Previous Years Question Papers – Prelims

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The following are the ‘Previous Years Question Papers’ for Preliminary Examination (Prelims). We would genuinely urge you to go through these papers periodically. This is necessary to check whether your preparation is in line with the requirements of UPSC or not.
Additionally, one also needs to understand the types of questions being asked by UPSC. These previous years papers are helpful in understanding the trend of questions.
UPSC also has a tendency of repeating a few questions (2 to 3 questions) every year. Even in that respect, one needs to cover these previous years papers.
Given the above reasons, We are sharing the question papers of 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019…

2013

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2

2014

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2

2015

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2

2016

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2

2017

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2

2018

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2

2019

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2

2020

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2

2021

1. Paper 1
2. Paper 2