History Optional Test Series

Sectional and full-length answer-writing tests for UPSC History Optional Papers I and II, in the exam's own format, with a model answer for every question.

Course content

3 sections · 71 items · 1 year of access

  • Test 1 · Sources, Prehistory, Harappan and Vedic India

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 2 · Mahajanapadas to the Mauryan Empire

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 3 · Post-Mauryan India to the Guptas and Vardhanas

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 4 · Early Medieval India, 750–1200

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 5 · The Delhi Sultanate: the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 6 · The fifteenth and early sixteenth century

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 7 · Akbar and the Mughal Empire in the seventeenth century

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 8 · Mughal economy, society and culture; the eighteenth century

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 9 · British expansion and the colonial economy

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 10 · Reform movements, 1857 and early nationalism

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 11 · The Gandhian era to Independence

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 12 · India after Independence

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 13 · World History: Enlightenment and the age of revolutions

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 14 · World History: industrialisation, nationalism and imperialism

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 15 · World History: revolutions, the World Wars and the Cold War

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Test 16 · World History: decolonisation to the unipolar world

    UPSC format · 250 marks · 3 hours

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  • Full-length Paper I · Test 1

    Whole syllabus · 250 marks · 3 hours

    Question Paper🔒 Model Answers

  • Full-length Paper II · Test 1

    Whole syllabus · 250 marks · 3 hours

    Question Paper🔒 Model Answers

  • Full-length Paper I · Test 2

    Whole syllabus · 250 marks · 3 hours

    Question Paper🔒 Model Answers

  • Full-length Paper II · Test 2

    Whole syllabus · 250 marks · 3 hours

    Question Paper🔒 Model Answers

What you'll learn

  • Write complete answers to 250-mark papers inside three hours
  • Cover the whole Paper I and Paper II syllabus twice — sectional, then full-length
  • Structure answers with a clear introduction, body and conclusion
  • Bring in historians, sources and historiography where they earn marks
  • Compare your answers against a model answer for every question

Who this course is for

  • Aspirants who have chosen History as their UPSC Optional
  • Anyone who has read the syllabus and now needs answer-writing practice
  • Repeat candidates who want to convert knowledge into marks

Teacher

Sekhar

Sekhar History Classes · UPSC History

Sekhar History Classes is built around one subject — History — across every stage of the UPSC exam: History Optional, GS Prelims and GS1 Mains. The notes, past-year questions, model answers, maps and lectures on this site are the same material the courses are built on.

History Optional Test Series

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