Topic weightage/Philosophy
Philosophy: where the marks are
Topic weightage in the UPSC 2025 paper — free. Every IndianCivils test for this subject is built on it.
62%
of the marks in Paper I came from just 3 of 6 topics (UPSC 2025 paper). Focus there first — our tests do.
1 Western Thinkers and Theories85 marks 21.8% 🔒 2014–2025
2 Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics80 marks 20.5% 🔒 2014–2025
3 Analytic Philosophy and Modern Critiques75 marks 19.2% 🔒 2014–2025
4 Indian Systems of Philosophy60 marks 15.4% 🔒 2014–2025
5 Vedanta and Integral Philosophy60 marks 15.4% 🔒 2014–2025
6 Transcendental and Post Kantian Philosophy30 marks 7.7% 🔒 2014–2025
You are seeing the UPSC 2025 paper only.
Full weightage opens with any Philosophy test series, video course, 1-year daily practice, or any Philosophy 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 Philosophy courses
Share = the topic's portion of all marks UPSC set in that paper in the UPSC 2025 paper