UPSC to conduct Civil Service Prelims 2020 on 4 October

June 5: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has announced the fresh dates for UPSC Civil Service 2020 examination. The Commission has decided to conduct the UPSC 2020 prelims examination on October 4. The UPSC Mains is scheduled for January 8, 2021. The civil services preliminary examination 2020, postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier, the preliminary examination was scheduled to be conducted on May 31.

The UPSC has released the UPSC revised date sheet for all the pending examinations on its official website  upsc.gov.in. The civil services examination is held annually in three stages – prelims, mains and interview — by the UPSC to select officers for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and the Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.