Key Insights

• Environment & Ecology, Indian Polity, Economy carried the highest weightage, together accounting for 51% of the paper.
• The paper strongly favoured statement-based questions — multi-statement and assertion-reasoning questions together made up 56% of the paper, making careful reading and elimination especially important.
• The paper was largely easy to moderate in difficulty, with 78% of questions falling in the easy or medium range and only 22% classified as hard.
• Questions were spread across 11 subject areas, making broad syllabus coverage important rather than relying on a few traditionally dominant subjects.
• The question format demanded more than direct recall, with only 44% of questions being direct, while most required evaluating multiple statements or reasoning through assertions.