Maharashtra Civil Services (Rajyaseva) — State Services Main Examination

Official exam info

Maharashtra Public Service Commission's State Services Main Examination for Maharashtra's Rajyaseva civil services — the state's senior administrative-service exam. Mains has 9 papers: qualifying-only Marathi and English language papers, an Essay paper, 4 compulsory General Studies papers (GS1 Heritage/Culture/History/Geography, GS2 Governance/Constitution/Polity/IR, GS3 Technology/Economy/Environment/Security, GS4 Ethics/Integrity/Aptitude — all four verbatim-identical in structure to UPSC's own Mains GS papers, with 'weightage to Maharashtra'), and 2 papers in a candidate-chosen optional subject (1 of 26). Study material reuses UPSC's own extensive GS1-4 citation corpus (culture, ancient/medieval/modern India, world history, geography, polity, international relations, GS3 economy/tech/security, and the complete GS4 ethics paper) plus the verified national content pool, with 2 chapters authored fresh for Maharashtra's own Bhakti/Varkari saints' tradition (Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Eknath, Tukaram) and its state geography/economy/governance profile.