The UPSC mains exam 2023 commenced on 15 September with the essay paper. The compulsory Indian language paper is scheduled to be held on 23rd September (Saturday) in the forenoon session from 9 AM to 11 AM. In this article, you can download the compulsory Indian language paper of the IAS mains exam 2023.

Aspirants can download the UPSC 2023 mains papers from the links below (Links will be added as soon as the exam is over).

• Download UPSC Mains 2023 GS Paper I
• Download UPSC Mains 2023 GS Paper II
• Download UPSC Mains 2023 GS Paper III
• Download UPSC Mains 2023 GS Paper IV
• Download UPSC Mains 2023 Essay Paper
• Download UPSC Mains 2023 English Language Paper
• Download UPSC Mains 2023 Optional Paper-I
• Download UPSC Mains 2023 Optional Paper-II

UPSC Mains 2023 Compulsory Indian Language Paper

Click the link below to download the question paper (links will be provided once the exam is over).

UPSC Mains 2023 Indian Language Question Paper – Download PDF

The compulsory Indian language paper (also known as Paper A) is a qualifying paper with candidates required to score at least 75 marks out of a total of 300. Although the marks obtained in the language papers are not counted for merit ranking, candidates must score the minimum qualifying marks in this paper.

Important Note:-

• Paper A on Indian Language will not, however, be compulsory for candidates hailing from the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Sikkim.
• Paper A on Indian Language will not, however, be compulsory for Candidates belonging to Persons with Benchmark Disability (only Hearing Impairment sub-category) provided that they have been granted such exemption from 2nd or 3rd language courses by the concerned Education Board/University. The candidate needs to provide an undertaking/self-declaration in this regard in order to claim such an exemption to the Commission.

Candidates can choose from a list of Indian languages for this paper. The list of languages and their scripts to be used is given below.

Note: The question paper for the Santhali language will be printed in Devanagari script, however, aspirants will be permitted to answer in either Devanagari script or Olchiki.

UPSC candidates can check out Previous years’ UPSC question papers, from the linked article.

The following are the kinds of questions posed in the Compulsory Indian Language Papers:

1. Comprehension of given passages
2. Precis Writing
3. Usage and Vocabulary
4. Short Essays
5. Translation from English to the Indian Language and vice-versa.