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

213 questions14 years117 sub-topics37 Hard · 133 Medium · 43 Easy
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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
2019
1513% Hard
2018
157% Hard
2017
147% Hard
2016
229% Hard
2015
13
2014
176% Hard
2013
17

Difficulty distribution

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

43
Easy
20%
133
Medium
62%
37
Hard
17%

Nature: 156 Static · 54 Current-affairs-linked · 3 Hybrid

Sub-topics

117 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 14 years · 6 Hard

Climate Change & Negotiations

asked in 7 of 14 years · 7 Hard

Pollution & Waste

asked in 6 of 14 years · 4 Hard

Ecology & Ecosystems

asked in 3 of 14 years

Environmental Law & Institutions

asked in 4 of 14 years · 4 Hard

Protected Areas & Wetlands

asked in 3 of 14 years · 2 Hard

Botany & Flora

asked in 4 of 14 years · 3 Hard

International Environmental Agreements

asked in 2 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Climate Tech & Renewable Energy

asked in 4 of 14 years · 2 Hard

Zoology & Fauna

asked in 1 of 14 years · 2 Hard

Wildlife and Biodiversity

asked in 1 of 14 years

Protected areas and biosphere reserves

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Forest resources and coverage

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Waste Management

asked in 1 of 14 years

Sustainable Agriculture

asked in 1 of 14 years

Wildlife Protection and Tribal Rights

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Oceanography and Meteorology

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Flora and Plant Species

asked in 1 of 14 years

Biodiversity Economics

asked in 1 of 14 years

Flora and Biodiversity

asked in 1 of 14 years

Climate Change Accounting

asked in 1 of 14 years

Sustainable Development

asked in 1 of 14 years

Biodiversity and wildlife conservation

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Ecology and Ecosystem

asked in 1 of 14 years

Water Pollution

asked in 1 of 14 years

Electronic Waste and Toxic Materials

asked in 1 of 14 years · 1 Hard

Ecology and Food Chains

asked in 1 of 14 years

Biogeochemical Cycles

asked in 1 of 14 years

Ecology and Ecosystems

asked in 1 of 14 years

Air Pollution

asked in 1 of 14 years

Ecosystem and food chains

asked in 1 of 14 years

Biogeochemical cycles

asked in 1 of 14 years

Ecology and ecosystems

asked in 1 of 14 years

Air pollution and smog

asked in 1 of 14 years

Water resources and usage

asked in 1 of 14 years

Plant Adaptations

asked in 1 of 14 years

Ecological Restoration

asked in 1 of 14 years

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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