.	General Knowledge-Paper II	300
5.	Paper III, IV, V & VI – Any two subjects to be selected from the list of optional subjects set out below. Each subject will have two papers.	200 Marks for each paper
6.	Interview for Personality Test	300

Preliminary Exam pattern

• The Examination shall comprise of two compulsory Papers of 200 marks each.
• Both the question papers will be of the objective type (multiple choice questions).
• The General Studies Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.
• The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English.
• Details of the syllabi are indicated in Part A of Section III.

Candidates must write the papers in their own hand. In no circumstances will they be allowed the help of a scribe to write the answers for them. However, Low Vision candidates (minimum 40% impairment) will be allowed to write the examination with the help of a scribe. Low Vision candidates will also be allowed an extra time of forty minutes for each paper @ twenty minute per hour. Each paper will be of two hours duration.

UPSC Indian Forest Service Exam 2019 IFS Syllabus & Exam pattern

PERSONALITY TEST

The candidate will be interviewed by a Board of competent and unbiased observers who will have before them a record of his/her career. The object of the Interview is to assess the personal suitability of the candidate for the Service. The candidate will be expected to have taken an intelligent interest not only in his/her subjects of academic study but also in events which are happening around him/her both within and outside his/her own state or country, as well as in modem currents of thoughts and in new discoveries which should rouse the curiosity of well-educated youth.

Tips for preparation of written examination

• All candidates should give maximum time to their study regularly.
• Candidates should make their study time or schedule of the day and accordingly start to preparing i.e. make sure to divide your entire time between all related subjects and prepare accordingly daily.
• Candidates requires to maximum use of flow charts and diagram to understand deeply the concern topic.
• Candidates must regular practice to solve old year examination papers; with this you will be able to increase your knowledge as well as time accuracy.
• Group study is very useful to crack any written examination so we therefore advise to all concern contenders to make a group of eligible and suitable friends and study combindly one or two hour in a day and arise your question before them and explain your answer to others too.
• Time breaks is also essential while preparing hard for any written examination so after 2-3 hours study candidates should take a break of 15-20 minutes for mind fresh.

UPSC Indian Forest Service Exam 2019 Preliminary Exam Centre

Examination Centre

Centres	Centres	Centres
AGARTALA	GAYA	NAVI MUMBAI
AGRA	GHAZIABAD	PANAJI (GOA)
AJMER	GORAKHPUR	PATNA
AHMEDABAD	GURGAON	PORTBLAIR
AIZAWL	GWALIOR	PUDUCHERRY
ALIGARH	HYDERABAD	PUNE
ALLAHABAD	IMPHAL	RAIPUR
ANANTHAPURU	INDORE	RAJKOT
AURANGABAD	ITANAGAR	RANCHI
BENGALURU	JABALPUR	SAMBALPUR
BAREILLY	JAIPUR	SHILLONG
BHOPAL	JAMMU	SHIMLA
BILASPUR	JODHPUR	SILIGURI
CHANDIGARH	JORHAT	SRINAGAR
CHENNAI	KOCHI	THANE
COIMBATORE	KOHIMA	THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
CUTTACK	KOLKATTA	TIRUCHIRAPALLI
DEHRADUN	KOZHIKODE (CALICUT)	TIRUPATI
DELHI	LUCKNOW	UDAIPUR
DHARWAR	LUDHIANA	VARANASI
DISPUR	MADURAI	VELLORE
FARIDABAD	MUMBAI	VIJAYAWADA
GANGTOK	MYSURU	VISHAKHAPATNAM
GAUTAM BUDDH NAGAR	NAGPUR	WARANGAL

 Note: The centres and the date of holding the examination as mentioned above are liable to be changed at the discretion of the Commission. Applicants should note that there will be a ceiling on the number of candidates allotted to each of the Centres, except Chennai, Dispur, Kolkata and Nagpur. Allotment of Centres will be on the “first-apply-first allot” basis, and once the capacity of a particular Centre is attained, the same will be frozen. Applicants, who cannot get a Centre of their choice due to ceiling, will be required to choose a Centre from the remaining ones. Applicants are, thus, advised that they may apply early so that they could get a Centre of their choice.

UPSC IFS E-Admit Card 2019 : In the event of a candidate downloading more than one e-Admit Card from the website of the Commission, he/she should use only one of these e-Admit Cards for appearing in the examination and report about the other(s) to the Commission Office.
Candidates must ensure that their E-mail IDs given in their online Applications are valid and active as the Commission may use electronic mode of communication while contacting them at different stages of the examination process.

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ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMMISSION SHOULD INVARIABLY CONTAIN THE FOLLOWING PARTICULARS.

• Name And Year Of The Examination
• Registration I.D. (Rid)
• Roll Number (If Received)
• Name Of Candidate (In Full And In Block Letters)
• Complete Postal Address As Given In The Application.
• Valid And Active E-Mail I.D.

Indian Forest Service Examination, 2019

General Knowledge  General English  Agriculture Paper – I  Agriculture Paper – II  Agriculture Engineering Paper – I  Agriculture Engineering Paper – II  Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science Paper – I  Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science Paper – II  Botany Paper – I  Botany Paper – II  Chemical Engineering Paper – I  Chemical Engineering Paper – II  Chemistry Paper – I  Chemistry er – II  Civil Engineering Paper – I  Civil Engineering Paper – II  Forestry Paper – I  Forestry Paper – II  Geology Paper – I  Geology Paper – II Mathematics Paper – I  Mathematics Paper – II  Mechanical Engineering Paper – I  Mechanical Engineering Paper – II  Physics Paper – I  Physics Paper – II  Statistics Paper – I  Statistics Paper – II  Zoology Paper – I Zoology Paper – II

UPSC Indian Forest Service Exam 2019 Verification Details

Document verification

The mere fact that a certificate of admission to the Examination has been issued to a candidate, will not imply that his/her candidature has been finally cleared by the Commission or that entries made by the candidate in his/her application for the Preliminary examination have been accepted by the Commission as true and correct. Candidates may note that the Commission takes up the verification of eligibility conditions of a candidate, with reference to original documents, only after the candidate has qualified for Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination. Unless candidature is formally confirmed by the Commission, it continues to be provisional.

• UID Card /Aadhar Card.
• Passport
• Voter ID
• College ID
• PAN Card.
• Driving License.

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