At last final changes are released over choice of language. These are the final changes. For complete (old) notification click here http://sschub.blogspot.com/2013/03/latest-upsc-prelimns-mains.html
- The government has approved modifications to the Civil Services Examination, 2013, notified on March 3that led to a nationwide uproar.
- Certain objectionable clauses have been dropped from the March 3 Notification.
- A candidate can now use any one regional language from the 8th Schedule of the Constitution or English as the medium of writing the examination.
- The conditionality that there should be a minimum of 25 candidates opting for a medium and the requirementthat the language should have been the medium of examination at the graduation level have been dropped.
- Also a candidate will now be allowed to take up literature as an optional subject (from 22 of the languages in the 8th Schedule and English) without the conditionality of his/her graduation in the literature of that language.
- The English component (of 100 marks) from the Essay Paper has been dropped and two qualifying papers of 300 marks each in any Modern Indian Language (MIL) and in English have been restored.
- The Essay Paper will now be of 250 marks to be written in the language of candidate’s choice.
- Papers I and II will be only of a qualifying nature one in any MIL and another in English of 300 marks each, while Paper III will be the compulsory Essay Paper.
