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Topic weightage/Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering: where the marks are

Topic weightage in the UPSC 2026 paper — free. Every IndianCivils test for this subject is built on it.

68%

of the marks in Paper I came from just 5 of 8 topics (UPSC 2026 paper). Focus there first — our tests do.

1 Energy Conversion60 marks 15.0% 🔒 2014–2026
2 Circuit Theory60 marks 15.0% 🔒 2014–2026
3 Power Electronics and Electric Drives50 marks 12.5% 🔒 2014–2026
4 Signals and Systems50 marks 12.5% 🔒 2014–2026
5 Analog Electronics50 marks 12.5% 🔒 2014–2026
6 Digital Electronics50 marks 12.5% 🔒 2014–2026
7 Analog Communication40 marks 10.0% 🔒 2014–2026
8 E M Theory40 marks 10.0% 🔒 2014–2026
You are seeing the UPSC 2026 paper only.

Full weightage opens with any Electrical Engineering test series, video course, 1-year daily practice, or any Electrical Engineering course of ₹9,000 or more:

📅 Every year, 2014–2026, 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 2026 paper