UPSC Postpones Engineering Services Exam 2025: More Time for Aspirants to Gear Up | Details Inside

New Delhi: Union Public Service Commission on Friday said that Engineering Services Examination-2025 has been postponed allowing "sufficient time" for aspirants to prepare for recruitment test, an official announcement said.

This decision follows government's resolution to conduct recruitment for Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) through both Civil Services Examinations (for Traffic, Accounts, and Personnel sub-cres) and Engineering Services Examination (for Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Signal and Telecommunication, and Stores sub-cres).

"In order to give sufficient time to aspirants of ESE 2025 to prepare for examination, Commission has also decided to postpone ESE (Preliminary) and ESE (Main) Exam, 2025.

" ESE (Preliminary) 2025 and ESE (Main) 2025 will now be held on 8th June 2025 and 10th August 2025 respectively," said statement issued by UPSC .

UPSC Postpones ESE 2025 Exams 

According to UPSC 's annual programme of examination, 2025, notification for ESE 2025 was issued on September 18, 2024, with last date of receipt of applications as October 8, 2024.

ESE Preliminary/Stage-I test was scheduled to be held by UPSC on February 9, 2025, in accordance with rules published by Ministry of Communications, Department of Telecommunications.

railways ministry also notified IRMS (Amendment) Rules, 2024 on October 9, statement said.

Keeping in view decision of government for inclusion of IRMS in ESE-2025, opening of correction window from October 9, 2024 (from next day of last date for receipt of application - October 8) was put on hold, it said.

Now, Commission has decided to open a new application window from October 18 to November 22 for new applicants and to enable old applicants (who have applied during original application window of September to October 8) to make changes, statement said.

reafter, a correction/edit window of seven days will be provided from November 23 to November 29 to all applicants during which y will be able to modify/edit ir particulars, release said. 

candidates, who have alrey applied during application window from September 18 to October 8, need not apply again.

y may, however, update ir particulars during new application window and correction/edit window, if required, Commission said.

Aspirants for ESE 2025 are vised to go through same before applying for examination, it ded.