UPSC Topper Copy 2025 — Toppers Answer Sheets (Free PDF)

Genuine and correctly attributed: Akansh Dhull (Roll MT23 KTRA 004), NextIAS MTS Rapid Test-1 GS Paper-I, dated 19/08/2023, Online; cover note 'This Copy is from 2023 Mains'.

17 questions · 14 examples analysed

Example density is the signature strength - named role-models (Bose, Shastri, S.R. Sankaran, Ashok Khemka, Visvesvaraya, E. Sreedharan, Prasanth Nair) are deployed for almost every point.

19 questions · 10 examples analysed

This is an ESSAY (EGP) copy, not GS — only one essay attempted (machines/men thinking, topic 4)

1 question · 14 examples analysed

A pure current-affairs play: all 10 answers are pulled straight from 2024-25 headlines — Trump-era reciprocal tariffs, IWT-in-abeyance after Pahalgam, the Red Sea/Houthi crisis, BRICS' Kazan expansion, India-Taliban talks, the Iran-Israel war, WTO paralysis and the India-China thaw.

10 questions · 9 examples analysed

Rank-8 topper attempts all 10 GS-III questions, a complete Science-&-Tech plus internal-security spread, every answer closed with a forward-looking line

10 questions · 10 examples analysed

Opens the duty-ethics answer (Q1a) by naming the cost of over-emphasising duty — Red Tapism, disregard for ends, short-sightedness — before mapping it in a branching diagram

2 questions · 8 examples analysed

Both essays open with a story-style hook — Gandhi's 'what could challenge the mighty British Empire? Salt' and Adi Shankara being taught humility by Lord Shiva disguised as a Chandala — before stating an explicit roadmap of the questions the essay will tackle.

2 questions · 14 examples analysed

Both essays hook the reader with a concrete human story before analysis — Riya, the slum schoolgirl whose flooded home symbolises unplanned urbanisation; Sushant Singh Rajput for loneliness

2 questions · 14 examples analysed

Every one of the 10 answers opens with a current-affairs hook and closes with a quotable one-liner — textbook intro/conclusion discipline.

10 questions · 9 examples analysed

Vajiram & Ravi 'Rankers' Programme' answer copy of Monika Srivastava (AIR 16, CSE 2025); GS Paper IV (Ethics); cover note states 'Attempted only 12 questions' — Q1-Q11 (Section A, 10 marks/150 words each) plus one Section B case study (Q12, 20 marks).

12 questions · 14 examples analysed

Complete attempt — all 12 questions (Q1-6 theory parts plus six full case studies) answered in English across ~54 handwritten pages; clean, legible blue ink.

19 questions · 14 examples analysed

Topper model copy with all 12 questions (13 Section-A parts + 6 case studies) fully attempted; no question left blank

19 questions · 14 examples analysed

Label mismatch: file is tagged GS1 but the booklet is unmistakably GS2 | Polity-1 (Test 1, code VR112331)

10 questions · 14 examples analysed

Genuine NextIAS 'Ethics Enhancer Test 2024' (EE2401, Test 01) full GS4 paper by Deepali Mahto — all 12 questions attempted in English across a ~52-page booklet

19 questions · 14 examples analysed

Genuine Diksha Rai copy — NextIAS 'Ethics Enhancer Test 2024' (EE2401, Test 01, 07-Aug-2024); all 12 questions attempted across Section A (theory) and Section B (case studies), ~56 booklet pages.

19 questions · 14 examples analysed

Full attempt - all 20 questions answered (Q1-Q10 at 10 marks, Q11-Q20 at 15 marks); nothing left blank.

20 questions · 7 examples analysed

MISASSEMBLED FILE: only Pg 1-3 of Animesh's NextIAS booklet are present (Q1a + Q1b); booklet Pg 4-54 are replaced by a different candidate's 'VAJIRAM & RAVI' Ethics booklet (PDF p9-59) — do not attribute that work to Animesh.

2 questions · 11 examples analysed

Disciplined intro-body-conclusion across all answers — underlined sub-headers, numbered arrow-points, and a 'Thus/Hence' closer every time

14 questions · 14 examples analysed

Single consistent hand throughout — Aakash (Om) Trivedi's Vajiram & Ravi 'Ethics Full Length Test-1' (GS Paper IV); cover marks AIR-73, UPSC CSE 2025.

16 questions · 10 examples analysed

Authentic Sandeep Badad (AIR-82) copy — handwritten cover 'Sandeep Badad', Admin No 25VR101489, Vajiram & Ravi Sure Shot FLT-2025 Test-8 (GS-4); single consistent hand throughout, matching the PDF metadata (UNCK_SSTS_FLT_2025_T8_SANDEEP_BADAD).

15 questions · 14 examples analysed

Confirmed as Puru Dubey's genuine copy — Vajiram & Ravi 'General Studies / Ethics Full Length Test' (GS Paper IV), UPSC CSE 2025 AIR-86, 250 marks, 17 compulsory questions, submitted 31/07/2025.

15 questions · 12 examples analysed

Genuine, very neat blue-ink handwriting with key terms consistently underlined — fully legible throughout

10 questions · 14 examples analysed

Two complete essays, one per section: Section A on 'Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization' (topic 4, circled in the margin) and Section B on 'The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same' (topic 6).

2 questions · 14 examples analysed

Complete 250-mark booklet - all 12 questions (Q1-Q12) fully attempted, including all six case studies.

19 questions · 14 examples analysed

Opens Essay 1 by retelling Buddha's renunciation — the prince who 'was now not lost but found a destination', landing the Madhyama marga / golden-mean thesis

2 questions · 14 examples analysed