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Log In / Sign Up FreeMost candidates who struggle in Mains do not struggle with knowledge. They struggle with allocation: twenty questions, one hundred and eighty minutes, and no way to buy back the eight minutes spent perfecting question one. Writing untimed practice answers trains the wrong skill — it rewards completeness when the exam rewards judgement under a clock.
Timed practice makes the trade-offs visible while they still cost you nothing. You find out that your introductions run long, that you reach for examples you can't finish, or that the last four questions of every paper get half the words of the first four.
Every question is extracted from an official UPSC question paper. You can browse the full bank without logging in: all previous year questions, General Studies I–IV, or Essay topics. Each question has its own page with the directive word, marks, word limit and the evaluation rubric.
Yes. Questions are stored in English and Hindi, and an answer written in Hindi is evaluated in Hindi throughout.
Submit what you have. A part-written answer is marked as an examiner would mark it, which is the most useful signal timed practice can give you.
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