How we check answers

Every past-paper question here has one answer marked correct. This page says where that answer comes from and how we check it. Method as of October 2026.

Mathematics

We have 19 past Maths papers. For 14, the answers follow UPSC's final answer key. For NDA I 2026, they follow UPSC's provisional key, because we do not yet have the final one. For the other 4, we did not have UPSC's key, so the answers follow a third-party key. Maths answers have not yet been through the AI check described below. Papers whose key is not UPSC's final key show "answer key provisional" next to their name.

General Ability Test

We have 18 past GAT papers. For 3, the answers follow a copy of UPSC's answer-key sheet. For the other 15, they follow a third-party key. Almost every GAT question we serve has then been checked: two AI models each solve it on their own, without seeing the key, and an AI model from a different company reads the printed question page and compares the answers. Where all three agree on a different answer from a third-party key, and the question matches the printed paper, we correct the key. We never change a UPSC answer this way; a doubt about a UPSC answer is decided by a person.

Every paper

PaperAnswer keyChecked by AI
NDA I 2026 · MathsUPSC provisionalNot yet
NDA I 2026 · GATCopy of UPSC's sheetYes
NDA II 2025 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA II 2025 · GATCopy of UPSC's sheetYes
NDA I 2025 · MathsThird-partyNot yet
NDA I 2025 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA II 2024 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA II 2024 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA I 2024 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA I 2024 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA II 2023 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA II 2023 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA I 2023 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA I 2023 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA II 2022 · MathsThird-partyNot yet
NDA II 2022 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA I 2022 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA I 2022 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA II 2021 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA II 2021 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA I 2021 · MathsThird-partyNot yet
NDA I 2021 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA I 2020 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA I 2020 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA II 2019 · MathsThird-partyNot yet
NDA II 2019 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA I 2019 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA I 2019 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA II 2018 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA II 2018 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA I 2018 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA I 2018 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA II 2017 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA II 2017 · GATThird-partyYes
NDA I 2017 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet
NDA I 2017 · GATCopy of UPSC's sheetYes
NDA II 2016 · MathsUPSC finalNot yet

Think an answer is wrong?

Use Report on the question. We read every report. If we agree, we take the question out of practice for everyone while we fix it.