Comprehension CDS PYQ Topic Wise (2016

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Comprehension PYQs (previous year questions) for CDS: Comprehension (English) had 324 questions across the 66 official CDS papers we tagged (2016–2026), and appeared in 22 of them. Asked in 11 of 11 years. The concepts asked in the most papers: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Relationship, Statement Relationship.

Year-wise question count

Asked in 11 of 11 years, with 2 papers each year.

Year	Questions
CDS 2026	35
CDS 2025	20
CDS 2024	25
CDS 2023	20
CDS 2022	25
CDS 2021	20
CDS 2020	20
CDS 2019	37
CDS 2018	38
CDS 2017	43
CDS 2016	41

Most-asked concepts

Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.

Concept	Questions	Papers	Years
Reading Comprehension	276	20	2026, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
Sentence Relationship	20	2	2026
Statement Relationship	20	2	2025
Correlating Sentences	5	1	2024
Word Forms	3	1	2026

How to practise Comprehension PYQs

Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
Solve one year’s Comprehension questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
Once a concept is clean in two papers, move to the next. Then sit a full paper from the year pages.

Questions by year

Each line gives the question number and paper, type, concept, our one-line summary and the official answer, with a link to the official PDF.

CDS2026

Q.91 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a sentence on Shimla summer relates to one on Delhi summer PDF
Q.92 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a doctor's advice relates to bananas being rich in potassium PDF
Q.93 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How charging sources relate to electric cars having no emissions PDF
Q.94 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a claim about K2 relates to Everest being tallest PDF
Q.95 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How 'a little knowledge is dangerous' relates to knowledge as power PDF
Q.96 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How 'haste makes waste' relates to 'slow and steady wins' PDF
Q.97 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How 'too many cooks' relates to 'many hands make light work' PDF
Q.98 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a battery-life remark relates to a laptop being desirable PDF
Q.99 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a 2022 walking study relates to exercise improving mood PDF
Q.100 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a claim of universal belief relates to doubts about God PDF
Q.116 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'asphalt complex' in a passage on cars and cities PDF
Q.117 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Main concern the passage on cities and nature draws attention to PDF
Q.118 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the biophilia hypothesis states per the passage PDF
Q.119 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Keywords matching ecopsychology as described in the passage PDF
Q.120 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Closest meaning of 'immanent' as used in the passage PDF
Q.91 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How students who took extra classes relate to many failing PDF
Q.92 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a rising temperature relates to a fever medicine PDF
Q.93 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How Sohan's music taste relates to Mohan's PDF
Q.94 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How rising temperature studies relate to global warming PDF
Q.95 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How an Eiffel Tower photo relates to Sarah's claim PDF
Q.96 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How early struggles relate to a team winning the title PDF
Q.97 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a standing ovation relates to a good speaker PDF
Q.98 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How traditional villages relate to a modern city PDF
Q.99 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How a delayed train relates to it usually being on time PDF
Q.100 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Sentence Relationship: How reduced effect in older adults relates to vaccine efficacy PDF
Q.111 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'women's suffrage' in a passage on book groups PDF
Q.112 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'grassroots' in the book-groups passage PDF
Q.113 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Word Forms: Noun form of 'subversive' from the passage PDF
Q.114 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'canonical literature' in the passage PDF
Q.115 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Opposite of 'resistant' as used in the passage PDF
Q.116 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What history a passage on the potato traces PDF
Q.117 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: When the potato was domesticated in South America per passage PDF
Q.118 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Sense of 'culture' in the potato passage PDF
Q.119 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Word Forms: Form of 'settlement' usable as both verb and adjective PDF
Q.120 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Word Forms: How the word 'terraced' was formed from another part of speech PDF

CDS2025

Q.41 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about the albatross wingspan PDF
Q.42 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about hypothesis becoming thesis PDF
Q.43 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about manhunt and public anger PDF
Q.44 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about personality type and self-awareness PDF
Q.45 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about liberalisation and the economy PDF
Q.46 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about predicting outcomes PDF
Q.47 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about mastery and 10,000 hours of practice PDF
Q.48 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about India's democracy and Constitution PDF
Q.49 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about the word roseate PDF
Q.50 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second statement to the first about the early bird gets the worm PDF
Q.41 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about failure as a stepping stone (official answer: D) PDF
Q.42 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about human equality (official answer: A) PDF
Q.43 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about the Big Bang (official answer: C) PDF
Q.44 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about the highest clouds (official answer: A) PDF
Q.45 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about four-stroke and two-stroke engines (official answer: A) PDF
Q.46 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about bottled and tap water (official answer: C) PDF
Q.47 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about India's national and state birds (official answer: A) PDF
Q.48 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about field games and individual sports (official answer: B) PDF
Q.49 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about forest cover and urbanisation (official answer: A) PDF
Q.50 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Statement Relationship: Relation of second sentence to the first about Indian emigration and diaspora (official answer: D) PDF

CDS2024

Q.51 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on writers and fear: what the tragedy of our times is (official answer: C) PDF
Q.52 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on writers and fear: what writers must learn again (official answer: B) PDF
Q.53 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on writers and fear: what a writer's workshop should hold (official answer: C) PDF
Q.54 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on writers and fear: the author's view on the end of man (official answer: D) PDF
Q.55 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on writers and fear: meaning of a word from the passage (official answer: C) PDF
Q.56 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on educational change: why people misunderstand change (official answer: A) PDF
Q.57 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on educational change: when people accept an innovation (official answer: B) PDF
Q.58 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on educational change: author's caution on objective reality (official answer: B) PDF
Q.59 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on educational change: two words opposite to 'whole' (official answer: C) PDF
Q.60 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on educational change: idea that sums up the author's view (official answer: D) PDF
Q.86 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Correlating Sentences: Relation of second sentence to first on civics classes (official answer: A) PDF
Q.87 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Correlating Sentences: Relation of second sentence to first on China and India's growth (official answer: C) PDF
Q.88 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Correlating Sentences: Relation of second sentence to first on deciding right and wrong (official answer: B) PDF
Q.89 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Correlating Sentences: Relation of second sentence to first on Ahimsa, Tolstoy and Gandhi (official answer: C) PDF
Q.90 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Correlating Sentences: Relation of second sentence to first on the best cricket captain (official answer: B) PDF
Q.51 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on walking tours: primary purpose of a walking tour PDF
Q.52 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on walking tours: why one should walk alone PDF
Q.53 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on walking tours: what can spoil a walking tour PDF
Q.54 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on walking tours: how a walking tour should end PDF
Q.55 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on walking tours: meaning of 'dilettantes' PDF
Q.56 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on historical analysis: what is not part of it PDF
Q.57 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on historical analysis: meaning of a phrase on genres of history PDF
Q.58 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on historical analysis: why historians reach conflicting conclusions PDF
Q.59 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on historical analysis: word for causes external to will PDF
Q.60 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on historical analysis: what the post-modernist approach holds PDF

CDS2023

Q.111 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: General tone of a passage on machines and civilization (official answer: A) PDF
Q.112 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the use of machines has failed to bring us (official answer: D) PDF
Q.113 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How civilization could be made greater per the passage (official answer: A) PDF
Q.114 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: True description of machines per the passage (official answer: C) PDF
Q.115 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How we use powers given by science per the passage (official answer: D) PDF
Q.116 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Who suffers distressing effects of plastic (official answer: C) PDF
Q.117 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Places where plastic particles are found (official answer: A) PDF
Q.118 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How plastic pollution is characterised (official answer: B) PDF
Q.119 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why plastic is considered essential (official answer: D) PDF
Q.120 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'clogging' in the plastic passage (official answer: A) PDF
Q.111 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Writer's idea of truth in a passage on truth and lies (official answer: A) PDF
Q.112 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why men love lies per the passage (official answer: C) PDF
Q.113 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Metaphor comparing value of truth and lies (official answer: A) PDF
Q.114 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Literary device in 'truth is naked' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.115 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What would happen if truths were not mixed with lies (official answer: A) PDF
Q.116 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Author's view of legal literacy (official answer: A) PDF
Q.117 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What a citizen is supposed to do per the passage (official answer: A) PDF
Q.118 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Main subject of the passage on law and custom (official answer: B) PDF
Q.119 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'diverse combinatory prowess' (official answer: D) PDF
Q.120 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word closest in meaning to 'resistance' (official answer: C) PDF

CDS2022

Q.101 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on ecosystems: general tone of the passage (official answer: D) PDF
Q.102 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on ecosystems: identify a non-living constituent (official answer: A) PDF
Q.103 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on ecosystems: what abiotic components refer to (official answer: D) PDF
Q.104 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on ecosystems: which is not a natural ecosystem (official answer: A) PDF
Q.105 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on ecosystems: meaning of 'constituent' (official answer: C) PDF
Q.106 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on an Atlantic rowing voyage: 'living on the ocean' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.107 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on an Atlantic rowing voyage: birds gathering at night (official answer: C) PDF
Q.108 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on an Atlantic rowing voyage: what the log recorded (official answer: A) PDF
Q.109 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on an Atlantic rowing voyage: why hope was lost (official answer: C) PDF
Q.110 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on an Atlantic rowing voyage: meaning of feeling humility (official answer: D) PDF
Q.1 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on China-Solomon Islands pact: China's objective (official answer: A) PDF
Q.2 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on China-Solomon Islands pact: doctrine the pact relates to (official answer: D) PDF
Q.3 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on China-Solomon Islands pact: meaning of not seeking hegemony (official answer: C) PDF
Q.4 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on China-Solomon Islands pact: meaning of 'square with that idea' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.5 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on China-Solomon Islands pact: meaning of 'strategic foothold' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.6 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on Glasgow carbon trading: what the trading system is (official answer: C) PDF
Q.7 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on Glasgow carbon trading: third issue on revenue share (official answer: A) PDF
Q.8 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on Glasgow carbon trading: forests as a carbon sink (official answer: A) PDF
Q.9 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on Glasgow carbon trading: concern over accounting integrity (official answer: A) PDF
Q.10 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on Glasgow carbon trading: meaning of 'protocol' (official answer: C) PDF
Q.11 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on RBI inflation outlook: volatile components of inflation (official answer: B) PDF
Q.12 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on RBI inflation outlook: why prices will not ease soon (official answer: A) PDF
Q.13 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on RBI inflation outlook: context of 'pass through' (official answer: A) PDF
Q.14 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on RBI inflation outlook: meaning of 'quotidian' (official answer: D) PDF
Q.15 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on RBI inflation outlook: meaning of 'unanchoring' (official answer: C) PDF

CDS2021

Q.21 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on conventional education: why it hinders independent thinking (official answer: A) PDF
Q.22 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on conventional education: question on bias or prejudice (official answer: B) PDF
Q.23 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on conventional education: what worshipping success leads to (official answer: C) PDF
Q.24 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on conventional education: why people seek a quiet corner (official answer: B) PDF
Q.25 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on conventional education: inference about yielding to environment (official answer: C) PDF
Q.26 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on trees as noise barriers: distance over which noise is cut (official answer: A) PDF
Q.27 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on trees as noise barriers: condition for trees to reduce noise (official answer: C) PDF
Q.28 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on trees as noise barriers: why a single tree layer fails (official answer: D) PDF
Q.29 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on trees as noise barriers: effect of taller trees (official answer: B) PDF
Q.30 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on trees as noise barriers: how shrubs and grass reduce noise (official answer: A) PDF
Q.11 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on happiness of birds and humans: why birds die in winter (official answer: A) PDF
Q.12 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on happiness of birds and humans: why birds do not foresee hardship (official answer: C) PDF
Q.13 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on happiness of birds and humans: why humans cannot be happy (official answer: D) PDF
Q.14 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on happiness of birds and humans: meaning of a word from the text (official answer: B) PDF
Q.15 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on happiness of birds and humans: factual detail from the text (official answer: C) PDF
Q.16 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on post-lockdown consumer outlook: general tone (official answer: A) PDF
Q.17 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on post-lockdown consumer outlook: what willingness to resume shows (official answer: D) PDF
Q.18 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on post-lockdown consumer outlook: phrase showing life goes on (official answer: C) PDF
Q.19 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on post-lockdown consumer outlook: reason for suppressed demand (official answer: A) PDF
Q.20 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Passage on post-lockdown consumer outlook: inference from the survey (official answer: B) PDF

CDS2020

Q.1 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: True statement on agriculture and civilization (official answer: A) PDF
Q.2 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why many people moved away from farming (official answer: C) PDF
Q.3 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Which farming societies became civilizations (official answer: A) PDF
Q.4 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How people were persuaded to take up new work (official answer: B) PDF
Q.5 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word in the passage meaning 'changeover' (official answer: A) PDF
Q.6 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Statement not true about readers' expectations (official answer: D) PDF
Q.7 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why expectations may blind a reader (official answer: A) PDF
Q.8 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: One way to improve reading habits (official answer: C) PDF
Q.9 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Quality the author wants in a good reader (official answer: A) PDF
Q.10 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word in the passage meaning 'viewpoints' (official answer: D) PDF
Q.1 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What post-colonialism is according to the passage (official answer: A) PDF
Q.2 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of women as object not subject (official answer: B) PDF
Q.3 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why women were never the observing eye (official answer: C) PDF
Q.4 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What contesting male dominance led to (official answer: A) PDF
Q.5 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word in the passage opposite to 'contrast' (official answer: D) PDF
Q.6 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why living types are amazing (official answer: A) PDF
Q.7 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the author mentions ecological conflict and cooperation (official answer: D) PDF
Q.8 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: True statement about the passage on life (official answer: A) PDF
Q.9 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What distinctive traits of organisms indicate (official answer: A) PDF
Q.10 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word in the passage meaning 'unique' (official answer: C) PDF

CDS2019

Q.51 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the Company encouraged export of Indian goods (official answer: C) PDF
Q.52 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the English used Indian cloth (official answer: B) PDF
Q.53 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What British makers did to counter Indian textiles (official answer: B) PDF
Q.54 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Source the author cites for demand of Indian textiles (official answer: C) PDF
Q.55 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of new technology in British textiles (official answer: C) PDF
Q.56 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Who the passage calls a liberation hero (official answer: C) PDF
Q.57 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Who supports Grace Mugabe (official answer: C) PDF
Q.58 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What revealed Mugabe's political weakness (official answer: C) PDF
Q.59 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why Zimbabwe's security forces acted (official answer: D) PDF
Q.60 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the military avoids calling it a coup (official answer: C) PDF
Q.61 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why people should stop over-eating (official answer: B) PDF
Q.62 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Group among whom over-eating is common (official answer: A) PDF
Q.63 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the writer asks readers to do (official answer: A) PDF
Q.64 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Best time for the evening meal (official answer: B) PDF
Q.65 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How many meals a day the passage suggests (official answer: D) PDF
Q.66 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why people over-eat according to the passage (official answer: A) PDF
Q.67 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What people should do about religion per the author (official answer: C) PDF
Q.68 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the Parliament of Religions represents (official answer: D) PDF
Q.69 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Author's view of those wanting one religion to survive (official answer: C) PDF
Q.70 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the impossible hope refers to (official answer: A) PDF
Q.104 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How mankind's evolutionary experience is described (official answer: B) PDF
Q.105 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of a line on man's complicated problems (official answer: C) PDF
Q.106 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why there were no labour problems in the hunting stage (official answer: B) PDF
Q.107 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How the pastoral stage showed economic activity (official answer: A) PDF
Q.108 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word in the passage meaning 'surfaced' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.109 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why land reform has been slow (official answer: A) PDF
Q.110 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Correct statements on land ceiling laws (official answer: A) PDF
Q.111 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why allottees sold their land (official answer: A) PDF
Q.112 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word in the passage meaning 'lawsuit' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.113 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Main livelihood of most Indians per the passage (official answer: C) PDF
Q.114 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of a line on landless farmers (official answer: C) PDF
Q.115 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Reason not given for better job satisfaction (official answer: D) PDF
Q.116 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What companies feel is needed in surveys (official answer: A) PDF
Q.117 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Main benefit of survey software packages (official answer: A) PDF
Q.118 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word in the passage meaning 'tendency' (official answer: A) PDF
Q.119 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why survey screens should be hidden (official answer: A) PDF
Q.120 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'customized' in the passage (official answer: A) PDF

CDS2018

Q.51 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Irony behind India's over-population (passage) (official answer: A) PDF
Q.52 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: General tone of the over-population passage (official answer: B) PDF
Q.53 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What hurts economic growth, per the author (official answer: C) PDF
Q.54 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Biggest reason for over-population, per the passage (official answer: D) PDF
Q.55 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Antonym of 'diluted' from the passage (official answer: D) PDF
Q.56 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Caterpillars that build shelters (passage) (official answer: A) PDF
Q.57 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Caterpillar that produces a sticky coating (official answer: B) PDF
Q.58 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word pair describing the caterpillar's enemies (official answer: B) PDF
Q.59 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Caterpillar that makes itself unpalatable (official answer: B) PDF
Q.60 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Main idea of the caterpillar passage (official answer: B) PDF
Q.61 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'the Orient and the Occident' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.62 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why India and Europe differed little in the 12th-13th century (official answer: D) PDF
Q.63 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Author's view of industrialisation (official answer: D) PDF
Q.64 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why mental life is deteriorating, per the author (official answer: D) PDF
Q.65 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Best title for the industrialisation passage (official answer: B) PDF
Q.66 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What Delhi's old law forbade (dog passage) (official answer: C) PDF
Q.67 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How the lady evaded the law (official answer: D) PDF
Q.68 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the pickpocket did on the bus (official answer: B) PDF
Q.69 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'wishing to evade the law' (official answer: A) PDF
Q.70 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the pickpocket cried out in pain (official answer: C) PDF
Q.21 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: True statements on curcumin, Alzheimer's and cognition (official answer: A) PDF
Q.22 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Group on whom curcumin had a positive effect (official answer: C) PDF
Q.23 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word in the curcumin passage meaning 'earlier' (official answer: D) PDF
Q.24 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What eating turmeric may do, per the passage (official answer: A) PDF
Q.25 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word for how common a disease is in a region (official answer: B) PDF
Q.26 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the Rowland Hill story is ironic (official answer: B) PDF
Q.27 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the woman returned the letter to the postman (official answer: C) PDF
Q.28 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why Mr. Hill paid the postage (official answer: A) PDF
Q.29 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the envelope contained (official answer: D) PDF
Q.30 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the woman and her brother had agreed (official answer: B) PDF
Q.31 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: People's attitude when we fear public opinion (official answer: D) PDF
Q.32 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the barking-dog comparison implies (official answer: D) PDF
Q.33 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Respect in which the author compares men with dogs (official answer: B) PDF
Q.34 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'you give promise of good hunting' (official answer: A) PDF
Q.35 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the author calls our age curious (official answer: D) PDF
Q.36 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why mob attacks on embassies are deplorable (official answer: C) PDF
Q.37 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: An aspect of mobs indulging in violence and arson (official answer: D) PDF
Q.38 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'demolition' in the passage (official answer: C) PDF

CDS2017

Q.89 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'wearily' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.90 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the seagull suffered (official answer: A) PDF
Q.91 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'wings were ragged bars of lead' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.92 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Lesson the seagull learnt that day (official answer: D) PDF
Q.93 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the writer likes motorcycle travel (official answer: D) PDF
Q.94 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Statement closest to truth on car travel (official answer: A) PDF
Q.95 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What 'it' refers to in the car sentence (official answer: C) PDF
Q.96 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Presence the writer refers to (official answer: A) PDF
Q.97 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'overwhelming' (official answer: A) PDF
Q.98 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the narrator could not sleep on the train (official answer: C) PDF
Q.99 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What he saw in the dim light (official answer: B) PDF
Q.100 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Word describing the traveller's condition (official answer: D) PDF
Q.101 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'struck dumb' (official answer: D) PDF
Q.102 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What kind of man Yuri appears to be (official answer: A) PDF
Q.103 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Assumptions about the cobra incident (official answer: A) PDF
Q.104 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Writer's belief about industrialisation (official answer: B) PDF
Q.105 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Term for clearing of forests (official answer: B) PDF
Q.106 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Results of industrial development per writer (official answer: D) PDF
Q.107 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What 'concrete jungle' suggests (official answer: A) PDF
Q.108 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why Tolstoy disparaged the Eiffel Tower (official answer: C) PDF
Q.109 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why Tolstoy thought tobacco worst of intoxicants (official answer: A) PDF
Q.110 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why people flocked to the Eiffel Tower (official answer: D) PDF
Q.51 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'intrigued' (official answer: B) PDF
Q.52 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What ice shelves are (official answer: A) PDF
Q.53 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What icebergs are (official answer: A) PDF
Q.54 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Colour of an iceberg turned upside down (official answer: A) PDF
Q.55 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What simple science helped man do (official answer: A) PDF
Q.56 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why nature now needs protection from man (official answer: B) PDF
Q.57 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why forests are being destroyed (official answer: D) PDF
Q.58 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How man's attack on nature is seen (official answer: C) PDF
Q.59 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Cause of climatic change and soil erosion (official answer: D) PDF
Q.60 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What helps women most to gain equality (official answer: C) PDF
Q.61 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the writer mentions the maidservant (official answer: D) PDF
Q.62 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Paragraph on women preferring not to work (official answer: A) PDF
Q.63 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What 'these liberties' refers to (official answer: B) PDF
Q.64 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Status of polio and TB in western societies (official answer: C) PDF
Q.65 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why more deaths now occur in old age (official answer: B) PDF
Q.66 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What explains changes in disease patterns (official answer: C) PDF
Q.67 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of poverty embracing many circumstances (official answer: A) PDF
Q.68 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How lack of information affects the poor (official answer: A) PDF
Q.69 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why cultural identity matters (official answer: A) PDF
Q.70 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of poor people being marginalised (official answer: C) PDF
Q.71 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Tone of the poverty passage (official answer: D) PDF

CDS2016

Q.91 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the writer believes about avoiding silly errors (official answer: B) PDF
Q.92 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Correct statement on Aristotle and women's teeth (official answer: B) PDF
Q.93 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the writer would do before writing on hedgehogs (official answer: B) PDF
Q.94 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Writer's view of old writers on unicorns (official answer: B) PDF
Q.95 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of 'dogmatic statement' in context (official answer: C) PDF
Q.96 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the man could not buy handkerchiefs (official answer: D) PDF
Q.97 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What he found when taking out the purse (official answer: C) PDF
Q.98 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the opening of the cave passage suggests (official answer: A) PDF
Q.99 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: His reaction on seeing two faint lights (official answer: B) PDF
Q.100 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What he finally saw in the cave (official answer: C) PDF
Q.101 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What people think real progress is (official answer: A) PDF
Q.102 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How science and technology should be used (official answer: B) PDF
Q.103 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What Eastern people must do per the author (official answer: C) PDF
Q.104 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Author's view of science and technology (official answer: D) PDF
Q.105 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Sum up the passage on luck versus labour (official answer: A) PDF
Q.106 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: True statement about the luck and labour passage (official answer: B) PDF
Q.107 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Meaning of labour turning out at six (official answer: A) PDF
Q.108 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Purpose of the exact sciences (official answer: D) PDF
Q.109 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What an exact theory of the universe would do (official answer: D) PDF
Q.110 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What is true in exact sciences (official answer: A) PDF
Q.111 (CDS (I) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How close classical mechanics comes to the ideal (official answer: D) PDF
Q.81 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How the power of art is judged over time (official answer: B) PDF
Q.82 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the Newton–Einstein example suggests (official answer: C) PDF
Q.83 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why generals and statesmen are likened to milestones (official answer: C) PDF
Q.84 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: How a work of art differs from a scientist's work (official answer: B) PDF
Q.85 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Main contention on whether men are stronger than women (official answer: C) PDF
Q.86 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why the strength dispute is meaningless (official answer: B) PDF
Q.87 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why women may be argued to be stronger (official answer: C) PDF
Q.88 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Statement most likely correct from the strength passage (official answer: D) PDF
Q.89 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Central theme of passage on no watertight compartments (official answer: C) PDF
Q.90 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Contextual meaning of 'watertight compartments' (official answer: D) PDF
Q.91 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Author's attitude to politicians' opinions (official answer: C) PDF
Q.92 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Implication of 'paradise to descend on earth' (official answer: A) PDF
Q.93 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why some men like to climb mountains (official answer: C) PDF
Q.94 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why climbing a mountain is difficult (official answer: D) PDF
Q.95 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What 'it' refers to in a wonderful feeling (official answer: D) PDF
Q.96 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why two Italian prisoners climbed Mount Kenya (official answer: D) PDF
Q.97 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Who is glorified most in history books (official answer: D) PDF
Q.98 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the phrase on helping civilization implies (official answer: D) PDF
Q.99 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: Why conquerors' figures top city pillars (official answer: B) PDF
Q.100 (CDS (II) English) · MCQ · Reading Comprehension: What the passage implies about greatest countries (official answer: D) PDF

FAQ

How many Comprehension questions come in CDS?

In the official papers we tagged: 35 in 2026, 20 in 2025, 25 in 2024, 20 in 2023, 25 in 2022, 20 in 2021, 20 in 2020, 37 in 2019, 38 in 2018, 43 in 2017 and 41 in 2016 (2 papers each year). That is 324 questions in all, about 12% of English.

Which Comprehension topics repeat in CDS?

Asked in the most papers: Reading Comprehension, Sentence Relationship, Statement Relationship. The concept table lists every one with its count.

Are these official CDS questions?

Yes. Every question is from an official CDS paper hosted on our year pages. The one-line summaries are ours; open the PDF linked beside each question for the full text.

Comprehension CDS PYQ Topic Wise (2016–2026)