Odisha Public Service Commission

Recommendations of the Royal Commission on superior services in India, 1924, referred to in short, as the Lee Commission, and now they find a place in the Constitution of India in Articles 315 to 323. The Odisha Public Service Commission was constituted on 1st April 1949 after it’s bifurcation from the former Bihar and Odisha Joint Public Service Commission. At the time of creation of the Odisha Public Service Commission, the strength of the Commission was three including Chairman. The strength increased to five in the year 1979 and further increased to six in the year 1996.

The Commission has acquired varied experiences and expertise in the matter of selection of personnel to various services of the Government of Odisha during its functioning for more than five decades. It has also gone a long way in achieving the purpose of drawing the best personnel for the public services of Odisha.

OPSC 2021 Exam Pattern

There will be three stages of the Odisha Civil Services (Judicial) Exam, the pre-exam, Main exam and the interview.

Details of the pre-exam

There will be one objective type (multiple choice questions).
Duration of the examination will be 02 hours.
Maximum marks for each subject is 100 marks.
The negative marking will be of 1/4th
The language of the question paper will be English and Odia.
The qualifying marks will be 40& but for the candidates of the reserved category, the qualifying marks will be 35%.

Main Examination

Candidates will have to appear in the compulsory question papers and the optional subjects in the Odisha Civil Services (Judicial) Exam main examination. The details about the compulsory papers and the optional papers are given below.

1. Compulsory Papers

There will be 02 compulsory papers in the main exam.
Total Marks for the examination would be 300.

Paper	Subject	Marks
Paper 1	General English	150 Marks
Paper 2	Procedure of Laws	150 Mark

2. Optional Papers

Applicants can choose maximum 03 subjects from the below given 5 optional subjects.
The subjects chosen by the applicants will carry 150 marks each.
Each question paper will be of 150 marks.

Paper	Marks
Law of Crime & Law of Torts	150 Marks
Personal Laws	150 Marks
Law of Property	150 Marks
Law of Contract	150 Marks
Jurisprudence and Constitution of India	150 Marks

Personality Test / Interview

Total Marks will be 100 marks. Questions will be asked upon the broad National and International issues and matter of common interest in the field of Arts of Science.