UPSC EPFO Previous Year Question Paper with Solutions: Download EPFO PYQ

UPSC EPFO previous year paper has been updated here for the UPSC EPFO 2023 exam. Candidates who will be taking the exam must ensure that they have solved an ample number of UPSC EPFO previous year paper to score well in the exam. Practice UPSC EPFO pyq with solutions here to increase your scope of qualifying the exam. By solving the UPSC EPFO previous year papers candidates tend to attain accuracy and get acquainted with the questions that were asked in the last years. 

Candidates aiming to crack the UPSC EPFO can access the UPSC EPFO previous year question paper here. UPSC has released a total of 577 vacancies for the UPSC EPFO 2023 exam. The exam date is on 2nd July 2023. Hence, it is advisable to download the question paper PDF to understand the paper pattern. We shall update the direct link to download UPSC EPFO question paper 2023 PDF here once it is made available.

In the meantime, candidates can go through the previous year UPSC EPFO question paper to understand the questions that have been asked previously in the written exam. Solving a few EPFO PYQ papers gives you a good idea of the paper trend, questions asked in the exam, paper pattern and more. 

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Attempt UPSC EPFO previous year papers by following the right approach that gets you maximum benefit. Jagran Josh has provided you with UPSC EPFO previous year question paper PDF with solution. Solving the questions lets you know your weaknesses, helps you revise UPSC EPFO syllabus lets you know your mistakes and gives you real time experience. You must also check out the UPSC EPFO cut off to know the minimum marks that you would need to score in the exam. Download UPSC EPFO question paper 2021, 2017, and more. 

UPSC conducted the UPSC EPFO exam 2020-2021 on 5 September. Candidates can download the UPSC EPFO 2021 question paper by clicking on the link that is given below here. The EPFO previous year are will get you familiar with the exam pattern and give you real-time exam experience. 

The UPSC EPFO 2023 exam aspirants can download UPSC EPFO previous year paper with solution through the link that has been provided below. The direct link to download UPSC EPFO question paper for 2021, 2017 with answer key is updated in the table below. 

UPSC EPFO Previous Year Papers

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UPSC EPFO 2018 Question Paper

For the Post of Labour Enforcement Officers (Central)

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UPSC EPFO 2017 Question Paper

For the Post of Enforcement Officer - Accounts Officer in (EPFO), Ministry of Labour and Employment

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UPSC EPFO 2015 Question Paper

For the Post of Assistant Provident Fund Commissioner in EPFO

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UPSC EPFO 2014 Question Paper

For the Post of Assistant Labour Commissioner, Ministry of Labour and Employment

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So, let’s have a look at some major benefits of Practicing Previous Year Papers of UPSC EPFO Exam:

The Recruitment Test (RT) will be an Offline Exam (Pen & Paper Based) consisting of Objective Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). Let us understand the UPSC EPFO exam pattern here. 

a) The test will be of two hours duration.

b) All questions will carry equal marks.

c) The test will be objective-type questions with multiple choices of answers.

d) The medium of the test will be both Hindi and English.

e) 1/3rd marks will be deducted for wrong answers.

f) PwD candidates shall be allowed compensatory time of 20 minutes per hour in the RT and facility of Scribe

UPSC EPFO Written Exam

Marks

Duration

Recruitment Test (Offline)

300 Marks

2 Hours

Practicing previous year's papers will help you in identifying important topics which have frequently appeared in the previous UPSC EPFO Exams. Students must refer to the detailed UPSC EPFO exam pattern. However, to buck up the speed of the exam preparation they must focus on practicing the important topics first.

You will get to know the difficulty level of the topics and sub-topics of the Written Exam, i.e., the Recruitment Test of the UPSC EPFO 2021 Exam.

While practicing previous year's papers, make sure to identify your strong and weak areas. First, try to focus on your weak areas and spend more time improving them. Devote more time to your weak areas and less time to your strong areas. Do practice those topics which are your areas of strength but allocate a little less time for that.  Remember that all of us have different strengths & areas of improvement and accordingly we need to customize our preparation strategy. This way you will be able to score high in the exam.

Try different orders of attempt patterns while practicing previous papers. Choose the order which will allow you to optimally utilize your time. Also, try not to give more than one minute to any question while attempting them. You must focus on improving your speed of attempting questions to ace this exam.

Practice makes the man perfect! The more you will practice, the more accuracy you will gain which will eventually lead you to a high score in the exam. Practice will help you in avoiding silly mistakes and making guesswork. Therefore, practicing previous year's papers will help you in achieving accuracy and high score in UPSC EPFO 2020 Exam.

How many years of UPSC EPFO Previous Year Papers should be solved?

Candidates are advised to solve at least 3 years of UPSC EPFO previous year papers. Apart from solving it, a proper analysis is also important after you have completed solving the paper.

Which year UPSC EPFO PYQ has been provided here?

Jagran Josh has provided you with the UPSC previous year question paper for 2021, 2017, 2015 and more. Make sure that you practice these papers diligently and do a proper analysis after you have solved it. 

What is the benefit of solving UPSC EPFO previous year paper?

UPSC EPFO previous year paper with solutions lets you know your weak areas so that you can strategies on improving it. Apart from this, it also helps you understand the exam pattern and the questions asked in the last year paper. 

Can you answer the SATs test questions that left pupils 'in tears'? Take the controversial reading exam that has sparked fury among parents and promises of a probe by the ...

By Connor Stringer

Published: 19:32 EDT, 18 May 2023 | Updated: 19:40 EDT, 18 May 2023

These are the tough SAT questions that left some pupils in tears. 

Hundreds of parents and teachers claimed that last week's reading exam for Year 6 pupils - aged ten or 11 - was too difficult. 

Schools said it was so tricky that staff also struggled to understand the questions.

And there were claims the English reading test booklet included 'GCSE-level' questions, with even high-ability pupils unable to finish the paper. 

Based on three dense texts, the paper, published Thursday, has 38 questions and expects pupils to understand words like 'hotspot' and 'eradicated'. 

Youngsters are also asked to find similar words to 'vulnerable' and 'unmistakable'.

The paper includes a passage from a look with a '13-18 reading age'. 

File photo of primary school children raising their hands in class. The Mail has included questions from the Year 6 Sats reading test that left pupils 'in tears'

Schools minister Nick Gibb said he would look at the exam which has been accused of 'undermining' youngsters' confidence. 

The Mail has selected some of the more difficult questions in the exam so you can try them for yourself. 

But we have highlighted the relevant extract for each answer, whereas the pupils would have had to find it among hundreds of words of text. 

The National Association of Head Teachers, which represents heads at the majority of primary schools said it planned to complain to Ofqual, the exams regulator. 

Sarah Hannafin, from the union, said: 'Members have told us that the choice of texts was not accessible for the wide range of experiences and backgrounds children have and the difficulty was beyond previous tests, leaving children upset, and even staff struggling to understand the questions.' 

But the Department for Education last night indicated that the exam was of 'similar difficulty to previous years'. 

A blog post on its website read: 'It takes three years to create appropriate tests.

During the process, the texts and questions are also rigorously trialled twice, with a nationally representative sample of year 6 pupils. 

In the second, technical trial, more than a thousand pupils see each question.

'Evidence from these processes indicated that the tests were of similar difficulty to previous years. 

As a result, we are confident the test was set to an appropriate level of difficulty.'

Elsewhere, a leading schools boss said tough exam were 'absolutely right'. 

Mouhssin Ismail, regional director and executive principal at STAR Academies wrote on Twitter: 'Surely, one of the solutions is to provide pupils with more mock exams which develop their exam resilience. 

'Exams are meant to assess a full range of abilities, so being tough for some is absolutely right.'

You can see the full reading booklet, written questions and marking scheme below: 

WAEC arrests 20 exam officials for malpractice

No fewer than 20 school officials, allegedly aiding and abetting examination malpractice, have been arrested by the West African Exam Council in its ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Exam for school candidates.

The Council said that the arrests were made in various parts of the country.

The Head, National Office of the council, Mr Patrick Areghan, disclosed this on the sidelines of a monitoring exercise he carried out in some schools on Thursday in Lagos.

According to him, the WAEC  has since handed over all the culprits to the police for prosecution.

Areghan vowed that the council would do everything possible to ensure that their prosecution was followed to a logical conclusion.

“The issue of examination malpractice can no longer be treated with kid gloves.

“It is no longer business as usual, as it has completely eroded morals and values in our society. It is taking a dangerous dimension, of which, if not tackled will bring our country to its knees.

“Now, since the commencement of this examination, we have deployed our technology, designed to catch examination cheats and we are happy at the results we have gotten so far.

“For instance, in Ibadan, Oyo, where we have our zonal office, which takes care of Osun, Kwara and Oyo itself, we made three arrests in a school and for the purpose of confidentiality, I will not mention the name.

“There, a supervisor at a centre, principal and invigilator were all arrested. They were arrested for allegedly snapping and posting the questions to some platforms, thereby, aiding and abetting examination malpractices.’’

He said: “Then, in Maiduguri, a supervisor and principal of a school, were both arrested and handed over to the police too.

“In Umuahia, a teacher and a supervisor were arrested in a particular school and they have been handed over to the police.

“In Abeokuta, a school proprietor was the first to be caught at the beginning of this examination on May 8, snapping and posting question papers,” he said.

Areghan described the act as a monumental disgrace.

The WAEC official said that the proprietor and a supervisor had since been arrested and also handed over to the police.

He further disclosed that the same situation was also recorded at

Osogbo, where a principal, invigilator and chief supervisor were arrested for the same offence.

According to him, in Kaduna too, a supervisor and an examination official in a school who were caught in the act, were arrested and handed over to the police.

He explained that the school, which was ceded to Kaduna was supposed to be Kano, but was ceded because it was closer to Kaduna.

Areghan said that the arrests would continue until the end of the examination.

He urged candidates not to allow their future to be compromised by persons who did not wish them well, by promising to assist them pass their examination through illegal means, stressing that WAEC’s examinations could never be accessed illegally.

According to him, all of the culprits caught in the act may have been paid by the unsuspecting candidates and their parents, promising to assist them pass the examination.

“I want to counter this statement that some people are fond of making, which is that our examination questions always leak.

“That does not exist. Our examination is always safe and secured until they get to the candidates in the hall.”

He asserted that WAEC examination questions don’t ever leak and cautioned the media to stop using the word “leak”.

“What actually happens is that, once the examination is about to start, we give the question papers to the supervisors, one hour before commencement, so that they can travel from the collection point to the various schools, where they will administer the examination.

“Immediately they get to the exam hall, they will open the pack in the name of distributing to candidates and they will snap and post to various designated platforms-  WhatsApp, Instagram and others.

“Such persons are members of a syndicate group who collect money,’’ he said.

According to him, once the examination is already in progress, anyone that takes pictures of the papers and posts will be detected.

Areghan noted that the council had a method of detecting who snapped, who posted, who it was posted to and which candidate’s question booklet was posted.

According to him, that is when the council swings to action by rounding all of them up and subsequently handing them over to the police.

“You have been following me around for this monitoring

“You saw me telling these children that they will hardly have time to access any materials snapped and posted on any platforms because they are already in the hall writing the examination.

“From what we have seen so far today at the schools we visited, I will say that the examination has been going on smoothly. There has not been any challenge beyond our control.

“Of course, you will come across persons who will want to prove smart by cutting corners and trying to get things done unethically, but we have been able to beat them to it.

“There are though, some that we do not bother ourselves with, as we will deal with such administratively.’’

He noted that only hard work was the way out to a stable and progressive country, adding that schools should continue to stick to academic excellence and nothing less, in order to sustain quality education.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that schools visited for the monitoring on Thursday included  ST and T in Ikeja, Ikeja Senior High School as well as State Senior High School among others.

NAN