OPSC Civil Services Exam Syllabus 2024 & Exam Pattern

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OPSC Civil Services Exam Syllabus 2024 & Exam Pattern PDF Download – Prelims, Mains: Candidates who had applied for the OPSC Civil Services Exam Posts must check this page for sure. Here, in this article, the complete OPSC Syllabus 2024 PDF OAS Prelims & Mains Exam Pattern are provided in PDF format. For your convenience, we had provided the OPSC OAS Syllabus 2024 for Prelims and Mains. Therefore, applicants can start to download the OPSC Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2024 from the direct link attached at the end of the page.

From the below sections, candidates must note down the details of the OPSC Civil Services Exam Selection Process 2024 and the OPSC Civil Services Exam Pattern 2024. So, this will be helpful for all the aspirants in the preparation process as well as to gain the highest scores in the exam conducted by the officials of the Odisha Public Service Commission @ opsc.gov.in.

OPSC Syllabus 2024 – Overview

OPSC OAS Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2024

All the aspirants who applied for the OPSC Exam can check the OPSC Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2024 details from this section. In order to gain your desired posts such as the Odisha Administrative Service, Odisha Police Service, Odisha Finance Service, etc. All the applied candidates must prepare well as per the schedule they had been prepared for and gain the highest scores in the examination. Candidates can check the OPSC OAS Syllabus 2024 for the Prelims and Mains Exam.

OPSC Civil Services Exam Pattern 2024

Candidates can get the details of the OPSC Civil Services Exam Pattern 2024 along with the OPSC Civil Services Exam Syllabus 2024 from this section. Aspirants can get the Exam Pattern for both the Prelims and Mains Examination.

OPSC Civil Services Prelims Exam Pattern

The Preliminary Examination shall consist of two papers of Objective Type (multiple choice) questions and carry a maximum of 200 marks each. This examination is meant to serve as a screening test only. The marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination by the candidates who are declared qualified for admission to the Main Examination shall not be counted for determining their final order of merit.

Note: The Commission shall draw a list of candidates to be qualified for the Civil Services (Main) Examination based on the criterion of minimum qualifying marks of 33% in General Studies Paper-II of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination and total qualifying marks of General Studies Paper-I of Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination as may be determined by the Commission.

Negative Marking

There shall be negative marking for incorrect answers (as detailed below) for all questions except some of the questions where the negative marking shall be inbuilt in the form of different marks being awarded to the most appropriate and not-so-appropriate answer for such questions.

(i) There shall be four alternatives for the answers to every question. For each question for which a wrong answer has been given by the candidate, one-third (0.33) of the marks assigned to that question shall be deducted as a penalty.
(ii) If a candidate gives more than one answer, it shall be treated as a wrong answer even if one of the given answers happens to be correct and there will be the same penalty as above for that question.
(iii) If a question is left blank i.e. no answer is given by the candidate, there shall be no penalty for that question.

OPSC Civil Services Mains Exam Pattern

The Main Examination shall consist of a written test and an interview test. The written examination shall consist of nine papers of conventional essay type in which there shall be two papers in part-I which are qualifying in nature and seven papers in part II for assessment of the merit of the candidate. Marks obtained for all the compulsory papers (Paper-I to Paper-VII in part II) and Marks obtained in the Interview for Personality Test shall be counted for ranking. Each paper shall be of 3 hours duration.

Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in part II of the written part of the Main Examination as may be fixed by the Commission at their discretion, shall be called by them for an interview for a Personality Test. The interview shall carry 250 marks (with no minimum qualifying marks).

OPSC Syllabus 2024 PDF Download

In order to gain the best scores in the Examination for the posts of the Odisha Cooperative Service, Odisha Revenue Service, Odisha Taxation and Accounts Service, etc, all the appearing candidates must download the OPSC Civil Services Syllabus 2024 PDF from the direct link attached at the end of the page. In which the OPSC Civil Services Exam Exam Pattern 2024 is also included. Therefore, all the applied candidates can happily download it and prepare it using some preparation tips.

OPSC OAS Syllabus 2024 for Prelims and Mains

Candidates can start to download the OPSC OAS Syllabus 2024 from the link provided below. Also, candidates must note down that the Syllabus topics are given separately for the sake of the exam-appearing candidates. Along with the OPSC OAS Syllabus 2024, the Exam pattern is also provided in the PDF. So, candidates can use this in the preparation process such that they can gain complete knowledge on each and every subject and also in time management.

OPSC Prelims Syllabus PDF Download

Paper I – General Studies

(i) Current events of national and international importance.
(ii) History of India and Indian National Movement.
(iii) History of Odisha and Odia Nationalism.
(iv) Odisha and Indian Geography-Physical, Social, Economic Geography of India and the World.
(v) Indian Polity and Governance-Constitution, Political System, Panchayati Raj,
(vi) Public Policy, Rights Issues, etc.
(vii) Economic and Social Development-Sustainable Development, Poverty, Inclusion, Demographics, Social Sector Initiatives, etc.
(vii) General issues on Environmental ecology, Bio-diversity, and Climate Change – that do not require subject specialization.
(ix) General Science.

Paper II – General Studies

(i) Comprehension;
(ii) Interpersonal skills including communication skills;
(iii) Logical reasoning and analytical ability;
(iv) Decision-making and problem-solving;
(v) General mental ability;
(vi) Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency, etc. Class X level)

Note:- It is mandatory for the candidate to appear in both the Papers of Preliminary Examination for the purpose of evaluation. Therefore a candidate shall be disqualified in case he or she does not appear in both the papers of the Preliminary Examination.

OPSC Mains Syllabus PDF Download

Part 1 – Qualifying Papers 

Paper I: Odia Language

(i) Comprehension of given passages.
(ii) Précis writing.
(iii) Usage and vocabulary.
(iv) Short Essays.
(v) Translation from English to the Odia Language and vice-versa.

Paper II: English Language

The pattern of questions shall be broad as follows:
(i) Comprehension of given passages.
(ii) Precis writing.
(iii) Usage and vocabulary.
(iv) Short Essays.

Part 2 –  Papers to be counted for merit 

Paper-II General Studies-I

Indian Heritage and Culture, Odisha Heritage and Culture, History and Geography of the World and Society

Paper-III General Studies-II

Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Justice, and Inter-State Relations

Paper-IV: General Studies-III

Technology, Economic Development, Bio-diversity, Environment, Security, and Disaster Management

Paper-V: General Studies-IV

Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude

Paper-VI Optional Subject – Paper 1 & Paper 2

Candidates may choose any one of the subjects from amongst the list of subjects given below for optional Paper-VI and Paper-VII of the written test:-

List of optional subjects for the Main Examination

• Agriculture
• Agriculture Engineering
• Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science
• Anthropology
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Civil Engineering
• Commerce and Accountancy
• Economics
• Education
• Electrical Engineering
• Fishery Science
• Forestry
• Mechanical Engineering
• Medical Science
• Philosophy
• Physics
• Political Science and International Relations
• Psychology
• Public Administration
• Sociology
• Statistics
• Zoology
• Literature of any one of the following languages: English, Hindi,

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