The last few weeks have been heavy on shipping. Three changes are worth flagging in particular — one is a new exam, one is a new feature category, and one is the kind of unglamorous infrastructure work that you only notice if it's broken. Here's what's live.
UPSC Is Now a Featured Exam
UPSC has been promoted to a featured slot in the main navigation alongside our existing state PSC line-up. Behind it is a fully seeded PYQ database covering Civil Services Prelims Paper 1, which means the same heatmap, practice, and analytics layer that powers our state PSC experience now works for UPSC aspirants without any compromises. The exam dropdown also now correctly routes signed-out users into the auth flow before deep-linking them into UPSC content, so the first-touch experience is clean.
AI Study Notes, Shipped
AI-powered Study Notes are live across all eight supported exams. Every subtopic page now carries a six-section briefing — Summary, Key Concepts, Must-Know Facts, Exam Patterns, Common Traps, Year Highlights — generated from the PYQ database itself. The hub is reachable from the main nav and from a new CTA placed on every exam landing page, so you can move from "this exam looks relevant" to "these are the topics the papers actually love" in one click. If you want the full breakdown of what's inside a Study Note, we wrote that up separately.
Behind the Scenes — Indexing You Won't See
We spent a chunk of time on the parts of the site that are invisible until they go wrong. Every Study Notes route now emits a correct canonical URL, current affairs archive pages serve a real last-modified date instead of always reporting today, and a batch of Google Search Console duplicate-canonical and redirect-status warnings has been cleared. None of this changes what the app does — it changes what search engines understand the app to be, which means the content you discover from a Google search is more likely to point at the right page on the first try.
What's Next
The roadmap continues to centre on depth over breadth — more papers per exam, more Mains coverage where it's missing, and a tighter loop between Study Notes and the diagnostic. We're not announcing new exams in this batch; the focus is making the eight we already support sharper.
Try the new Study Notes hub from your dashboard. If you're a UPSC aspirant who held off because the depth wasn't there yet, the depth is there now.