Topic weightage/History
History: where the marks are
Topic weightage in the UPSC 2025 paper — free. Every IndianCivils test for this subject is built on it.
72%
of the marks in Paper I came from just 3 of 6 topics (UPSC 2025 paper). Focus there first — our tests do.
1 Mughal Empire and Regional Powers110 marks 27.5% 🔒 2014–2025
2 Formation of States and Early Empires100 marks 25.0% 🔒 2014–2025
3 Ancient Indian History and Sources80 marks 20.0% 🔒 2014–2025
4 Religion Culture and Early Medieval Developments65 marks 16.2% 🔒 2014–2025
5 Economy Society and Culture 16th to 18th Centuries30 marks 7.5% 🔒 2014–2025
6 European Penetration and Colonial Beginnings15 marks 3.8% 🔒 2014–2025
You are seeing the UPSC 2025 paper only.
Full weightage opens with any History test series, video course, 1-year daily practice, or any History 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
See History courses
Share = the topic's portion of all marks UPSC set in that paper in the UPSC 2025 paper