Benefits of Solving Previous Year Papers

ByAnuj jindal

In this section I have talked about the various ways, solving UPSC (IAS) previous year papers will benefit you.

1. Know the Exam Pattern Better

The act of solving the various UPSC (IAS) prelims and mains previous year question papers will render you a superior understanding of the exam pattern and the kind of questions that are normally asked in it.
This understanding of the exam pattern and the various sections lying in it will, in turn, help you solve questions more quickly in the actual exam.

2. Gauge the Levels of Prelims & Mains

The more you solve previous year papers, the more you’ll be able to familiarise yourself with the massive jump in the difficulty levels from the UPSC Prelims to the Mains papers, and subsequently prepare yourself for the same.

3. Identify Important Topics

Solving more UPSC Previous year paper would mean getting to identify the most commonly asked questions in the exams, and from them, the most important UPSC topics. These are the topics that you’d then have to learn about in much more detail, considering that they are the ones most likely to be asked about in the upcoming IAS exam.

4. Know Your Strengths & Weaknesses

This is something that I have already talked about in the first point of this list i.e., getting to know more about your strengths and weaknesses by solving more and more past year papers. This is needed even more so, considering that the UPSC (IAS) exam papers have negative marking for every wrong answer, something that you absolutely cannot afford to do.

 

The UPSC Civil Services Exam (CSE) is conducted every year to recruit candidates to various civil services of the Indian central government such as IAS, IPS, IFS (Foreign), IRS, IP & TAFS, IFoS (Forest), ITS, etc. It is one of the toughest exams in the country.

The UPSC CSE is also popularly known as the IAS exam and is conducted subsequently after the official release of the UPSC vacancy memo.

The UPSC exam is no shorter than a marathon I tell you. It has three rounds that you need to clear in order to get selected as an IAS officer. The first round that you’d need to clear is the Prelims, the second round is Mains, and,the third and final round is the personal interviews.