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As per the schedule of the UPSC Mains Examination 2024, the commission will be conducting both Optional papers on 29 September 2024, optional subject is most crucial in the exam as a single subject weighs for 500 marks which is highest among all subjects in the UPSC exam and the subject selected by the student can be a major part of discussion in the interview. In this article we have attached UPSC Mains Optional question papers for all the optional subjects in UPSC Mains Exam.
UPSC Optional Question Paper 2024
The UPSC conducts optional papers for 48 subjects listed by the commission in the official notification. In 2024, these papers were conducted today, on 28 September 2024. As discussed above, we are sharing the UPSC Mains Optional question papers for all subjects in this article for reference of candidates in PDF format.
UPSC Optional Question Paper 2024- Subject Wise
Below we have mentioned subjects and corresponding to that we are updating the question papers for UPSC Mains Optional Paper 2024. It should be noted that choosing the optional subject for UPSC Mains examination is very important and these optional question papers of UPSC Mains 2024 can help candidate understand the difficulty potential of each optional subject, in order to choose the right optional subject for UPSC Mains examination.
S.No. | Optional Subjects | Question Papers |
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1 | Agriculture | Agriculture Paper 1 and Agriculture Paper II |
2 | Botany | Botany Paper I and Botany Paper II |
3 | Chemistry | Chemistry Paper I and Chemistry Paper II |
4 | Economics | Economics Paper I and Economics Paper II |
5 | Medical Science | Medical Science Paper I and Medical Science Paper II |
6 | Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science | Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science Paper I |
7 | Anthropology | Anthropology Paper I and Anthropology Paper II |
8 | Civil Engineering | Civil Engineering Paper I and Civil Engineer Paper II |
9 | Zoology | Zoology Paper I and Zoology Paper II |
10 | Public Administration | Pub. Adm. Paper I and Pub. Adm. Paper II |
11 | Commerce and Accountancy | Commerce and Accountancy Paper I and Commerce and Accountancy Paper II |
12 | Electrical Engineering | Electrical Engineering Paper I and Electrical Engineering Paper II |
13 | Geography | Geography Paper I and Geography Paper II |
14 | Mathematics | Mathematics Paper I and Mathematics Paper II |
15 | Philosophy | Philosophy Paper I and Philosophy Paper II |
16 | Geology | Geology Paper I and Geology Paper II |
17 | History | History Paper I and History Paper II |
18 | Law | Law Paper I and Law Paper II |
19 | Political Science and International Relations | PSIR Paper I and PSIR Paper II |
20 | Statistics | Statistics Paper I and Statistics Paper II |
21 | Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering Paper I and Mechanical Engineering Paper II |
22 | Psychology | Psychology Paper I and Psychology Paper II |
23 | Sociology |
Sociology Paper 1 and Sociology Paper II |
24 | Management | Management Paper I and Management Paper II |
25 | Physics | Physics Paper I and Physics Paper II |
26 | English | English Paper I and English Paper II |
27 | Hindi | Hindi Paper I and Hindi Paper II |
How to Download UPSC Mains 2024 Optional Question Paper?
Here we have provided candidates with the steps to download the UPSC Optional Question Paper 2024
- Step 1 : Visit the official UPSC website, upsc.gov.in.
- Step 2 : Navigate Home page and click on examination for UPSC Mains Optional Question Paper
- Step 3 : Click on previous year questions
- Step 4 : Select Civil Services Exam from the dropdown
- Step 5 : Click on download
- Step 6 : Save the PDF for your reference.
List of Scoring UPSC Optional Subjects
With the results from previous year it would be certain to say that the choice of UPSC optional should not only involve interest of candidate but the marking scheme of the subject and the previous year performance in the subject, there are a few optional subjects in which even the highest marks are not good enough, for example highest mark in economics optional were 325 in comparison to highest marks of anthropology 362 and highest marks in maths optional were 375, below we have mentioned the list of most scoring UPSC optional subjects.
- Anthropology
- Hindi
- English
- History
- PSIR
- Geography
- Public Administration
- Sociology
- Philosophy
- Psychology
Candidates can find UPSC 2024 Optional question paper of these subjects above in the table.
UPSC Optional Question Paper 2024 Difficulty Level
We will be evaluating all the UPSC mains optional papers, a detailed summary over the difficulty level will be updated after the question papers are released.
UPSC Mains Optional Paper 2024 Syllabus
The UPSC Mains Optional Paper subject list encompasses 48 subjects, and candidates are required to choose one subject for both Optional Paper I and Optional Paper II, it is important to go through the syllabus of UPSC optional subjects and for the same we have below attached syllabus for each UPSC optional subject in the table.