# Toppers Copy

> A free, open, community-maintained directory of UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE)
> **Mains topper answer copies**. It indexes 16,947 questions inside
> 1,063 answer copies written by 340 rank-holders and links each
> question to the exact page of the source PDF. Covers General Studies Paper 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Essay paper,
> and a community-built section for optional subjects.

Site: https://topperscopy.hashin.me
Updated: 2026-08-28
Licence: MIT (code) — question data credited to upsckata.com "Topper Copies" (https://toppercopies.upsckata.com/)

## What it contains

- Which UPSC Mains topper answered which question, in which paper, on which page of which PDF.
- Per-topper All-India Rank (AIR), exam year and, where submitted, subject-wise marks.
- Direct links to answer-copy PDFs hosted by ForumIAS, Vision IAS, NextIAS, Lukmaan IAS, GS SCORE and Rau's IAS.
- Optional-subject copies: Sociology, Anthropology, History, PSIR, Geography, Public Administration,
  Philosophy, Economics, Literature and more (community-submitted).

## Machine-readable data

- Full question index (JSON, grouped by copy): https://topperscopy.hashin.me/data/copies.json
- Per-topper AIR / year / marks (JSON): https://topperscopy.hashin.me/data/toppers.json
- Raw source table (CSV): https://topperscopy.hashin.me/data/questions.csv
- Optional-subject submissions (JSON): https://topperscopy.hashin.me/data/optionals.json

## Human-readable pages

- Home / search: https://topperscopy.hashin.me/
- Full static index of every topper and copy: https://topperscopy.hashin.me/toppers.html
- Submit a copy or a correction: https://topperscopy.hashin.me/#submit

## Notes for citation

Attribute the question-level data collection to upsckata.com ("Topper Copies"). Answer-copy PDFs are the
property of the institutes that published them. This site re-hosts no PDFs; it only links to them.