Editorial Policy

Every article on RaahUPSC is written fresh for this site. Our writers research a topic across multiple sources — official documents, reports, and reputable journalism — and then write the piece in their own words. We never copy, scrape, spin, or lightly paraphrase other publications, and we never publish AI-generated article text as editorial content.

Definitions of standard terms and descriptions of public facts are, of course, facts — but the prose around them is ours. Where we draw on a specific report or dataset, we say so in the text.

Before publication, each piece is checked for:

• Dates and figures — verified against the primary source (RBI releases, government data, official reports) wherever possible.
• Legal provisions — article numbers, act sections, and case names checked against the text of the Constitution, bare acts, or court judgments.
• Names and titles — people, places, committees, and institutions spelled and described correctly.
• Internal consistency — figures cited in the text match the figures in our diagrams, timelines, and infographics.

Current-affairs stories are additionally checked for freshness: feeds sometimes carry recycled or dated stories, and anything not from the last 48 hours is excluded unless it is genuinely evergreen.

PYQs attached to articles are drawn from publicly available UPSC question papers. Years attributed to a question reflect the year that question appeared. We do not invent PYQs, and we do not present practice questions as previous-year questions. Official UPSC answer keys remain the authority where they exist.

The UPSC syllabus rewards current knowledge, so staleness is treated as a defect. We refresh statistics in high-traffic articles, maintain current-affairs links, and publish the Daily Brief every morning. Each page carries its publication date so readers can judge freshness for themselves.

When we get something wrong, we fix it — promptly and without fuss. Here is how it works:

• Report: write to us through our contact page, including the page URL and what is wrong.
• Verify: we check the claim against a primary source before changing anything.
• Correct: verified errors are corrected in the article, usually within two working days.
• Record: for significant factual corrections, we note the correction so readers can see what changed.

We do not silently rewrite history: if a correction changes the meaning of a passage, the change is visible.

RaahUPSC accepts advertising, including through Google AdSense, and sells optional paid products such as test series. None of this influences editorial content:

• Advertisers do not review, approve, or see articles before publication.
• We do not publish sponsored articles disguised as editorial content. Any paid content, if it ever exists, will be clearly labelled.
• We are not affiliated with any coaching institute, and we never name or promote coaching brands in our content.
• Rankings, comparisons, and recommendations on this site reflect our own editorial judgment.

Two parts of RaahUPSC involve AI, and we want to be explicit about both:

• Articles and briefs are human-written. AI tools may assist with research organisation or drafting structure, but every published article and every Daily Brief item is written, checked, and approved by a human editor. We do not publish raw AI output as content.
• Ask Raah answers are AI-generated. Our study assistant composes answers from our own published articles at the moment you ask. Those answers are generated on the fly, carry citations to their source articles, and the assistant declines when the articles don't cover the question. See our Disclaimer for how to use them responsibly.

We keep Prelims and Mains content on separate tracks, the way the examination does. Factual recall material (Prelims) and analytical, answer-writing material (Mains) are labelled as such, so readers always know which skill a piece of content is building.

If anything here is unclear, or you believe we have fallen short of these standards, please tell us. This page itself is reviewed whenever our process changes.