IES or CESE Exam 2024 - Engineering Services Exam : Application Form, Exam Date, Eligibility, Syllabus and Exam Pattern

IES Exam 2024  - Indian Engineering Services Examination or Engineering Services (Preliminary) Exam acronym as IES Exam is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) of India for the recruitment of engineers to the four categories of Engineering Services namely: 

to various posts in governmental organizations like:

and any other organization that required the services of these four categories of engineers in their organizations. It is one of the most pursued Engineering Entrance Exams in India.

IES Exam 2024 Important Dates

Date of Notification and Start of Online Registration

• Yet to be announced
  15.03.2014 14.04.2014 
  (MONDAY)
  20.06.2014
  (FRIDAY)

Last Date of Submission of Application Form

• 26th September 2023

Admit Card Release Date

• January-February 2024 - Prelims
• May-June 2024 - Mains

Date of Preliminary Exam

• 18th February 2024

Date of Mains Exam

• 26th June 2024

Date of Declaration of Result

• August/September 2024

IES Exam 2024 Eligibility

Educational Qualification

• Aspiring candidates must possess a B.E degree or equivalent in the relevant branch.
• Candidates who are yet to appear in the final examination of the B.E / B.Tech may also be allowed to appear in the Examination provisionally.

Age Limits

• A candidate for this examination must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on the 1st August, of the year he is taking the exam.

Nationality

A candidate must be either:

• A citizen of India, or
• A subject of Nepal, or
• A subject of Bhutan, or
• A Tibetan refugee who came over to Indian before the 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
• A person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka or East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, and Ethiopia or from Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Reservations as per governmental norms are applicable regarding age limits and job vacancies.

IES Exam 2024 Syllabus

IES Exam consists of questions from the subjects of:

• English / GK and
• Relevant Subjects of Engineering branch

Syllabus of IES Civil Engineering Paper I 

IES Exam 2024 Pattern

IES Exam comprising of three stages i.e.,

Stage-I

Preliminary Exam for the selection of candidates for the Stage-II Main Examination.

It will consist of two objective types (multiple choices) questions papers and carrying a maximum of 500 marks (Paper 1 - 200 marks and Paper II - 300 marks) as given below:

Note: There will be a penalty (negative marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in the objective-type question papers. One-third (0.33) of the marks assigned to that question will be deducted as a penalty.

Stage-II

Mains Examination will consist of two Conventional Type Papers

Stage-III

Personality Test /Interview (200 Marks)

Candidates who are shortlisted in the Written Examination are required to appear for an Interview which carries maximum mark of 200.

Medical Examination

Candidates selected for the Interview are required to undergo a medical examination conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare before being appointed to different positions as mentioned above.

• Candidates must write the papers in their own hand
• Deduction of up to five percent of the maximum marks for the written papers will be made for illegible handwriting
• Compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour shall be permitted for the blind candidates and candidates with Locomotor Disability and Cerebral Palsy
• Marks will not be allotted for mere superficial knowledge
• In the question papers, wherever required, SI units will be used
• Candidates should use only international form of Indian numerals (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.) while answering question papers
• Candidates are permitted to bring and use battery-operated pocket calculators for conventional (essay) type papers only
• It is also important to note that candidates are not permitted to use calculators for answering objective-type papers.

How to apply for the Indian Engineering Services Exam 2024?

Aspiring candidates can visit the official website of UPSC i.e., www.upsc.nic.in, and follow the instructions given there to apply for the exam.

IES Exam 2024 Dates

IES Exam is normally held in the month of January and May.

IES Exam 2024 Test Centres

IES Exam is held every year in the main cities of India. Most of them are:

• Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Allahabad
• Bangalore, Bareilly, Bhopal
• Chennai, Chandigarh, Cuttack
• Delhi, Dharwar, Dispur (Guwahati)
• Gangtok, Hyderabad
• Imphal, Itanagar
• Jaipur, Jammu, Jorhat
• Kochi (Cochin), Kohima, Kolkata
• Lucknow
• Madurai, Mumbai
• Nagpur
• Panaji (Goa), Patna, Port Blair
• Raipur
• Sambalpur, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar
• Thiruvananthapuram, Tirupati
• Udaipur and
• Vishakhapatnam

IES Exam 2024 Contact Details

Union Public Service Commission
Web: www.upsc.gov.in