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Appendix-XIII
(vide Chapter 3)

Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003: Qualification, Optional Subject, Community, Age and Gender-wise distribution of candidates
The Civil Services Examination is conducted in two successive stages: the Preliminary Examination and the Main Examination (Written examination as well as Personality Test). The number of candidates who had applied for the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2003 was 3,16,496 of whom 3,01,423 were found eligible of whom 1,60,784 candidates actually appeared in the Preliminary Examination held on May 18, 2003. On the basis of this examination, 5,972 candidates had qualified for taking the Main Examination. Community and Gender-wise details of these candidates are given in the following table (Table-13 A):
Table-13 A Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2003
Number of Candidates Community Male Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes Other Backward Classes General Total 63,540 21,877 73,255 92,900 2,51,572 Applied Female 13,728 5,071 15,227 30,898 64,924 Total 77,268 26,948 88,482 1,23,798 3,16,496 Male 32,869 11,197 39,513 45,211 1,28,790 Appeared Female 6,817 2,569 7,815 14,793 31,994 Total 39,686 13,766 47,328 60,004 1,60,784 Male 701 306 1,894 2,578 5,479 Qualified Female 74 27 85 307 493 Total 775 333 1,979 2,885 5,972

1.1 Out of 5,972 candidates, 5,750 had actually appeared in the Written Part of Civil Services (Main) Examination held in October-November, 2003. Based on the results of the Written Part of the Main Examination, 1,179 candidates had qualified for Personality Test. Of these, 1,176 candidates had appeared for the Personality Test out of whom 457 candidates were finally recommended by the Commission for appointment to the Civil Services (refer Graph-13 A).

Graph-13 A Civil Services (Main) Examination Appeared, Interview ed and Recomm ended Candidates
7,000 6,000 5,000 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 845 874 1,139 427 417 748 310 1176 457 4,718 4,725 5,750 5,244

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2. A comparative statement showing the number of vacancies to be filled up through Civil Services Examination (including those reserved for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes) during the years 1994 to 2003 is given below (Table-13 B):

Table-13 B Year 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 Vacancies 707 645 740 621 470 Year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Vacancies 411 427 417 310 457

3. In the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003, a total of 5,750 candidates had actually appeared in the written examination of whom 457 candidates were recommended for appointment by the Commission to various Civil Services, thus registering a success ratio of candidates (i.e. Recommended candidates : Appeared candidates) 1:12.58. 4. Based on the information furnished in their applications by the candidates who took the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003, an analysis with regard to their academic qualifications and the universities from which they had obtained these qualifications has been made. For this purpose, the highest Degree and the university from which these Degrees were obtained, have been taken into account. Degrees were classified under two main categories, namely (i) Bachelor Degrees and (ii) Higher Degrees i.e. PostGraduate or Doctoral Degrees. These were further classified under (i) those obtaining first division and (ii) those who had obtained second division or lower grade. In this analysis, the division obtained in the highest Degree has been taken into account. 5. The break-up of the candidates who appeared and were recommended, according to the Degrees obtained by them (i.e. Bachelor Degrees on one hand and Higher Degrees on the other) and corresponding success-ratio are as follows (Table-13 C):

Table-13 C Particulars Bachelor Degrees Higher Degrees Total Number of candidates Appeared 3,065 (53.3%) 2,685 (46.7%) 5,750 (100.0%) Recommended 275 (60.2%) 182 (39.8%) 457 (100.0%) Success ratio of candidates 1:11.15 1:14.75 1:12.58

5.1 Thus, the success ratio of candidates having higher Degrees was lower than that of those with Bachelor Degrees. 6. The following table (Table-13 D) depicts the relative performance levels of candidates who secured first division in their examination for the highest degree vis--vis those who had other than first division.

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Table-13 D Number of candidates Particulars First Division 1. Bachelor Degrees 2. Higher Degrees Sub Total Other than First Division 1. Bachelor Degrees 2. Higher Degrees Sub Total Total Appeared 1,553 (27.0%) 1,587 (27.6%) 3,140 (54.6%) 1,512 (26.3%) 1,098 (19.1%) 2,610 (45.4%) 5,750 (100%) Recommended 176 (38.5%) 130 (28.4%) 306 (66.9%) 99 (21.7%) 52 (11.4%) 151 (33.1%) 457 (100%) Success ratio of candidates 1: 8.82 1:12.21 1:10.26 1:15.27 1:21.12 1:17.28 1:12.58

6.1 The success ratio of candidates in the case of those with first division was significantly higher i.e. 1:10.26 as compared to 1:17.28 for other divisioners against the overall success ratio of 1:12.58. 7. The academic qualification-wise distribution of appeared and recommended candidates and their percentage of successful candidates are as follows (Table-13 E): Table-13 E S. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Academic Qualification B.A. B.A. (Hons.) B.Com. B.Com (Hons.) B.Sc. B.Sc. (Hons.) B.Sc. (Agri.) B.E./ B.Tech./ B.Sc. (Engg.) L.L.B. B.V.Sc. & A.H. B.D.S. B.C.A. M.B.B.S. B.I.M.S. M.A. M.Com. M.Sc. M.Sc. (Agri.) L.L.M. Number of candidates Appeared 539 218 148 68 463 126 26 1,007 232 46 15 2 158 16 1,647 181 607 103 10 Recommended 30 21 7 2 17 7 2 127 12 8 1 39 2 110 17 30 11 Percentage of successful candidates 5.6 9.6 4.7 2.9 3.7 5.6 7.7 12.6 5.2 17.4 6.7 24.7 12.5 6.7 9.4 4.9 10.7 72

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Academic Qualification M.Tech. M.V.Sc. & A.H. M.D. M.C.A. Ph.D. Total

Number of candidates Appeared 105 9 2 4 18 5,750 Recommended 7 5 1 1 457

Percentage of successful candidates 6.7 55.6 50.0 25.0 7.9

7.1 Of the 457 candidates recommended for appointment to various Civil Services, there were 275 graduates and 182 with post-graduate and higher qualifications. 8. A study has also been made about optional subject-wise number of candidates appeared and recommended. Details are given in the following table (Table-13 F): Table-13 F Number of candidates Appeared Recommended 160 25 353 208 133 51 167 209 69 1,653 15 2,031 185 29 341 123 60 845 237 449 571 1,598 621 15 11 8 36 15 7 3 10 33 160 2 104 15 3 21 12 17 35 22 36 85 128 43 -

S. No. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

Optional Subject

Agriculture Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science Anthropology Botany Chemistry Civil Engineering Commerce and Accountancy Economics Electrical Engineering Geography Geology History Law Management Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Medical Science Philosophy Physics Political Science and International Relations Psychology Public Administration Sociology Statistics

Percentage of successful candidates 6.9 32.0 10.2 7.2 5.3 5.9 6.0 15.8 -9.7 13.3 5.1 8.1 10.3 6.2 9.8 28.3 4.1 9.3 8.0 14.9 8.0 6.9 -73

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Optional Subject

Number of candidates Appeared Recommended 254 2 4 13 686 21 4 35 5 4 29 12 68 108 65 16 17 1 8 30 1 1 15 4 1 8 3 6 1 5 21 4 2 4 2

Zoology Literature of Assamese Language Literature of Bengali Language Literature of Gujarati Language Literature of Hindi Language Literature of Kannada Language Literature of Manipuri Language Literature of Marathi Language Literature of Malayalam Language Literature of Oriya Language Literature of Pali Language Literature of Punjabi Language Literature of Sanskrit Language Literature of Tamil Language Literature of Telugu Language Literature of Urdu Language Literature of English Language Literature of French Language Literature of Persian Language

Percentage of successful candidates 11.8 50.0 -7.7 2.2 19.0 25.0 22.9 -75.0 20.7 8.3 7.4 19.4 6.2 12.5 23.5 -25.0

8.1 From the above table (Table-13 F), it is evident that History was the most preferred subject as one of the optional subjects chosen by the candidates, followed by Geography and Public Administration. Further, if we confine the study to the subjects opted for by 100 or more candidates appeared in the examination, Literature of Tamil Language emerged out to be the subject wherein the highest percentage of successful candidates was registered followed by Economics and Psychology. 8.2 Further, 43.5%, 14.9%, 12.3% and 29.3% of the recommended candidates in the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003 had educational background as Humanities including Literature of Languages, Science, Medical and Engineering respectively. However, as regards to choice of optional subjects by the candidates who were recommended, Humanities including Literature of Languages, Science, Medical and Engineering subjects were opted by 83.8%, 11.8%, 2.7% and 1.7% respectively. This indicates that many recommended candidates having Engineering and Medical educational background and some candidates with Science educational background had made cross-domain shift and opted for Humanities subjects in the examination (refer Graph-13 B).

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Graph-13 B Civil Service (Main) Examination Optional subject-wise distribution of recommended candidates 500
ENGINEERING : C ivil, Electric al and Mec hanical Engineering

457
450
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411
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3.4 % 11.7 %

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1.3 % 11.2 %

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1.6 % 8.6% 3.1 %

8.5 % 2.7 %
LANGUAGES : Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, C hinese, English, Frenc h, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Marathi, Malayalam, Manipuri, Nepali, Oriya, P ali, P ersian, P unjabi, Russian, S anskrit, S indhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu MEDIC AL S C IENC E: Animal Husbandry & Veterinary S c ienc e and Medic al S c ienc e

3.1 %

11.8 %

350

1.8 % 13.9 % 18.5 %

Number of candidates

310
1.6 % 9.0 % 1.3 % 33.2 %

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25.9 %

20.6 %

250 200

20.5 %

10.8 %
S C IENC E : Agric ulture, Botany, C hemistry, Geology, Mathematic s, P hysic s, S tatistic s and Zoology

20.2 %

23.1 %

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HUMANITIES - B (Inc luding business related subjects) : C ommerc e & Ac c ountancy, Ec onomics, Law, Management, P ublic Administration, and P olitic al Sc ience & International Relations

37.0 %

49.9 %

47.7%

54.2 %

42.1 %
HUMANITIES - A : Anthropology, Geography, History, P hilosophy, P syc hology and S oc iology

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9. The Commission have made an age-group-wise analysis of the candidates who have been recommended for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)/ Indian Foreign Service (IFS) on the basis of the results of the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003. This analysis indicates that 16.8% of the recommended candidates belonged to the age-group 21-24 years, 34.6% to the age-group 24-26 years, 28.0% to the age-group 26-28 years, 15.0% to the-age group of 28-30 years and 5.6% belonged to the agegroup of 30 years and above. Community and age-wise distribution of candidates recommended for IAS/ IFS is contained in the following table (Table-13 G) and diagram (Graph-13 C):

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Table-13 G Community Candidates recommended for IAS SC ST OBC General Total 14 5 29 40 88 IFS 4 6 9 19 Age-group (in years) 21-24 IAS 4 1 7 12 IFS 1 2 3 6 24-26 IAS 6 10 14 30 IFS 2 1 4 7 26-28 IAS 2 1 10 12 25 IFS 1 2 2 5 28-30 IAS 1 1 6 7 15 IFS 1 1 30 & Above IAS 1 2 3 6 IFS -

Graph-13 C Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003 Age-group and Community-wise recommended candidates for Indian Administrative Service and Indian Foreign Service 5.6%
5.6% 40.0% 16.6% 20.0% 28.6% 8.6% 14.3%

Number of candidates in percentage

44.4%

34.3% 20.0% 36.7%

20.0% 31.4% 27.8% 20.0% 5.7% 20.4%

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Community
21-24 Years 24-26 Years 26-28 Years 28-30 Years 30 Years & Above

10. On the basis of the results of the Civil Services (Main) Examination 2003, an analysis of all the recommended candidates in accordance with their community, age-group and gender has also been made which is given in the following table (Table-13 H). Of the 457 finally recommended candidates, 69 candidates (15.1%) belonged to the Scheduled Castes, 33 candidates (7.2%) to the Scheduled Tribes, 136 candidates (29.8%) to the Other Backward Classes and 219 candidates (47.9%) belonged to the General category. The age-wise break-up of the recommended candidates is given in Table-13 H:

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Table-13 H Community Recommended candidates T SC ST OBC General Total 69 33 136 219 457 T Total ; M 57 30 127 162 376 F 12 3 9 57 81 M 5 3 14 21 43 Age-group (in years) 21-24 F 4 5 14 23 M 18 7 32 50 107 24-26 F 2 2 24 28 M 10 7 37 56 110 26-28 F 3 2 2 12 19 M 8 8 30 34 80 28-30 F 3 7 10 30 & above M 16 5 14 1 36 F 1 1

M Male ;

F Female

11. Female candidates constituted only 17.7% of the total recommended candidates as compared to 82.3% for male candidates in the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003. However, out of 489 female candidates who had actually appeared in the examination, 81 were finally recommended registering a success ratio of 1:6.04. On the other hand, only 376 out of 5,261 male candidates could finally qualify the examination resulting in a success ratio of 1:13.99. Hence, the success ratio of female candidates was significantly higher than that of male candidates (refer Table-13 I).

Table-13 I Community SC ST OBC General Total Appeared candidates Total 730 314 1,878 2,828 5,750 Male 658 286 1,795 2,522 5,261 Female 72 28 83 306 489 Recommended candidates Total 69 33 136 219 457 Male 57 30 127 162 376 Female 12 3 9 57 81 Total 1:10.58 1: 9.52 1:13.81 1:12.91 1:12.58 Success ratio Male 1:11.54 1: 9.53 1:14.13 1:15.57 1:13.99 Female 1: 6.00 1: 9.33 1: 9.22 1: 5.37 1: 6.04

11.1 As is evident from the above table (Table-13 I), the performance of female candidates belonging to each of the communities i.e. Scheduled Castes, Other Backward Classes or General category was far better than the performance of male candidates of that community. Further, there were 15 female candidates in the first 50 ranks in the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003. 12. A total of 2,171 physically challenged persons appeared in the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2003 and 25 of them qualified for the Civil Services (Main) Examination, 2003. Finally, four physically challenged persons were recommended by the Commission for appointment. Of them, two belonged to OBC community and two (including one female candidate) belonged to General community. 13. An analysis has also been made in the following table (Table-13 J) on the number of attempts made by the recommended candidates in the Civil Services Examination, 2003:

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Table-13 J Number of attempts made by the recommended candidates Community Gender Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Total Female Total 1 2 1 7 2 18 13 27 16 43 2 5 2 2 1 19 3 40 19 66 25 91 3 7 3 6 30 2 53 9 96 14 110 4 14 2 5 22 2 51 16 92 20 112 5 8 4 1 27 39 1 40 6 8 3 5 1 13 26 4 30 9 21 21 7 7 5 8& above 6 1 3 9 1 10 Total 57 12 30 3 127 9 162 57 376 81 457

SC ST OBC General

13.1 It is clear from the above table (Table-13 J) that only 9.4 per cent of candidates could finally qualify the examination in the first attempt. However, in the second, third and fourth attempts, the percentage of recommended candidates was 19.9, 24.1 and 24.5 respectively. Further, the female candidates, on an average, qualified the examination in lesser number of attempts as compared to the male candidates.

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