UPSC IES ISS Syllabus & Pattern 2024 - Marking Scheme, IES/ISS Results

The Union Public Service Commission has released the exam date for IES/ISS aspirants. Indian Economic & Statistical Service exam is to take place on June 21, 2024. Before starting with your preparations, knowing the IES/ISS syllabus and exam pattern is very important. It not only helps you in practicing the questions but also accelerates your question-solving speed. UPSC IES ISS exam pattern includes two stages. Written Exam and Interview. To ace the exam with confidence and acquire the required IES/ISS cut-off marks, candidates need to refer to the best books for IES/ISS 2024. With a huge syllabus comes more hard work and focus. The UPSC IES ISS syllabus is divided into two papers - IES & ISS. UPSC Indian Economic & Statistical Service exam is conducted annually for which candidates apply in lakhs. For a neck-to-neck competition, defence aspirants need to give their 100% to excel in the IES/ISS exam. Career Climb India has catered a complete blog based on the syllabus of UPSC IES ISS below for the candidates planning to take the exam.

UPSC IES ISS Exam Pattern 2024

IES ISS Examination is conducted in 2 different parts. In the first part, the candidate is required to attend a written examination of many papers conducted by the Union Public Service Commission all over India. The second part of the examination is the personal interview or the Viva Voce. If the candidate passes both tests, he/ she will be eligible.

UPSC IES Exam Pattern 2024

Subjects Maximum Marks Duration
General English. 100 3 Hours
General Studies 100 3 Hours
General Economics-I 200 3 Hours
General Economics-II 200 3 Hours
General Economics-III 200 3 Hours
Indian Economics 200 3 Hours

 

UPSC ISS Exam Pattern 2024

Subjects Maximum Marks Duration
General English. 100 3 Hours
General Studies 100 3 Hours
Statistics-I (Objective) 200 2 Hours
Statistics-II (Objective) 200 2 Hours
Statistics-III (Descriptive) 200 3 Hours
Statistics-IV (Descriptive) 200 3 Hours

 

UPSC IES ISS Interview

Viva Voce is the next part of the selection process, where a group of members from the board will interview the candidate to test his/ her intellectual and judgemental qualities. If the candidate manages to pass both tests, they get recruited.

UPSC IES ISS

 

 
 
 

UPSC IES ISS Syllabus 2024

The syllabus is very vast thus one must be well aware of the important topics and should prepare accordingly. The candidates can also refer to the official website of UPSC for a detailed syllabus for the UPSC IES ISS 2024 exam.

UPSC IES 2024 Syllabus

Apart from General English and General Studies, the syllabus of other subjects in Indian Economic Services and Indian Statistical Services is different. Given below is the syllabus for the Indian Economic Service exam.

Subject Syllabus
General Economics I Theory of Consumer Demand, Theory of Production, Theory of Value, Theory of Distribution, Welfare Economics, Mathematical Methods in Economics, Statistical and Econometric Methods.
General Economics II Economic Thought, Concept of National Income and Social Accounting, Theory of employment, Output, Inflation, Money and Finance, Financial and Capital Market, International Economics, Balance of Payment, Global Institutions.
General Economics II Public Finance, Environmental Economics, Industrial Economics, State, Market, and Planning.
Indian Economics History of development and planning, Federal Finance, Budgeting and Fiscal Policy Poverty, Unemployment and Human Development, Agriculture and Rural Development Strategies, India’s experience with Urbanisation and Migration, Industry: Strategy of industrial development, Labour, Foreign Trade, Money and Banking, Inflation.

 

UPSC ISS 2024 Syllabus

Apart from General English and General Studies, the syllabus of other subjects in Indian Statistical Services and Indian Economic Services is different. Given below is the syllabus for the Indian Statistical Service exam.

Subject Syllabus
Statistics I Probability, Statistical Methods, Numerical Analysis, Computer application and Data Processing, Basics of Programming.
Statistics II Linear Models, Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing, Official Statistics, National Statistical Organization,
Statistics III Sampling Techniques, Econometrics, Applied Statistics,
Statistics IV Operations Research and Reliability, Demography and Vital Statistics, Survival Analysis and Clinical Trial, Quality Control, Quality Control, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Computing with C and R.

 

In Statistics IV, the candidates can choose any two sections from the given seven sections. Operations Research and Reliability, Demography and Vital Statistics, Survival Analysis and Clinical Trial, Quality Control, Quality Control, Design and Analysis of Experiments, Computing with C and R.