Polity
114 real UPSC Prelims questions across 7 years (2020–2026), tagged by sub-topic and difficulty.
Filter by year range, difficulty, or jump straight to any sub-topic drill.
Questions per year
How many Polity questions appeared in each year's GS Paper 1.
Difficulty distribution
Across all 7 years. Difficulty is calibrated to the UPSC standard, not normalised to the aspirant population.
Nature: 103 Static · 10 Current-affairs-linked · 1 Hybrid
Sub-topics
11 sub-topics tagged in the Polity corpus. Each sub-topic drill pulls every question ever asked on that topic.
asked in 6 of 7 years · 5 Hard
asked in 6 of 7 years · 7 Hard
asked in 6 of 7 years · 5 Hard
asked in 5 of 7 years · 2 Hard
asked in 5 of 7 years · 2 Hard
asked in 6 of 7 years · 7 Hard
asked in 5 of 7 years · 3 Hard
asked in 5 of 7 years
asked in 3 of 7 years · 2 Hard
asked in 3 of 7 years · 1 Hard
asked in 3 of 7 years
How to use this in your preparation
Open Arena → Mode 2. Pick Polity, 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 Polity. Use in the final month of preparation.