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Philosophy Previous Year Questions

Practice Philosophy previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

5Papers
5Years
196Questions
4Topics

Philosophy question pattern

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Questions by year

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Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Medium 128 65.3%
Easy 57 29.1%
Hard 11 5.6%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 112 57.1%
MSQ 84 42.9%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Philosophy
196 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Classical and Modern Western Philosophy
72 Qs
Classical Indian Philosophy
64 Qs
Contemporary Western Philosophy
36 Qs
Contemporary Indian Philosophy
23 Qs

Subtopic coverage

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Orthodox Systems
34 Qs
Epistemology
20 Qs
Analytic Philosophy, Language and Meaning
17 Qs
Metaphysics
16 Qs
Heterodox Systems
15 Qs
Logic
14 Qs
Ethics
12 Qs
Phenomenology and Existentialism
11 Qs
Social and Political Philosophy
10 Qs
Gandhi and Ambedkar
10 Qs
Pragmatism and Contemporary Critiques
8 Qs
Upaniṣads, Bhagavadgītā, and Dharmaśāstras
8 Qs
Kāṣmira Śaivism, Śaivasiddhānta, Vīra Śaivism, Śāktism and Vaiṣṇavism
7 Qs
Tagore, Bhattacharyya and Radhakrishnan
6 Qs
Vivekananda, Aurobindo and Iqbal
6 Qs
Krishnamurti and Daya Krishna
1 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 2026
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2024
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2023
39 Qs
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022
40 Qs

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Classical and Modern Western Philosophy

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72 questions5 papers5 years

Classical Indian Philosophy

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64 questions5 papers5 years

Contemporary Western Philosophy

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36 questions5 papers5 years

Contemporary Indian Philosophy

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23 questions5 papers5 years

Included previous year papers

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Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 20262026
39 questions in this view		2026
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 20252025
39 questions in this view		2025
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 20242024
39 questions in this view		2024
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 20232023
39 questions in this view		2023
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Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 20222022
40 questions in this view		2022
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2022 · Philosophy · Unclassified
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022
A particular school management wants to contact all parents, all businessmen and all engineers. The following statistics are available with the school.
Businessmen = 50
Engineers = 25
Parents = 2500
Businessmen who are engineers = 0
Businessmen who are parents = 25
Engineers who are parents = 15
The number of people needs to be contacted are ______ .
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2023 · Philosophy · Classical Indian Philosophy · Orthodox Systems
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2023

In Sāṅkhya philosophy ‘mind’ (manas) is an evolute of ______.

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2024 · Philosophy · Classical Indian Philosophy · Heterodox Systems
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2024
According to Cārvāka philosophy, what is liberation (apavargah)?
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2025 · Philosophy · Contemporary Western Philosophy · Analytic Philosophy, Language and Meaning
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2025
Which one of the following options is challenged by G. E. Moore's 'Open Question Argument' concerning meta-ethical positions?
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2026 · Philosophy · Classical and Modern Western Philosophy · Social and Political Philosophy
Humanities & Social Sciences - Philosophy (XH-C4) 2026
According to Marx, “Religion is the heart of a heartless world”. Which one of the following concepts helps most in explicating this statement?
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2022 · Philosophy · Contemporary Western Philosophy · Pragmatism and Contemporary Critiques
Humanities & Social Sciences-Philosophy (XH-C4) 2022
Let us consider the cases of Shweta and Rani. While Shweta has access to, and can afford to buy good quality dairy products, she and her spouse decide to pursue a vegan lifestyle. Therefore, she no longer buys milk or dairy-based products for her family. Rani’s family on the other hand, has a meagre income. Although Rani’s children like milk and kheer, Rani refrains from buying milk and instead spends on rice.
In light of the concepts of functioning and capability as defined by Martha Nussbaum, which one of the following options holds for the above cases?
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