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JPSC Combined Civil Services

Evidence status: 🟢 official. Every number below is from JPSC's Advertisement No. 01/2026 (Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Examination-2025), fetched from jpsc.gov.in on 2026-09-28.

JPSC's Combined Civil Services exam recruits Jharkhand's administrative and allied officers.

At a glance
Conducted by Jharkhand Public Service Commission
Stages Preliminary (objective, screening) → Main (written, descriptive) → Interview
Current advertisement No. 01/2026 (Combined Civil Services Examination-2025), 103 advertised vacancies
Qualification Degree of a recognised university (see the notification)

Official sources

Exam pattern

Preliminary (screening only; its marks are not counted for the final merit): two compulsory objective papers, General Studies Paper-I and General Studies Paper-II, of 200 marks each (400 marks in all), 2 hours each, with 100 objective questions of 2 marks each; all questions are compulsory. There is no negative marking; a question with more than one answer is treated as wrong and gets no marks, and a blank question carries no penalty. The papers are set in Hindi and English. The Main-exam selection list is about 5 times the advertised vacancies.

Main (written), six compulsory papers, no optional subjects:

Paper Subject Marks Time
I General Hindi and General English (two sections of 50 marks; qualifying only — minimum 30 out of 100, not counted for merit) 100 3 hours
II Language and Literature (one of the 15 languages listed in the notification) 150 3 hours
III Social Sciences (History and Geography, equal weightage) 200 3 hours
IV Indian Constitution and Polity, Public Administration and Good Governance 200 3 hours
V Indian Economy, Globalization and Sustainable Development 200 3 hours
VI General Sciences, Environment and Technology Development 200 3 hours
Total marks (papers counted for merit) 950

Paper-I is qualifying only: its marks are not counted for the merit list. The interview is 100 marks. Written (950 marks) + interview (100 marks) = grand total 1,050 marks.

Syllabus

  • Preliminary General Studies Paper-I: Indian history, geography, polity and governance, economy and sustainable development, science and technology, national and international current events, and miscellaneous general awareness (human rights, environment, urbanization, sports, disaster management, poverty and unemployment, awards, international agencies).
  • Preliminary General Studies Paper-II: Jharkhand-specific — state history and movements, society, culture and identity, folk literature, music and sites, Jharkhandi literature and authors, land laws such as CNT and SPT, geography, industry, state schemes, forest and environment, disaster management, and state current events.
  • Main: Paper-II is one language and literature chosen from the notification's list; Papers III–VI expand the general-studies subjects above in descriptive form. The exact topic list is in the Combined Civil Services syllabus linked under Official sources.

How to prepare (free, in order)

  1. Prepare the shared UPSC GS modules once. They cover most of every state PSC.
  2. Add Jharkhand's own history, geography, economy and schemes from official state sources: the prelims Paper-II is Jharkhand-specific.
  3. Solve the commission's own previous papers from its website: each commission has its own style.

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