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UPPCS Essay Syllabus-Know all the details here!

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The UPPCS or the Uttar Pradesh Combined State/Upper Subordinate Exam is conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC). For the motive of selecting the dedicated officers for Group A and Group B for the Administrative Civil Services of the Uttar Pradesh State, UPPSC PCS selection of candidates is done through a three-stage exam similar to UPSC. The prelims exam is an objective test while Mains is conventional in nature, and lastly, an interview is followed. 

  • The UPPCS Exam for Mains is expected to consist of 9 papers (Hindi, Essay, GS 1, GS 2, GS 3, GS 4, and Optional 1 and 2).
  • The UPPCS Mains syllabus also tests candidates' overall language and subject-specific understanding of concepts through its 9 papers
  • The total mark for the UPPCS Mains exam pattern is expected to be 1500. 
  • An essay or descriptive-type questions will be asked from the topics present in the UPPCS Mains syllabus. 
  • It is expected that candidates need to select only one among 29 optional subjects to appear for two papers.

Candidates should go through the entire article to know more about the UPPCS Essay Syllabus.

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UPPCS Essay Syllabus

Candidates should have a thorough understanding of the exam syllabus so can they prepare for the examination by focusing on the subjects and their important topics. To ease for the candidates we provide the UPPCS Essay Syllabus in the below table:

UPPCS Essay Syllabus

Sections

Topics

Section A 

  • Literature and Culture. 
  •  Social sphere. 
  •  Political sphere.

Section B 

  • Science, Environment and Technology.
  • Economic Sphere
  •  Agriculture, Industry, and Trade.

Section C

  • National and International Events. 
  •  Natural Calamities, Land slides,
  • Earthquake, Deluge, Drought etc.
  • National Development programs and projects.

UPPCS Essay Marking Scheme

To achieve a higher score in the exam, students should be familiar with the UPPCS Essay Marking Scheme. By doing so, they can acquire insight about the exam's details, such as the total allotted time, the paper's pattern, etc. You can check the below points for the marking scheme:-

Stage 1, i.e, the Prelims exam is an objective-based, multiple-choice question type exam.

  • This is subdivided into two papers, Paper 1 and Paper 2, for which the information is given in the paragraph mentioned above.
  • For paper 1, every correct answer will be given 1.33 marks. 
  • For paper 2, every correct answer will be given 2 marks.
  • For every wrong answer, 0.33 marks will be deducted.

UPPCS Essay Preperation Books

Books play a key role for the candidates who are preparing for the UPPCS examination as they provide them a way or a specific direction, and knowledge regarding the syllabus of the examination so can candidates can boost their preparation by utilizing the information from the books. Check the below table to know about the UPPCS Essay Preperation Books:

Books

Authors

151 Essays

S.C Gupta

Latest selected Essays

Rajinder S. Dhillon

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