The top 25 candidates after the Civil Services Examination 2010 results were declared Wednesday consist of 20 men and five women, 15 of whom are engineers, five belong to the commerce, management, humanities, science and social sciences streams, and five are from a medical sciences background. Of the top 25, eight have
made to the merit list in their first attempt while four made it in their second attempt, nine in the third attempt, three in the fourth attempt and one in the fifth attempt.
Among those selected, 28 are physically challenged candidates while 14 are orthopaedically challenged, five visually impaired and nine hearing impaired.
A total of 5,47,698 candidates applied for this examination and 2,69,036 candidates appeared for the preliminary examination on May 23, 2010. In all, 12,491 candidates qualified for the main written examination held in October- November 2010. Of these 2,589 candidates were shortlisted for the personality test conducted in March-April 2011 out of which the names of 920 selected. They include 428 from the general category (including 19 physically challenged), 270 OBCs (including eight physically challenged candidates), 148 SC (including one physically challenged candidate) and 74 ST candidates.