History
223 real UPSC Prelims questions across 14 years (2013–2026), tagged by sub-topic and difficulty.
Filter by year range, difficulty, or jump straight to any sub-topic drill.
Questions per year
How many History questions appeared in each year's GS Paper 1.
Difficulty distribution
Across all 14 years. Difficulty is calibrated to the UPSC standard, not normalised to the aspirant population.
Nature: 219 Static · 2 Current-affairs-linked · 2 Hybrid
Sub-topics
117 sub-topics tagged in the History corpus. Each sub-topic drill pulls every question ever asked on that topic.
asked in 7 of 14 years · 11 Hard
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How to use this in your preparation
Open Arena → Mode 2. Pick History, set your year range and question count. Best for a timed subject revision before the paper.
Open Arena → Mode 3. Pick any sub-topic above to get every question ever asked on it. The moat coaching sites can't replicate.
Open Arena → Mode 4. Set difficulty to Hard, subject to History. Use in the final month of preparation.