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Topic

Mass Movement

Asked 2 times across 2 UPSC exams, peaking in 2025.
2
PYQs
2
Exams
1
Years active
2025–2025
Span
2025
Peak
0/2
Answers
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Key insights

  • Most tested in CAPF — 1 of 2 PYQs
  • Most asked in 2025
  • Recurs across 1 years (2025–2025)

How it travelled across exams

First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CAPF 2025 ESE 2025

How the concept evolved

225
Rising — more than half its appearances (2 of 2) are since 2016.

Sample questions

You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CAPF2025

Which of the following types of mass movements are categorized as rapid movements?

  1. Creep
  2. Mudflow
  3. Solifluction
  4. Slump Select the answer

using the code given below.

  1. A 1 and 2
  2. B 1 and 3
  3. C 2 and 4
  4. D 3 and 4
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
Geography › Geomorphology
ESE2025
A mass movement in which material moves along a curved surface of rupture (slow or moderately rapid movement of a coherent body of rock) is called
  1. A Soil creep
  2. B Slump
  3. C Rockslide
  4. D Earth creep
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
Geography › Geomorphology

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