Mission 2025:

Foundation Batch of GS
for UPSC CSE
Start Date: 27 April 2023
End Date: 27 February 2025

In this Batch, the top educators on the Unacademy Platform will be teaching the
entire syllabus of UPSC CSE Examination holistically. The batch aims to target the
candidates who want to attempt the UPSC Exam in 2025. The course will start
from the foundation building through NCERTs and will cover the complete
syllabus of UPSC CSE Prelims and Mains Examination. The class content in this
batch will be provided in English and the discussion will be in Hinglish

Class Discussion Class Content

Hinglish English
Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination:
Objective Type
Preliminary Examination

General Studies CSAT

Paper - 1 Paper - 2
Max. Marks: 200 Max. Marks: 200

Duration: 2 Hours Qualifying (33% marks required)

Negative Marking: 1/3 of marks
assigned to a question will be
deducted as penalty for each
wrong answer.
Duration : 2 Hours
Negative Marking : 1/3 of marks
assigned to a question will be
deducted as penalty for each
wrong answer.

Prelims Examination - May 2025

UPSC Prelims 2015 - 2021 Cutoff Trend

Prelims General EWS OBC SC ST PH Total

Marks
2021 87.54
80.14
84.85
75.41
70.71
43.09-68.02
200

2020 92.51
77.55
89.12
74.84
68.71
40.82-70.06
200

2019 98
90
95.34
82
77.34
40.66-53.34
200

2018 98
N/A
96.66
84
83.34
40 to 73.34
200

2017 105.34
N/A
102.66
88.66
88.66
40 to 85.34
200

2016 116
N/A
110.66
99.34
96
40 to 75.34
200

2015 107.34 N/A 106 94 91.34

40 to 90.66 200

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 Mains Examination Pattern and Syllabus
If a candidate successfully completes the Preliminary Examination stage, the next
step is to appear for the Mains Examination. There are a total of nine papers at the
Mains stage, seven of which are merit-based and two of which are qualifying.

Mains Paper VI

examination Optional Subject – Paper 1

Duration: 3 hour
Paper i
Maximum marks: 250
Essay
Duration: 3 hour Paper VII

Maximum marks: 250 Optional Subject – Paper II

Duration: 3 hour
Paper iI
Maximum marks: 250
General Studies – I
Duration: 3 hour
Maximum marks: 25
Indian Heritage and Culture, History and Qualifying

Geography of the World and Society papers

Paper iII
Paper A

General Studies – Ii Indian Language*

Duration: 3 hour Minimum qualifying requirement: 25
Maximum marks: 25 Duration: 3 hour
Governance, Constitution, Polity, Social Maximum marks: 300
Justice and International Relations

Paper iV
Paper B

General Studies – Iii English

Minimum qualifying requirement: 25
Duration: 3 hour
Duration: 3 hour
Maximum marks: 25
Maximum marks: 300
Technology, Economic Development, Biodiversity,
Environment, Security and Disaster Management

Paper V

General Studies – IV
Duration: 3 hour
Maximum marks: 25
Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude
September 2025

*The Indian Language Paper will not be compulsory for candidates hailing from the states of Arunachal
Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim. 2
Dr. Sidharth Arora

Dr. Sidharth Arora

 Meet Your Educators

Mission 2025: Foundation Batch of GS for UPSC CSE

Mrunal Patel Sudarshan Gurjar Pratik Nayak Dr. Sidharth Arora

Economy Geography History Polity

Arti Chhawari G Rajput Pavneet Singh Krishna Mohan

History Ethics, Integrity & IR & IS Essay
Aptitude

Rahul Bhardwaj Aman Sharma Sumit Konde Anuj Garg

Science and Technology Current Affairs &
Environment and
History
Indian Society Disaster M anagement

Arvindsingh Rajpurohit Mudit Gupta

Governance CSAT

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Prelims & Mains Test Series and Practice Section
Prelims & Mains test series along with Practice Section are extremely important parts of
the preparation. It will help you in tackling the dynamism and demand of the exam.

How do I Practice Questions?

Prelims Test Series Mains Test Series Practice Section

Click Here Click Here

Features of Unacademy Prelims Test Series

50+ objective tests in a year revising the syllabus of UPSC multiple time
Well organised Sectional, Revision and Full length Tests to intensify your
preparatio
Questions are framed on the exact pattern of the UPSC Examinatio
Detailed and informative explanations for every questio
Re-attempt the test for practice and revision purposes
Take the test live, compete with the best & know your All India Rank

Features of Mains Test Series

30+ subjective tests in a yea
Sectional and Full length Test
Questions curated by the top educator
Detailed and informative model answer
Timely evaluation with the detailed feedbac
Analysis classes by India’s top educators at Unacademy

Practice Section
One of the most unique and important features of the Unacademy platform
Consists of the 24000+ MCQs in English and Hind
Practice the questions in subject wise as well as topic wise manne
Solved UPSC Prelims PYQs of last 10 year
Addition of current affairs questions on a monthly basis

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 UPSC 2022 Prelims Paper Analysis
75+ out of 100 MCQs in UPSC Prelims 2022 Exam were from
Unacademy Test Series

Live • 2 Hrs:38 Mins

UPSC CSE Prelims 2022 Paper

1 Analysis Complete GS
Click here to watch video

9:41 9:41

Exact option in UPSC MCQ is

matching with Unacademy test
series

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UPSC 2022 Mains Paper Analysis
80% of the questions in the UPSC Mains 2022 Exam
were from the Unacademy Test Series

Complete Playlist

UPSC CSE Mains 2022 GS I to

IV Paper Analysis
Click here to watch videos

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 Unacademy Notes
Unacademy notes are a set of 20 books covering the entire
syllabus of UPSC in comprehensive and unique manner, also
available on Flipkart & Amazon

Notes cover the entire

syllabus of UPSC Integration of Mains PYQs
Prelims and Mains from 2013-2020
Examination

Compressed
Includes summaries of information in the
important books like form of tables,
‘Era of Darkness’
flowcharts, bullet
points and
timelines

Contemporary Issues
including, the Taliban
takeover of
Afghanistan, Supreme
Court on Internet
Suspension, Quota
within SC Quota etc.
are covered
avoided?’
Discussion on various
critical opinion based
questions like ‘Why Did
Congress accept the
partition of India? Was
the partition of India

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 Examples of Timelines in Notes
A few timelines from Modern Indian History book

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 Unacademy Study Materials

Unacademy Notes

Unacademy Notes, Prelims Practice Booklets and Articulate Monthly Magazine are

available on Unacademy App as well as Unacademy Web Platform.

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 Prelims Practice Booklets

Articulate Monthly Magazines

Download the Monthly Articulate Current Affairs Magazine

Click Here
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Confused about selecting your

Optional Subject?
PubLIC

Sociology AdMINISTRATION

PSIR Anthropology

Get the Unacademy UPSC CSE Optional Subscription

Complete Course on
Complete Course on Complete Course on
Public Administration Anthropology PSIR

Complete Course on Complete Course on Hindi Complete Course on

History Literature Agriculture

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 What can you expect from
Unacademy Optional Subscription?

Unlimited access to Live and

Recorded Classes

Full syllabus coverage by

India’s Top Educators

Basu: wht is that madam?

did nt undrstand
Test Series with 20+ Sectional and
Full-length tests

Regular doubt solving sessions Basu: wht is that madam?

did nt undrstand

and revision classes

Answer writing practice with

detailed evaluation

Innovative and interesting

teaching methodology

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 Optional Educators on Unacademy

Pratik Nayak Ishrat Jawed Farooqui Sunil Singh Dr. Sidharth Arora
History History Hindi Literature PSIR
Hinglish Hindi Hindi Hinglish

Arvindsingh Rajpurohit Himabindu Rakesh Verma G Rajput

PSIR Anthropology Public Administration Public Administration
Hinglish English English Hinglish

Vamshi Krishna Vinita Devi Krushna Bhokare Anil Keshri

Sociology Mathematics Agriculture Geography
English English Hinglish Hindi

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 Unacademy last mile Interview
Guidance program

Should I prepare questions How important is the

on my graduation subject? interview?

What can be expected

during the UPSC interview? Is the interview round
difficult?

Live

What can you expect from the Unacademy Last

Mile Program?
Free Mock Interviews with Top Educator
Pre-DAF and DAF analysis Session
Interaction sessions with previous years’ toppers and
serving bureaucrat
Performance evaluation and feedback session
A high-quality video of the Mock Interview session
Current Affairs classes and study material for Interviews
State-specific content
Interview panel that consists of bureaucrats, Top Educators,
professors and experts in various fields of General Studies

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