About the UPSC Prelims 2024 GS Paper I

The Civil Services Preliminary Examination 2024, General Studies Paper I, rewarded aspirants who had built a wholistic, balanced foundation rather than narrow current-affairs cramming. Per VisionIAS's post-exam analysis, the paper leaned conventional and static, testing basic facts around core concepts across most subjects — which made elimination-based strategy viable again and kept overall difficulty at a moderate level.

Geography dominated the 2024 paper, contributing close to 20 questions on its own, and even more when clubbed with Environment & Ecology. Polity & Governance stayed conventional and on the easier side. Within History, Modern History's share continued to shrink while Art & Culture leaned heavily on current affairs, and Ancient/Medieval History saw fewer questions than the previous year. Science & Technology questions tilted toward current, applied technology rather than theory, and Defence & Security questions made a reappearance after a long gap. International Relations stayed on expected lines, while Economics mixed conceptual and news-driven questions. VisionIAS's post-exam estimation survey placed the expected cutoff for CSE 2024 Prelims at 95–100 marks.

This page lets you attempt the complete paper — all 100 objective-type questions — in a browser-based test environment that mirrors the real exam: a 2-hour countdown, UPSC's standard +2/−⅔ marking scheme, a question palette for navigation, and an instant score card with subject-wise accuracy once you submit.

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