UPSC IES-ISS 2022: Notification, Exam Dates (Out), Eligibility, Admit Card, Pattern, Syllabus and Cut Off

UPSC IES-ISS 2022: Union Public Service Commission has released its Recruitment calendar for the year 2022 which consists of dates of all the exams conducted by it.

Candidates can check the calendar here.

Candidates can apply from the official website.

The UPSC IES-ISS exam are known as Union Public Service Commission Indian Economical Service (IES) and Indian Statistical Service (ISS). Both the exams are conducted once a year by the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission). The IES & ISS come under the Group A services of CCS (Central Civil Services). The recruitment through these exams will be done for the service of Grade A posts under the Central Government.

The application will start after the release of the notification. The application form will be accepted online only. The recruitment will be done based on aggregate marks scored in the Written exam+Interview and verification of eligibility.

The full details regarding these two exams UPSC IES & ISS are given below in the article, applicants are requested to read all the information carefully.

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Overview

Particular	Details
Name of Examination	UPSC Indian Economic Service- Indian Statistical Service 2022
Popularly Known As	UPSC IES-ISS 2022
Conducting Authority	Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
Exam-level	National level
Frequency	Only once a year
Name of Service	IES & ISS
Mode of Application	Online
Mode of Examination	Offline
Application Fees	INR 200/-
Selection Procedure	Written examination. Interview test.
Negative Marking	Yes, 0.33 marks will be deducted for every correct answer
Official Website	upsc.gov.in

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Important Dates

Events	Dates
Notification releases on	06 April 2022
Application begins from	06 April 2022
Last Date to apply	26 April 2022
Application Withdrawal starts from	To be notified
Last date to withdrawal from online application	To be notified
ISS Exam Date	24 June 2022
ISS Result Declaration date	To be notified
ISS Interview Date	To be notified
IES Exam Date	To be notified
IES Result Declaration Date	To be notified
IES Interview Date	To be notified

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Application Process

UPSC IES-ISS 2022 application process comprises of two parts i.e. Part-I and Part-II. Part-I is the Registration Process while Part-II is Form Filling Process. Here we have provided the step-by-step procedure to complete both parts of the application process.

Part-I Registration

1. Open the official website of UPSC i.e. https://www.upsconline.nic.in.
2. Now select and click on the ‘Apply Now’ link appearing on the home page.
3. After clicking on the link, a new window will open for the registration process.
4. Enter the required details such as Name, Father’s Name, Mother’s Name, Date of Birth, Contact no., Email id, etc as per requirement.
5. Now preview the details at once and click on the ‘Submit’ button.
6. After submitting the registration form, the system will generate a credential for each individual.
7. The credential details such as Registration No., Password will be sent to applicants via mail or message on the registered mobile no. and mail id.

Part-II Login

1. Now in the next stage, applicants have to login by using their credentials such as Registration ID, date of birth, and password.
2. Now applicants have to upload their recent passport size photograph and signature in the exact format suggested in the information brochure.
3. Now applicants will have to verify all the details and then preview the application form carefully to avoid any mistake.
4. Lastly, applicants have to pay the application fee only (for General and OBC applicants).
5. In the last, print the application form and fee receipt on paper and keep it safe for future references.

Application Fees

• The Application fee can be debited through online mode as well as offline mode.
• Applicants have to visit the nearest SBI branch to make payment during office time.
• The online application fee payment can be made via Debit card/ Credit card/ Net Banking/ Rupay, etc.

Category	Application Fee
General OBC	INR 200/-
OBC	INR 200/-
SC	Exempted
ST	Exempted
PWD	Exempted
All Females	Exempted

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Eligibility

Only those applicants will be able to fill the form who satisfies all the required eligibility criteria. The eligibility details required for the UPSC IES-ISS exam are as follows-

Nationality

• The applicants must be a citizen of India/ Nepal/ Bhutan/ Tibetan refugee who migrated to India before January 1, 1962.
• Or, An individual of Indian origin who has come from Pakistan /Sri Lanka/ Burma/Eastern Africa (Kenya, Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, Zaire, and Ethiopia or Vietnam).

Educational Qualification

• Indian Economic Service (IES): Applicants must have completed their Post-Graduate Degree in Economics/Business Economics/Applied Economics/Econometrics.
• Indian Statistical Service (ISS): Applicants must have completed Bachelor’s Degree with Mathematical Statistics/Statistics/Applied Statistics or, Master’s degree in Mathematical Statistics/Statistics/Applied Statistics.

Age

• The age of applicants should lies between 21 years to 30 years.
• The relaxation will be provided to reserved category candidates as per the Government norms.

Age Relaxation

Category	Age Relaxation
PwD	10 years
Ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers and ECO/SSCO	5 years
Domicile of Jammu & Kashmir	5 years
SC/ ST	5 years
Defense Services Personnel disabled in operations during hospitalities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area	3 years
OBC	3 years

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Exam Pattern

The UPSC IES & ISS both the exam have almost the same exam pattern. For both the services the exam will consist of two stages. In stage 1 applicants have to attempt General English, General Studies, and Subjective papers while in Stage 2, applicants have to face an interview round after qualifying stage 1. The language of the question papers will be English only. Stage 1 i.e. Written exam comprises 1000 marks while Stage 2 i.e. Interview comprises 200 marks.

UPSC IES Exam Pattern

Subject	Maximum Marks	Duration	Type
1. General English	100 marks	3 hours	Subjective
2. General Studies	100 marks	3 hours	Subjective
3. General Economics-I	200 marks	3 hours	Subjective
4. General Economics-II	200 marks	3 hours	Subjective
5. General Economics-III	200 marks	3 hours	Subjective
6. Indian Economics	200 marks	3 hours	Subjective
Total marks	1000 marks		–

UPSC ISS Exam Pattern

Subject/Paper	Maximum Marks	Duration	Type
1.General English	100 marks	3 hours	Subjective
2.General Studies	100 marks	3 hours	Subjective
3. Statistics-I	200 marks	2 hours	Objective
4. Statistics-II	200 marks	2 hours	Objective
5. Statistics-III	200 marks	3 hours	Subjective
6. Statistics-IV	200 marks	3 hours	Subjective
Total marks	1000 marks		–

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Exam Syllabus

The topics of the syllabus of the UPSC IES-ISS exam are described below. For a detailed syllabus, applicants have to download the syllabus from the official website of UPSC for the respective exams.

• General English
  • Passages,
  • Precise Writing
  • Essays
  • Comprehension
  • Antonyms
  • Synonyms
  • Letter Writing
• General Studies
  • General knowledge
  • current affairs
  • Current events and their effects on everyday life
  • Indian polity
  • History
  • Geography
  • Constitution of India.

UPSC IES Syllabus

• General Economics I: 
  • Theory of Consumer’s Demand, Welfare Economic, Theory of Value, Theory of Production, Theory of Distribution, Quantitative Methods in Economics.
• General Economics II: Economic Thought, Theory of Employment, International Economics, Money & Finance, the Concept of National Income and Social Accounting, Economic growth and development, Balance of Payments, Financial and Capital Market, Global Institutions.
• General Economics III:  Environmental Economics, Public Finance, Industrial Economics, Market, State, and planning.
• Indian Economics: History of development & Planning, Foreign Trade, Budgeting, Poverty, Federal Finance, Unemployment, Labour, and Human Development, Agriculture, Money and Banking, The strategy of Industrial development, Inflation.

UPSC ISS Syllabus

• Statistics-I: Probability, Numerical Analysis, Statistical Methods,  Data Processing, Computer Application, etc.
• Statistics-II: Statistical Inference, Linear Models, Hypothesis Testing, Sector Wise Statistics, Socio-Economic Indicators, Official Statistics, Population Census,  etc.
• Statistics-III: Sampling Techniques, Econometrics, Applied Statistics, Estimation of Population, Time Series Analysis, Fourier Transform, etc.
• Statistics-IV: Operations Research and Reliability, PERT and CPM, Exponential Distributions, Branch and Bound Method, Survival Analysis and Clinical Trial, Demography and Vital Statistics, Data Management, Multivariate Analysis, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Quality Control, Computing with C and R, etc.

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Preparation Tips

The UPSC IES-ISS exam is the most-awaited and reputation exam. Every year no. of applicants do apply for this exam. It is considered one of the most prestigious jobs offered by UPSC. So its preparation should be done in the perfect manner in order to get the services. The strategy should be unique to score well in written exams. Here are strategy and tips to gain a good score in written exam as mentioned below:

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Admit Card

The admit card/ hall ticket is one of the most important documents to fix your entry in the exam hall otherwise you will exempt from the exam. Applicants can download the admit card/ hall ticket of the UPSC IES-ISS exam by following the below procedure.

• Open your search engine and type upsconline.gov.in.
• Now on the home page, search for the “e-admit cards for various examinations of UPSC” option and then click on it.
• After that select, the ‘UPSC IES admit card 2022’ and click on the link.
• Now it’s time to enter your Registration ID/ Roll no. and date of birth.
• Now click on the submit button.
• Now you will have your admit card on the monitor screen, download it take a hard copy of it for future references.

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Exam Center

The list of exam centers for the UPSC IES-ISS exam is listed below. The exam center will be allotted to the applicants on behalf of their preferences filled in the application form. It should be noted that no request will be entertained to change the exam center.

• Ahmedabad
• Bengaluru
• Bhopal
• Chennai
• Cuttack
• Chandigarh
• Delhi
• Dispur
• Lucknow
• Jaipur
• Mumbai
• Kolkata
• Prayagraj (Allahabad)
• Jammu
• Hyderabad
• Shillong
• Patna
• Shimla
• Thiruvananthapuram

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Result & Cut off

The result of UPSC IES and UPSC ISS 2022 will be announced officially on the official website of UPSC. The applicants will able to watch and download the result. The result/ scorecard of the UPSC IES-ISS will be released after a few days of examination. Only those applicants will call for the next stage who have acquired the minimum cut off marks set by the authority.

The glimpse of minimum cut off marks and previous year cut off marks are below in the table.

Category	Minimum marks in each of the 6 papers	Minimum of marks in all 6 papers (out of 1000 marks)	Minimum marks of the last candidate Finally recommended for appointment (out of 1200 marks)
UR	20%	447	608
OBC	20%	364	499
ST	20%	374	536
SC	20%	359	538
PH	10%	200	290

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 Selection Procedure

The selection of applicants will be processed in two stages:-

1. Written examination.
2. Interview test/ Personality test

Those applicants who will qualify for the written exam will call for the Interview round. After the interview process, the final merit list will be released. Applicants who are shortlisted will call for verification of eligibility. If they qualify the last stage i.e. verify the eligibility for the respective posts then they will be recruited under the same service otherwise exempted.  Both the rounds are qualifying in nature. If during the verification process, applicants fail any stage of verification then their candidature will be canceled.

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UPSC IES-ISS 2022 FAQs

You can apply for the UPSC IES/ ISS exam on the official website of UPSC i.e. upsc.gov.in.

The application fee for Unreserved category candidates is INR 200/ only.

The minimum age of the applicants should be 21 years to apply for UPSC IES-ISS exam.

The provisional selection is based on the marks obtained in written exam and Interview test. However the final selection will be based on the verification of eligibility.

Yes, he/she can apply but they have to produce the category certificate to claim the age relaxation.