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ClearIAS » Civil Services Mains » General Studies Paper 1 (GS1) Question Paper – UPSC Civil Services Main Exam (Written) 2019

General Studies Paper 1 (GS1) Question Paper – UPSC Civil Services Main Exam (Written) 2019

Last updated on September 22, 2019 by Alex Andrews George

GS1 UPSC Mains 2019

UPSC conducted the General Studies Paper 1 (GS1) Paper, as part of Civil Services Main Exam 2019 on 21-09-2019.

General Studies Paper 1 (GS1): UPSC Civil Services Mains Examination – 2019

Instructions

  • Total Marks: 250 marks, Time duration: 3 hours.
  • There are 20 questions printed both in ENGLISH and HINDI.
  • All questions are compulsory.
  • The number of marks carried by a question/part is printed against it.
  • Answers must be written in the medium authorized in the admission certificate which must be stated clearly on the cover of this question-cum-answer (QCA) booklet in the space provided.
  • No marks will be given for answers written in the medium other than authorized one.
  • Answers to questions no. 1 to 10 should be in 150 words, whereas answers to questions no. 11 to 20 should be in 250 words.
  • Keep the word limit indicated in the questions in mind.
  • Any page or portion of the page left blank, must be struck off clearly.

Questions

Qn1. Highlight the Central Asian and Greco -Bactrian elements in Gandhara art. (Answer in 150 words)

Qn2. The 1857 Uprising was the culmination the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate (Answer in 150 words)

Qn3. Examine the linkages between 19th centuries ‘Indian Renaissance’ and the emergence of national identity. (Answer in 150 words)

Qn4. Assess the impact of global warming on coral life system with examples. (Answer in 150 words)

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Qn5. Discuss the causes of depletion of mangroves and explain their importance in maintaining coastal ecology. (Answer in 150 words)

Qn6. Can the strategy of regional-resource based manufacturing help in promoting employment in India? (Answer in 150 words)

Qn7. Discuss the factors for localization of agro-based food processing industries of North-West India. (Answer in 150 words)

Qn8. What makes Indian society unique in sustaining its culture? Discuss. (Answer in 150 words)

Qn9. “Empowering women is the key to control population growth”. Discuss (Answer in 150 words)

Qn10. What are the challenges to our cultural practices in the name of secularism (Answer in 150 words)

Qn11. Many voices had strengthened and enriched the nationalist movement during the Gandhian phase. Elaborate (Answer in 250 words)

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Qn12. Assess the role of British imperial power in complicating the process of transfer of power during the 1940s. (Answer in 250 words)

Qn13. Explain how the foundations of the modern world were laid by the American and French revolution. (Answer in 250 words)

Qn14. What is water stress? How and why does it differ regionally in India? (Answer in 250 words)

Qn15. How can the mountain ecosystem be restored from the negative impact of development initiatives and tourism? (Answer in 250 words)

Qn16. How is efficient and affordable urban mass transport key to the rapid economic development of India? (Answer in 250 words)

Qn17. How do ocean currents and water masses differ in their impacts on marine life and the coastal environment? Give suitable examples? (Answer in 250 words)

Qn18. Do we have cultural pockets of small India all over the nation? Elaborate with examples (Answer in 250 words)

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Qn19. What are the continued challenges for women in India against time and space? (Answer in 250 words)

Qn20. Are we losing our local identity for the global identity? Discuss. (Answer in 250 words)

General Studies Paper 1 UPSC 2019 – Question Paper Analysis by ClearIAS.com

General Studies Paper 1 (GS1) Question Paper - UPSC Mains 2019

What matters now in UPSC exam is not how knowledgeable you are, but how quickly can you process the information in your brain to present the different sides of a relevant issue. The General Studies Paper 1 of UPSC Civil Services Main Exam 2019 is a typical example of this.

Unfortunately, many coaching institutes haven’t still understood this change. Many of them are still teaching a lot of junk facts to students. Students are overloaded with almost everything under the Sun. However, in the exam hall, aspirants are unsure of what to do with these ‘junk’ information on questions which test their analytical skills in a short span of time.

UPSC is no more looking at specialised knowledge or information, rather they are looking at your analytical skills. No coaching institutes can do the analysis for you. Only you can do it in the exam hall.

Does this mean the end of coaching institutes or mentors? No. We didn’t mean that. Nevertheless, if they don’t adapt to the changing requirements of UPSC, the methods won’t help candidates.

What should the ideal mentors of UPSC do now? They should guide aspirants on the right path and demonstrate the importance of cultivating analytical skills. Yes, analytical skills are becoming more and more important in UPSC CSE. Not just for Mains, but for Prelims and Interview as well.

Aspirants should learn to analyse questions within a limited time. You won’t get specific questions where you can just repeat and reproduce what you have mugged up – as you may see in other exams.

Except for 1 or 2 questions, most questions are very general in nature. For example, to answer Question Number 20 – ‘local identity’ vs ‘global identity’ – what you need is not specific knowledge, rather a clear understanding of multiple dimensions of the identity issue. This is not a topic usually taught in a class, so you need to bring into your answer-sheet what you observed, read, learned, and understood – within 8-9 minutes.

This is not at all easy for beginners.  That is why you need to practise with the right kind of model questions. You need proper practise to – think, analyse, understand, and present it on the exam sheet!

As an online UPSC Test Preparation website, we at ClearIAS.com refrain from overloading our students with too much junk information.

Rather our approach is to empower and guide students in the right direction so that aspirants can take care of the challenging nature of UPSC questions themselves.

Feel free to post your feedback about the question paper in the comment section below.

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Also read: General Studies Paper 2 (GS2) Question Paper – UPSC Civil Services Main Exam (Written) 2019

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Comments

  1. Navreet says

    September 21, 2019 at 1:24 pm

    Sir please give answers of gs papers in form of points so that we can improve our answer writing skills.

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  2. Amsheel mp says

    September 21, 2019 at 1:30 pm

    I am interested.

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  3. Manoj Huika says

    September 21, 2019 at 1:51 pm

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  4. Roshny says

    September 21, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    Kindly provide an answer key of ClearIAS to enlighten us at upsc wants….

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  5. Avinash m d says

    September 21, 2019 at 3:07 pm

    Sir kindly thank you for your suggestion finally.obviously students seriously preparing having a lot of information but lacks of presentation skills at the time of examination hall.sir we need regarding this type of training n mentors.I am requesting you please take care of this.we students very much thankful to you sir
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    • ClearIAS.com says

      September 21, 2019 at 4:25 pm

      @ Avinash – You are right. We will be providing more articles on this aspect.

  6. Abhinav says

    September 21, 2019 at 3:09 pm

    Sir, please define the different keywords used in questions like, define, elucidate, assess, explain, briefly explain, discuss, examine, critically examine, comment etc

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    • ClearIAS.com says

      September 21, 2019 at 4:26 pm

      @ Abhinav – We shall create new posts and videos explaining the same. Hope you will get more clarity soon.

  7. Deepak says

    September 21, 2019 at 6:20 pm

    M preparing for 2020 exam. I just want to know that.. Is there any ongoing or upcoming answer writing program? I m not in Delhi.. So I want to join such program where I can write answers on sheet.. Scan them.. & get checked by subject expert..

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  8. Lalu says

    September 21, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    Sir, finally I got to know that untill unless we analyse a issues in wider range we can’t chase upsc game.. So, Requesting you to post analytical questions as per syllabus and which is more crucial for the india and world..

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    • ClearIAS.com says

      September 22, 2019 at 8:10 am

      @ Lalu – Great! Once you realise that things are easy! Of course, we shall guide!

  9. Monika choudhary says

    September 22, 2019 at 9:59 am

    Sir, please provide answers of gs paper1 so that it can provide helpful to those aspirants who are preparing without any help or that are beginners

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  10. Sandeep kumar says

    November 7, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    Helpful

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  11. Shivaani says

    November 8, 2019 at 8:17 am

    Sir / Mam,Plz guide us with answer writing practice… Kindly post model answers of any previous year questions

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    August 9, 2020 at 9:53 am

    Please provide me the answers of the essay paper 2019.

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