UPSC Prelims Answer Keys is live Now!

Exciting news for UPSC aspirants! The answer key for the Prelims is now available on upsc.gov.in for both Paper 1 and Paper 2. Don’t miss out on checking your answers – head over to the website and see how you did!

As many as three questions are dropped each from series A, B, C and D general studies paper 1. No questions are dropped from general studies paper 2.

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on May 21 released the Civil Services Examination (CSE) preliminary exam answer keys for the 2024 exams. Candidates who appeared for the UPSC CSE 2024 prelims will be able to download the answer keys for general studies paper 1 and general studies paper 2 from upsc.gov.in and upsconline.gov.in.

As many as three questions are dropped each from series A, B, C and D general studies paper 1. No questions are dropped from general studies paper 2.

While the UPSC CSE 2024 prelims exam was conducted on June 16, the CSE mains UPSC exam was held on September 20, 21, 22, 28 and 29. Candidates cleared the mains were called for an interview and personality test round. The UPSC CSE 2024 interviews or the personality tests have already started from January 7 and continued till April 17. As many as 2,845 candidates were shortlisted for the interview stage. The UPSC CSE 2024 result was declared on April 22, 2025.

This year, AIR 1 is Shakti Dubey. A total of 1,009 candidates have been recommended for appointment to Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) and Central Services, Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’. The candidature of 241 recommended candidates has been kept provisional.

The UPSC CSE 2025 prelims exam will be held on May 25, 2025. This year, 979 posts are on offer. Candidates scoring above the cut-off marks in CSE prelims will become eligible to register for the UPSC main examination. The mains will be descriptive and will be conducted from August 22 for five days.
The Commission has already released the UPSC hall tickets for the 2025 CSE prelims exams. In case of any discrepancies in the UPSC CSE 2025 prelims hall ticket, aspirants must inform the UPSC immediately via mail on email- ID – uscsp-upsc@nic.in. To raise grievances, the candidates will have to mention their names, roll number, registration ID, name and year of the examination in all the communication or correspondence with the UPSC.

A candidate, whose photograph on the e-admit card is not clear or the photograph is without the name and date of photograph, they will have to bring a photo identity card along with two passport size photographs (with their names and date of photograph), one for each session for appearing in the UPSC CSE prelims examination with an undertaking.
The UPSC CSE exam is conducted in three stages — prelims, mains and interview. A final merit list is prepared for candidates qualifying the exam and the interview with the highest marks.