UPSC Prelims 2020 Question Topics – 100 Areas from which UPSC Framed Questions This Year

What were the UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Exam 2020 Question Topics? What were the 100 areas from which the Commission set questions this year?

UPSC successfully conducted Civil Services Examination 2020 (Prelims) across the country on October 04, 2020.

As usual, the questions in the IAS exam surprised many candidates. However, many of the questions were from the areas pinpointed by ClearIAS in our earlier posts. ClearIAS Intelligent Elimination Techniques (IETs) were also highly helpful to answer several questions.

From which areas did UPSC frame questions for this year IAS exam?

The experts who set the question-paper setting did a great job this year, by including questions from diverse areas. Most of the questions were worth including – generating interest in a well-educated youth.

Out of the 100 questions, 6 questions were related to the provisions from various Acts enacted by the Indian Parliament. Another prominent theme was National Parks and Wild Life Sanctuaries. Question on Buddhism too found a place.

Click here to watch the video in which I do a quick analysis of the 100 Question Topics in UPSC Prelims 2020.

Here are the question areas from which UPSC asked the 100 questions in Prelims 2020.

100 Topics from which UPSC framed Questions in UPSC Prelims 2020

1. Aadhar – The Aadhar Act and its provisions
2. Rajya Sabha and Loksabha
3. MPLADS Scheme
4. Fundamental Rights – Protection against untouchability
5. Separation of Judiciary from Executive
6. Budget – FRBM Act and its provisions
7. A constitutional government
8. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
9. Legal Services Authority – Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 and its provisions
10. Internationtional Agreement – Subject
11. Parliamentary System of Government
12. Welfare State
13. Basic Structure/Judicial Review – Important Judgments
14. Gandhism and Marxism
15. Bureaucracy
16. The preamble of Indian Constitution – Important Judgments—
17. The Gold Trance/Reserve Tranche
18. Part IV of the Indian Constitution
19. Representation of People Act 1951
20. Parliament Sessions
21. Ancient/Medieval India – Tileles and Jobs
22. Religious History of India – Buddhism
23. Industrial Revolution and Indian History
24. Ancient India – Chronology
25. Ancient India – Post Harsha – Hundi
26. Freedom Striuggke – Deshar Kadha
27. Gandhi Irvin Pact
28. Vital Vidhvansak – Journal
29. Kulyavapa and Drona vapa
30. Inscription
31. Cultural History of India – Parmita
32. Rakmabhai case of 1884
33. Indigo cultivation
34. Fort William College – Wellesley
35. Ulgulan or Great Tremult
36. Scholars and Rulers—
37. Human Reproductive Technology – Pro Nuclear Transfer
38. Artificial Intelligence
39. VLC Technology
40. Blockchain Technology
41. Carbon Nanotubes
42. Drones – Recent Technology
43. Evolved LISA*
44. Genetic Engineering
45. Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines
46. Public Key Infrasctture
47. Difference between Plant and Animal Cells
48. Benzene Pollution—–
49. Global Financial Crisis
50. Aggregate Money Supply
51. Foreign Direct Investment
52. International Trade of India
53. West Texas Intermediate
54. Non-Financial Debt
55. Nuclear Reactors and IAEA safeguards
56. Trade-Related Investment Measure (TRIMS)
57. Expansionist Monetary Policy
58. Post-1991 liberation and workforce
59. District Central Cooperative Banks and Credit
60. Cyber Insurance
61. Public Investment in agriculture
62. Interest Coverage Ratio
63. Policies affecting the price of rice in India
64. Trade between India and other countries
65. G20
66. Kisan Credit Card Scheme
67. CPI and WPI—–
68. River Flows Into
69. Cereals Pulses and MSP
70. Commercial Paper, Certificate of Deposit, Call Money, Zero-Coupon Bonds
71. Cultural History of India – Upasaka—-
72. Indian Elephants
73. Protected Areas and Cauvery Basin
74. India’s Biodiversity examples
75. Indian Swamp Deer Protected Area
76. Steel Slag
77. Musk deer natural habitat
78. Road construction and carbon footprint
79. Coal ash and coal-fired power plants
80. Biochar
81. The Wildlife Protection Act and its provisions
82. Gupta towns
83. Zero Tillage in Agriculture
84. India’s National Policy on Biofuels
85. Social Cost of Carbon
86. Pulse Production in India
87. SubTropical Crop
88. Solar water pumps
89. Current trends in the cultivation of sugar cane in India
90. Eco-friendly agriculture
91. Fertigation in agriculture
92. Major minerals
93. Ocean Mean Temperature
94. Chemical Fertilizers
95. India’s Desert National Park
96. Siachin Glacier Location
97. Famous Place- Present State
98. Central Ground Water Authority – Environment Protection Act and its provisions
99. Jet stream
100. Tiger Reserve – Critical Tiger Habitat

Do you wish to refer UPSC CSE Prelims 2020 question paper?

The above mentioned are the question topics or areas.

If you need to go through the actual questions, refer the link – UPSC Civil Services Preliminary Exam 2020 Question Paper.

Re-think: Is your preparation in the right direction?

If you are unable to clear Prelims time and again, it’s time to re-think.

Is it your fault or the fault of the method adopted by your online/offline trainers (coaching institutes)?

Are the methods of teaching adopted by most coaching institutes (and some popular websites or youtube channels) relevant for UPSC?

Are the teachers or trainers adapting themselves to the new trends set by UPSC?

Do they have a clear understanding of the new (and constantly changing) priorities of the UPSC?

We don’t want to comment on others at this point, we just want our performance to do the talk.

We will be posting questions asked by UPSC similar to those provided by ClearIAS in the coming days.