Short answer: revise first the topics that appeared in more than one recent RAS Prelims paper and are still in the 2026 syllabus. That means Rajasthan saints, sects and folk deities, peasant and Praja Mandal movements, Rajasthan literature, Rajasthan's Governor, Chief Ministers and commissions, the state budget and welfare schemes, Rajasthan rivers and minerals, directive principles and the Constituent Assembly, and the fixed reasoning and maths question types. Then give a short pass to topics newly named in 2026.

The repeats below come from our question-by-question analysis of the 2021, 2023 and 2024 papers. The 2026 status comes from RPSC's syllabus of 9 January 2026; see the line-by-line syllabus comparison. "Repeated" is a pattern, not a guarantee that a topic will be asked again.

Rajasthan history, art and culture

  • Saints, sects and folk deities (asked in all three papers): Dadu Panth, Laldasi and Ramsnehi sects, Bishnoi and Jasnathi, and the pairs Ramdevji, Pabuji and Tejaji.
  • Peasant and people's movements (all three): Bijolia, the Praja Mandals, and the formation of the Matsya Union.
  • Rajasthani literature (all three): raso literature, Kuvalayamala, Achaldas Khichi ri Vachanika, books and authors.
  • Painting schools, music and folk instruments: painters and styles, and folk artists and their instruments.
  • Forts, temples and archaeological sites: hill forts, Ahar, Bairath and recent excavations.
  • Newly named in 2026: sources of Rajasthan history (inscriptions, coins, archival and literary sources); the dynasties' cooperation and resistance with the central power.

Indian history

  • Vijayanagara and Krishnadevaraya: asked in all three papers.
  • Ancient India: Mauryan art, the Guptas, Buddhist and Jain texts and doctrines, the Ajivikas.
  • The national movement: conspiracy cases, Congress sessions, the moderate phase, Quit India, reform societies.
  • Newly named in 2026: the Indian knowledge and value system; British imperialism and resistance (Maratha, Mysore, Sikh) and 1857; nation-building and economic reforms up to 2000.

Polity and Rajasthan administration

  • Directive principles with article numbers and the Constituent Assembly: all three papers.
  • Governor of Rajasthan, including the Rajpramukh, and Rajasthan's Chief Ministers: all three papers.
  • Rajasthan Public Service Commission: all three papers.
  • State Human Rights Commission: asked in all three, though no longer named in the 2026 Rajasthan list. Keep it.
  • State Election and Information Commissions, Lokayukta, Panchayati Raj.
  • Newly named in 2026: Union–State relations and emergency provisions; citizenship; UPSC, NCW and NCPCR; the district and state administrative hierarchy, Advocate General, Board of Revenue and State Women Commission.

Economy

  • Rajasthan's own welfare schemes: 4–6 questions in every recent paper, always on the sitting government's schemes. Revise the current government's flagship schemes.
  • The latest Rajasthan Economic Review and state budget: GSDP share, per-capita income, sector shares and state policies announced in the year.
  • Indexes: the World Happiness Index was asked in all three papers. Ease of Doing Business appeared in 2021 and 2024.
  • Newly named in 2026: the Union Budget and resource mobilisation; fiscal federalism and the Finance Commission; the State Finance Commission.

Geography

  • Rajasthan rivers, lakes and irrigation projects, plus minerals and where they are mined: in every paper.
  • Population data: sex ratio, literacy, SC/ST population, districts in order.
  • Protected areas and biodiversity: sanctuaries, conservation reserves, wetlands.
  • Five India and three world questions every year: Himalayan ranges, rivers, monsoon, deserts, lakes and countries, industrial regions.

Science and technology

  • Diseases and their causes (malaria was asked in 2021 and 2023), vitamins and nutrition, health programmes.
  • Emerging technology: quantum dots (2021 and 2023), AI, IoT, file formats.
  • Defence and space: recent missiles, radars and satellite launches.
  • Environment: El Niño and La Niña, the IUCN Red List, AQI, forest reports.
  • Newly named in 2026: inheritance and variation; S&T policies of Rajasthan and India; contributions of Indian scientists.

Reasoning and maths (about 20 questions)

  • Asked in all three papers: simple vs compound interest, probability, blood relations, coding-decoding.
  • Regular: statement-assumption, conclusion and course of action, Venn diagrams, permutations and combinations, data interpretation.
  • Mirror images (2023 and 2024) are no longer named in the 2026 syllabus. Ranking and seating, critical reasoning and profit and loss are newly named.

Current affairs (20 questions)

  • Every recent paper had 4–5 sports questions and 4–5 Rajasthan questions.
  • Awards, appointments, indexes and reports, new apps and portals, defence exercises.
  • Newly named in 2026: the Rajasthan Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Act, 2022.

How to use this checklist

  1. Tick each line when you can explain it without notes.
  2. Test the ticked lines with a full-length paper. Our free RAS Prelims mock tests follow the 150-question format.
  3. Untick anything you got wrong and revise it again in the next cycle of the last 25 days plan.