UPSC Forest Service Exam Selection process:

The competitive examination comprises two successive stages:

Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination (Objective Type) for the selection of candidates for the Indian Forest Service Main Examination; and

Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination (Written and Interview) for the selection of candidates for the various Services and posts.

Preliminary Examination:

The Preliminary Examination will consist of two papers of Objective type (multiple choice questions) and carry a maximum of 400 marks.

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 will not be counted for determining their final order of merit.

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 will be deducted as a penalty.

The question papers will be set both in Hindi and English.

Each paper will be two hours in duration.

Minimum qualifying marks: The General Studies Paper-II of the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination will be a qualifying paper with minimum qualifying marks fixed at 33%.

Main Examination:

The Main Examination will consist of a written examination and an interview test.

All the question papers for the examination will be of conventional (essay) type.

All question papers must be answered in English. Question papers will be set in English only.

The duration of each of the papers referred to above will be three hours.

Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the written part of the Main Examination as may be fixed by the Commission at their discretion, shall be summoned by them for an interview for a Personality Test.

Marks thus obtained by the candidates in the Main Examination (written part as well as interview) would determine their final ranking.

Note: Candidates should note that there will be a penalty (Negative Marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the Objective Type Question Papers.

Application Fees :

Rs. 100/-

No fee for SC/ST/PH/Female candidates.

Mode of Payment:

Offline mode by remitting the money in any Branch of the State Bank of India or

The online mode is by using Visa/Master/RuPay Credit/Debit Card or by using Internet Banking of SBI.

How to Apply for UPSC Forest Service Exam 2021

All interested and eligible candidates can apply for this job online mode on their official website latest by 21 February 2023 till 6.00 pm.

Important Dates :

Online Application Starts from 01 February 2023.

Last Date of Online Application: 21 February 2023

The candidate after registration of OTR applies for the first time in this examination the last date of modification of OTR would be: 28 February 2023

Modification in application form (Other than OTR Profile): 22 February 2023 to 28 February 2023

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