Service Preferences

A candidate shall be required to indicate in his/her application form for the Main Examination his/her order of preferences for various services/posts for which he/she would like to be considered for appointment in case he/she recommended for appointment by union Public Service Commission.
A candidate who wishes to be considered for IAS/IPS shall be required to indicate his/her application if he/she would like to be considered for allotment to the state to which he/she belongs in case he/she is appointed to the IAS/IPS.
Note.-The candidate is advised to be very careful while indicating preferences for various services/posts. Due consideration will be given at the time of making allocation on the results of the examination to the preferences expressed by a candidate for various services at the time of his application. A candidate who has accepted the allocation to a service on the basis of an earlier examination shall be eligible on the basis of this examination to be allocated only to those service(s)/post(s) which were higher in the order of preference in his/her application form for the examination on the basis of which he/she had been last allocated to a service.. The candidate is also advised to indicate all the services/posts in the order of preference in his/her application form. In case he/she does not give any preference for any services/posts, it will be assumed that he/she has no specific preference for those services. If he/she is not allotted to any one of the services/posts for which he/she has indicated preference, he/she shall be allotted to any of the remaining services/posts in which there are vacancies after allocation of all the candidates who can be allocated to a service/post in accordance with their preferences.