UPSC Civil Services Exam (CSE) Cut-off

The Civil Services Examination cutoff is the minimum qualifying standards or marks secured by the last recommended candidate in various categories at various stages.

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Wherever two or more candidates have secured equal aggregate marks, the tie has been resolved in accordance with the principles approved by the Commission:

  1. Candidate securing more marks in the Compulsory Papers and the Personality Test put together is to be ranked higher
  2. In case where the marks mentioned at (i) above are equal, the candidate senior in age is to be ranked higher
  3. In case where the (i) and (ii) above are same, then the candidate getting more marks in the compulsory papers is to be ranked higher

CSE 2019 Cutoff

  CS Prelims CS Mains CS Final
General 98.00 751 961
EWS 90.00 696 909
OBC 95.34 718 925
SC 82.00 706 898
ST 77.34 699 893
PwBD-1 53.34 663 861
PwBD-2 44.66 698 890
PwBD-3 40.66 374 653
PwBD-5 61.34 561 708

In prelims, the Cut off marks are on the basis of GS Paper-I only. GS Paper-II was of qualifying nature with 33% marks.

In Mains, the cutoff is subject to 10% marks in each of the seven competitive papers i.e. Essay, GS-I, GS-II, GS-III, GS-IV, Optional-I and Optional-II.

CSE 2016 Cutoff

CSAT or Civil Services Prelim Paper-II marks were not counted for the Mains selection. However, GS Paper-II was qualifying with 33% marks.

The minimum qualifying marks secured by the last recommended candidate in various categories at various stages are:

  CS Prelims CS Mains CS Final
General 116.00 787 988
OBC 110.66 745 951
SC 99.34 739 937
ST 96.00 730 920
PH-1 75.34 713 927
PH-2 72.66 740 951
PH-3 40.00 545 817

Subject to 10% marks in each of the seven competitive papers - Essay, GS-I, GS-II, GS-III, GS-IV, Optional-I and Optional-II.

CSE 2015 Cutoff

CSAT or Civil Services Prelim Paper-II marks were not counted in the Mains selection. The minimum qualifying marks secured by the last recommended candidate in various categories at various stages are as under:

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

Subject to 10% marks in each of the seven competitive papers - Essay, GS-I, GS-II, GS-III, GS-IV, Optional-I and Optional-II.

UPSC Civil Services Mains 2013 Cutoff

Category Mains (out of 1750) Final (out of 2025)
General 564 775
OBC 534 742
SC 518 719
ST 510 707
PH-1 510 725
PH-2 502 718
PH-3 410 613

UPSC CSE 2012 Cut-off

Final result for Civil Services Exam is combination of the mains written exam and the interview. Lets see marks obtained by qualified candidates (category-wise)

Category Written Exam Interview Overall Final Cut-off
  Lowest Highest Lowest Highest Lowest Highest
General 707  1013  90  245  936  1193 
OBC 689 918 90 240 911 1113
SC 664  854  100  225  870  1028 
ST 660  853  100  217  864  1059 

CSE Preliminary Exam (CSAT) Cutoff

You are qualified based on the combined score of Paper-I and Paper-II. However, you need minimum passing marks in both the papers. Below scores are out of 400.

Category CSAT 2013* CSAT 2012 CSAT 2011
General  241 209 198 
OBC  222 190  175 
SC  207 185  165 
ST 200 181 161
PH-1 199 160 135
PH-2 184 164 124
PH-3 163 111 96

*Subject to minimum of 30 marks in Paper-I and 70 marks in Paper-II.