🔠 Economy MCQ Marathon: UPSC Prelims PYQ Solved — Pillar 1 Money Banking Finance by Dr.Mrunal Patel

- 👩🏻‍🏫 UPSC 1 Year Live Lectures for Prelims + Mains: https://unacademy.com/goal/upsc-civil-services-examination-ias-preparation/KSCGY/subscribe?plan_type=plus&referral_code=mrunal.org - 💾 Download the topicwise PYQ paperset https://unacademy.com/content/upsc/downloads/ - 📆 Free Annual economy updates Win26: https://Mrunal.org/win26 TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro 02:00 Four Wrong Mindsets 04:12 Goldfish and Attention Span 07:02 Lawyer Mindset 08:49 Birbal Guessmasters 13:27 Opposite Toolkit 21:00 Pillar 1A1 UPI Bitcoin CBDC 39:13 NFT MCQ 45:06 Pillar 1A2 Monetary Policy 47:10 Expansionary Policy 50:13 Open Market Operations 57:47 Pillar 1B2 NPA Bad Loans 01:07:16 Pillar 1B1 Bank NBFC Types 01:19:21 Pillar 1B2 RBI Functions 01:21:17 RBI Income wrong MCQ 01:29:41 Pillar 1C Capital Markets 01:49:14 Beta Coefficient 01:51:04 AIF Funds 02:03:26 Pillar 1D Insurance Pension 02:15:14 Kisan Credit Card 02:17:24 SHG NABARD 02:20:39 Conclusion DESCRIPTION: Dr. Mrunal Patel — UPSC Economy Educator and Senior VP, Unacademy — solves 2+ hours of UPSC IAS Prelims previous year economy questions from Pillar 1: Money, Banking, and Finance. Focus is on decoding the thought process, not just the answer key. FOUR WRONG MINDSETS: Goldfish (attention slips on directive words like NOT), Lawyer (hunting loopholes in plain-language statements), Birbal (multi-step reasoning chains UPSC uses as traps), Guessmaster (extreme-word tricks that backfire). Core strategy: if the opposite of a statement would cause public panic or collapse, the original is likely correct. Directive words change everything. TOPICS SOLVED: UPI, Bitcoin, CBDC, NFT — NFT is ownership proof, not money. Monetary Policy — RBI inflation band 2 to 6 percent, Repo, CRR, SLR, MSF, Open Market Operations, seigniorage, RBI Act Section 7. Banking — NPA, cooperative bank regulation, credit rating agencies under SEBI not RBI. Capital Markets — Beta coefficient, AIF categories, F&O risks. Financial Inclusion — Kisan Credit Card for short-term credit only, SHG Bank Linkage Programme launched by NABARD. Practice tests and free PYQ PDFs at Mrunal.org via Unacademy. Useful for: UPSC, SSC-CGL, State PSC, IBPS PO, RBI Grade B, CAPF, CDS, ACIO, APFC. ALTERNATIVE TITLES: 1. UPSC Prelims Economy PYQ Marathon — Pillar 1 Money Banking Finance Solved 2. How to Solve Economy MCQs for UPSC Prelims — RBI Monetary Policy Banking PYQ 3. Economy MCQ Strategy UPSC 2026 — Pillar 1 PYQ Logical Elimination Decoded TAGS: UPSC economy MCQ, UPSC prelims previous year questions, economy MCQ marathon, RBI monetary policy MCQ, UPSC 2026 prelims, Mrunal economy, money banking finance UPSC, CBDC MCQ UPSC, NFT economy UPSC, Kisan Credit Card MCQ, self help group UPSC, NPA banking UPSC, UPSC economy pillar 1, logical elimination UPSC MCQ, RBI section 7 UPSC, seigniorage MCQ, AIF SEBI UPSC, free UPSC economy lecture, Mrunal Patel, Unacademy UPSC, RBI grade B economy, SSC CGL economy, IBPS PO economy