Download Indian Economic Service General Economics-III Exam Previous Years Question Papers

The Union Public Service Commission conducts the Indian Economic Service Examination along with Indian Statistical Service Examination for recruitment of candidates for Grade IV officer positions in the Indian Economic Services and Indian Statistical Services respectively.

What should be the age limit of candidates to apply for Indian Economic Service Examination?

Candidates must be between the age group of 21 and 30 years to apply for the IES examination as on the 1st of January of the year in which they are applying to the examination. However, relaxation of upper age limit is applicable to some category candidates.

Notification for the examination:

UPSC issues notification for the IES examination during the month of November each year and candidates can get the notification in leading employment newspapers.

Scheme of IES Examination:

As mentioned earlier, UPSC holds Indian Economic Service Examination with Indian Statistical Service examination and these two examinations are conducted together since first two papers are common for both these exams and other four papers are conducted for IES and ISS separately thereby making a total of 1000 marks for each of these examinations. Paper 3, 4, 5 and 6 for IES examination other than the common papers of General English and General Studies are General Economics – I, General Economics – II, General Economics – III and General Economics.

Syllabus for General Economics-III paper:

The Paper of General Economics – III is conducted for 200 marks and the paper will have questions from the following subjects:

• Environmental Economics
• Urbanization and migration
• Financial and capital markets
• Fiscal policy and its objectives
• State, Market and planning

Previous years question papers:

Indian Economic Service aspiring candidates can download previous years question papers of General Economics-III paper from the attachment.