UPSC Prelims Answer Keys – GS Paper-1 and CSAT Answer Key PDF

Analysing the UPSC Prelims Answer Key helps the applicants to know their correct and incorrect responses and help them estimate the marks that they are going to score in the Prelims Exam. Aspirants can solve the question papers and go through the UPSC Prelims 2023 answer key to check their correct answers and learn from their mistakes.

The official UPSC Prelims Answer Keys of GS Paper 1 and CSAT have been updated here.

It is essential to solve past year’s papers and analyse the results with the UPSC Prelims Answer key if you are getting ready for the Civil Services exam. This will allow you to assess how well you performed. You can identify the subjects or sections where you erred by going over the answer key. This helps you concentrate your future study efforts on your areas of weakness.

Download the Official UPSC Answer Key PDFs for the more than past 5 years for GS Paper-1 and CSAT below:

To download the Official UPSC Prelims Answer Key, candidates can follow these steps:

• Visit the Official Website of the UPSC at upsc.gov.in.
• On the Homepage, click on “Examination” and then on “Answer Keys”.
• Click on the link for the respective latest “Civil Service Preliminary Examination Answer Key”.
• The UPSC Answer Key will open in a new tab. You can then Download the Answer Key in PDF format.

Note: The official answer keys for the UPSC Prelims exam is put out after the recruitment process is over for the year’s CSE.

Aspirants can know their Approximate Marks in the UPSC Preliminary Exam with the help of the UPSC Answer Key as per the official marking scheme decided by the Union Public Service Commission. The UPSC CSE Prelims consists of a total of 400 marks – 200 marks for both Papers 1 (GS) & 2 (CSAT) scoring 2 marks for the correct answer in GS Paper-1 & 2.5 marks in Paper-2 (CSAT). There is a penalty of 1/3rd of the correct marks for each incorrect answer. The marking scheme is given below: