Knowing that you might have already gotten an idea about how important the UPSC (IAS) previous year’s question papers are to a sincere aspirant, I shall not be dwelling on the topic much.

The best way to utilize previous year’s question papers is to use them to access your preparation. It is also important to analyse your performance in those papers by comparing your marks to the cut off of the respective years.



With a careful analysis of previous year papers, you’ll be able to gauge your strengths and weaknesses.

Then, according to those, you can focus your efforts to shore up the weak areas while holding on to your strengths.

Remember one of the key aims of this exercise is to ensure that you have covered the syllabus in a holistic way.

Once you are ready to check your progress again try to solve another previous year paper and repeat the entire process.

This will help you to continuously improve on your preparation and make you more confident for the day of UPSC exam.

Okay, now that I have stressed the importance of previous year’s question papers, I am sharing a few of those for you to download and practice.

Know more: UPSC Previous Year Papers