787 questions across 15 topics for OPSC (OAS) Mains General Studies-II, Polity and Governance. 283 of them have been set in a real paper — every OPSC question from 2006, 2015 to 2018 and 2020 to 2024 is reproduced exactly as printed, alongside the UPSC Mains GS-II questions from 2013 to 2026 filed under the same topics.
How this paper is set
| Group-A | Group-B | |
|---|---|---|
| Questions printed | 12 | 5 |
| To be attempted | any 10 | all 5 |
| Word limit | 250 words | 300 words |
| Marks each | 15 | 20 |
Full marks 250, three hours, bilingual paper. GS-II changed character in 2022: the 2020 and 2021 papers were mixed, but from 2022 onward it is a genuine Polity, Governance and Odisha paper. Odisha alone carries three to four questions in every recent paper.
The fifteen topics
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