Constitutional, international, criminal, law of contracts/torts, mercantile law.
Five deep-dives: syllabus, booklist, paper analysis, strategy, PYQ trends (2021–2025).
Five long-form articles. Read in order or jump to what you need.
The official Law syllabus decoded topic by topic — what each line really means, how UPSC asks it, and where to draw the boundaries of your preparation.
The exact reading order topppers follow for Law — NCERT base, core standard books, supplementary reference, notes strategy and what to skip.
A paper-pattern analysis of Law — question structure, sectional weightage, marks distribution, difficulty trends and recurring themes over the last 5 years.
A realistic month-wise preparation strategy for Law — reading, notes, answer writing, revision and mock tests, with time allocations by topic.
Year-by-year analysis of Law Mains PYQs from 2021-2025 — topic distribution, repeated themes, difficulty shift and what it signals for the next cycle.
80 questions across 5 years, taken from the official papers. Every one has its own page with the directive word, marks, word limit and evaluation rubric.
Absolute liability, kidnapping vs abduction, abetment · Agency, time as essence of contract and patent law · Aircraft hijacking convention, WTO decision-making and international humanitarian law · Arbitral autonomy, indemnity, mistake in contract · Arbitration and media trial · Attempt in IPC and torts remedies · Attempt to suicide, consumer protection and tortious liability · Constitutional amendment, fundamental rights and directive principles
discuss (22) · explain (22) · critically examine (10) · comment (5) · elucidate (5) — see the directive words guide for how each one changes the answer you should write.
80 questions at 50 marks
Browse all 80 Law previous year questions →Write an answer, upload it, and our evaluator scores it on content, structure, examples and directive-word fidelity — trained on UPSC-style marking.