10) Current Affairs & General Knowledge – Previous Year Questions UPSC Prelims

Current Affairs & General Knowledge Previous Year Questions – Topic Wise

Sr. No.	Topic Name	Previous Year Questions
A)	Defence	Click Here
B)	Nuclear Weapons and Treaties	Click Here
C)	International Organizations, Treaties, Reports, Rankings etc.	Click Here
D)	General Knowledge	Click Here

Topic Wise Analysis of Current Affairs & GK PYQs

Current-Affairs-and-GK-UPSC-Prelims-Topicwise-Weightage-1995-2023

10. Current Affairs and General Knowledge	No. of Questions (2011-2023)	No. of Questions (1995-2023)	% Weightage (2011-2023)	% Weightage (1995-2023)
A) Defence	3	17	3%	3%
B) Nuclear Weapons and Treaties	3	10	3%	2%
C) International Organizations and Treaties	36	93	37%	17%
D) General Knowledge	55	417	57%	78%
Total	97	537	100%	100%

About Current Affairs & GK PYQs

We’ve included all the questions which couldn’t be listed in any other topic, under this title. Thus, this is the only part of UPSC which is truly unpredictable and is purely current affairs based.

But the good news is, only 8-10 such questions are asked on average. Further, for first three topics i.e. A) Defence, B) Nuclear Weapons and Treaties & C) International organizations, reports, rankings, treaties, etc. you can get a good study material and study for them.

Thus, it leaves us only with 5-6 questions which will out of syllabus. We would recommend just to leave them & focus on rest 95 questions for which a detailed subject wise, topic wise and sub topic wise analysis is available and is presented herein.

Current Affairs & GK – Detailed Syllabus and Prelims PYQs

A) Defence

B) Nuclear Weapons and Treaties

C) International Organizations, Treaties, Reports, Rankings etc.

D) General Knowledge

We’re in the process of posting all the questions from 1995-2023. The tentative date of completion is 16 Dec 2023. We highly recommend purchasing our UPSC Prelims PYQ Book (2024 Edition) to access all questions in a single PDF.