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Economy

111 real UPSC Prelims questions across 7 years (20202026), tagged by sub-topic and difficulty.

111 questions7 years16 sub-topics33 Hard · 60 Medium · 18 Easy
Practise all 111 Economy questions

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Questions per year

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

2026
1421% Hard
2025
1242% Hard
2024
1346% Hard
2023
1436% Hard
2022
1822% Hard
2021
1421% Hard
2020
2627% Hard

Difficulty distribution

Across all 7 years. Difficulty is calibrated to the UPSC standard, not normalised to the aspirant population.

18
Easy
16%
60
Medium
54%
33
Hard
30%

Nature: 80 Static · 30 Current-affairs-linked · 1 Hybrid

Sub-topics

16 sub-topics tagged in the Economy corpus. Each sub-topic drill pulls every question ever asked on that topic.

Financial Markets & Instruments

asked in 7 of 7 years · 6 Hard

Banking & RBI

asked in 7 of 7 years · 5 Hard

External Sector & Trade

asked in 5 of 7 years · 5 Hard

Industry, MSME & Services

asked in 6 of 7 years · 4 Hard

Macroeconomics & Growth

asked in 6 of 7 years · 4 Hard

Fiscal Policy, Taxation & Budget

asked in 5 of 7 years · 2 Hard

Economic & Agricultural Geography

asked in 2 of 7 years · 2 Hard

Agriculture & Allied

asked in 3 of 7 years · 3 Hard

Employment & Labour

asked in 2 of 7 years · 1 Hard

How to use this in your preparation

Subject Drill

Open Arena → Mode 2. Pick Economy, 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 Economy. Use in the final month of preparation.

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