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Current Affairs

47 real UPSC Prelims questions across 5 years (20212026), tagged by sub-topic and difficulty.

47 questions5 years11 sub-topics16 Hard · 24 Medium · 7 Easy
Practise all 47 Current Affairs questions

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Questions per year

How many Current Affairs questions appeared in each year's GS Paper 1.

2026
1443% Hard
2025
1030% Hard
2024
1233% Hard
2023
5
2021
650% Hard

Difficulty distribution

Across all 5 years. Difficulty is calibrated to the UPSC standard, not normalised to the aspirant population.

7
Easy
15%
24
Medium
51%
16
Hard
34%

Nature: 4 Static · 43 Current-affairs-linked · 0 Hybrid

Sub-topics

11 sub-topics tagged in the Current Affairs corpus. Each sub-topic drill pulls every question ever asked on that topic.

Government Schemes & Welfare

asked in 3 of 5 years · 1 Hard

Defence & Security Affairs

asked in 2 of 5 years · 2 Hard

Awards & Honours

asked in 4 of 5 years · 4 Hard

Sports

asked in 4 of 5 years

International Days & Institutions

asked in 4 of 5 years · 4 Hard

Infrastructure & Connectivity

asked in 2 of 5 years · 1 Hard

International Summits & Diplomacy

asked in 3 of 5 years · 2 Hard

Art, Culture & Cinema

asked in 2 of 5 years · 1 Hard

Economy & Finance in News

asked in 1 of 5 years · 1 Hard

How to use this in your preparation

Subject Drill

Open Arena → Mode 2. Pick Current Affairs, set your year range and question count. Best for a timed subject revision before the paper.

Sub-topic Drill

Open Arena → Mode 3. Pick any sub-topic above to get every question ever asked on it. The moat coaching sites can't replicate.

Hard Questions Only

Open Arena → Mode 4. Set difficulty to Hard, subject to Current Affairs. Use in the final month of preparation.

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