Who is behind PYQ Vault

What is here

Previous year papers, taken apart question by question, for NDA, MHT-CET, JEE Mains, CDS, Foundation, NEET, Maharashtra State Board Classes 9, 10, 11 and 12, CBSE Classes 10, 11 and 12, CISCE Classes 10 and 12, Worksheets 11+12, IPMAT (Indore, Rohtak, Jammu), MPSC (Prelims: Group B & C, State Services; Mains: State Services, Group B Combined, STI, ASO, PSI), UPSC CSE, AFCAT, SSC CGL (Tier I, Tier II) and SPI. Every question is filed by exam, subject, chapter, subtopic, difficulty and the year it was asked, and most carry a worked solution. Around the bank sit timed mocks rebuilt from real sittings, chapter notes, strategy guides with year-by-year trend reports, and a textbook-solutions reader for the school boards.

New papers are added within weeks of a sitting. Corrections come from readers and from our own re-checks against the published keys, and a changed answer is recorded on the question itself. Every chapter has its own page under the question bank by chapter, which states how many questions it holds and which years they span.

Why it exists

Most students prepare by sitting whole papers. That tells you your score. It does not tell you that eleven of your fourteen lost marks came from two subtopics you have been avoiding since Class 11.

So the papers here are taken apart rather than served whole. Every question is filed by exam, subject, chapter, subtopic, difficulty and the year it was asked, which means you can practise the one thing you keep getting wrong instead of another full sitting. The whole papers are still here, timed and auto-graded, for when you want them.

What is free, and what needs an account

Reading is free and needs no account at all: the whole question bank, every answer and explanation, all the strategy guides, all the notes, and the textbook reader. You can use the site indefinitely without telling us anything about yourself.

A free account exists for the things that have to remember you, which is sitting a timed mock and having the score kept, fixing the questions you missed, saving questions, and tracking which notes you have worked through (how it all fits together). The one genuinely restricted thing is downloading a question paper and answer key as PDF files, which comes with the Premium Pass, for students and teachers alike.

Corrections

If you find a wrong answer, a mangled question or a bad explanation, please tell me. A correction from someone holding the actual paper is worth more than any check we can run from here.

Every page in the question bank and the notes also has a report button, which is faster than this form because it tells me exactly which question you mean.

Write to me

This goes straight to me. I read everything, though I am one person, so a reply can take a few days.