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UPSC Prelims 2025 Paper Analysis

In-depth analysis of UPSC Prelims 2025. Understand trends, difficulty levels, and key topics for effective preparation.

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UPSC Prelims Analysis 2025: Exam Pattern Review and Insights, Difficulty level, Subject-wise weightage, Cutoff Prediction, Detailed Solution, Answer Key

The UPSC CSE Exam is conducted in three stages, Preliminary examination, Mains written examination and Personality Test. It will be objective-type and will be held in two sessions i.e. GS and CSAT, where CSAT is a qualifying examination. The UPSC Prelims exam was held on 25th May 2025. The UPSC CSE Prelims examination is to shortlist candidates for the Mains examination. The CSE Mains will be conducted from 22nd August 2025 - 31st August 2025 (5 Days). After the Mains results are out a Personality Test (Interview) will be conducted to shortlist the successful candidates.


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UPSC Prelims 2025 Exam Review : Subject-Wise analysis

The UPSC Prelims Subject wise Analysis 2025 will be  available soon after the exam is completed. Unacademy’s Top educators will take up the discussion on subject-wise analysis, difficulty level, expected cut off.  The UPSC Prelims Analysis 2025 for Paper I (GS) and Paper II (CSAT) will be updated below: UPSC Prelims 2025 Question Paper Breakdown is as follows:

UPSC Civil Services Prelims 2025 Paper Analysis

UPSC Prelims Analysis GS (Paper - I): 

The UPSC Prelims GS Paper will be held in the morning shift of 9:30 to 11:30 AM. There will be a total of 100 questions of two marks each. There will be 1/3rd negative marking for each wrong answer attempted. The number of questions of each subject will be listed below. UPSC Prelims 2025 Question Paper Breakdown is as follows:
Overall-Subject 2025
🌻Environment & AGRO 11
💰Economy & Govt Schemes 23
🧭Geography 13
🤴History & Culture 16
👩🏼‍⚖️Polity 14
🇺🇸IR/Defense 5
🔬Sci-Tech 14
🏏Misc.PIN./Awards/Sports 4
Total 100

UPSC Prelims Analysis 2025 CSAT (Paper- II)

The UPSC Prelims CSAT 2025 paper is scheduled to be held in the afternoon shift from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM on 25th May. Candidates need to solve 80 questions worth 200 marks from the Reading Comprehension, Reasoning, and Numerical Ability sections. There will be 1/3rd negative marking for each wrong answer attempted.The cut off marks for CSAT is 33% marks i.e. minimum qualifying marks is 66.67 out of 200. The difficulty level and distribution of questions will be updated here:
Overall-Subject Number of Questions
Reading Comprehension To be updated
Reasoning To be updated
Numerical Ability To be updated
Total 80

UPSC 2025 Prelims Difficulty Level:

UPSC Prelims GS (Paper - I) Review: Difficulty level

Overall-Subject Level of Difficulty
🌻Environment & AGRO To be updated
💰Economy & Govt Schemes To be updated
🧭Geography To be updated
🤴History & Culture To be updated
👩🏼‍⚖️Polity To be updated
🇺🇸IR/Defense To be updated
🔬Sci-Tech To be updated
🏏Misc.PIN./Awards/Sports To be updated
Total 100

UPSC Prelims CSAT (Paper - II) Review: Difficulty level

Overall-Subject Level of Difficulty
Reading Comprehension To be updated
Reasoning To be updated
Numerical Ability To be updated
Total 80

Civil Services Prelims Exam Trends

Category UPSC Cut off 2024 (out of 200) UPSC Cut off 2023 (out of 200) UPSC Cut off 2022(out of 200) UPSC Cut off 2021 (out of 200) UPSC Cut off 2020 (out of 200) UPSC Cut off 2019 (out of 200)
General 87.98 75.41 88.22 87.54 92.51 98
EWS 85.92 68.02 82.83 80.14 77.55 90
OBC 87.28 74.75 87.54 89.12 89.12 95.34
SC 79.03 47.82 69.35 70.71 68.71 77.34
ST 74.23 59.25 74.08 75.41 74.84 82
PwBD-1 69.42 40.4 49.84 68.02 70.06 53.34
PwBD-2 65.30 47.13 58.59 67.33 63.94 44.66
PwBD-3 40.56 40.4 40.4 43.09 40.82 61.34
PwBD-5 40.56 33.68 41.76 45.8 42.86 61.34

UPSC Prelims 2025 Expected Cutoff: Performance Analysis

To be updated

UPSC Prelims 2025 Result Date

The Civil Services Prelims exam was conducted on 25th May 2025, and the results for the same will be out

Topicwise Analysis

Overall Subject 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Environment Agriculture 23 27 21 18 18 11
Geography 23 14 21 18 14 13
History & Art & Culture 5 5 12 15 12 16
Polity & Governance 20 21 16 13 14 14
IR 15 18 10 16 6 5
Sci & Tech 3 0 8 7 11 14
Economy & Govt. Schemes 11 11 12 11 20 23
Others (PIN, Sports, Awards) 0 4 0 2 5 4
Overall Subject 100 100 100 100 100 100