The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will conduct the Central Police Forces (Assistant Commandants) Examination 2009 at 41 centres across the country on October 11, 2009.

“Admission certificates to the candidates have been dispatched. Letters of rejection stating the reason for rejection have also been issued. If any candidate has not received either the admission certificate or rejection letter, he/she may contact UPSC facilitation counter in person or on telephone nos.011-23385271, 011-23381125 or 011-23098543 during working hours. The candidates may also sent fax messages on fax no.011-23387310″, According to UPSC press release.

Information on venues of Examination in respect of admitted candidates is also available on UPSC website at www.upsc.gov.in.

The candidates who have not received the Admission Certificates may download the “Venue Information” from the UPSC website and use it for appearing in the examination.

1:Preliminary Examinations: The prelims consists of Paper-1 and Paper-2 .The first paper deals with an optional subject listed for 300 marks and the second paper deals with general studies. Optional subjects to be chosen from the list are, Administration, Sociology Electrical Engineering, , Law, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Botany, Geography Geology, Indian History Chemistry, , Statistics, Zoology. Civil Engineering, Commerce, Economics, , Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Medical Science. The medium of instruction is either Hindi or English with the duration of each paper being restricted to two hrs.

2: Main Examination: The mains comprises of two optional subjects consisting of two papers each valued at 300 marks and an essay carrying 200 marks with the total marks being 2000.Apart from these two more papers regarding Indian language and General English are set to test the candidates linguistic abilities each carrying 300 marks and these have to be cleared compulsorily. The subjects are: Chemistry, Veterinary Science, Botany, and Accountancy, Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Medical Science, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Public Administration, Civil Engineering, Commerce Geology, History, Law, Management, Mathematics Sociology, Statistics, Zoology. Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Electrical Engineering, Geography Political Science and International Relations

There is a plethora of subjects to choose from, since students belong to varied streams of education, the subjects on offer include Science subjects that expands over Physics, Chemistry, Botany and Zoology; Humanities subjects that expands over History, Political Science, Public Administration, Geography and Sociology and languages such as Hindi, English, Urdu and Pali. UPSC also offers subjects such as Anthropology, Psychology and Philosophy. Additionally, the more number of subjects make it more difficult for students to make choices in optionals.

Optional subjects are chosen on the basis of a number of parameters, on one hand there are optionals that are considered to be scoring where as there are others that are favored for their relevance to either General Studies papers or Current Affairs and essay questions whereas there are many who choose subjects for their defined set of topics asked and comparatively short type answers. Students feel that this bit of planning makes their choice of subject a success as there are combinations that have common IAS syllabus which reduces their workloads and improves their chances of scoring in civil services examination.