UPSC IES/ISS Syllabus and Exam Pattern PDF Free Download

In this article, UPSC IES/ISS Syllabus is available for you to download. As the UPSC IES/ISS notification has been released. Aspirants who have applied for the posts are now searching for the UPSC IES/ISS Syllabus. Syllabus plays the major role for the preparation of the exam. So the candidate must be aware of the syllabus and Exam pattern before starting the preparation.

UPSC stands for Union Public Service. This is the central government recruitment board.UPSC has released vacancies for IES (Indian Economic Service) and ISS (Indian Statistical Service)

IES /ISS Syllabus

Here are the number of vacancies for each post

IES Vacancies – 14

ISS Vacancies – 32

 Now let’s move to the next topic i.e the Exam Pattern and Syllabus of UPSC IES/ISS.

Part I is the written exam which consists of 1000 marks.

Part II is the viva voice or interview of 200 marks.Candidates will called by the commission based on the marks obtained in the written exam.

UPSC IES Pattern – Indian Economic Service

UPSC – ISS – Indian Statistical Service

• The General English and General Studies for both IES /ISS will be common and of Subjective type.
• The General Economics Papers from (I to IV) will be of subjective type.
• Statistics I & II papers will be of Objective type with 80 questions of maximum of 200 marks.
• Statistics III & IV will be of Descriptive type.
• Negative Marking for the wrong answers attempted.

 UPSC IES/ISS Syllabus -General Studies and General English

General English

• Precise Writing
• Letter Writing
• Essays
• Comprehension
• Antonyms
• Synonyms etc

General Studies

• Current Events – National & International
• Indian Geography
• Indian History
• Indian Polity
• Indian Constitution
• Polity and Governance
• Environmental Studies
• Science and Technology etc.

UPSC Syllabus for IES/ISS – IES 

General Economics – I

PART A

• Theory of Consumer’s Demand
• Theory of Production
• Theory of Value
• Theory of Distribution
• Welfare of Economics

PART B

• Statistical and Economic Methods
• Mathematical Methods in Economics.

General Economics – II

• Concept of National Income and Social Accounting.
• Economic Thought
• Theory of Output, Employment, inflation, money and finance.
• Financial and Capital Market
• Economic Growth and Development.
• International Economics
• Balance of Payments
• Global Institutions.

General Economics – III

• Public Finance
• Environmental Economics
• Industrial Economics
• State Market and Planning

Indian Economics

• History of development and planning
• Federal Finance
• Decentralised Planning
• Union State Financial Relations
• Poverty,Unempolyment and Human Development
• Agriculture and Rural Development.
• India’s experience with urbanisation and migration.
• Strategy of Industrial Development
• Foreign Trade
• Money and Banking
• Inflation
• Budget and Fiscal Policy

Syllabus for UPSC IES/ISS – ISS 

Statistics – I

• Probability
• Statistical Methods
• Numerical Analysis
• Computer Application and Data Processing

Statistics – II

• Linear Models
• Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing
• Official Statistics

Statistics –III

• Sampling Techniques
• Econometrics
• Applied Statistics

Statistics – IV

• Operations Research and Reliability
• Demography and Vital Statistics
• Survival Analysis and Clinical trial
• Quality Control
• Multivariate Analysis
• Design and Analysis of Experiments
• Computing with C and R etc.

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Hope this article will help to know the syllabus and exam pattern of UPSC IES/ISS exam.