Geography produced 125 of the 1,300 questions UPSC asked in GS Paper I between 2014 and 2026 — 9.6% of the paper, about 9.6 questions a year, and the 6th largest of 7 subjects. Its thinnest year gave 5 questions and its heaviest 18, which is the range your preparation has to survive.
Recent direction: the last four papers averaged 12.8 against 9.3 in the first four — rising.
One line of syllabus, 7 distinguishable topics. This is the part the syllabus text cannot tell you.
Difficulty is our own tagging, not UPSC's — the Commission publishes no difficulty label.
The most over-prepared subject relative to what it returns. It has never been the largest block in thirteen years, and in three of them it produced five or six questions.
Counted from 1,300 UPSC Prelims GS questions, 2014–2026, each tagged to a topic by UPSC Answer Check. Question papers: Union Public Service Commission.
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