Education and Career Forum

Hi, I am 11th student. I want to be an IPS officer after 12th. I want to know that what should I do to become an IPS officer. Please guide me in this case.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi, I am 11th student. I want to be an IPS officer after 12th. I want to know that what should I do to become an IPS officer. Please guide me in this case.

To become an IPS officer, you can do graduation degree from a recognized university.

If you have completed graduation degree from a recognized university then you are eligible for IPS officer exam.

Your age should be in between 21 years to 32 years for general candidates. Age relaxation is given below -

5 years relaxation for SC/ST candidates
3 years relaxation for OBC Candidates
10 years relaxation for PHC candidates
5 years relaxation for Ex-serviceman

Number of Attempts:-

For open category:- 7 attempts
For OBC category:- 9 attempts
For ST/SC category:- unlimited

Nice to hear from you that you want to become IPS officer.

IPS stands for Indian Police Services.

Union Public Service Commission(UPSC) conducts the Civil Services Exam every year for the following services:
* Indian Administrative Services(IAS)
* Indian Police Services(IPS)
* Indian Economic Services(IES)
* Indian Foreign Services(IFS)

Eligibility for UPSC :
>> Candidate who have completed or in final year of graduation can apply for UPSC.
>> Age limit for UPSC is between 21-30 years but 3 years age relaxation for OBC category candidate & 5 years age relaxation for SC/ST category candidates.

As graduation is the main eligibility criteria for UPSC, you need to complete your graduation first & then you can apply for UPSC.

You must have to apply online/offline for UPSC Civil Services Exam held every year starting in the month of May.

For more information visit the website www.upsc.gov.in

If you want to become a IPS , then you should complete your graduation after the 12th. After that , you will be eligible to appear for IPS conducted by UPSC.

Eligibility
- You must be indian citizen.
- You must have passed bachelor's degree in any discipline from a recognized university.
- Your age must be between 21 to 32 years.
- Maximum 6 attemps for General , 9 for OBC are allowed.

Selection
- Preliminary Exam
- Main Exam
- Interview

IPS Important Dates
- Registration Opens From : 23/04/2016
- Registration Closed : 20/05/2016
- IPS Preliminary Exam : 07/08/2016
- IPS Main Exam : 03/12/2016

First of all you need to complete your graduation to be eligible to appear in IPS examination. Now you are in only intermediate so you need to complete your education. To become an IPS you can choose any of the subjects according to you. But according to me you should choose some of the subjects like History, geography, pol. Science, Economics which also helps in IPS examination. As you have to choose some optional subjects.

selection procedure:-

Preliminary
Mains
Personal Interview.

Eligibility criteria are as under:-

Candidate must be an Indian citizen.
Candidate must be a holder of graduation degree from a recognized university in any of the stream.
candidate age should not less than 21 years and not exceed 30 years.
Candidate should be physically fit.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hi, I am 11th student. I want to be an IPS officer after 12th. I want to know that what should I do to become an IPS officer. Please guide me in this case.

IPS stands for Indian Police Service.

For becoming IPS Officer, you will have to appear for Civil Services exam conducted by UPSC every year.

As you are currently in 11th standard, so firstly you must complete your 10+2 standard.

Then, complete your bachelor course from any stream in which you are interested.

Then, during final year of your graduation or after completing it, you can apply for Civil Services Exam.

For applying this exam, you will have to visit: http://upsconline.nic.in i.e. UPSC Online Web Portal.

For qualifying this exam, you will have to pass three stages i.e.

• Preliminary Exam (CSAT Exam)
• Mains Exam
• Personal Interview

In Mains Exam, candidate has to choose Optional subjects. In those subjects, you can choose those subjects in which you have interest so that you can easily prepare for them.

Physical Standards required in Civil Services Exam for IPS:

Height:
For Males: Minimum height is 165 cm,
For Females: Minimum height is 150 cm.

Other than General Category Candidates, minimum required height is 160 cm for Male and 145 cm for Female Candidates.

Chest:
For Males: Minimum 84 cm, and should be expandable up to 5 cm
For Females: Minimum 79 cm, and should be expandable up to 5 cm

Some of the books that you may refer for Civil Services Exam preparation are:

Trishna's CSAT: Supercourse in English Language Comprehension and Reading Comprehension (English) 1st Edition (Paperback)
Rs. 215


General Studies for Civil Services Preliminary Examination (Paper 2) 2015 (English) 1st Edition (Paperback)
Rs. 740


Indian Economy for Civil Services Examination (English) 6th Edition (Paperback)
Rs. 378


CSAT 2015 (Paper II) Volume - 1 (English) 1st Edition (Paperback)
Rs. 459

No, you are not eligible to become I.P.S Officer after 10+2.

I.P.S stands for Indian Police Service and to become an I.P.S Officer it is necessary to appear and qualify in Civil Services examination.

The minimum required eligibility to appear for examination is candidate must have passed graduation from any recognised university. So, you need to pursue graduation degree to appear for examination.

The age limit to appear for examination is 21-32 years with relaxation in age for reserved category. For more information about examination visit at www.upsc.gov.in.

IPS is the Civil services examination conducted by the UPSC board and after 12th class you need to take up at graduation in any stream you like or wish to do in order to become an IPS officer.

IPS selections are conducted all India wide examinations and it will be conducted once in every year and you can apply for the IPS selections if you possess minimum eligibility to apply for it and it was mentioned through below notification in detail.

Required Qualifications for IPS:

1. Should have attained 21 years and not exceed 30 years of age limit
2. Should have completed graduation or bachelor degree in any of the discipline of study
3. Should belong to the Citizen of India only
4. Should have scored at least 55% in the graduation to apply

These are the required qualifications for the IPS officer selections and as you have completed your 12th class now take up any of the graduate degree course in which you have interest and then take the IPS coaching also and in your finale year of degree apply for the IPS selections