Polity & Governance produced 188 of the 1,300 questions UPSC asked in GS Paper I between 2014 and 2026 — 14.5% of the paper, about 14.5 questions a year, and the 4th largest of 7 subjects. Its thinnest year gave 6 questions and its heaviest 22, which is the range your preparation has to survive.
Recent direction: the last four papers averaged 16 against 12.5 in the first four — rising.
One line of syllabus, 10 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.
Steady, and the most rewarding per hour: the Constitution is finite, free, and the questions come back to the same articles.
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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