UPSC CSE GS 1 General Science and Current Events

General Science and Current Events is one of the subject areas of UPSC CSE GS 1. Marking: +2 for a correct answer and −0.66 for a wrong one, with no marks for unattempted questions.

Published by MockBazaar · Editor: Arun Gupta · Updated 25 October 2026

Topics in General Science and Current Events

• General Science

Practice questions

• Aditya-L1 is placed near the Sun–Earth Lagrange point L1 to study (Hard)
• LIGO observatories detect (Hard)
• Chandrayaan-3's lander touched down near the Moon's (Hard)
• Graphene is an allotrope of (Hard)
• Blockchain is best described as (Hard)
• Which radiation has the highest penetrating power? (Hard)
• Antibiotics are NOT effective against (Hard)
• A fast breeder reactor (Hard)
• The BCG vaccine protects against (Hard)
• Qubits in quantum computers can exist in (Hard)

Other UPSC CSE GS 1 sections

• Indian Polity & Governance
• History of India & National Movement
• Indian & World Geography
• Economic & Social Development
• Environment & Ecology

UPSC CSE GS 1 syllabus · Practise General Science and Current Events in a sectional mock