{"id":345519,"date":"2025-09-01T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=345519"},"modified":"2025-09-01T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:19:17","slug":"upsc-mains-2025-optional-papers-pdf-download-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-mains-2025-optional-papers-pdf-download-now\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Mains 2025 Optional Papers \u2013 PDF | Download Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"210\">The UPSC Civil Services Mains 2025 Optional Papers have been conducted.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"492\">Optional subjects are a crucial factor in determining the final merit, carrying <strong data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"335\">500 marks in total (Paper I &amp; Paper II)<\/strong>. Many aspirants choose popular subjects such as Anthropology, Sociology, PSIR, , Public Administration, Hindi Literature, among others.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"649\">You can download all UPSC Mains 2025 Optional Papers PDFs from this page. The list will be updated regularly as more subject papers become available.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"494\" data-end=\"649\"><strong>Download UPSC Mains 2025 Optional Papers (PDF)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid; background-color: #fffafa; height: 180px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><strong>Optional Subject<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><strong>Paper I<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><strong>Paper II<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><strong>Anthropology<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Anthropology-2025-Paper-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper I PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Anthropology-Paper-II-CSE-MAINS-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper II PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><strong>Political Science &amp; International Relations (PSIR)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PSIR-Paper-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper I PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PSIR-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper II PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><strong>Public Administration<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PubAd-Paper1-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper I PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PubAd-2025-Paper-2-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper II PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><strong>Sociology<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sociology-Paper-I-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper I PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sociology-Paper-II-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper II PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><strong>Hindi Literature<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hindi-literature-CSM-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper I PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 33.3333%; height: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u0940-\u0938\u093e\u0939\u093f\u0924\u094d\u092f-2nd-\u092a\u0947\u092a\u0930-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download Paper II PDF<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UPSC Civil Services Mains 2025 Optional Papers have been conducted. Optional subjects are a crucial factor in determining the final merit, carrying 500 marks in total (Paper I &amp; Paper II). Many aspirants choose popular subjects such as Anthropology, Sociology, PSIR, , Public Administration, Hindi Literature, among others. You can download all UPSC Mains&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/upsc-mains-2025-optional-papers-pdf-download-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UPSC Mains 2025 Optional Papers \u2013 PDF | Download Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc-exam-alert","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}