International Relations
85 real UPSC Prelims questions across 11 years (2015–2026), tagged by sub-topic and difficulty.
Filter by year range, difficulty, or jump straight to any sub-topic drill.
Questions per year
How many International Relations questions appeared in each year's GS Paper 1.
Difficulty distribution
Across all 11 years. Difficulty is calibrated to the UPSC standard, not normalised to the aspirant population.
Nature: 35 Static · 49 Current-affairs-linked · 1 Hybrid
Sub-topics
46 sub-topics tagged in the International Relations corpus. Each sub-topic drill pulls every question ever asked on that topic.
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How to use this in your preparation
Open Arena → Mode 2. Pick International Relations, 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 International Relations. Use in the final month of preparation.