Previous-year questions are the most reliable guide to UPSC CAPF, because the notice lists six broad areas for Paper-I but does not say how many questions each will carry. Solving the papers of recent years shows the balance between current events and static GK, the level of detail UPSC expects in polity, history, geography, economy and science, and how often questions touch security, defence and human rights, areas the syllabus names in both papers. The Commission puts up the question papers of each exam on its website; the 2026 papers of General Ability and Intelligence and of General Studies, Essay and Comprehension went up on 20 July 2026, the day after the exam. This page is where GK24 collects UPSC CAPF previous-year questions of Paper-I, in English and Hindi, each with the correct answer, an explanation and the topic it belongs to, so that one question leads you to the GK note that covers it. Use them in three rounds: first untimed to learn the pattern, then timed to build speed under negative marking, and finally as a revision of the questions you got wrong. For Paper-II, read the past essay, argument and report topics. They show the kind of issues UPSC sets, such as security, governance, technology and society, and make a good list to practise writing on.
Who among the following was the founder of 'Sikkim Praja Mandal' ?
He founded the Sikkim Praja Mandal in 1945 to oppose the feudal landlord system and the absolute rule of the Chogyal.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the 'Amara-Nayaka' system is not correct?
The territories of the amara-nayakas were not hereditary; the Vijayanagara kings transferred them from one place to another from time to time.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following major river basins of India is the shortest in length and smallest in terms of catchment area?
Of the four, the Sabarmati is both the shortest river and the one with the smallest basin. The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan and flows about 370 km south-west through Gujarat, past Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, into the Gulf of Khambhat.
Read the full explanation →Zayed Medal is the top civilian honour of
The Order of Zayed is the highest civilian decoration of the UAE. The medal is named after Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE and its first President from 1971 until his death in 2004.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about production possibility frontier is not correct?
On the frontier all resources are already fully used, so more of one good can be produced only by giving up some of the other.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following conservation laws is a consequence of the Newton's third law of motion?
Equal and opposite forces acting for the same time give equal and opposite changes in momentum, so the total stays the same.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements regarding the rotation of the Earth : 1. Since the Earth rotates by 15° each hour, time zones normally differ by one hour 2. At the International Date Line, the calendar day changes - advancing a day for eastward travel, dropping back a day for westward travel 3. Daylight saving time advances the clock by one hour 4. The Moon rotates and revolves about the Earth in the same direction that the Earth revolves around the Sun Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Only statement 2 is wrong, because it reverses the date-line rule. The Earth turns 360° in 24 hours, or 15° every hour, so neighbouring standard time zones are usually one hour apart (statement 1).
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the correct descending order of Indian States in terms of their density of population (as per 2011 Census)?
By the 2011 Census, Bihar was the most densely populated State, followed by West Bengal, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. The 2011 Census gave these densities in persons per square kilometre: Bihar 1,106, West Bengal 1,028, Kerala 860 and Uttar Pradesh 829, against a national average of 382.
Read the full explanation →National Technology Day is observed on
The day marks the Pokhran nuclear tests of 11 May 1998. On 11 May 1998 India carried out the Shakti series of nuclear tests at Pokhran in Rajasthan, under Operation Shakti; two more tests followed on 13 May.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following properties decreases across the periodic table from left to right and increases from top to bottom?
Atoms get smaller along a period and larger down a group. Moving from left to right in a period, electrons are added to the same shell while the nuclear charge rises by one at each step.
Read the full explanation →A sound wave of frequency of 2 kHz has a wavelength of 35 cm in a given medium. How long will it take to travel a distance of 2.1 km through the medium?
The speed of the wave is frequency times wavelength, 700 m/s, and 2,100 m at 700 m/s takes 3 seconds.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following structure is NOT found in prokaryotes ?
Prokaryotes have no true nucleus, so there is no membrane around their genetic material. Prokaryotes are the simplest cells: bacteria and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae).
Read the full explanation →Based on the year of their establishment, arrange the following regional organizations in correct chronological order : 1. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization 2. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation 3. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 4. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Select the answer using the code given below.
ASEAN came first in 1967, then SAARC in 1985, APEC in 1989 and the SCO last, in 2001. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations was set up on 8 August 1967 by the Bangkok Declaration, signed by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is NOT a river covered under the Indus Water Treaty 1960 ?
The Teesta flows from Sikkim through West Bengal into Bangladesh and joins the Brahmaputra, so it has nothing to do with the Indus system.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following cities experience the warm temperate Mediterranean climate? 1. Cape Town 2. Los Angeles 3. Adelaide 4. Santiago Select the correct answer using the code given below.
Cape Town, Los Angeles, Adelaide and Santiago all lie in the Mediterranean climate belt on the western sides of continents, roughly between 30° and 40° latitude.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was awarded Saraswati Samman for the year 2018?
The Telugu poet K. Siva Reddy received the Saraswati Samman for 2018 for his poetry collection "Pakkaki Ottigilite".
Read the full explanation →Who among the following won the Fed Cup Heart Award, 2020?
In May 2020 Sania Mirza won the Fed Cup Heart Award for the Asia/Oceania zone, becoming the first Indian to receive it.
Read the full explanation →Manganese is extracted by heating manganese dioxide with aluminium powder. Which one of the following statements with regard to the reaction is correct?
Reducing manganese dioxide with aluminium, 3MnO₂ + 4Al → 3Mn + 2Al₂O₃, gives out a large amount of heat. This method of reducing a metal oxide with aluminium powder is called aluminothermy, or the Goldschmidt thermite process.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following holds true for freely falling object ?
A freely falling object moves with a uniform acceleration, the acceleration due to gravity, g, about 9.8 m/s² near the Earth's surface.
Read the full explanation →In an ecosystem why is the number of trophic levels of a food chain usually limited ?
A large part of the energy is lost at every trophic level, so after four or five links too little is left to support another level.
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