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Dear Friends,
UPSC has released UPSC Civil Services 2020 official Cut-off marks. Cut-off marks are minimum qualifying standards/marks secured by the last recommended candidate in various categories. Cut-off marks of Prelims are provided on the basis of GS Paper-I only. GS Paper-II was of qualifying nature with 33% marks as per Rule-15 of Civil Services Examination, 2020. You can also download the official UPSC documents from the link.
UPSC Civil Services 2020 Cut off
| Exam | General | EWS | OBC | SC | ST | PwBD-1 | PwBD-2 | PwBD-3 |
| CS (Prelims) | 92.51 | 77.55 | 89.12 | 74.84 | 68.71 | 70.06 | 63.94 | 40.82 |
| CS (Mains) | 736 | 687 | 698 | 680 | 682 | 648 | 699 | 425 |
| CS (Final) | 944 | 894 | 907 | 875 | 876 | 867 | 910 | 675 |
Download – UPSC Civil services 2020 cut off
Analysis of UPSC Civil Services Cut-off since 2016
| Exam | 2020 (Gen. | OBC | SC | ST | EWS) | 2019 (Gen. | OBC | SC | ST | EWS) | 2018 (Gen. | OBC | SC | ST) | 2017 (Gen. | OBC | SC | ST) | 2016 (Gen. | OBC | SC | ST) |
| CS(Prel.) | 92 | 89 | 74 | 68 | 77 | 98 | 95 | 82 | 77 | 90 | 98 | 96 | 84 | 83 | 105 | 102 | 88 | 88 | 116 | 110 | 99 | 96 |
| CS(Main) | 736 | 698 | 680 | 682 | 687 | 751 | 718 | 706 | 699 | 696 | 774 | 732 | 719 719 | 809 | 770 | 756 | 749 | 787 | 745 | 739 | 730 |
| CS(Final) | 944 | 907 | 875 | 876 | 894 | 961 | 925 | 898 | 893 | 909 | 982 | 938 | 912 | 912 | 1006 | 968 | 944 | 939 | 988 | 951 | 937 | 920 |
*Note: We have round off some figures due to space crunch.
Key Takeaways:
- The cut-off for Civil Services Prelims is consistently reducing since 2016. It signifies the increasing difficulty level of the UPSC Prelims Questions.
- For Civil Services mains the cut-off jumped once in 2017, however, it is also decreasing after that.
- Further, with the increasing availability of study material, and the number of candidates, the cut-off is not increasing. It means that the majority of the candidates are not able to solve the UPSC question papers from the available material, otherwise, the cut-off would have been much higher.
