Topic weightage/Public Administration
Public Administration: 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 Development Administration140 marks 35.0% 🔒 2014–2025
2 Behaviour Organisations and Comparative PA85 marks 21.2% 🔒 2014–2025
3 Introduction and Evolution65 marks 16.2% 🔒 2014–2025
4 Administrative Thought50 marks 12.5% 🔒 2014–2025
5 Personnel Ethics and Citizen Interface40 marks 10.0% 🔒 2014–2025
6 Accountability and Control20 marks 5.0% 🔒 2014–2025
You are seeing the UPSC 2025 paper only.
Full weightage opens with any Public Administration test series, video course, 1-year daily practice, or any Public Administration 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 Public Administration courses
Share = the topic's portion of all marks UPSC set in that paper in the UPSC 2025 paper