IES ISS Exam: Eligibility, Application Form, Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Admit Card & Result

About

The UPSC Indian Economic Service (IES) and Indian Statistical Service (ISS) is an all-India Exam that is conducted annually by the UPSC. The IES and ISS is the administrative inter-ministerial civil service under Group A of the Central Civil Services of the executive branch of the Government of India.

Highlights

Notification

The official notification for the Indian Economic Service (IES)/ Indian Statistical Service (ISS) will be released on April 06, 2022. Candidates can apply online between April 06 to April 26, 2022. The written examination will be held from June 24 to 26 2022 (3 Days).

Dates

With the IES/ISS exams so close, the candidates must know the other relevant dates. The given table contains all the important dates.

Vacancy

The vacancy details for the year are published soon after the exam notification is out. Hence, the IES/ISS 2021 vacancy details are not yet available. The vacancy for UPSC IES ISS 2021 is given below. The Post wise vacancy distribution is given below:

• Indian Economic Service – 15
• Indian Statistical Service – 11

The IES/ISS 2021 exam is going to be conducted from July 16-18, 2021. Thus, it is important for all the aspirants to check the details mentioned above in detail before they take the exam. They must also check the old question papers and prepare the best exam strategies. They should also keep checking the official website and their registered email ids for any sort of latest updates or notification from the UPSC authorities.

Eligibility

All the Indian candidates who satisfy the eligibility criteria can apply for UPSC IES/ISS exam.

• Age Limit: For unreserved candidates, the minimum age is 21 Years and the maximum age is 30 Years. There is age relaxation for reserved category candidates.

Educational Qualification:

• Candidates should possess a Post Graduate Degree in Economics OR Applied Economics OR Business Economics OR Econometrics for the IES exam.
• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with Statistics/Mathematical Statistics/Applied Statistics or a Master's degree in Statistics/Mathematical Statistics/Applied Statistics for the ISS exam.

Applications

Before you start the application process, make sure you have a valid and active email id and contact no. UPSC IES ISS 2021 Exam comprises two stages: Part-I Registration and Part-II Login.

Part-I Registration

• Click on the official link, https://www.upsconline.nic.in.
• Click on the Apply link given on the page. A registration link will open up in the new window.
• Click on New Registration in the application window.
• Provide personal credentials like name, parents’ name, date of birth, email id, mobile number, etc.
• Click on the submit button to the completed online registration form of SBI PO.
• After the Registration, a Registration ID and a password will be sent to your mobile no. and email id.

Part-II Login

• Login with the provided Registration ID, date of birth, and password to complete registration for UPSC IES ISS 2021.
• Upload the photograph and signature.
• The candidates will then be required to verify the details. Preview and verify the application form carefully.
• Lastly, pay the required application fee online.
• Take out a printout of the application form for future use.

Application Fees

• Application fees can be paid either in online mode or offline mode.
• For offline payment or pay by cash, visit any nearest SBI Branch during the banking hour before the closing time.

Application Fees as per categories:

SC/ST/PWD/Female: Exempted
General and Others: INR 200/-

Admit Card

Candidates must go through the following steps to download the admit card of UPSC IES/ISS 2021. The admit cards have been released on June 30, 2021.

• Visit the official website of UPSC at upsconline.gov.in
• Click on "e-admit cards for various examinations of UPSC"
• Click on the link ‘UPSC IES admit card 2021’
• Enter your credentials - registration ID and date of birth or roll number and date of birth or candidate's name or father’s name and date of birth.
• Choose any of the mediums to download and click on ‘submit’.
• Candidates will be able to see the admit card/hall ticket on the screen. Download it and take a printout of the hall ticket of UPSC IES/ISS 2021.

Exam Centers

The candidates should note that no request for a change of center will be entertained. All the examination centers for the examination will cater to the examination for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities also. Candidates check the list of exam centers given in the table below:

Exam Pattern

The examination is conducted in two parts – Part-I and Part II. Part 1 is a written examination and part 2 is Viva Voce or interview. Here is the exam pattern of the written test:

• Statistics I & II will be of Objective Type Questions (80 questions with maximum marks of 200 in each paper) to be attempted in 120 minutes.
• Statistics III and IV will be of Descriptive Type having Short Answer/ Small Problems Questions (50%) and Long Answer and Comprehension problem questions (50%).
• At least one Short Answer and One Long Answer Question from each section are compulsory.
• In Statistics-IV, an equal number of questions i.e. 50% weightage from all the sub-sections below, and candidates have to choose any two subsections and answer.
• The papers on General English and General Studies will be of subjective type.

Syllabus

The latest syllabus of UPSC IES/ISS has been discussed here. Since the syllabus is vast; the candidates are advised to follow UPSC IES/ISS practice papers to check their level of preparation.

• General Economics I: Theory of Consumer’s Demand, Theory of Production, Welfare Economic, Theory of Value, Theory of Distribution, Quantitative Methods in Economics.
• General Economics II: Economic Thought, the Concept of National Income and Social Accounting, Theory of Employment, Money & Finance, Financial and Capital Market, Economic growth and development, International Economics, Balance of Payments, Global Institutions.
• General Economics III: Public Finance, Environmental Economics, Industrial Economics, State, market, and planning.
• Indian Economics: History of development & Planning, Federal Finance, Budgeting, Poverty, unemployment, and Human Development, Agriculture, The strategy of Industrial development.
• Labour, Foreign Trade, Money and Banking, Inflation.

UPSC ISS Syllabus

• General Studies: Current Events -National & International, Indian Geography, Polity & Governance, Indian History, Indian Polity, Environmental Studies, Indian Constitution, Science & Technology, etc.
• General English: Passages, Precise Writing, Essays, Comprehension, Antonyms, Synonyms, Letter Writing, etc.
• Statistics-I: Probability, Statistical Methods, Numerical Analysis, Computer Application, Data Processing, etc.
• Statistics-II: Linear Models, Statistical Inference, Hypothesis Testing, Official Statistics, Sector Wise Statistics, Population Census, Socio-Economic Indicators, etc.
• Statistics-III: Sampling Techniques, Estimation of Population, Econometrics, Applied Statistics, Time Series Analysis, Fourier Transform, etc.
• Statistics-IV: Operations Research and Reliability, Branch and Bound Method, PERT and CPM, Exponential Distributions, Demography and Vital Statistics, Survival Analysis and Clinical Trial, Data Management, Quality Control, Multivariate Analysis, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Computing with C and R, etc.

Selection Process

The selection process of UPSC IES/ISS 2021 includes 2 stages

• Written Examination - 1000 marks
• Viva Voce (Interview) - 200 marks

Results

The conducting board will release the result.

Cut-off

The cutoff marks of UPSC IES/ISS 2021 will be released after the results. The result and cutoff marks will be released at each stage of the selection process. The candidates who will get the cutoff marks or above will be eligible for the next round. Here is a glimpse of the previous years’ cutoff:

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