Prelims MCQ practice

Prelims PYQs,marked asyou answer.

Practise UPSC’s own Prelims questions, 5,200+ of them from GS Paper I and CSAT, one at a time. Each answer is marked at once against UPSC’s key, and 93 in 100 come with an explanation of why.

Free with your account. No limits.

MCQ practice: choose a subject, topic, year and how many questions, from new ones, ones I got wrong or any; beside it, your progress with a 1-day streak.

Answer

Marked straight away,and explained.

Choose an option and see at once whether it was right, which one UPSC’s key gives, and why each statement is right or wrong. Statements, tables, CSAT passages and figures are shown as UPSC set them.

  • UPSC’s own keys from 2012; before that, a published compilation.
  • Why each option is right or wrong.
  • The year, paper and subject of every question.
A UPSC 2005 Geography question on the earth's magnetic field, answered right, with the explanation of each statement below it.

Choose

New ones, the onesyou got wrong, or any.

Make a set from a subject, a topic and a year, of the size you want. Draw from questions you haven’t seen, from those you got wrong, or from all of them. Or browse every question and search for a word.

  • By subject, topic and year.
  • GS Paper I and CSAT.
  • Search: Ramsar, Article 371, monsoon.
Prelims PYQs: UPSC's questions from 1995 to 2026, filtered by paper, years and subject, with a search box and 3,976 GS Paper I questions.

What is in it

UPSC’s own papers,GS and CSAT.

Questions from UPSC’s Prelims papers, filed by subject and topic, with the source on each.

  • GS Paper I

    UPSC’s papers from 1995 to now.

  • CSAT

    Passages, reasoning and numeracy, from 2011.

  • UPSC’s key

    Every answer checked against UPSC’s own key, where it published one.

  • Your streak

    Days in a row, and which topics to work on.

Free with your account, with no limit on how many you practise.

Ready for the real thing?

Sit a whole paper against the clock.

Two hours, a hundred questions, marked the way UPSC marks them, with a third off for every wrong answer.

Today’s practice

Ten questions.Ten explanations.

Free with your account, as many as you like.

Free with your account. No limits.