By Swayam Gupta, Associate Senior Executive
The Union Public Service Commission releases the UPSC CSE (IAS) question paper PDFs on its official website - upsc.gov.in. The Commission releases such PDFs within a week from the conduct of exam. The question papers are released on the official website and they are open to all. The candidates are suggested to download the UPSC questions papers to anlayse the previous year trends and to anticipate important topics which are frequently asked in the UPSC exams.
- How to Download UPSC Question Paper 2025?
- UPSC Question Paper 2025 FAQs
- UPSC Previous Year Questions Papers
How to Download UPSC Question Paper 2025?
The UPSC conducted the IAS prelims exam on May 25, 2025. The candidates can see below the manner to download the UPSC question paper.
- Go to the official website of UPSC - upsc.gov.in
- Click on the 'Examination Tab' given on the top navigation
- On clicking above, the drop list will appear
- Click on the previous question papers link, a new window will appear
- Select the exam for which the question paper is required.
- Download the UPSC question paper of the desired exam.
Direct Link to download UPSC question paper - https://www.upsc.gov.in/examinations/previous-question-papers
Commonly asked questions
The Union Public Service Commission is the exam conducting body of the UPSC Civil Service Exam (CSE). Hence the Commission releases the UPSC CSE prelims and UPSC CSE main exam question papers. The Commission releases the UPSC prelims question paper on the very next day of the exam.
The UPSC CSE Mains question papers are released with in a week of the exam.
No, you cannot get the UPSC admit card from the exam center. Candidates are required to download their UPSC admit card from the official website of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) before the examination.
The Commission mention in the official notification that the candidates will be required to download their admit card from the official website and no admit card will be available in offline mode.
UPSC Question Paper 2025 FAQs
The candidates can see here important questions related to UPSC question papers.
The UPSC releases the admit card of the exam three weeks before the date of exam. But after the COVID pandemic, UPSC was working proactively and issuing the admit card well before the expected date. IAS 2023 exam was conducted on May 28 and as per the official timeline, the UPSC released the UPSC IAS admit card 2023 on May 1.
The Union Public Service Commission mention the following details on the Civil Service IAS admit card. Name Roll Number Photo Identity Card Father's Name Mother's Name Centre Venue of Examination Time Table of Exam.
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