How to Become IPS Officer?

Becoming an IPS (Indian Police Service) officer is a dream of thousand of aspirants in India. The prestige, responsibility, authority and opportunity to serve the nation makes it the most respectable, loving and meaningful career path. But becoming an IPS officer need consistency in your hard work, dedication, planning and clarity.

So, if you are wondering where to start, the eligibility criteria and how to ace the entire selection process, This guide gives you everything you need, in a step-by-step process.

First, let's get clear on What is an IPS Officer?

The Indian Police Services is one of the admired job profile in all India. This is responsible for maintaining law and order, prevention of crime, terrorism counter, managing police force on state and district levels etc. IPS officers also work in central agencies, such as CBI, RAW, CRPF, IB and much more.

Step-By-Step Guide: How To Become An IPS Officer

Step 1: Meet The Eligibility Criteria

Before you guys going to start preparing for exam, you should be clear on the basic eligibility criteria and conditions that set by UPSC.

Educational Qualification:

  • You should have a bachelor degree in any stream from any recognised university
  • If you are in final years examination, you can be eligible to apply for this role.

Age Limit:

  • Maximum age limit for applying this role is 32 years
  • Minimum age limit is 21 years
  • For OBC, you can add 3 more year
  • For SC/ST, it's 5+ years

Nationality: The candidate must be an Indian citizen.

Attempts: For General Cast : 6 Attempts For OBC : 9 Attempts For SC/ST : They can give attempts till they reach the age limit criteria.

Step 2: Understand The Complete UPSC-CSE Exam Structure

To become an IPS officer, you must be clear the UPSC examination, this is one of the toughest examination in the world. So, this exam has three stages:

Stage I : Prelims Exam

  • The questions are objective types
  • Two Papers 1: General Studies 2: CSAT (General Studies-II)

Stage II : Mains Exam In the mains exams, syllabus gets increases a little high;

  • 9 descriptive papers
  • Essay writing, 4 papers from general studies and language test.
  • Marks from the mains count towards the merit list.

Stage III : Personality Test (Interview)

  • This test is conducted by the UPSC board
  • To test communication, presence of mind, leadership qualities and confidence.
  • Final ranking is based on Mains + Interview marks.

Step 3: Rank High Enough To Get IPS Cadre

After clearing the exams and interview process, your rank will determine, which responsibility you will get to serve. To become an IPS officer, you must have to secure:

  • A high rank, in the top 150 to 250, if you are from General category
  • UPSC allocate the positions according to ranks, vacancies and categories.

Step 4: Clear The Physical Fitness Requirement

IPS officers must meet specific physical standards, which is pre-set by UPSC medical broad.

General Physical Standard

  • Height
  • Male 165 cm (160 cm for some categories
  • For females, it's 150 cm (145 for some categories)

Step 5: Prepare Smartly For UPSC

As you all know that UPSC is the toughest exam in all government exams. so you have to prepare for it so carefully, consistently and clearly. Be focused and cover all the General studies, let your preparation make some noise on your behalf. Good luck from the team of jobjunoon.com and we provide you all the notification when these examination will be going to take place. Thanks for reading us, visit us for more such information!

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