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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.