# Fill in the Blanks and Cloze CDS PYQ Topic Wise (2016–2026)

> Fill in the Blanks and Cloze CDS PYQs: all 549 questions from 66 official papers (2016–2026), by concept with official answers. Asked in 11 of 11 years.

Source: https://previousyearquestions.app/cds/topics/cds-fill-blanks/

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## Answer first

Fill in the Blanks and Cloze PYQs (previous year questions) for CDS: Fill in the Blanks and Cloze (English) had **549 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: Cloze Test, Fill in the Blanks, Prepositions and Determiners.

## Year-wise question count

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## Most-asked concepts

Sorted by the number of papers a concept appeared in.

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## How to practise Fill in the Blanks and Cloze PYQs

1. Start with the concepts at the top of the table. They have come back the most.
2. Solve one year's Fill in the Blanks and Cloze questions from the official PDF against the clock, then check the answer listed below.
3. Log every miss as a concept gap, a calculation slip or a misread. Each needs a different fix.
4. 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.

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## Other English topics

- [Spotting Errors and Grammar PYQs](/cds/topics/cds-error-spotting/)
- [Synonyms, Antonyms and Idioms PYQs](/cds/topics/cds-vocabulary/)
- [Comprehension PYQs](/cds/topics/cds-comprehension/)
- [Sentence Arrangement and Improvement PYQs](/cds/topics/cds-sentence-arrangement/)

## FAQ

### How many Fill in the Blanks and Cloze questions come in CDS?
In the official papers we tagged: 20 in 2026, 40 in 2025, 45 in 2024, 60 in 2023, 80 in 2022, 80 in 2021, 40 in 2020, 44 in 2019, 50 in 2018, 30 in 2017 and 60 in 2016 (2 papers each year). That is 549 questions in all, about 21% of English.

### Which Fill in the Blanks and Cloze topics repeat in CDS?
Asked in the most papers: Cloze Test, Fill in the Blanks, Prepositions and Determiners. 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.