Free model answers to UPSC Mains previous year questions (PYQs), with the exact official question, word limit, diagram and keywords in red ink. Organised paper-wise and subject-wise. New answers are added every day.
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GS Paper 1 PYQ Model Answers (19)
Geography
- Benefits of solar energy – 2025
- Non-farm primary activities – 2025
- Offshore vs onshore oil reserves – 2025
- Plate tectonics, continents and ocean basins – 2025
- Tsunamis – 2025
History and Culture
- Akbar’s religious syncretism – 2025
- Chandella sculpture art – 2025
- Harappan architecture – 2025
- India’s consolidation after independence – 2025
- Jotirao Phule and subaltern classes – 2025
- Relevance of the French Revolution – 2025
Indian Society
- Fast food industry and health concerns – 2025
- Globalization and consumer culture – 2025
- Smart cities and urban poverty – 2025
- Sustainable growth vs needs of the poor – 2025
- Tribal development: displacement and rehabilitation – 2025
- Gender equality, equity and empowerment – 2024
- Urban floods in Hyderabad and Pune – 2020
- Life cycle of the joint family – 2014
GS Paper 2 PYQ Model Answers (16)
Polity and Governance
- CAG: legality and propriety – 2024
- Cabinet system and parliamentary supremacy – 2024
- Indian secularism vs US secularism – 2024
- Integrity of civil servants – 2024
- Local bodies and good governance – 2024
- Lok Adalats vs Arbitration Tribunals – 2024
- One Nation One Election – 2024
- Poverty and malnutrition cycle – 2024
- Public interest litigation and Supreme Court – 2024
- Governor’s ordinance power – 2022
International Relations
- Energy security and foreign policy – 2025
- India-Africa digital partnership – 2025
- Island nations and sea level rise – 2025
- Sovereign nationalism after globalization – 2025
- UN reform and East-West rivalry – 2025
- India and Central Asian Republics – 2024
GS Paper 3 PYQ Model Answers (15)
Science & Tech, Environment and Disasters
- Asteroids and planetary defence – 2024
- Cloudbursts – 2024
- Disaster resilience and Sendai Framework – 2024
- Electronic toll collection (FASTag, GNSS) – 2024
- Industrial pollution of rivers – 2024
Economy and Agriculture
- High value crops – 2025
- Buffer stocks and price stability – 2024
- Food inflation and RBI policy – 2024
- Millets and nutritional security – 2024
- Success of land reforms – 2024
- MSMEs and manufacturing – 2023
Internal Security
- Left Wing Extremism – 2025
- Terrorism in India – 2025
- DPDP Act 2023 – 2024
- Narco-terrorism – 2024
GS Paper 4 (Ethics) PYQ Model Answers (13)
- Accountability in use of public funds – 2025
- Civil servant as enabler, not regulator – 2025
- Clausewitz: war as diplomacy by other means – 2025
- Code of ethics and work culture – 2025
- Constitutional morality – 2025
- Devotion to duty as a civil servant – 2025
- Environmental clearance in border areas – 2025
- Ethical dilemmas of social media – 2025
- Reason and critical thinking in welfare schemes – 2025
- Teachings of Mahavir – 2025
- AI in administrative decision-making – 2024
- Mission Karmayogi and civil servants – 2024
- Conflict of interest – 2018
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