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MPPSC Mains 2023: previous year questions

Every question as the commission asked it, paper by paper. Where a question matches a syllabus topic, it links there, with notes for the topic.

Paper-I

  1. Who were the Ambashthas?Write your answer →
  2. What is Naishthik?Write your answer →
  3. What is Sadyodvaha?Write your answer →
  4. Who was Bhavanaga?Write your answer →
  5. Where is Thatta located?Write your answer →
  6. Who was Shah Turkan?Write your answer →
  7. Who was Sheikh Mohammed Ghaus?Write your answer →
  8. What was the Barisal Rebellion?Write your answer →
  9. Who was Raja Mahendra Pratap?Write your answer →
  10. What was the Sarvodaya Yojana?Write your answer →
  11. What was the Central Province Government?Write your answer →
  12. What is Bhadam?Write your answer →
  13. What was Gay Gohari?Write your answer →
  14. What was the Council of Regency?Write your answer →
  15. Where is Amshera located?Write your answer →
  16. Write a short note on the Lichchhavi Republic of Vaishali.Write your answer →
  17. What is 'Chatunyuha' in Bhagavata Religion?Write your answer →
  18. What was the Izara system?Write your answer →
  19. Clarify the status of women in Mughal society.Write your answer →
  20. Explain the role of the Chapekar Brothers as leaders in the National Freedom Movement.Syllabus: 1.5 Indian 'RenaissanceWrite your answer →
  21. Evaluate the Civil Disobedience Movement.Write your answer →
  22. Throw light on the architectural features of the Shiva temple of Bhojpur.Write your answer →
  23. Describe the folk drama 'Tuna Kalangi'.Write your answer →
  24. What do you know about Raja Shankar Shah?Write your answer →
  25. Explain the relations of Malhar Rao Holkar with the British.Write your answer →
  26. Take an analytical look at 'Hindu Samskaras'.Write your answer →
  27. Who was Gautamiputra Satakarni? Describe his military successes.Write your answer →
  28. Discuss the conflict of the Ahom kingdom with the Mughals.Write your answer →
  29. Explain the spread of printing art during the British Raj and its impact on Indian culture.Syllabus: 1.4 Impact of British Rule on Indian economy and society, Indian…Write your answer →
  30. Throw light on the first General Election of Independent India.Syllabus: Election Commission of India, Comptroller and Auditor General of…Write your answer →
  31. "The credit for giving rise to extreme nationalist sentiments in Indian politics goes to Tilak." Explain.Write your answer →
  32. Throw light on the history of 'Rang Manch' (Theatre) in Madhya Pradesh.Write your answer →
  33. Mention Holkar Chhatris in Indore as an excellent example of Maratha architecture.Write your answer →
  34. Discuss the factors that helped in the merger of the Bhopal Princely State.Write your answer →
  35. Explain what impact the events of the Third Maratha War had on Scindia and Holkar.Write your answer →

Paper-II

  1. Mention three federal features of the Indian Constitution.Write your answer →
  2. What are the three main objectives of Public Interest Litigation?Syllabus: Public Interest LitigationWrite your answer →
  3. What are the three importances of Judicial Review?Write your answer →
  4. How many types of party systems have been witnessed in India since independence?Write your answer →
  5. What is included in the ambit of civil society?Write your answer →
  6. Mention the seven pillars of NITI Aayog.Write your answer →
  7. Write down two issues that are out of the jurisdiction of the National Human Rights Commission.Syllabus: Accountability and Rights:- Competition Commission, Consumer Forum…Write your answer →
  8. What is the role of media during elections?Write your answer →
  9. Define a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO).Write your answer →
  10. How has Babasaheb Ambedkar defined Democracy?Write your answer →
  11. What is the 'True Democracy' concept of Jayaprakash Narayan?Write your answer →
  12. Write down any three points of the Panchsheel Theory of J. L. Nehru.Write your answer →
  13. What is the main difference between old administration and new administration?Write your answer →
  14. Define 'Span of Control'.Write your answer →
  15. What are the limits of authority?Write your answer →
  16. Write the importance of the Preamble of the Indian Constitution.Write your answer →
  17. On what grounds is the Constituent Assembly criticized?Write your answer →
  18. What is the importance of the study of voting behavior?Write your answer →
  19. What is the scope of activities of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India?Syllabus: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of IndiaWrite your answer →
  20. What are the key objectives of the Central Information Commission?Syllabus: Accountability and Rights:- Competition Commission, Consumer Forum…Write your answer →
  21. Mention five reasons for the ineffective performance of Panchayati Raj Institutions.Write your answer →
  22. Write a short note on Ram Manohar Lohia's concept of 'Small Unit Technology'.Write your answer →
  23. What were Mahatma Gandhi's views about the State?Write your answer →
  24. Explain briefly the integral view of Public Administration.Write your answer →
  25. Differentiate between the features of classical and modern approaches to organization.Write your answer →
  26. "Indian Parliament can amend the Constitution, but not its basic structure" — comment.Syllabus: Constitution of India:- Its Foundation, characteristics, Basic…Write your answer →
  27. Discuss the financial aspect of Centre-State relations with reference to the 'One Nation One Tax' regime.Syllabus: Nature of the Indian Union, Centre-State Relations, Division of Power…Write your answer →
  28. Discuss the contemporary non-traditional security challenges of India.Write your answer →
  29. What do you mean by the independence of the Election Commission of India? What are its guiding principles?Syllabus: Election Commission of India, Comptroller and Auditor General of…Write your answer →
  30. Critically evaluate the 'First Past The Post System' in the Indian context.Write your answer →
  31. Describe the rights of consumers under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.Write your answer →
  32. Discuss the contemporary relevance of Kautilya's Foreign Policy.Write your answer →
  33. 'Self-reliance' was among the main principles of the Economic Policy of Sardar Patel. Discuss.Write your answer →
  34. Explain the Human Relations theory of organization.Write your answer →
  35. Discuss the contemporary trends and issues in Public Administration.Write your answer →

Paper-III

  1. What is the difference between the mass and weight of an object?Write your answer →
  2. What is the audible frequency range for the human ear? Is it the same for children under the age of five years?Write your answer →
  3. Which phenomenon is used in optical fiber?Write your answer →
  4. Write the name of the series of spectral lines for atomic hydrogen.Write your answer →
  5. Write the conjugated acids for the following Bronsted bases: NH₂, NH₃, and HCOO⁻.Write your answer →
  6. What is modern periodic law?Write your answer →
  7. What are the two main components of a typical virus?Write your answer →
  8. What do you mean by plasmolysis?Write your answer →
  9. Who formulated the cell theory?Write your answer →
  10. How do you add a footnote in an MS Word document?Write your answer →
  11. How is assembly language different from machine language?Write your answer →
  12. What is OMR? Why is it used?Write your answer →
  13. By selling a chair for ₹1564, a shopkeeper suffers a loss of 15%. Find the cost price of the chair.Write your answer →
  14. For any data, if the median is 25 and the mode is 24, find the mean.Write your answer →
  15. If the numbers 2, x, x, 8 are in proportion, find x.Write your answer →
  16. Write the names of any three communicable diseases.Write your answer →
  17. What are the parts of Ashtanga Yoga?Write your answer →
  18. What is the main aim of the immunization programme?Write your answer →
  19. What is the purpose of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award?Write your answer →
  20. What is the objective of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)?Write your answer →
  21. What is robotics?Write your answer →
  22. What is used for producing biodiesel?Write your answer →
  23. When do spring tides occur?Write your answer →
  24. What is the full form of IREDA?Write your answer →
  25. When was the Environmental Protection Act implemented in India?Write your answer →
  26. What is the full form of WCED?Write your answer →
  27. What do you understand by eutrophication?Write your answer →
  28. Define mineral.Write your answer →
  29. What is chemical weathering?Write your answer →
  30. What is the hydrosphere?Write your answer →
  31. Explain the concept of inertia.Write your answer →
  32. Describe the Cartesian sign convention used in ray optics.Write your answer →
  33. Explain the octet rule of Kossel and Lewis.Write your answer →
  34. What is Aqua-regia? Write its uses.Write your answer →
  35. Write a note on the pituitary gland.Write your answer →
  36. Write a note on the cell cycle.Write your answer →
  37. What is cache memory?Write your answer →
  38. What is the main difference between e-government and e-governance?Write your answer →
  39. Find the largest three-digit number that is completely divisible by 8, 10, and 12.Write your answer →
  40. Calculate the arithmetic mean of the following data (data provided).Write your answer →
  41. Write the main objectives of the National AYUSH Mission.Write your answer →
  42. Write a short note on Panchakarma Chikitsa.Write your answer →
  43. What is artificial intelligence? How does a machine acquire artificial intelligence?Write your answer →
  44. What are the main objectives of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)?Write your answer →
  45. What is aquatic biomass? What are its advantages?Write your answer →
  46. How is electricity generated from geothermal energy?Write your answer →
  47. Write about the main uses of green belts.Write your answer →
  48. Comment on Environmental Education Programmes.Syllabus: Environmental EducationWrite your answer →
  49. Write a note on the three different layers of the Earth.Write your answer →
  50. Write a note on granite.Write your answer →
  51. Discuss the practical applications of the heating effect of electric current.Write your answer →
  52. What do you understand by saponification? Why does soap not work in hard water? Explain.Write your answer →
  53. Describe the process of digestion of food in humans.Write your answer →
  54. What is a web page? List the features of a good website.Write your answer →
  55. A, B, and C try to hit a target. A can hit the target 3 times in 5 shots, B, 2 times in 5 shots, and C, 3 times in 4 shots. Find the probability of: (a) Any two of them hitting the target (b) At least two of them hitting the targetWrite your answer →
  56. Describe in detail the important health-related welfare schemes of the Madhya Pradesh Government.Syllabus: Health Related Important Welfare Schemes of Central and State GovernmentWrite your answer →
  57. Give a detailed account of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).Write your answer →
  58. What is an energy audit? Why is it needed?Write your answer →
  59. Write an essay on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).Write your answer →
  60. Define weathering and write a detailed note on the causes of physical weathering.Write your answer →

Paper-IV

  1. Section A - Very Short Answer Type Questions (20x2=40)Write your answer →
  2. Point out the four causes according to Aristotle.Write your answer →
  3. What is the Carvaka viewpoint of Atman?Write your answer →
  4. What is the difference between Kabir's and Tulsidas' Ram?Write your answer →
  5. What is Dayananda Saraswati's idea about the Vedas?Write your answer →
  6. Write the names of five great vows according to Mahavira.Write your answer →
  7. Write the concept of emotional intelligence.Write your answer →
  8. What is the meaning of the word ‘Integrity’?Write your answer →
  9. What does ‘power in attitude’ indicate?Write your answer →
  10. What is heuristic processing in persuasive communication?Write your answer →
  11. Who gave the Balance Theory and what does this theory study?Write your answer →
  12. Which Administrative Reforms Commission stressed ethics in governance?Write your answer →
  13. What are the two key elements of Good Governance indicated by the World Bank?Write your answer →
  14. How many ways of corruption have been mentioned in Kautilya's administration?Write your answer →
  15. The Central Vigilance Commission was established on the recommendation of which committee?Syllabus: Accountability and Rights:- Competition Commission, Consumer Forum…Write your answer →
  16. Who first suggested the establishment of Lokpal?Write your answer →
  17. In which year was the United Nations Convention against Corruption adopted?Write your answer →
  18. On whose recommendation does the President appoint the Central Vigilance Commissioner?Write your answer →
  19. On 23rd March 2019, who was appointed as the first Lokpal of India?Write your answer →
  20. Who said that integrity is much more than financial honesty?Write your answer →
  21. Write any two tools for securing moral conduct.Write your answer →
  22. Section B - Short Answer Type Questions (8x5=40)Write your answer →
  23. What is the difference between intuition and intellect according to S. Radhakrishnan?Write your answer →
  24. Discuss the concept of form and matter according to Aristotle.Write your answer →
  25. How can we reduce prejudices? Write some important ways.Write your answer →
  26. Write suggestions to improve integrity and impartiality in Civil Services.Syllabus: AptitudeWrite your answer →
  27. What are the basic implications of the concept of accountability in public administration?Syllabus: Ethics and Values in Public AdministrationWrite your answer →
  28. What do you understand by the 'Social Accountability' of Public Administration?Syllabus: Ethics and Values in Public AdministrationWrite your answer →
  29. Explain any five forms of corruption identified by the Central Vigilance Commission.Syllabus: Accountability and Rights:- Competition Commission, Consumer Forum…Write your answer →
  30. Analyze the definitional complexity of corruption.Write your answer →
  31. Section C - Long Answer Type Questions (4x20=80)Write your answer →
  32. Explain Anekantavada in Jain Philosophy.Write your answer →
  33. Describe the main causes of decline of integrity in Civil Services.Write your answer →
  34. What role does the 'code of conduct for civil servants' play in securing discipline and control over civil servants in India? Discuss.Syllabus: code of conduct for civil servantsWrite your answer →
  35. Evaluate the powers and limitations of Lokpal in India.Write your answer →