Topic weightage/General Studies Paper I
General Studies Paper I: where the marks are
Topic weightage in the UPSC 2025 paper — free. Every IndianCivils test for this subject is built on it.
70%
of the marks in Paper I came from just 3 of 6 topics (UPSC 2025 paper). Focus there first — our tests do.
1 Indian Society and Social Issues75 marks 30.0% 🔒 2014–2025
2 Human and Economic Geography65 marks 26.0% 🔒 2014–2025
3 Physical Geography35 marks 14.0% 🔒 2014–2025
4 Modern Indian History and Freedom Struggle30 marks 12.0% 🔒 2014–2025
5 Indian Culture and Heritage30 marks 12.0% 🔒 2014–2025
6 World History15 marks 6.0% 🔒 2014–2025
You are seeing the UPSC 2025 paper only.
Full weightage opens with any General Studies Paper I test series, video course, 1-year daily practice, or any General Studies Paper I 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