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3 RPSC prelims papers (2021–2024) solved in full: 449 questions with the correct option taken from the official RPSC answer key, an explanation of why it is right, and a note on why each wrong option was designed to tempt you. Free, no sign-up, in English and हिन्दी.
Rajasthan Administrative Service (RAS/RTS) · Rajasthan Public Service Commission
Every one of the RPSC questions on this site is written up like this: the correct option, why it is correct, and why each tempting wrong option is wrong. This is question 1 from the RPSC 2024 paper.
The four segments of the Golden Quadrilateral join the following cities : A. Delhi – Mumbai B. Mumbai – Chennai C. Chennai – Kolkata D. Kolkata – Delhi Consider the length of the above segments in descending order and select the correct answer using the codes given below : Codes :
Correct: option (1), C, D, A, B. The four sides of the Golden Quadrilateral are not equal. Their commonly published lengths add up to 5,846 km, the length given for the whole project. C, Chennai–Kolkata, is the longest side at 1,684 km. D, Kolkata–Delhi, comes next at 1,453 km, then A, Delhi–Mumbai, at 1,419 km. B, Mumbai–Chennai, is the shortest at 1,290 km. Longest to shortest, that reads C, D, A, B. A map check supports the extremes. The Chennai–Kolkata side runs up the long east coast through Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The Mumbai–Chennai side cuts across the peninsula through Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, a shorter run. Fix the two extremes first: C is longest and B is shortest. Only option (1) starts with C and ends with B. That matters because the middle pair is close: Kolkata–Delhi is longer than Delhi–Mumbai by only 34 km.
This gets the top two right but swaps the bottom pair. It places Mumbai–Chennai (1,290 km) above Delhi–Mumbai (1,419 km). The real gap is 129 km the other way. Mumbai–Chennai is the shortest side of the Golden Quadrilateral, so any correct descending code must end with B, and this one ends with A.
This swaps both pairs. It makes Kolkata–Delhi longer than Chennai–Kolkata, and Mumbai–Chennai longer than Delhi–Mumbai. It is the stem's A, B, C, D listing read backwards, so the printed order of the segments gives no clue to their lengths. Chennai–Kolkata (1,684 km) is the longest side, and Mumbai–Chennai (1,290 km) the shortest.
Open any paper to read every question with the official answer key and a full explanation. The PDF is the question paper on its own: no answer key, no explanations, so you can print it and attempt it under exam conditions first.
| Paper | Questions | Answer source | Solved (English) | हिन्दी | Question paper (PDF) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RPSC 2024 | 150 solved | Official key | View solved paper → | हिन्दी में देखें → | EN हिन्दी |
| RPSC 2023 | 150 solved | Official key | View solved paper → | हिन्दी में देखें → | EN हिन्दी |
| RPSC 2021 | 149 solved | Official key | View solved paper → | हिन्दी में देखें → | EN हिन्दी |
We tagged every one of the 437 solved RPSC questions by subject, across 3 papers (2021 to 2024). The single biggest section is Current Affairs: 65 questions, 14.9% of everything RPSC has asked in these papers, and it has grown from 20 questions in 2021 to 22 in 2024. Counts below are of questions we have solved and published, not of the full syllabus: so they show where the paper actually goes, not where it could.
| Paper | Current Affairs | Reasoning & Mental Ability | Science & Technology | History, Art, Culture, Literature, Tradition & Heritage of Rajasthan | Political and Administrative System of Rajasthan | Geography of Rajasthan | Economy of Rajasthan | Indian History | Economic Concepts and Indian Economy | Indian Constitution, Political System & Governance | Geography of World and India | Tagged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RPSC 2021 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 143 |
| RPSC 2023 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 145 |
| RPSC 2024 | 22 | 20 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 149 |
| All papers | 65 | 56 | 53 | 47 | 37 | 36 | 33 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 26 | 437 |
Average questions per paper across the 1 older paper (2021) against the 2 most recent (2023, 2024). A section can move because the commission changed the paper: or because one paper was unusual, so read a small gap as noise.
Subject tags for RPSC are UnlockIAS's own classification. Counts cover the 437 solved questions that carry a tag; 12 further solved questions are awaiting a tag and are not counted above.
Where each answer comes from, what an explanation contains, and what the PDF deliberately leaves out.
The correct option on every one of the 449 solved RPSC questions is taken from the final answer key published by Rajasthan Public Service Commission, not from our reading of the question. Where the commission cancelled a question or awarded grace marks, the paper says so rather than quietly printing one answer.
Rajasthan Public Service Commission official site →The download is the question paper on its own: every question and its options, exactly as Rajasthan Public Service Commission set them, and nothing else. That is deliberate. A previous year paper is only diagnostic the first time you sit it, so the PDF is built to be printed and attempted under timed conditions without the answers one page-turn away. The key and the option-by-option explanations are free on each paper's page here, which is where they are useful: after you have committed to an answer.
A wider scrape of RPSC papers, including Mains. These reproduce the questions as they were set: they are for spotting repeats and topic weight, and do not carry answer keys.
| Year | Prelims | Mains | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 150 MCQs | 193 Questions | 343 |
| 2023 | 150 MCQs | 188 Questions | 338 |
| 2021 | 149 MCQs | 77 Questions | 226 |
| 2018 | 150 MCQs | 75 Questions | 225 |
| 2016 | 150 MCQs | 79 Questions | 229 |
3 RPSC prelims papers from 2021–2024 are solved free on UnlockIAS: 449 questions in total. Every question shows the correct option taken from the official RPSC answer key, an explanation of why that option is right, and a note on why each of the other options is wrong. No sign-up or payment is needed to read them.
Yes. The correct option for every solved RPSC question comes from the commission's own final answer key, not from our interpretation. Questions the commission cancelled, or awarded grace marks on, are labelled as such rather than being quietly given a single answer. The explanations around the answer are written by UnlockIAS.
Yes. All 3 solved RPSC papers have a complete हिन्दी edition: the questions as the commission printed them in हिन्दी, with the answers and explanations in हिन्दी. Every English page links to its हिन्दी version.
Yes. Each RPSC paper has a free PDF of the question paper: every question with its options, exactly as the commission set it, in English and हिन्दी. The PDF is the paper only: it deliberately carries no answer key and no explanations, so you can print it and attempt it under timed conditions. The answers and the option-by-option explanations are free on the paper's page on this site.
Across the 3 papers we have solved (2021–2024), the RPSC prelims papers carry 449 questions in total: an average of about 150 per paper. The exact count for each individual year is listed in the year-wise table on this page.
Partly. RPSC (Rajasthan Administrative Service (RAS/RTS)) shares its General Studies backbone with UPSC (polity, modern history, geography, economy and environment all overlap) so those questions are genuine extra practice. The state-specific portion (state history, state geography, state schemes and current affairs) does not appear in UPSC at all, so treat it as RPSC-only preparation rather than shared revision.
RPSC is generally less competitive than UPSC on the ratio of candidates to vacancies, but it is not an easier paper in every respect. Its state-specific questions are often narrower and more factual than anything UPSC asks, which rewards a different kind of preparation: depth on one state rather than breadth across India.
Answers for the solved papers are taken from the final answer keys published by Rajasthan Public Service Commission (official website). Explanations are written by UnlockIAS. Questions the commission cancelled or awarded grace marks on are labelled on the paper itself.