UPSC Previous Years Question Papers are the first place a person should look if he is preparing for the Civil Services Examination. On this page, we have listed all the UPSC Civil Services Examination Previous Years Question Papers. The Previous Year’s Question Papers are given below.
The below UPSC Previous Years Question Papers are for both Prelims and Mains. In fact, we have not only provided the previous year’s UPSC Questions Papers for General Studies, but we have also provided previous years’ UPSC question Papers for Essay as well as Previous Year’s Question Paper of UPSC Optional.
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Click below to download/view question papers of UPSC Previous Year Question Papers from 2011 to Present.
UPSC ( Civil Services Prelims ) Previous Years Prelims Question Paper
- General Studies ( Paper 1) : 2022 [pdf] [Answer Key]| 2021 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf ] | 2015 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf ] | 2013 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf]
- CSAT ( Paper 2 ) : 2022 [Answer Key]| 2021 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] |2014 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf]
UPSC ( Civil Services Prelims ) Previous Years Prelims Official Answer Key
- Answer key General Studies (Paper 1): 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
- Answer key CSAT (Paper 2): 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
UPSC ( Civil Services Mains) General Studies Previous Years Question Papers
- General Studies Paper 1: 2022 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] Solutions | 2020 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] |2015 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2011[pdf]
- General Studies Paper 2 : 2022 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] [Solutions]| 2020 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2015[pdf] | 2014[pdf] |2013 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf]
- General Studies Paper 3 : 2022 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] [Solutions]| 2020 [pdf] | 2019[pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf]
- General Studies Paper 4 : 2022 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] [Solutions] | 2020 [pdf] | 2019[pdf] | 2018 [pdf ] | 2017 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf]
- Essay : 2022 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2010 [pdf]
UPSC Civil Services Optional Subjects Question Papers
- Public Administration [Optional] Paper 1 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf ] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Public Administration [Optional] Paper 2 | 2010[pdf] | 2011[pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf ] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Geography [Optional] Paper 1 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011[pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [Pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Geography [Optional] Paper 2 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [Pdf ] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf | 2022 | [pdf]
- History [Optional] Paper 1 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [Pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- History [Optional] Paper 2 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf ] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Anthropology [Optional] Paper 1 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018[pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Anthropology [Optional] Paper 2 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Philosophy [Optional] Paper 1 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Philosophy [Optional] Paper 2 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Political Science [Optional] Paper 1 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Political Science [Optional] Paper 2 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Sociology [Optional] Paper 1 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
- Sociology [Optional] Paper 2 | 2010 [pdf] | 2011 [pdf] | 2012 [pdf] | 2013 [pdf] | 2014 [pdf] | 2015 [pdf] | 2016 [pdf] | 2017 [pdf] | 2018 [pdf] | 2019 [pdf] | 2020 [pdf] | 2021 [pdf] | 2022 | [pdf]
