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UPSC Prelims 2026
100 Qs · 2 marks · negative 1/3
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Switch between GS and CSAT. Filter by subject, difficulty, or question type — every chart updates instantly. The dashboard answers questions you didn't know to ask.
Prelims, decoded
The data, written up properly.
Long-form pieces — subject trends, difficulty drift, question-format analysis. Each one is grounded in the same hand-tagged dataset, never generic advice.
Data, written up
Every question, every year — atomised.
Each year gets its own page. Hard %, current-affairs %, top subject, qualifying mark — all summarised, with the full question-by-question table searchable and sortable below.
UPSC Prelims 2026
100 Qs · 2 marks · negative 1/3
Tagged by hand, not scraped.
Every question is read and labelled across six dimensions — subject, sub-topic, type, difficulty, nature, source hint. That hand-built dataset is what makes every chart possible.
One question, six dimensions
In Prelims 2026, this is the kind of question that cost aspirants the cut-off.
We've tagged it Hard, of type Matching pairs, in International Relations. We can show you the other 28 like it.
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