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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Civil services examination in India This article is about the examination in India. For civil service examinations in general, see civil service entrance examination. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may ...
The term prelim (short for preliminary examination) generally refers to an examination that qualifies a student to continue studies at a higher level, and/or allow the student to comprehend their studies and see how prepared they are for an upcoming examination. It can also act as a gauge on how knowledgeable one is within the chosen subject.
Prelims is in general an objective written exam. It involves no syllabus or general knowledge requirement and relies solely on the student's logical and analytic thinking abilities. The exam is generally of 2 and ½ hour length. The question paper will have various sections like maths, puzzles, code crunchers etc.
The prelims generally take place during the second week of January and cover all the four subjects: mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. The mains are generally held during the second week of March and spread over two consecutive days, comprising questions in all the four subjects.
Candidates were allowed to view their answer sheets and point out errors in the grading of answers for a fee of Rs. 100 per question. [18] [19] For the 2017 exam, 3,026,598 candidates filled in the online application, [20] of which 1,543,418 candidates took the exam. 226,229 candidates passed Tier 1, [21] and 47,003 candidates passed Tier 2. [22]
The examination consists of only two papers: Paper 1 for B.E./B.Tech courses and Paper 2 for B.Arch and B.Planning courses. [5] A candidate can opt for any or both the papers. Paper 1 is mandatory a computer based test (CBT) (called online mode) from 2018 onwards. Until 2018, there was an option between offline pen and paper mode and online ...
On 12 April 2018, the police said that Rakesh Kumar, who leaked the class 12 economics paper, had leaked class 10 mathematics paper also. [40] Consequently, the Central Board of Secondary Education has put in place a system of "encrypted" question papers, which are supposed to be printed by the schools half an hour before the exam starts. [41]
In 2010, the pattern of AIPMT was changed. The examination was replaced by a two-tier or two-stage test – The AIPMT Prelims and the AIPMT Mains, in which the AIPMT Prelims was used to be objective exam and AIPMT Mains was used to be subjective exam. The candidates who could qualify the AIPMT Prelims were eligible to give the AIPMT Mains test.