Maths Optional
Maths Optional — Solved Papers
Every question from every UPSC Mathematics-optional paper, worked and verified — 2013 to 2026. Free, and no sign-up.
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The 2026 solutions are up.
Both papers, all 64 sub-parts — worked and verified on the day of the exam, published the next morning.
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Every year before this one
Thirteen years were already solved before this one, and when we scored 2026 against that frozen corpus, not one sub-part in either paper raised a topic it had never covered.
- 2025 Paper 1
- 2025 Paper 2
- 2024 Paper 1
- 2024 Paper 2
- 2023 Paper 1
- 2023 Paper 2
- 2022 Paper 1
- 2022 Paper 2
- 2021 Paper 1
- 2021 Paper 2
- 2020 Paper 1
- 2020 Paper 2
- 2019 Paper 1
- 2019 Paper 2
- 2018 Paper 1
- 2018 Paper 2
- 2017 Paper 1
- 2017 Paper 2
- 2016 Paper 1
- 2016 Paper 2
- 2015 Paper 1
- 2015 Paper 2
- 2014 Paper 1
- 2014 Paper 2
- 2013 Paper 1
- 2013 Paper 2
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