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UPSC Indian Engineering Services Examination – IES 2013 Plan of Examination

1.      Indian Engineering Service Examination 2013 shall be conducted according to the following plan :

Part I -  The written examination for IES 2013 will comprise two sections – Section I consisting only of objective types of questions and Section II of conventional papers. Both sections will cover the entire syllabus of the relevant engineering disciplines viz. Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering.

The standard and syllabi prescribed for these papers are given in Schedule to the Appendix. The details of the Engineering Services Exam 2013 written examination i.e. subject, duration and maximum marks allotted to each subject.

Part II -  Personality test carrying a maximum of 200 marks of such of the candidates who qualify on the basis of the written examination for IES 2013.

2.      The following will be the subjects for the IES written examination 2013 :

Note :  Candidates are advised to read carefully special instruction to candidates for conventional type tests and objective type tests given in Appendix-III ( Part A & Part B ) including the procedure regarding filling in the Answer Sheet of objective type tests in the Indian Engineering Services Examination Hall.

3.      In the Personality Test special attention will be paid to assessing the candidate’s capacity for leadership, initiative and intellectual curiosity, tact and other social qualities, mental and physical energy, powers of practical application and integrity of character.

4.      Conventional papers must be answered in English. Question papers will be set in English only.

5.     
Candidates must write the papers in their own hand. In no circumstances will they be allowed the help of a scribe to write the answers for them. However, an extra time of twenty minutes per hour shall be permitted for the candidates with locomotor disability / cerebral palsy where dominant ( writing ) extremity is affected to the extent of slowing the performance of function ( minimum of 40% impairment ) in the conventional type paper.

6.      The Union Public Service Commission have discretion to fix minimum qualifying marks in any or all the papers of the IES examination. The Objective type papers as contained in Section-I of the Plan of the Indian Engineering Services Examination will be evaluated first and evaluation of the conventional type papers contained in Section-II of the Plan of IES Examination will be done only of those candidates who obtain the minimum qualifying marks in Objective types papers, as fixed by the Union Public Services Commission.

7.      Marks will not be allotted for mere superficial knowledge.

8.      Deduction up to 5 per cent of the maximum marks for the written papers will be made for illegible handwriting.

9.      Credit will be given for orderly, effective and exact expression combined with due economy of words in the conventional papers of the IES examination.

10.  In the question papers, wherever required, SI units will be used.

Note :  Candidates will be supplied with standard tables / charts in SI units in the IES Examination hall for reference purpose, wherever considered necessary.

11.  Candidates are permitted to bring and use battery operated pocket calculators for conventional ( essay ) type papers only. Loaning or inter-changing of calculators in the Examination hall is not permitted. It is also important to note that candidates are not permitted to use calculators for answering objective type paper ( Test book lets ). They should not, therefore, bring the same inside the UPSC IES Examination Hall.

12.  Candidates should use only International form of Indian numerals ( e.g. 1,2,3,4,5,6 etc. ) while answering question papers.