The UPSC Mains Examination has been scheduled to be conducted from 7th January 2022 to 16th January 2022. The candidates who have cleared the Preliminary exam 2021 which was held on October 10, 2021, would appear in the next level of the recruitment process, that is, Civil Services (Main) Examination.
It is to be noted that the marks obtained in the IAS Exam Prelims by the candidates will not be counted for determining their final order of merit.
The Civil Services (Main) Written Examination will consist of 9 papers of conventional essay type in the subjects out of which two papers will be of qualifying in nature. The marks obtained for all the compulsory papers (Paper-I to Paper-VII) and Marks obtained in the Interview/Personality Test will be counted for ranking.
The aspirants can download the UPSC IAS 2021 Mains question papers PDF from this page.
Note – The exams are yet to take place. The PDFs will be available shortly.
Meanwhile, to download the 2020, 2019 UPSC Mains Previous Year Question Papers, visit the linked article.
Download UPSC CSE 2021 Mains GS Question Papers PDF
The candidates can download the IAS Mains 2021 GS papers from the following links. The link will be activated once the question papers are officially released by the commission on the official website.
| UPSC Mains 2021 GS Paper I (08-01-2022 – 9 AM to 12 PM) | UPSC Mains 2021 GS Paper II (08-01-2022 – 2 PM to 5 PM) |
| UPSC Mains 2021 GS Paper III (09-01-2022 – 9 AM to 12 PM) | UPSC Mains 2021 GS Paper IV (09-01-2022 – 2 PM to 5 PM) |
Download UPSC Mains 2021 Essay Paper PDF
The candidates would be required to write essays on multiple topics. The candidates are expected to keep closely to the subject of the essay to arrange their ideas in an orderly fashion and to write concisely. The essay paper is not just qualifying in nature but will be counted for the merit ranking.
Therefore, the aspirants can download the Essay Paper and Compulsory English Language Paper from below:
Download UPSC Mains 2021 Language Papers
The aspirants can download the compulsory Indian language papers from the links below:
| Assamese | Bengali |
| Bodo | Gujarati |
| Hindi | Kannada |
| Malayalam | Marathi |
| Nepali | Odia |
| Punjabi | Sindhi (Devanagari) |
| Sanskrit | Tamil |
| Telugu | Urdu |
For more information, check out UPSC Mains 2021 Indian Language Papers from the linked article.
Download UPSC 2021 Mains Optional Papers PDF
The candidates have to choose any one of the optional subjects from amongst the list of subjects prescribed by the commission.
The candidates can also choose Literature of any one of the following languages as their optional subject.
| UPSC 2021 Civil Services (IAS) Main Exam – Literature Subjects as Optional Paper | |
| Assamese Paper I | Assamese Paper II |
| Bengali Paper I | Bengali Paper II |
| Bodo Paper I | Bodo Paper II |
| Dogri Paper I | Dogri Paper II |
| Gujarati Paper I | Gujarati Paper II |
| Hindi Paper I | Hindi Paper II |
| Kannada Paper I | Kannada Paper II |
| Kashmiri Paper I | Kashmiri Paper II |
| Konkani Paper I | Konkani Paper II |
| Maithili Paper I | Maithili Paper II |
| Malayalam Paper I | Malayalam Paper II |
| Manipuri Paper I | Manipuri Paper II |
| Marathi Paper I | Marathi Paper II |
| Nepali Paper I | Nepali Paper II |
| Odia Paper I | Odia Paper II |
| Punjabi Paper I | Punjabi Paper II |
| Sanskrit Paper I | Sanskrit Paper II |
| Santhali Paper I | Santhali Paper II |
| Sindhi Paper I | Sindhi Paper II |
| Tamil Paper I | Tamil Paper II |
| Telugu Paper I | Telugu Paper II |
| Urdu Paper I | Urdu Paper II |
| English Paper I | English Paper II |
Also, check out UPSC Mains 2021 Optional Paper from the linked article.
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