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GS Paper 1 · Set A
UPSC Prelims 2025
100 questions · 2 marks each · Negative marking 1/3
Hard
42%
42 questions
Current affairs
36%
36 questions
Top subject
Polity
18 questions · 18%
General cut-off
92.66
+4.68 vs prev year
The 2025 General-category Prelims cut-off was 92.66/200 — up 4.68 marks on the previous year. See the full cut-off trend.
Subject breakdown
Polity
18 (18%)
History
16 (16%)
Science & Technology
15 (15%)
Economy
12 (12%)
Environment
12 (12%)
Geography
12 (12%)
Current Affairs
10 (10%)
International Relations
5 (5%)
All 100 questions
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| #▲ | Topic↕ | Subject↕ | Type↕ | Difficulty↕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alternative Investment Funds | Economy | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 2 | Reserve Bank of India - Income Sources | Economy | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 3 | Government Organizations (DoE, DRI, DGSDM) | Polity | Matching pairs | Hard | ↗Read |
| 4 | Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) | Economy | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 5 | Income Tax on Allied Agricultural Activities | Economy | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 6 | Minerals Security Partnership / Critical Minerals | Curr. Affairs | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 7 | Bondholders vs Stockholders | Economy | Assertion-Reason | Easy | ↗Read |
| 8 | Indian Stock Market & Options Trading | Economy | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 9 | Circular Economy & Emissions | Environment | Assertion-Reason | Medium | ↗Read |
| 10 | Capital Receipts of Government | Economy | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 11 | Raja Ram Mohan Roy | History | Statement-based | Easy | ↗Read |
| 12 | Non-Cooperation Programme (1920) | History | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 13 | Araghatta (Irrigation Device) | History | Factual single | Medium | ↗Read |
| 14 | Mahendravarman I (Pallava Titles) | History | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 15 | Fa-Hien / Chandragupta II | History | Factual single | Easy | ↗Read |
| 16 | Rajendra I Chola / Srivijaya Campaign | History | Factual single | Medium | ↗Read |
| 17 | Ancient India Territorial Regions & Rivers | History | Matching pairs | Hard | ↗Read |
| 18 | Gandharva Mahavidyalaya / Paluskar | History | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 19 | Ashokan Inscriptions - Officials | History | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 20 | Non-Cooperation Movement Strategy | History | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 21 | NATO Membership (Eastern Europe) | IR | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 22 | Andes Mountains - Country Coverage | Geography | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 23 | Equatorial Water Bodies | Geography | How-many counting | Hard | ↗Read |
| 24 | Turmeric Production in India | Economy | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 25 | Continental Drift Evidence | Geography | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 26 | Dust Particles & Atmospheric Conditions | Geography | Assertion-Reason | Hard | ↗Read |
| 27 | Isotherms & January Temperature | Geography | Assertion-Reason | Hard | ↗Read |
| 28 | Chalk vs Clay - Permeability | Geography | Assertion-Reason | Medium | ↗Read |
| 29 | Greenhouse Effect & Atmosphere | Geography | Statement-based | Easy | ↗Read |
| 30 | Rashtriya Gokul Mission | Curr. Affairs | Statement-based | Easy | ↗Read |
| 31 | Cement Industry & Carbon Emissions | Environment | Assertion-Reason | Hard | ↗Read |
| 32 | COP28 Declaration on Climate & Health | Environment | Assertion-Reason | Medium | ↗Read |
| 33 | Earth's Rotation, Solar Flares, Polar Ice Melt | Geography | Assertion-Reason | Hard | ↗Read |
| 34 | Article 6 of Paris Agreement | Environment | Assertion-Reason | Hard | ↗Read |
| 35 | Nature Solutions Finance Hub (ADB) | Curr. Affairs | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 36 | Direct Air Capture Technology | Environment | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 37 | Peacock Tarantula (Gooty) | Environment | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 38 | India CO2 Emissions Profile | Environment | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 39 | Plant Classification (Cassava, Ginger, etc.) | Environment | Matching pairs | Hard | ↗Read |
| 40 | Oxygen Production - Forests vs Oceans | Environment | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 41 | Alternative Powertrain Vehicles | S&T | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 42 | Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) | S&T | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 43 | EV Battery Cathodes (Cobalt, Lithium, etc.) | S&T | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 44 | Plastic in Everyday Items | Environment | How-many counting | Easy | ↗Read |
| 45 | Coal Gasification - Outputs | S&T | How-many counting | Hard | ↗Read |
| 46 | CL-20, HMX, LLM-105 (Explosives) | S&T | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 47 | Majorana 1 Chip / Quantum Computing | S&T | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 48 | Monoclonal Antibodies | S&T | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 49 | Virus Behavior & Biology | S&T | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 50 | Activated Carbon | S&T | Assertion-Reason | Medium | ↗Read |
| 51 | Ordinance Making Power | Polity | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 52 | State Formation (Arunachal, Nagaland, Tripura) | Polity | Matching pairs | Hard | ↗Read |
| 53 | Inter-State Council, NSC, Zonal Councils | Polity | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 54 | Governor's Discretion & President Reserving Bills | Polity | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 55 | Constitutional Provisions (DPSP, FD, FR) | Polity | Matching pairs | Medium | ↗Read |
| 56 | Fifth Schedule - Scheduled Areas | Polity | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 57 | National Boards & Union Ministries | Polity | Matching pairs | Hard | ↗Read |
| 58 | Constitutional Amendment - State Ratification | Polity | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 59 | Governor's Immunity & Legislative Privileges | Polity | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 60 | Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board | Polity | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 61 | Fiscal Deficit, Revenue Deficit, Primary Deficit | Economy | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 62 | INSTC - North-South Transport Corridor | IR | Factual single | Medium | ↗Read |
| 63 | Ethanol Production - Brazil vs USA | Economy | Assertion-Reason | Hard | ↗Read |
| 64 | Wet-Bulb Temperature & Climate | Environment | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 65 | Gross Primary Deficit Calculation | Economy | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 66 | 15th Finance Commission Recommendations | Polity | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 67 | International Bank for Reconstruction & Development | IR | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 68 | RTGS vs NEFT | Economy | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 69 | UPI International Acceptance | Curr. Affairs | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 70 | PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana | Curr. Affairs | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 71 | Gandhi's 'Sedition is my religion' Quote | History | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 72 | Dancing Girl - Mohenjo-daro | History | Factual single | Easy | ↗Read |
| 73 | Chauri Chaura Legal Defence | History | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 74 | Poona Pact & Harijan Upliftment | History | Factual single | Medium | ↗Read |
| 75 | Portuguese-Introduced Fruits | History | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 76 | Countries with Multiple Time Zones | Geography | How-many counting | Hard | ↗Read |
| 77 | International Date Line (Anadyr-Nome) | Geography | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 78 | Self-Respect Movement (Periyar) | History | Factual single | Medium | ↗Read |
| 79 | Country & Natural Resources | Geography | Matching pairs | Medium | ↗Read |
| 80 | Region & Country (Mallorca, Normandy, Sardinia) | Geography | Matching pairs | Medium | ↗Read |
| 81 | Rare Earth Elements - Properties | S&T | Assertion-Reason | Medium | ↗Read |
| 82 | Indian Railways - NRP & Kavach System | S&T | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 83 | Space Missions (Axiom-4, SpaDeX, Gaganyaan) | S&T | How-many counting | Medium | ↗Read |
| 84 | India's Defence Aircraft | S&T | Matching pairs | Hard | ↗Read |
| 85 | Cloud Seeding Chemicals | S&T | Factual single | Medium | ↗Read |
| 86 | President's Pardoning Power | Polity | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 87 | Speaker of Lok Sabha | Polity | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 88 | MP Disqualification - 10th Schedule | Polity | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 89 | Mineral Concession Powers (Centre vs State) | Polity | Assertion-Reason | Hard | ↗Read |
| 90 | Nature Restoration Law (NRL) | Environment | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 91 | Panchayats at Intermediate Level | Polity | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 92 | BIMSTEC Organization | IR | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 93 | Gandhi Peace Prize - Jury | Curr. Affairs | Factual single | Hard | ↗Read |
| 94 | GAGAN (GPS Augmentation) | S&T | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 95 | AI Action Summit Paris 2025 | Curr. Affairs | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 96 | International Years (UN-Designated) | Curr. Affairs | Matching pairs | Hard | ↗Read |
| 97 | 16th BRICS Summit | IR | Statement-based | Medium | ↗Read |
| 98 | Lokpal of India | Polity | Statement-based | Hard | ↗Read |
| 99 | First Kho Kho World Cup | Curr. Affairs | Statement-based | Easy | ↗Read |
| 100 | Chess Olympiad / Gukesh Dommaraju | Curr. Affairs | Statement-based | Easy | ↗Read |