Topic weightage/General Studies Paper IV
General Studies Paper IV: where the marks are
Topic weightage in the UPSC 2025 paper — free. Every IndianCivils test for this subject is built on it.
68%
of the marks in Paper-Iv came from just 1 of 4 topics (UPSC 2025 paper). Focus there first — our tests do.
1 Ethics in Public Administration170 marks 68.0% 🔒 2014–2025
2 Human Values40 marks 16.0% 🔒 2014–2025
3 Case Studies20 marks 8.0% 🔒 2014–2025
4 Ethics and Human Interface20 marks 8.0% 🔒 2014–2025
You are seeing the UPSC 2025 paper only.
Full weightage opens with any General Studies Paper IV test series, video course, 1-year daily practice, or any General Studies Paper IV 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