How many questions were in the CDS (I) 2025 General Knowledge paper?

The CDS (I) 2025 General Knowledge paper had 120 questions; 120 are solved here with explanations.

Are these the official UPSC CDS 2025 answers?

Not yet. UPSC publishes the official CDS answer key several months after the exam. The answers here are our best-supported answers — cross-checked against independent solved papers and primary sources — and will be reconciled to the official key when it is released.

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CDS (I) 2025 General Knowledge — Questions with Answers

Every question of the CDS (Combined Defence Services) (I) 2025 General Knowledge — solved with a detailed explanation, key facts, concept diagrams, photos and linked UPSC previous-year questions. The question text has been verified against the official question paper.

Provisional answers. UPSC has not yet released the official CDS 2025 answer key (it is published several months after the exam). The answers here are our best-supported answers — derived from careful subject-solving and cross-checked against independent solved papers and primary sources — and will be reconciled to the official key as soon as UPSC publishes it. They are not the official UPSC answer key.

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CDS 2025 (I) Prelims Answer Key

All 120 answers at a glance. The commission published no answer key for this paper, so these answers are our faculty's, derived from the questions themselves — not an official key. Tap any question number for the reasoning.

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