Civil Services Exam Cut off Marks 2021-Expected

Civil Services Exam Cut off Marks 2022-Expected

UPSC releases the cut-offs for Civil Services Exam to limit the number of applicants for the recruitment. Cut-offs is the selection parameters that applicants have to fulfill to get recruited for the posts of Indian Administrative officer. The interested applicants can check out more about the impacts of cut-offs on the selection procedure in this article below.

Cut off Stages

Cut off marks will be applied at all the 3 stages, Preliminary, Main & Personal Interview. Civil Services Exam 2021 cut off applications of all the stages are mentioned below. The applicants must note that “qualifying” means he/she has crossed the cut-off limit by scoring marks either equal or more than that cut off marks.

• Preliminary exam- The qualified applicants will be selected for the Main exam.
• Main exam- The qualified applicants will be selected for a personal interview.
• Personal Interview- qualified applicants will be selected for recruitment.

Cut off marks impact on the selection procedure

If an applicant scored less than the cut off then he/she will not be selected for the next round of the recruitment process. Hence, it is very important to cross the cut off restriction to get qualify for the next round of the selection process. The higher the difference of marks, the greater will be the chance of final selection.

What are the factors that decide to cut off marks?

There are various factors (such as No. of applicants, No. of the available post, the difficulty level of exam, previous year recruitment figures, marking scheme & reservation norms, etc.) that were taken into account to decide the cut off for IAS 2015.

Previous Years Cut off Marks

Civil Services Exam 2015

Exam	General	OBC	SC	ST	PH-1	PH-2	PH-3
CSE(Pre)	107.34	106.00	94.00	91.34	90.66	76.66	40.00
CSE(Main)	676	630	622	617	580	627	504
CSE(Final)	877	834	810	801	802	830	697

Civil Services Exam Cut off Marks 2013 (Preliminary)

Category	Cut off (out of 400)
General applicants	241
OBC applicants	222
SC applicants	207
ST applicants	201
Orthopedically handicapped applicants	199
Visually impaired applicants	184
Hearing impaired applicants	163

Civil Services Exam Cut off Marks 2013 (Main)

Category	Cut off (Out of 1750)
General applicants	564
OBC applicants	534
SC applicants	518
ST applicants	510
Orthopedically handicapped applicants	510
Visually impaired applicants	502
Hearing impaired applicants	410

Civil Services Exam Cut off Marks 2013 (Final Selection)

Category	Cut off (Out of 2025)
General applicants	775
OBC applicants	742
SC applicants	719
ST applicants	707
Orthopedically handicapped applicants	725
Visually impaired applicants	718
Hearing impaired applicants	613

Cut off Marks 2014 (Preliminary)

Category	Cut off (out of 400)
General applicants	245
OBC applicants	226
SC applicants	212
ST applicants	208
Orthopedically handicapped applicants	201
Visually impaired applicants	190
Hearing impaired applicants	172