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UPSC Prelims 2024 Paper Analysis

In-depth analysis of UPSC Prelims 2024. Understand trends, difficulty levels, and key topics for effective preparation.

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UPSC Prelims Analysis 2024: Exam Pattern Review and Insights, Difficulty level, Subject-wise weightage, Cutoff Prediction

The UPSC CSE Exam is conducted in three stages, Preliminary examination, Mains written examination and Personality Test.

The UPSC Prelims exam is all set to be held on 16th June 2024. 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 CSE Prelims examination is to shortlist candidates for the Mains examination. The CSE Mains will have two parts – a written examination and an interview (personality test) round.  

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UPSC Prelims 2024 Exam Review : Subject-wise analysis

The UPSC Prelims Subject wise Analysis 2024 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 2024 for Paper 1 (GS) and Paper 2 (CSAT) will be updated below:

UPSC Prelims 2024 Question Paper Breakdown is as follows:

UPSC Civil Services Prelims 2024 Paper Analysis

UPSC Prelims Analysis GS (Paper-1): 

The UPSC Prelims GS Paper will be held in the morning shift of 9:30 to 11:00 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 2024 Question Paper Breakdown is as follows:

Overall-Subject2024
🌻Environment & AGROTo be updated
💰Economy & Govt SchemesTo be updated
🧭GeographyTo be updated
🤴History & CultureTo be updated
👩🏼‍⚖️PolityTo be updated
🇺🇸IR/DefenseTo be updated
🔬Sci-TechTo be updated
🏏Misc.PIN./Awards/SportsTo be updated
Total100

UPSC Prelims Analysis 2024 CSAT (Paper- 2)

The UPSC Prelims CSAT 2024 paper is scheduled to be held in the afternoon shift from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM on 16th June. 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 out of 200. The difficulty level and distribution of questions will be updated here:

Overall-SubjectNumber of Questions
Reading ComprehensionTo be updated
ReasoningTo be updated
Numerical AbilityTo be updated
Total80

UPSC 2024 Prelims Difficulty Level:

UPSC Prelims GS (Paper-1) Review: Difficulty level

Overall-SubjectLevel of Difficulty
🌻Environment & AGROTo be updated
💰Economy & Govt SchemesTo be updated
🧭GeographyTo be updated
🤴History & CultureTo be updated
👩🏼‍⚖️PolityTo be updated
🇺🇸IR/DefenseTo be updated
🔬Sci-TechTo be updated
🏏Misc.PIN./Awards/SportsTo be updated
Total100

UPSC Prelims CSAT (Paper-2) Review: Difficulty level

Overall-SubjectLevel of Difficulty
Reading ComprehensionTo be updated
ReasoningTo be updated
Numerical AbilityTo be updated
Total80

Civil Services Prelims Exam Trends

Category

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

75.41

88.22

87.54

92.51

98

EWS

68.02

82.83

80.14

77.55

90

OBC

74.75

87.54

89.12

89.12

95.34

SC

47.82

69.35

70.71

68.71

77.34

ST

59.25

74.08

75.41

74.84

82

PwBD-1

40.4

49.84

68.02

70.06

53.34

PwBD-2

47.13

58.59

67.33

63.94

44.66

PwBD-3

40.4

40.4

43.09

40.82

61.34

PwBD-5

33.68

41.76

45.8

42.86

61.34

UPSC Prelims 2024 Expected Cutoff: Performance analysis

To be updated

UPSC Prelims 2024 Result Date

The Civil Services Prelims exam will be conducted on 16th June 2024, and the results for the same will be out in the next 15 days.

Topicwise Analysis

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