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Environment

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

100 questions7 years12 sub-topics30 Hard · 52 Medium · 18 Easy
Practise all 100 Environment questions

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Questions per year

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

2026
933% Hard
2025
1250% Hard
2024
1436% Hard
2023
138% Hard
2022
1735% Hard
2021
1833% Hard
2020
1718% Hard

Difficulty distribution

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

18
Easy
18%
52
Medium
52%
30
Hard
30%

Nature: 65 Static · 34 Current-affairs-linked · 1 Hybrid

Sub-topics

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

Biodiversity & Conservation

asked in 7 of 7 years · 6 Hard

Climate Change & Negotiations

asked in 7 of 7 years · 7 Hard

Pollution & Waste

asked in 6 of 7 years · 4 Hard

Ecology & Ecosystems

asked in 3 of 7 years

Environmental Law & Institutions

asked in 4 of 7 years · 4 Hard

Protected Areas & Wetlands

asked in 3 of 7 years · 2 Hard

Botany & Flora

asked in 4 of 7 years · 3 Hard

Climate Tech & Renewable Energy

asked in 4 of 7 years · 2 Hard

Zoology & Fauna

asked in 1 of 7 years · 2 Hard

How to use this in your preparation

Subject Drill

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

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