. Check the e-Admit Card carefully and bring discrepancies, if any, to the notice of the UPSC immediately.
2. Mention your Name, Roll Number, Registration ID and Name & Year of the Examination in all the correspondence with the UPSC.
3. Bring the e-Admit Card (print out) along with the (original) Photo Identity Card, whose number is mentioned in the e-Admit Card, in
each session to secure admission to Examination Hall. E-Admit Card must be preserved till the declaration of the final results of the
Civil Services Examination, 2024.
4. You are responsible for safe custody of the e-Admit Card and in the event of any other person using this e-Admit Card, the onus lies
on you to prove that you have not used the service of any impersonator.
5. Candidates should note that any omission/ mistake/ discrepancy in encoding / filling in details in the OMR answer sheet, especially
with regard to Roll Number and Test Booklet Series Code, will render the answer sheet liable for rejection.
6. Please note that entry into the Examination Venue shall be closed 30 minutes before the schedule commencement of the
Examination i.e. 09:00 AM for the Forenoon Session and 02:00 PM for the Afternoon Session. No candidate shall be allowed the entry
into the Examination Venue after closure of the entry.
7. Candidates are advised to enter the Examination Venue well in time for frisking.
8. Candidates should note that they shall not be allowed to appear at any other Examination Venue except the Examination Venue
mentioned in the e-Admit Card.
9. Read the ‘Special Instructions for candidates admitted to the Examination’ given in the ‘Rules for the Examination’ available in
Examination Notice and the ‘Poster’ containing instructions displayed outside the Examination Venue.
10.Your candidature to the Examination is provisional.
11. Candidate should not be in possession of or using any mobile phone (even in switched off mode), pager or any electronic
equipment or programmable device or storage media like pen drive, smart watches, etc., or camera or Bluetooth devices or any other
equipment or related accessories either in working or switched off mode capable of being used as a communication device during the
examination. Any infringement of these instructions shall entail disciplinary action including ban from future Examinations.
12. Use of normal or simple wrist watches by candidates is allowed inside the Examination Rooms/ Halls. However, use of watches
fitted with any special accessory that might be used as communication device or smart watches is strictly prohibited and candidates
are not allowed to take such watches into the Examination Rooms/ Halls.
13. There will be penalty (Negative Marking) for wrong answers marked by a candidate in both the question papers of the Examination.
14. Answers other than those marked by Black Ball Point Pen will not be evaluated.
15.Candidates are advised not to bring any valuables/ costly items and bags to the Examination Venue, as safe keeping of the same
cannot be assured. The Commission will not be responsible for any loss in this regard.
16. A candidate, whose photograph on his/her e-Admit Card is not clear or the photograph is without his/her name and date of
photograph, will have to bring a photo identity card alongwith two passport size photographs (with his/her name and date of
photograph), one for each session for appearing in the Examination with an undertaking.
17. Candidates may please ensure that all the details such as Name, Photograph & the QR Code on their e-Admit Card, are correct. In
case of any discrepancy(ies), they may contact UPSC in this regard.
18. Candidates, who have opted for their own scribe, may note that their own scribe will be allowed for the Examination only with a
separate e-Admit Card for such scribe. The e-Admit Cards for the own scribes will be issued separately.
19. All the candidates are advised that they should visit and confirm their exam centre at least one day prior to the exam.
20. If you have changed your name by following the legal process, please carry (in each session of the CSP, 2024) a Government
issued photo Identity Card and/or original Gazette notification of the changed name. Further, you would also be required to submit an
undertaking at the time of the examination.