Topic weightage/Political Science
Political Science: where the marks are
Topic weightage in the UPSC 2025 paper — free. Every IndianCivils test for this subject is built on it.
75%
of the marks in Paper I came from just 3 of 6 topics (UPSC 2025 paper). Focus there first — our tests do.
1 Political Theory150 marks 37.5% 🔒 2014–2025
2 Federalism Institutions and Development85 marks 21.2% 🔒 2014–2025
3 Indian Government and Politics65 marks 16.2% 🔒 2014–2025
4 Party System and Social Movements50 marks 12.5% 🔒 2014–2025
5 Western Political Thought35 marks 8.8% 🔒 2014–2025
6 Indian Political Thought15 marks 3.8% 🔒 2014–2025
You are seeing the UPSC 2025 paper only.
Full weightage opens with any Political Science test series, video course, 1-year daily practice, or any Political Science 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 Political Science courses
Share = the topic's portion of all marks UPSC set in that paper in the UPSC 2025 paper