UPSC Optional · 500 marks

Law

Constitutional, international, criminal, law of contracts/torts, mercantile law.

Five deep-dives: syllabus, booklist, paper analysis, strategy, PYQ trends (2021–2025).

What UPSC actually asked in Law, 2021–2025

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.

Paper 1
40 questions · 2000 marks total
Paper 2
40 questions · 2000 marks total

Topics that came up

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

Directive words used most

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.

Mark distribution

80 questions at 50 marks

Browse all 80 Law previous year questions →

Practice Law answers, get AI feedback

Write an answer, upload it, and our evaluator scores it on content, structure, examples and directive-word fidelity — trained on UPSC-style marking.