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240 real UPSC Prelims questions across 14 years (20132026), tagged by sub-topic and difficulty.

240 questions14 years139 sub-topics41 Hard · 154 Medium · 45 Easy
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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
2019
2015% Hard
2018
1811% Hard
2017
13
2016
23
2015
205% Hard
2014
176% Hard
2013
186% Hard

Difficulty distribution

Across all 14 years. Difficulty is calibrated to the UPSC standard, not normalised to the aspirant population.

45
Easy
19%
154
Medium
64%
41
Hard
17%

Nature: 174 Static · 63 Current-affairs-linked · 3 Hybrid

Sub-topics

139 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 14 years · 6 Hard

Banking & RBI

asked in 7 of 14 years · 5 Hard

External Sector & Trade

asked in 5 of 14 years · 5 Hard

Industry, MSME & Services

asked in 6 of 14 years · 4 Hard

Macroeconomics & Growth

asked in 6 of 14 years · 4 Hard

Fiscal Policy, Taxation & Budget

asked in 5 of 14 years · 2 Hard

Economic & Agricultural Geography

asked in 2 of 14 years · 2 Hard

Agriculture & Allied

asked in 3 of 14 years · 3 Hard

Digital Economy & Fintech

asked in 2 of 14 years

Employment & Labour

asked in 2 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Government Schemes

asked in 2 of 14 years

Economy & Finance in News

asked in 1 of 14 years

Capital market instruments and FPI

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Banking and Finance

asked in 1 of 14 years

Economic Concepts

asked in 1 of 14 years

Agricultural production statistics

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Fiscal Policy and Government Debt

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Microeconomic principles

asked in 1 of 14 years

Development economics

asked in 1 of 14 years

Macroeconomic concepts

asked in 1 of 14 years

Goods and Services Tax

asked in 1 of 14 years

RBI and Monetary Policy

asked in 1 of 14 years

GST and tax reforms

asked in 1 of 14 years

Fiscal Policy

asked in 1 of 14 years

Banking Technology

asked in 1 of 14 years

Financial Regulation

asked in 1 of 14 years

Macroeconomic Indicators

asked in 1 of 14 years

Technological Change and Production

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

International Finance

asked in 1 of 14 years

Balance of Payments

asked in 1 of 14 years

Banking and Credit Policy

asked in 1 of 14 years

Monetary and Fiscal Policy

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Monetary Economics

asked in 1 of 14 years

National Accounts

asked in 1 of 14 years

Inflation and Its Effects

asked in 1 of 14 years

Banking and credit policy

asked in 1 of 14 years

Monetary and fiscal policy

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Monetary economics

asked in 1 of 14 years

Economic Growth

asked in 1 of 14 years

National Income

asked in 1 of 14 years

Banking and Rural Finance

asked in 1 of 14 years

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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