2025 CSAT, all questions

UPSC Prelims 2025 · CSAT

Question 22: Reading Comprehension

Passage – 1 · as printed by UPSC
Passage beginning “One of the dismal realities of…”

With reference to the passage, the following assumptions have been made : The growing divergence between the fortunes of the agricultural and non-agricultural economy in India could have been reduced/contained by :

  1. Iadapting large-scale cultivation of commercial crops and viable corporate farming.
  2. IIproviding free insurance for all crops and heavily subsidizing seeds, fertilizers, electricity and farm machinery at par with developed countries.

Which of the above assumptions is/are valid ?

aI only
bII only
cBoth I and II
dNeither I nor II

UPSC's 2025 key was reported published in May 2026, but no file was found on upsc.gov.in or in the Wayback Machine. The 2025 papers can be browsed, not scored.

Source: UPSC, Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2025, General Studies Paper II (CSAT), Series A. The paper on upsc.gov.in.