UPSC IAS Exam cut off Prelims and Mains, Year Wise - 10 Years

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Cut Off Marks For UPSC Civil Services Exam Of Prelims and Mains Category Wise

Union Public Services Commission conducts civil services examinations to recruit eligible candidates for the posts of IAS, IPS, IFS, IRS, and other Group A and Group B of All India Services annually.

  • Candidates who clear prelims can sit for the main paper and similarly who clear the main exam can sit for an interview/personality test.

  • However, the candidate’s score in prelims will not be taken into consideration while preparing the Final Merit List.
  • IAS Main examination will be conducted Usually in September month across India.
  • The final merit list will be prepared to keep in the record, the candidate’s performance in the UPSC Mains and Personality Test i.e. Interview round.

Marks needed to qualify UPSC Civil Services Prelims and Mains have always been a topic of hot discussion and speculation. There are always different rumors around and many candidates are unclear about how UPSC fixes the bottom cut-off. So here in this post, we are discussing cut-off trends to give to better view.


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Civil Services examination-Prelims Cut-off Marks Yearwise

 

Year Cut-off Marks Percentage
2005 284/450 63.11
2006 282/450 62.66
2007 256/450 56.88
2008 244/450 54.22
2009 250/450 55.55
2010 248/450 55.11
2011 198/400 49.5
2012 209/400 52.25
2013 241/400 60.25
2014 205/400 51.25
2015 107.34/200 53.67
2016 116.00/200 58.00
2017 105.34/200 52.67
2018 98/200 49.00
2019 98/200 49.00
2020 92.51/200 46.25
2021 87.54/200 43.77
2022 88.22/200 44.11
2023 75.41 37.705

UPSC Prelims Cut Off Last 5 Years Category Wise

Category 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
General 75.41 88.22 87.54 92.51 98
OBC 74.75 87.54 89.12 89.12 95.34
ST 47.82 69.35 70.71 68.71 77.34
SC 59.25 74.08 75.41 74.84 82
PWD 1 40.40 49.84 68.02 70.06 53.34
PWD 2 47.13 58.59 67.33 63.94 44.66
PWD 3 40.40 40.40 43.09 40.82 61.34
PWD 5 33.68 41.76 45.80 42.86 61.34
EWS 68.02 82.83 80.14 77.55 90

 

Civil Services examination-Mains Cut Off Marks Trends Yearwise

 

Year Mains Marks Mains Percentage
 
Mains+Interview Mains+Interview Percentage
2005 986 49.3 1203 52.3
2006 975 48.75 1179 51.26
2007 1005 50.25 1210 52.6
2008 954 47.7 1161 50.47
2009 899 44.95 1127 49
2010 904 45.2 1134 49.3
2011 842 42.1 1090 47.39
2012 700 35 936 40.69
2013 562 [out of 1750] 32.1 775 [out of 2025] 38.27
2014 678 [out of 1750] 38.74 889 [out of 2025] 43.90
2015 676 [out of 1750] 38.62 877 [out of 2025] 43.30
2016 787 [out of 1750] 44.97 988 [out of 2025] 48.79
2017 809 [out of 1750] 46.22 1006 [out of 2025] 49.67
2018 774 [out of 1750] 44.22 982 [out of 2025] 48.49
2019 751  [out of 1750] 42.91 961[out of 2025] 47.45
2020 736  [out of 1750] 42.057 944[out of 2025] 46.61
2021 745  [out of 1750] 42.57 953[out of 2025] 47.061
2022 748 [out of 1750] 42.74 960[out of 2025] 47.40
2023 741 [out of 1750] 42.34 953[out of 2025] 47.061

 

UPSC Mains Cut Off for Previous 5 Years Category WIse

Category 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
GENERAL 741 748 745 736 751
OBC 712 714 707 698 718
ST 692 706 700 682 699
SC 694 699 700 680 706
PWD 1 673 677 688 648 663
PWD 2 718 706 712 699 698
PWD 3 396 351 388 425 374
PWD 5 445 419 560 300 561
EWS 706 715 713 687 696

Civil Services examination-Interview Marks Trends Yearwise

Till 2012 interview marks in the Civil Services examination, usually ranged from 90 to 245 out of the maximum possible score of 300. That meant the interview marks varied from 30 percent to 80 percent, which is a very big range. The median of the interview marks was in the 55-60 percent range.

From 2013, interview marks contribution in the Civil Services examination became 275. Generally, marks are awarded in the range of 45% to 75%. Rarely anyone gets marks below 45% and above 75%.

This many marks difference can be a game changer in the Civil Services examination. That is why the interview has its important in candidates's life.

UPSC Final Cut Off for Last 5 Years

Category 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
General 953 960 953 944 961
OBC 919 923 910 907 925
SC 890 893 886 875 898
ST 891 900 883 876 893
PWD 1 894 879 892 867 861
PWD 2 930 913 932 910 890
PWD 3 756 632 689 675 653
PWD 5 589 590 701 465 708
EWS 923 926 916 894 909

 


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Quoting from Civil Services Exam Rules:

Candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the Preliminary Examination as may be fixed by the Commission at their discretion shall be admitted to the Main Examination; and candidates who obtain such minimum qualifying marks in the Main Examination (Written) as may be fixed by the Commission at their discretion shall be summoned by them for an interview for personality test : Provided that candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes or Other Backward Classes may be summoned for an interview for a personality test by the Commission by applying relaxed standards in the Preliminary Examination as well as Main Examination (Written) if the Commission is of the opinion that sufficient number of candidates from these communities are not likely to be summoned for interview for a personality test on the basis of the general standard in order to fill up vacancies reserved for them.

 

Officially term ‘minimum qualifying mark’ is used instead of cut-off in the Civil Services examination. This minimum qualifying mark in the Civil Services examination is the mark of the last candidate who made it to the list at any one of the three stages.

UPSC normally calls for the Civil Services Mains Exam, 12-13 times the number of actual vacancies reported for the corresponding year.

Again, for the interview, UPSC will call about twice the number of candidates than the reported vacancies.

 

Percentage of All India Topper in UPSC Civil Services Exam was around 60 per cent some five-six years back – when there were 2 optional subjects.

But it began to fall down later, obviously due to tougher questions, tougher evaluations, reduction in optional subject marks, and obviously due to lack of right resources to study General studies!

In 2013, the Topper’s percentage was aprrox 48% and the last recommended candidate in general category scored 38%. In 2018, the toppers percentage is 55% while that of the last recommended general category candidate is 49%.

In Future, If questions are easy, and evaluation is liberal, the cut-offs may increase.

 

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