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History

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

110 questions7 years12 sub-topics48 Hard · 44 Medium · 18 Easy
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Questions per year

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

2026
1932% Hard
2025
1638% Hard
2024
875% Hard
2023
1346% Hard
2022
1650% Hard
2021
1953% Hard
2020
1932% Hard

Difficulty distribution

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

18
Easy
16%
44
Medium
40%
48
Hard
44%

Nature: 106 Static · 2 Current-affairs-linked · 2 Hybrid

Sub-topics

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

Ancient India (general)

asked in 7 of 7 years · 11 Hard

Modern: Freedom Struggle

asked in 5 of 7 years · 4 Hard

Modern India (general)

asked in 3 of 7 years · 6 Hard

Art, Culture & Architecture

asked in 5 of 7 years · 3 Hard

Ancient: Religion & Philosophy

asked in 3 of 7 years · 5 Hard

Modern: Colonial & Constitutional

asked in 5 of 7 years · 3 Hard

Medieval India (general)

asked in 3 of 7 years · 5 Hard

Ancient: Sangam & South Indian

asked in 4 of 7 years · 3 Hard

Medieval: Sultanate & Mughals

asked in 2 of 7 years · 5 Hard

Ancient: Indus & Vedic

asked in 2 of 7 years · 1 Hard

Ancient: Mauryan & Gupta

asked in 2 of 7 years · 2 Hard

How to use this in your preparation

Subject Drill

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

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