UPSC 2020: Engineering, Geologist Services (Mains) become first UPSC exams to be postponed

civil services examination is conducted annually in three sts that are preliminary, mains and interview. UPSC conducts various exams to select officers for Indian ministrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS), among ors. Engineering and Geologist Services exams are also conducted by UPSC. Re on to kw latest updates by UPSC. 

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UPSC engineering and UPSC Geologist services 2020

• UPSC engineering services Mains exam and Geologist Services Mains exam which was scheduled for August 2020 is w postponed until furr tice.
• For both exams, only candidates who h cleared preliminary exams of UPSC engineering and geologist services were scheduled to appear in Mains exam. prelims exam for both Engineering and Geologist services branch were conducted in January 2020.
• Combined Geoscientist (Main) exam is of a descriptive nature and re are three papers for candidates to appear in. While engineering services (mains) exam has two papers in an Engineering discipline, where each paper is for 3 hours.
• marks obtained in mains and personal interview is n counted while deciding final merit list.

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UPSC 2020 recent updates about exam centres

• Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has allowed candidates to change ir exam centres for civil services preliminary examination, scheduled on October 4. Besides this, option to change centres for civil services (main) examination, 2020, and Indian Forest Service (Main) examination, 2020, is also being me available.
• window of submitting revised choice of Centers by candidates will be done in two phases i.e. 7th-13th July 2020 (6 PM) and 20th-24th July 2020 (6 PM) on  website at - https://upsconline.nic.in.
• Lakhs of aspirants take examination every year to be part of country's coveted civil services. UPSC has also decided to make a ‘withdrawal window’ available to candidates on Commission’s website during period from 1st-8th August 2020 to allow m to withdraw ir application from test. 

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