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Index Consumer Price Index
Asked 4 times across 2 UPSC exams over 37 years (1988–2025), peaking in 2020.
Key insights
- Most tested in CSE — 2 of 4 PYQs
- Most asked in 2020
- Recurs across 4 years (1988–2025)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CSE 1988 → CDS 2017
How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (3 of 4) are since 2016.
Related concepts
Ideas UPSC tests alongside this one — keep exploring.
Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CDS2025
While calculating the consumer price index, 'housing' as an item is classified as :
- A Core consumer durable
- B Core consumer non-durable
- C Core capital goods
- D Core service ✓
✓ Correct answer: (D)
Economy › Macroeconomics
CSE2020
Consider the following statements
- The weightage of food in Consumer Price Index (CPI) is higher than that in Wholesale Price Index (WPI)
- The WPI does not capture changes in the prices of services, which CPI does
- Reserve Bank of India has now adopted WPI as its key measure of inflation and to decide on changing the key policy rates
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
- A 1 and 2 only ✓
- B 2 only
- C 3 only
- D 1, 2 and 3
✓ Correct answer: (A)
Economy › Macroeconomics
CDS2017
Which one of the following indices is now used by the Reserve Bank of India to measure the rate of inflation in India?
- A NASDAQ Index
- B BSE Index
- C Consumer Price Index ✓
- D Wholesale Price Index
✓ Correct answer: (C)
Economy › Money/Banking/Finance
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