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Hi,
I'm an agriculture graduate from Kerala. Currently working as farm manager in New Zealand. I would like to know more about Indian Forest Service exam. I'm planning to take Agriculture and Forestry as my optionals. Can you please guide me regarding this. I would also like to know if there is any training institute for IFS exam preparation..Thanks..Deepak

The basic eligibility for doing IFS are :
age should be between 21-30 Years on 1st July of the year of examination

Certain categories of persons as specified in the Notice are eligible for age relaxation.
Must be qualified :
A Bachelor’s degree with at least one of the subjects namely, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or Forestry or Engineering of a recognised university or equivalent.

Candidates appearing at their degree examination (with prescribed subjects) are also eligible to compete. Candidates qualifying on the result of the written part of the examination will be required to submit the proof of passing the requisite examination alongwith their detailed application form to be filled up at that stage.
Best of luck.

Indian Forest Service (IFS) Exam 2011

The Union Public Service Commission conducts the Indian Forest Service Examination, 2011 usually in 1st week of July, to be conducted at various centers across the country.Some of the eligibility conditions are:

Eligibility Conditions:

Nationality:

A candidate must be either :
(a) A citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before 1st January, 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India.
For more you can also log ontohttp://www.upsc.gov.in



Age Limits:

A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years on 1st July, 2011.


Number of attempts:

General: 4
SC/ ST: 7

Here you should have a bachelor degree to write this exam. All the best!!!

Details about IFS Exam

Exam date most probably in july

website www.upsc.gov.in.

No of seats 85

Duration of IFS exam 10 days


Examination consists of

General English- 300 marks
General Knowledge- 300 marks
Any two subjects to be selected from the list of the optional subjects. Each subject will have two papers - 200 marks for each paper

total 1400 marks exam

Interview mark - 300 marks


Optional subjects

Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering ,Animal Husbandry & Veterinary / Science, Botany, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Forestry, Geology,Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Physics,Statistics and Zoology


These combinations are not allowed for exam

Agriculture and Agricultural Engineering.

Agriculture and Animal Husbandary and Veterinary Science

Chemistry and Chemical Engg

Mathematics and Statistics

Two Of the Engineering subjects

So you can choose agriculture and forestry together as optionals.

Thanks

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Indian Foreign Services(IFS)

To join in the IFS you need to go through the Civil Service examination.Based on the marks which you will achieve in both Preliminary and Main stages you will have a chance to opt either for IAS,IPS,IFS,IRS.If your marks are low then you will only have limited options to choose hence try to score better.

You can go through the examination if your between the age group of 21-30 with a graduation degree from a recognized University.

The basic eligibility for doing IFS are :
age should be between 21-30 Years on 1st July of the year of examination

Certain categories of persons as specified in the Notice are eligible for age relaxation.
Must be qualified :
A Bachelor’s degree with at least one of the subjects namely, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or Forestry or Engineering of a recognised university or equivalent.

Candidates appearing at their degree examination (with prescribed subjects) are also eligible to compete. Candidates qualifying on the result of the written part of the examination will be required to submit the proof of passing the requisite examination alongwith their detailed application form to be filled up at that stage.
Best of luck.

The basic eligibility for doing IFS are :
age should be between 21-30 Years on 1st July of the year of examination

Certain categories of persons as specified in the Notice are eligible for age relaxation.
Must be qualified :
A Bachelor’s degree with at least one of the subjects namely, Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or a Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or Forestry or Engineering of a recognised university or equivalent.

Candidates appearing at their degree examination (with prescribed subjects) are also eligible to compete. Candidates qualifying on the result of the written part of the examination will be required to submit the proof of passing the requisite examination alongwith their detailed application form to be filled up at that stage.
Best of luck.

sir iam srilu.i completed my btech in computers.iam very interersted to study civils.which optional is better to score good marks either forestry or geology.and which is better to choose.and if i choose geology as my optional will it helpful for generalknowledge or shall i choose forestry.as iam maths background please suggest me the best optional.and iam mpc stream,so can i choose chemistry as my second optional.can you suggest me where can i take coaching for chemistry.what are the subjects involved in generalknowledge.and can you please suggest me the best coaching institutes in hyderabad for indian forest service.