IAS Exam Analysis 2024: UPSC Civil Services Prelims Analysis & Review

The candidates can see here the UPSC IAS 2024 Prelims Question paper Break-up

The IAS exam analysis 2024 is available here after the first shift of the exam. 

The candidates can see below the UPSC IAS General Studies Paper 2 CSAT video:

The candidates can see below the IAS 2023 expected cutoff for the prelims exam.

As predicted by us, the IAS Cutoff 2022 was 88.22 for the unreserved category. We predicted it around 85 to 95. Get here the detailed IAS cutoff of previous years.

Candidates can see here the section-wise question paper break-up, the difficulty level of the sections and the expected cutoff of the exam. UPSC released the IAS prelims question paper the next day of the exam. The candidates can download here the UPSC prelims previous year's question papers to know the format of the paper.

IAS prelims 2022 started a new trend in the answer options. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) asked about the correctness of the number of options. This made it more difficult to answer. This type of answer option will reduce the possibility of intelligent guessing. IAS prelims 2022 exam was conducted on June 5, 2022, and the exam analysis for both papers is available here.

IAS Prelims General Studies Paper-I (GS) was conducted in the first session. UPSC always surprise the candidates in one way or another and this year, it was the design of answer options for some History questions. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) tweaked the answer options and asked about the correctness of the number of pairs (given in the questions). The candidates will get to see such questions, the subject-wise breakup of questions and the expected cutoff on this page.

Some Questions with tweaked answer options are given here.

Consider the following pairs:

      King                    Dynasty

1. Nannuka         -   Chandela

2. Jayashakti      -  Paramara

3. Nagabhata II  -  Gurjar-Pratihara

4. Bhoja             -   Rashtrakuta

How many pairs given below are correctly matched?

(a)  Only one pair

(b)  Only two pairs

(c)  Only Three pairs

(d)  All four pairs

Consider the following pairs:

Site of Ashoks's major rock edicts                                   Location in the State of 

1. Dhauli                                                       -                        Odisha

2. Erragudi                                                    -                        Andhra Pradesh

3.Jaugada                                                     -                        Madhya Pradesh

4. Kalsi                                                          -                        Karnataka

How many pairs given below are correctly matched?

(a)  Only one pair

(b)  Only two pairs

(c)  Only Three pairs

(d)  All four pairs

These types of questions demand knowledge of all the options and the elimination method is very difficult to implement in these types of answer options.

Subject-wise Breakup of IAS Prelims 2022

The candidates can see below the subject-wise breakup of the questions

The overall difficulty level of the IAS prelims 2022 exam was Moderate to difficult level. The above number is tentative because some of the questions span in more than one section (multi-disciplinary) and hence can be counted under other sections also.

IAS Prelims 2022 Exam Analysis Video

The candidates can get here the IAS prelims general studies paper analysis.

IAS Prelims 2022 General Studies Paper Analysis

Civil Service Prelims exam is a combined prelims exam for the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Central Civil Services and Indian Forest Services. There are two Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ) based papers in the IAS prelims exam. The marks scored in the IAS prelims exam is not considered for the final merit but the candidates need to qualify the prelims exam to appear in the main exam. Out of the two papers, the candidates need to qualify in the General Studies Paper-II (CSAT).

The qualification marks for paper two are 33% of the maximum marks. It implies that the candidates need to score 66 marks in the General Studies Paper-II (CSAT). The candidates can see here IAS exam pattern in detail.

IAS Exam 2022 CSAT Analysis

The candidates can see here the IAS prelims CSAT exam analysis 2022 

UPSC conducted the IAS prelims 2021 exam on October 10. The exam was scheduled to be conducted on June 4, but it was postponed because of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in April. The UPSC paper was a balanced one, but the questions from Ancient History spelt surprise this year.

Following its pattern to test the conceptual clarity of the candidates, IAS prelims 2021 questions were also conceptual and applied in orientation. Practice with the mock test papers helps the candidates to answer such questions. UPSC always asks application-based questions, and this is the reason that the cut-off is declining in recent years.

One candidate, Dr Saurabh, told Shiksha.com that the paper followed the typical UPSC pattern as he was appearing for the third time in the IAS prelims exam. UPSC asked the conceptual questions in the paper and a large number of questions from the Art and Culture section of the Ancient History part was a surprise element for him. Environment and Ecology questions were less than compared in the past. The questions were multi-disciplinary in orientation.

Arshad Ali told that the paper was concept based. There is no place for fact-based questions in the IAS prelims exam. There were a good number of questions from Current Affairs.

Sumant Kumar Patra told us that the questions from the Culture part were more in number compared to previous years. There was a good mix of questions from all the sections. The candidates who studied the fundamentals can score better on the exam.

Jubain Hussain told Shiksha.com that the questions asked in the paper were only conceptual and a deep understanding was required to answer the questions.

All the candidates told us that the paper was bit more difficult in comparison to the previous years and hence we can say that the IAS prelims cutoff will be lower.

The candidates can see here important questions related to IAS exam analysis.