GS3 Mains PYQs
Technology, Economy, Environment, Security & Disaster Management. 265 questions in this collection.
By year
| Year | Questions |
|---|---|
| GS3 2026 | 20 |
| GS3 2025 | 20 |
| GS3 2024 | 20 |
| GS3 2023 | 20 |
| GS3 2022 | 20 |
| GS3 2021 | 20 |
| GS3 2020 | 20 |
| GS3 2018 | 20 |
| GS3 2017 | 20 |
| GS3 2016 | 22 |
| GS3 2015 | 18 |
| GS3 2014 | 20 |
| GS3 2013 | 25 |
Themes with GS3 questions
Sorted by how many GS3 questions each theme holds.
- T76Inclusive growth & human development: HDI/IHDI, social spending, equity, CSR
- T168Border management: China & Pakistan borders, BADP, drones, airspace, Ladakh
- T129Manufacturing, MSMEs, startups & industrial policy: PLI, SEZs, labour codes
- T138Cropping patterns & crop diversification: horticulture, pulses, millets
- T143Food processing industry
- T144Land reforms, tenancy & land acquisition: from Bhoodan to the 2013 Act
- T146Space & geospatial technology: Chandrayaan, JWST, NavIC, asteroids, GIS
- T152Science in everyday life & Indian scientific achievement
- T165Cyber security & cyber warfare
- T125Global climate regime & India's commitments: Kyoto, Paris, COP26, ISA, CCUS
- T135Infrastructure & investment models: PPP, Gati Shakti, concession agreements
- T139Agricultural marketing & supply chains: APMC, intermediaries
- T141Farm subsidies, MSP & crop insurance (incl. WTO Agreement on Agriculture)
- T153Renewable energy transition: solar, wind, EVs, green corridor
- T160Disaster management frameworks: DM Act, Sendai, resilience, community, dam safety
- T161Left Wing Extremism: development–security linkage
- T163Terrorism & external state/non-state actors
- T126Growth: GDP measurement, potential GDP, savings, structure of growth
- T134Budgeting & fiscal policy: capital vs revenue, FRBM, tax expenditure, budgets
- T147AI, semiconductors, robotics & emerging digital tech
- T149Health technology & pharma: AMR, FDCs, stem cells, nanomedicine
- T167Social media, disinformation & public order: mob violence, IT Rules
- T46Irrigation & water-use efficiency
- T128Employment: jobless growth, informality, unemployment measurement, labour productivity
- T130Liberalisation & FDI: retail, defence, Indian firms vs MNCs
- T137Green Revolution & food self-sufficiency: rice–wheat system, technology missions
- T140Technology in agriculture: e-technology, Digital India, nano, satellites
- T150Intellectual property rights: patents, 3(d), TKDL, life forms
- T151Nuclear & fusion energy: FBR, ITER, raw materials
- T158Environmental Impact Assessment & project displacement
- T164Terror financing & money laundering: FATF, NMFT, PMLA
- T28Earthquakes, tsunamis & volcanoes: science to preparedness
- T75Hunger, malnutrition & food security law: NFSA, Mid-Day Meal, millets
- T91Fiscal federalism: Finance Commission, GST & state finances
- T123WTO, trade wars & protectionism
- T132Financial inclusion & rural credit
- T136Transport connectivity: tolling, UDAN, inland waterways, urban transport
- T145Allied & sustainable farming: livestock, fisheries, integrated & organic farming
- T148Biotechnology: applications, biopharma, microbes for fuel
- T154Energy security & energy independence
- T155Air pollution: smog, WHO guidelines, NCAP
- T156River pollution & Ganga cleaning
- T169Organised crime & narco-terrorism
- T170Maritime & coastal security: piracy, IMO
- T32Cloudbursts & extreme rainfall
- T35Minerals & mining: resource vs environment
- T41Forests, natural vegetation & biodiversity
- T42Wetlands & Ramsar sites
- T44Water security: scarcity, conservation & management
- T45Groundwater depletion & seawater intrusion
- T58Urban floods
- T67Women & the economy: gig work, feminisation of agriculture, care economy, gender budgeting, migration
- T89Special provisions & asymmetric federalism: J&K, Delhi, Art 371A
- T110Pandemics & global health: COVID-19, WHO, vaccines
- T112Skills, HRD & the demographic dividend
- T114China: BRI, CPEC, String of Pearls & economic leverage
- T131Digital economy & digital currency: digitalisation, CBDC
- T142PDS & buffer stocks
- T157Solid & hazardous waste management
- T162North-East insurgency & peace accords
- T166Data protection: DPDP Act 2023, Srikrishna Committee
- T171Security forces, intelligence agencies & AFSPA
- T27Landslides in the Himalayas & Western Ghats
- T30Monsoon, El Niño & drought
- T33Oceans & marine environment: currents, salinity, dead zones, oil pollution, marine resources
- T34Coastal zone: resources, erosion & hazard preparedness
- T38Glaciers, cryosphere & sea-level rise
- T43Fragile Himalayan ecosystems: tourism & infrastructure
- T47River interlinking & water disputes: inter-state and transboundary
- T53Ageing population & elderly care
- T54Migration: internal, international & illegal
- T57Smart cities, rural–urban integration & urban transport
- T62Communalism, sect & radicalisation
- T107DBT, Aadhaar & digital welfare delivery
- T113Pakistan & Afghanistan: terror, distrust, soft power, surgical strikes, ISAF withdrawal
- T127Planning: Nehruvian planning, Soviet influence, NITI Aayog
- T133Inflation, monetary policy & the poor
- T159Climate change impacts on India: food security, Himalayan & coastal states