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UPSC Cut-off Marks 2019 Released-Less than 50% is required to get the final selection

10th August, 2020

Recently UPSC released cut-off for prelims, Mains as well as final cut-off for UPSC Civil Services Examination 2019.

You just needed 49% marks to clear first stage and 47.45% marks to get final selection.Note:

  • Cut-off is calculated based on only marks of GS-I paper of the prelims examination.
  • GS-II or CSAT paper is of qualifying nature, as one has to score minimum 33% marks to qualify. Person scoring below 33% marks will be disqualified from the examination irrespective of marks in GS-I.

Prelims cut-off from 2015 to 2019 (based on GS-I marks out of 200 marks)

Year

General

OBC

EWS

SC

ST

PwBD-1

PwBD-2

PwBD-3

PwBD-5

2015

107.34

106.00

-

94.00

91.34

90.66

76.66

40.00

-

2016

116.00

110.66

-

99.34

96.00

75.34

72.66

40.00

-

2017

105.34

102.66

-

88.66

88.66

85.34

61.34

40.00

-

2018

98.00

96.66

-

84.00

83.34

73.34

53.34

40.00

-

2019

98.00

95.34

90.00

82.00

77.34

53.34

44.66

40.66

61.34

 

Trend Analysis

  • Prelims cut-off for General, OBC, SC and ST is showing a decline trend from 2017 and the same trend is observed in 2019.

Analysis of prelims 2019 cut-off

  • A General category candidate was required to score just 49% marks to clear the prelims 2019 cut-off.
  • An OBC category candidate was required to score just 47.67% marks to clear the prelims 2019 cut-off.
  • A SC category candidate was required to score just 41% marks to clear the prelims 2019 cut-off.
  • A ST category candidate was required to score just 38.67% marks to clear the prelims 2019 cut-off.
  • There is marginal difference between cut-off of OBC and General category but there is huge difference (8 marks) between cut-off of General and EWS category and between general and SC/ST (around 14 marks difference).

Mains cut-off from 2015 to 2019 (Out of 1750 marks)

Year

General

OBC

EWS

SC

ST

PwBD-1

PwBD-2

PwBD-3

PwBD-5

2015

676

630

-

622

617

580

627

504

-

2016

787

745

 

739

730

713

740

545

-

2017

809

770

-

756

749

734

745

578

-

2018

774

732

-

719

719

711

696

520

460

2019

751

718

696

706

699

663

698

374

561

 

Analysis

  • Mains 2019 cut-off for all categories except PwBD-2 and PwBD-5 decreased as comparison to Mains 2018 cut-off.
  • For general category cut-off marks dipped by 23 marks and for OBC, SC and ST by 14, 13 and 20 marks respectively.
  • One just needed 91% marks to clear the cut-off in general category and 41%, 40.34%, 39.94%, 39.77% for OBC, SC, ST and EWS category respectively.
  • Interesting point to be noted is the cut-off of EWS category, which is less than even ST category.

Final cut-off from 2015 to 2019 (Out of 2025 marks)

Year

General

OBC

EWS

SC

ST

PwBD-1

PwBD-2

PwBD-3

PwBD-5

2015

877

834

-

810

801

802

830

697

-

2016

988

951

 

937

920

927

951

817

-

2017

1006

968

-

944

939

923

948

830

-

2018

982

938

-

912

912

899

908

754

718

2019

961

925

909

898

893

861

890

653

708

 

Analysis

  • Final CSE 2019 cut-off decreased for all categories in comparison to final CSE 2018 cut-off.
  • For general category final cut-off marks dipped by 21 marks and for OBC, SC and ST it got dipped by 13, 14 and 19 marks respectively.
  • One just needed 45% marks to get into the list in general category and 45.67%, 44.34%, 42.58%, 44.88% for OBC, SC, ST and EWS category respectively.
  • The OBC cut-off was 36 marks less than the general category cut-off and the SC and ST category cut-off was less by 63 and 68 marks respectively as compared to the general category cut off.

Conclusion

  • One just needed 45% marks to get into the list of the selected candidates from open category.
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