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UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

ADDENDUM TO DETAILED APPLICATION FORM
CIVIL SERVICES (MAIN) EXAMINATION, 2020

RID. :
Roll No. :
Name :
Email :
Mobile :

Roll No.
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22. (A) Indicate below your order of preference for Zone and State Cadre within zones for which you would like to be considered for allotment in case you are selected for Indian
Administrative Service.

Note 1: For allocation to Home Cadre against an Insider vacancy, a candidate is mandatorily required to click ‘Yes’ otherwise he/she shall not be considered for his/her Home cadre
at all in case he/she opted ‘No’.
Note 2: Candidates are advised to visit the website of Department of Personnel & Training at the link https://cseplus.nic.in/CadreAllocation for perusing the Cadre Allocation
Policy-2017. They are also advised to go through the details of the Cadre Allocation Policy 2017 extremely carefully before submitting their preferences for Zones as well as Cadres
thereunder. The preferences once opted and submitted cannot be modified or changed at a later stage. Therefore, the candidates are advised to exercise due diligence while filling
up the preferences for Zones as well as Cadres thereunder.
Note 3: A candidate claiming benefit of reservation under Persons with Benchmark Disabilities quota has an additional option to indicate his/her preference for any one state/cadre
(other than Home cadre) of his/her first preferred Zone as per the para 5 of Cadre Allocation Policy issued vide OM no. 13013/2/2016-AIS.I dated 5.9.2017.

Whether you want to consider your Home State as your first preference as Home Cadre? -

Zones (with State Order of preference Order of Preference for State Cadre within Zone
Cadres) for Zones
Zone I AGMUT Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Punjab Rajasthan Uttarakhand

Zone II Bihar Jharkhand Odisha Uttar Pradesh

Zone III Chhattisgarh Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra

Zone IV Assam-Meghalaya Manipur Nagaland Sikkim Tripura West Bengal

Zone V Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Kerala Tamil Nadu Telangana

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22. (B) Indicate below your order of preference for Zone and State Cadre within zones for which you would like to be considered for allotment in case you are selected for
Indian Police Service.

Note 2: For allocation to Home cadre against an Insider vacancy, a candidate is mandatorily to click ‘Yes’ otherwise he/she shall not be considered for his/her Home
cadre at all in case he/she opted ‘No’.

Whether you want to consider your Home State as your first preference as Home Cadre?

Zones (with State Order of preference Order of Preference for State Cadre within Zone
Cadres) for Zones
Zone I AGMUT Haryana Himachal Pradesh Jammu & Kashmir Punjab Rajasthan Uttarakhand

Zone II Bihar Jharkhand Odisha Uttar Pradesh

Zone III Chhattisgarh Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra

Zone IV Assam-Meghalaya Manipur Nagaland Sikkim Tripura West Bengal

Zone V Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Kerala Tamil Nadu Telangana

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23. Your order of preference against the Services/Posts given below, for which you would like to be considered for
appointment.
Note 1: It is clarified that the below order of services does not reflect their relative importance in the eyes of the
Government and the candidates are advised to use their own discretion while indicating preferences for various
services.
Note 2: A candidate shall be required to mandatorily indicate order of preferences only for those services participating
in the Civil Services Examination for the year, for which he is interested to be allocated to, in the application form for
main examination.
Note 3: The services which are not required to be opted have been shown as ‘NOT OPTED’.
Note 4: A candidate who is appointed to the Indian Police Service on the basis of the results of an earlier examination
and continues to be a member of that service shall not be eligible to opt for the Indian Police Service in Civil Service
Examination, 2018.

S.N. Name of Services/Post Order of Preference

1. Indian Administrative Service
2. Indian Foreign Service
3. Indian Police Service
4. India P&T Accounts & Finance Service, Group “A”
5. Indian Audit & Accounts Service, Group “A”
6. Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), Group “A”
7. Indian Defence Accounts Service, Group “A”
8. Indian Revenue Service, (I.T.), Group “A”
9. Indian Ordnance Factories Service, Group “A” (Asstt. Works Manger-
Administration)
10. Indian Postal Service, Group “A”
11. Indian Civil Accounts Service, Group “A”
12. Indian Railway Traffic Service, Group “A”
13. Indian Railway Accounts Service, Group “A”
14. Indian Railway Personnel Service, Group “A”
15. Post of Asstt. Security Commissioner, Group “A” in Railway Protection Force
16. Indian Defence Estates Service (Junior Grade), Group “A”
17. Indian Information Service (Junior Grade), Group “A”
18. Indian Trade Service, Group “A” (Grade III)
19. Indian Corporate Law Service, Group “A”
20. Armed Forces Headquarters Civil Service, Group “B” (Section Officers’ Grade)
21. The Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Island, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra
& Nagar Haveli Civil Service, Group “B”
22. The Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Island, Lakshadweep, Daman & Diu and Dadra
& Nagar Haveli Police Service, Group “B”
23. Pondicherry Civil Service, Group “B”
24. Pondicherry Police Service, Group “B”

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Particulars at the University / Stat/ National level in respect of following :

➢ Prizes, Medals, Scholarships, etc

➢ Sports/ N.C.C., etc

➢ Position of distinction Leadership held in School/ College

➢ Other extracurricular activities and interests.

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Socio Economic Questionnaire

Background of the candidate

Place of Birth
Place where you had most of your school
education
Place of residence (most of the time ) after
completing Higher Secondary Education (i.e,
10+2)
Place of stay of father/guardian (most of the time)
during the last 15 years
After taking into account of your place of birth,
place schooling, place of college education and
employment, your father’s/guardian’s place of
stay; do you consider your background as rural or
urban, as per the definition of urban

Education Particulars
Medium of Instructions
School Level
College Level
Type of Institution attended at school level
Academic Discipline : Please mention the academic discipline of educational qualifications
completed
Graduate Degree
Post Graduate Degree
M.Phil
Ph.D

Employment status
Present Employment status of the candidate
If employed, nature of employment
Total annual income of the candidate, if
employed

Selection in previous Civil Service Examination(s)

Have you been selected on the basis of previous
Civil Services Examinations
Service allotted on the basis of previous Civil
Services Examinations
Did you join the service
If “NO” to above, furnish reason for not joining
the service

Particulars of the competitive examinations(s) for employment finally qualified by you

Select the competitive examinations and enter no. of times finally qualified by you
Civil Services Examination
Indian Forest Service Examination
Any other UPSC Examination

Give two reasons in order of priority for preferring Civil Services

First Priority
Second Priority

Background of Parents/ Guardian

Educational Qualification of Parents/ Guardian
Father/ Guardian
Mother
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Source of Information about the Civil Services Examination

Source of information about the Civil Services
Examination
If source is ‘Employment News/ Daily
Newspaper’, please specify the name of
Newspaper

Coaching attended
Coaching institute attended/will attend, if any, at any stage while preparing for Civil Services
Examinations
For Civil Services (Preliminary) Exam
For Civil Services (Mains) Exam
For Civil Services (Personality Test)

Number of attempts
For Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination
Number of attempts made
Number of times qualified
For Civil Services (Mains) Examination
Number of times appeared, so far (excluding the
present one)
Number of times qualified, so far

Optional Subject
Optional Subject in present CS (Main) Exams
Optional Subject in previous (Main) Exams, if
applicable
Whether optional subject opted by you in the
present CS (M) Exam, is same / different from
what you had studied in college/ University
Reason of choosing different optional subject at
CS (Main) Exam other than what you had studied
in college/ University

Suggestions
Please give specific suggestion(s), if any, in brief 1 Need parity in optional subject
to improve the Civil Services Examination with
regard to Syllabus, Examination System, 2 students who could not clear interview should
Personality Test, etc be inducted by other departments
(within 200 words)
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