UPSC Previous Year Question Papers for Prelims And Mains Exam

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) every year conducts Civil Service Exams for all India Services and various Central Civil Services posts. UPSC releases the official UPSC previous year question paper PDF on its official website. Analyzing UPSC Previous Year Papers will help you understand the difficulty and pattern of the exam. To help you in your preparation, we have come up with UPSC Previous Year Question Paper PDFs for the Prelims & Mains Exam in this article. UPSC Previous Year Papers will help you to plan how to balance the time during the examination. 

UPSC Previous Year Question Paper PDFs

UPSC Previous Year Papers help to understand the weightage of each topic and the level of difficulty of the exam. UPSC conducts UPSC CCE Exam 2025 in 3 stages- Prelims, Mains, and interviews for shortlisting eligible candidates. Click on the links provided below to download the UPSC Prelims & Mains previous year’s question papers and start practising just like a real exam. Understand the pattern, type of questions, and level of UPSC Prelims & Mains Exam of the previous year from these UPSC Previous Year Papers. 

UPSC Prelims Previous Year Question Papers

Download UPSC Prelims Previous Year Question Papers pdfs for General Studies 1 & General Studies 2 from the respective year as tabulated in the below section. 

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UPSC Mains Previous Year Question Papers

Download UPSC Mains Previous Year Question Papers pdfs for General Studies 1, 2, 3, and 4 from the respective year as tabulated in the below section.