Topic weightage/Anthropology
Anthropology: where the marks are
Topic weightage in the UPSC 2025 paper — free. Every IndianCivils test for this subject is built on it.
66%
of the marks in Paper I came from just 3 of 6 topics (UPSC 2025 paper). Focus there first — our tests do.
1 Biological Anthropology Fundamentals105 marks 26.2% 🔒 2014–2025
2 Anthropological Theories and Methods95 marks 23.8% 🔒 2014–2025
3 Economic Political and Religious Organization65 marks 16.2% 🔒 2014–2025
4 Prehistoric Archaeology and Cultural Evolution60 marks 15.0% 🔒 2014–2025
5 Human Evolution and Phylogeny45 marks 11.2% 🔒 2014–2025
6 Marriage Family and Kinship30 marks 7.5% 🔒 2014–2025
You are seeing the UPSC 2025 paper only.
Full weightage opens with any Anthropology test series, video course, 1-year daily practice, or any Anthropology course of ₹9,000 or more:
📅 Every year, 2014–2025, with year-by-year trends
🧩 Subtopic-wise weightage inside every topic
📘 The syllabus classified into those subtopics
📝 Tests built on exactly this weightage, with your All-India rank
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Share = the topic's portion of all marks UPSC set in that paper in the UPSC 2025 paper