MPSC PYQ Trends & Stats
Real numbers from all 26 real papers on this site (2013–2025) — which subjects and topics come back exam after exam, how hard each subject actually runs, and which topics MPSC has only recently leaned into. Nothing here is estimated; every count is a real question already answerable in practice mode.
2,286
Real questions
26
Real papers
13
Years covered
1596
Syllabus topics tracked
Questions by subject
Insight — Comparing the earliest 3 Rajyaseva GS Paper 1 papers to the most recent 3: Current Affairs has risen the most (22 → 37 questions, +68%), while Science & Technology has fallen the most (79 → 58, -27%). Everything else has held roughly steady.
CSAT vs GS Paper 1
The two papers test genuinely different skills — CSAT is aptitude, reasoning and comprehension; GS Paper 1 is general studies knowledge across history, geography, polity, economy and science.
Difficulty mix by subject
easy medium hard
Insight — Polity runs hardest — 26% of its questions are rated hard, the highest of any subject. Marathi Language runs easiest, at just 2%.
Questions per year
Volume by paper year — reflects how many papers from each year have a sourced answer key, not just how many questions MPSC actually asked that year.
Is the exam getting more repeat-driven?
For each MPSC Rajyaseva GS Paper 1 paper, the share of its questions that test a syllabus concept already asked about in an earlier year's paper — the closest real measure of how much a given year's paper leans on material this site's PYQ practice would have already covered.
Insight — In 2013 essentially nothing had a prior year to repeat from. By 2025, 88% of the paper tested a concept that had already shown up before — and the line below climbs in almost every year between.
Most-repeated topics
Ranked by how many real questions across every paper touch that topic — the closest thing to “what MPSC actually keeps asking.”
Load-bearing concepts
Ranked by connections in the concept graph — not how often a topic is asked about directly, but how much of the rest of the syllabus routes through it as a prerequisite or a related idea. A different question from “most-repeated” above, and sometimes a very different answer.
Rising topics
Topics whose earliest real appearance is in the last 3 papers (2023–2025) — MPSC has only recently started asking about these, worth extra attention if you're prepping for the next exam.
Evergreen topics
Topics that have shown up across nearly every year in this dataset — the syllabus's real constants, worth prepping regardless of which year's paper you're studying.