Jamia Millia Islamia begins application for UPSC Civil Services 2025 coaching
Interested candidates can register for free coaching at the official website
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The Residential Coaching Academy (RCA), based on coaching and career planning at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), is inviting online applications for free coaching (with a hostel facility) for the students to prepare for the UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary-cum-Main) examination 2024. Interested candidates can register for the free UPSC coaching at the official website
100 seats are available this year through this entrance test. Hostel accommodation is compulsory and will be provided to all the admitted students. If there’s any shortage hostels will be allotted based on merit determined by the entrance test. RCA reserves the right to reduce the intake of the students if sufficient deserving candidates are available.
The students will have to pay Rs 1000 per month for the hostel maintenance and the amount should be paid six months in advance. Rs 6000, after that they must deposit the maintenance charge two months in advance. For female students, their charge would be deposited in the Girl Hostel/provost office.
Students from Minority, SC, ST, and women communities can apply for this program. The university will conduct the UPSC entrance examination at ten centres: Delhi, Srinagar, Jammu, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Mumbai, Patna, Lucknow, Bengaluru, and Malappuram.
Aspirants will have time till May 19 to apply for the UPSC coaching programme. Following this, the application forms will reopen on Mar 21 and 22. The exam will be held on June 1, where paper 1 (General Studies – objective type only) will be held from 10 am till 12 pm, and paper 2 (essay) will be held from 12 pm to 1 pm. The exam would be in English/ Hindi/Urdu, and Essay writing will also have the option of English/Hindi/Urdu. The test is to assess the candidate’s knowledge of general awareness, critical thinking, logical thinking, reasoning and comprehension and written communication. The total duration of the exam would be three hours, comprising two hours for General Studies and one hour for essay writing.
