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UPSC Prelims / Official questions by topic

UPSC Prelims official questions by topic, 2017–2025

Every question here is from an official paper published by UPSC (upsc.gov.in). For each syllabus topic you get the year, the paper and the question number, and the link opens that page of the official PDF. Shishya does not copy the questions. 1578 of 1620 questions are sorted so far.

Topics were tagged by Shishya's AI from a machine reading (OCR) of the official scanned papers and may be wrong; the paper itself is always right.

How many official questions per topic

TopicAll202520242023202220212020201920182017
Current events of national and international importance (General Studies)821413111073789
History of India (ancient, medieval, art and culture) (General Studies)1141091313181612149
Modern India and the Indian National Movement (General Studies)3251·334475
Indian and World Geography (General Studies)861115131185797
Indian Polity and Governance (General Studies)163171915171915161728
Economic and Social Development (General Studies)14991519121422211819
Environmental ecology, bio-diversity and climate change (General Studies)14491517181818201316
General Science (incl. science and technology) (General Studies)11616111216131513137
Comprehension (CSAT)237262624242625272930
Interpersonal skills including communication skills (CSAT)2·1··1····
Logical reasoning and analytical ability (CSAT)9986121199131318
Decision making and problem solving (CSAT)2··11·····
General mental ability (CSAT)48467872734
Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude) (CSAT)251253029313238291324
Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency) (CSAT)5331065562124

Questions by topic

Topics were tagged by Shishya's AI from a machine reading (OCR) of the official scanned papers and may be wrong; the paper itself is always right. 1578 of 1620 questions have a topic; the rest do not yet. Each link opens the page of the official paper.

General Studies

Current events of national and international importance (82)
History of India (ancient, medieval, art and culture) (114)
Modern India and the Indian National Movement (32)
Indian and World Geography (86)
Indian Polity and Governance (163)
Economic and Social Development (149)
Environmental ecology, bio-diversity and climate change (144)
General Science (incl. science and technology) (116)

CSAT

Comprehension (237)
Interpersonal skills including communication skills (2)
Logical reasoning and analytical ability (99)
Decision making and problem solving (2)
General mental ability (48)
Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude) (251)
Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency) (53)

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