UPSC Civil Services Main 2025 English Compulsory Question Paper PDF

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  • Year 2025
  • Conducted By UPSC
  • Maximum Marks 300
  • Duration Three Hours
  • Languages English

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Examination UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination
Year 2025
Conducting Body UPSC
Paper ENGLISH (Compulsory)
Subject English
Duration Three Hours
Maximum Marks 300
Question Type Mixed

This document contains the UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination 2025, English (Compulsory) question paper. It includes instructions for candidates, essay topics, and a passage for comprehension and answer writing. The paper is designed to assess candidates' English language proficiency, essay writing skills, and ability to comprehend and articulate complex ideas concisely. Aspirants can use this paper to understand the exam pattern, question types, and marking scheme for the English (Compulsory) paper, which is a crucial part of the Mains examination.

Major Topics Covered

  • Essay Writing
  • Comprehension
  • English Language Proficiency

Why This Paper is Important

  • Useful for UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination preparation
  • Helps understand the latest exam pattern
  • Useful for practice and self-assessment
  • Covers frequently asked General Studies topics
  • Helpful for analysing question trends

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Instructions

  • The number of marks carried by a question is indicated against it.
  • Answers must be written in ENGLISH only.
  • Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to and if answered in much longer or shorter than the prescribed length, marks will be deducted.
  • Any page or portion of the page left blank in the Question-cum-Answer Booklet must be clearly struck off.
  • Write an essay in about 600 words on any one of the following topics : 100 Q1.
  • The raw material of cinema is life (a) (b) No man is an island Eating habits and lifestyle in Contemporary India (c) Folklore as a knowledge system (d)

Questions (page 2)

Q2. Read carefully the passage given below and write your answers to the questions that follow in clear, correct and concise language. 15 × 5 = 75 In proportion as a book is more loosely constructed, the paragraphs tend to become more diffuse. You often have to search through all the paragraphs of a chapter to find the sentences you can construct into a statement of a single argument. Some books make you search in vain, and some do not even encourage the search. A good book usually summarizes itself as its arguments develop. If the author summarizes his arguments for you at the end of a chapter, or at the end of an elaborate section, you should be able to look back over the preceding pages and find the materials he has brought together in the summary. In The Origin of Species, Darwin summarizes his whole argument for the reader in a last chapter, entitled "Recapitulation and Conclusion." The reader who has worked through the book deserves that help. The one who has not cannot use it. Incidentally, if you have inspected the book well before beginning to read it analytically, you will know whether the summary passages exist and if they do, where they are. You can then make the best possible use of them when interpreting the book. Another sign of a bad or loosely constructed book is the omission of steps in an argument. Sometimes they can be omitted without damage or inconvenience, because the propositions left out can be generally supplied from the common knowledge of readers. But sometimes their omission is misleading, and may even be intended to mislead. One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While we do not expect such devices in an honest author whose aim is to instruct us, it is nevertheless a sound maxim of careful reading to make every step in an argument explicit. Whatever kind of book it is, your obligation as a reader remains the same. If the book contains arguments, you must know what they are, and be able to put them into a nutshell. Any good argument can be put into a nutshell. There are, of course, arguments built upon arguments. In the course of an elaborate analysis, one thing may be proved in order to prove another, and this may be used in turn to make a still further point. The units of reasoning, however, are single arguments. If you can find these in any book you are reading, you are not likely to miss the larger sequences.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the name of the exam for which this question paper is from?

This is the question paper for the UPSC Civil Services (Main) Examination.

What is the year of this UPSC Civil Services Main exam paper?

The year of this paper is 2025.

Who conducts the Civil Services Main Examination?

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts the Civil Services Main Examination.

What is the subject of this paper?

The subject of this paper is ENGLISH (Compulsory).

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The paper code visible on Page 1 is SLPM-G-ENG.

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This paper is for the Main stage of the Civil Services Examination.

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