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100
Questions
7
Subjects
2025
Exam Year
2
Languages
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Correct answer: B
Working through the options, Tukaram Tatya Padval is the correct one. Aspirants who miss this item usually pick a nearby-sounding option; the fix is to read the stem twice before scanning the options.
Read full explanation →Correct answer: D
This maps to "Only A". Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) led the Non-Cooperation (1920), Civil Disobedience (1930) and Quit India (1942) movements, using satyagraha as the primary political method. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) served as India's first Prime Minister (1947–1964) and is regarded as the architect of modern India's planned economy and foreign policy. In MPSC PYQ analysis, this item type accounts for the largest cluster of 'easy marks lost due to misreading' — slow down the stem, and the option leaps out.
Read full explanation →Correct answer: A
Reading the stem carefully, the answer is Vyankatesh Rango Katti. The safest way to lock this item into recall is to write the correct option next to its associated year or body in your revision notebook and skim it weekly.
Read full explanation →Correct answer: A
You want Cripps Proposal on this one. The year 1942 anchors this question — the correct option is the fact that dates to that year. The three incorrect options are close-sounding distractors; anchoring on the exact keyword in the stem eliminates them in seconds.
Read full explanation →Correct answer: A
"Morley-Minto Reforms" is the fact the question is pointing at. The year 1909 anchors this question — the correct option is the fact that dates to that year. The MPSC pattern for questions of this type is to plant one exact fact and three plausible-looking alternatives; the fact-based option is always the answer.
Read full explanation →Correct answer: A
Vidarbha matches the question. MPSC's editorial habit for this topic is to test the same fact in two-year cycles, so seeing this once is often enough to catch it again.
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Start Practicing — It's FreeThe MPSC Gazetted Civil Services (formerly State Services) Combined examination is the flagship recruitment for higher gazetted administrative posts such as Deputy Collector, DySP, Tehsildar and BDO. The prelim is an objective General Studies test with one-fourth negative marking.
Practising the exact previous-year paper is the fastest way to internalise MPSC's option-framing style. The Commission recycles a meaningful share of its factual anchors — dates, Article numbers, districts, ratios and events — across paper cycles, so working through MPSC CS Gazetted Combined Pre 2025 builds direct, transferable exam readiness. Pair this paper with our MPSC Preparation Strategy and MPSC Exam Pattern guides for a complete study loop.