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I have a dream to become an IAS as it's my childhood dream, but my maths is not too good if i have to take commerce to become an ias, my maths should be good.

No. Maths is not enough to become IAS. You will require special preparation to crack the entrance exam.

IAS 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. Relaxation applicable 3 years for OBC and 5 years for SC/ST.
- Maximum 6 attemps are allowed for general category. For OBC maximum 9 attemps allowed. No restriction for SC/ST.

Selection
- Preliminary Exam
- Main Exam
- Interview

IAS Important Dates
- Starts of Online Regostration : 23/04/2016
- Last Date to Apply : 20/05/2016
- IAS Preliminary Exam : 07/08/2016
- IAS Main Exam : 03/12/2016

This is not compulsory that a candidate must be good at Mathematics in order to crack Civil Services examination to join Indian Administrative Services. From 2015, Civil Services aptitude Test has been made qualifying and in order to clear this paper, a candidate must score only 33% marks. So, there is hardly need of mathematics. Even if you have some good basic knowledge of mathematics upto tenth standard, you can easily score 33% marks in CSAT.

Main focus has to be on General studies and your optional subjects so as to clear different stages of this exam. You must be graduate to apply for this exam and minimum age limit is 21 years.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I have a dream to become an IAS as it's my childhood dream, but my maths is not too good if i have to take commerce to become an ias, my maths should be good.

If you wish to clear IAS Exam, then you must have good command on Mathematics of at least 10th level.

Because, 10th level mathematics will be asked in IAS preliminary Exam or CSAT exam.

So, you must be perfect in 10th standard mathematics in order to solve those numerical questions.

In addition, you will have to face logical reasoning and aptitude questions.

Here, is the syllabus for Preliminary Exam:

You may refer following books for preparation:

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


General Studies for Civil Services Preliminary Examination Paper - 1 (2014) (English) 1st Edition (Paperback)
Rs. 1,250


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