Previous Year’s Civil Service IAS Cutoff

Union Public Service Commission conducts Indian Administrative Services (IAS), every year. IAS officers holds a reputed and key position in Union Government, State Government and Public Sector Undertaking as well. A candidate who is once selected for the Civil Services will become ineligible to appear again in the exam. Along with Indian Police and Forest Services, IAS is one of the three All India Services. As the position is quite respectful and reputed, therefore the number of candidates applying for this exam is quite high. To delimit the candidates appeared for the exam, UPSC decided a Civil Service IAS Cutoff benchmark. This benchmark is basically set to select the best and deserving candidates for the further rounds. As the post is quite sensitive and full of responsibilities therefore the selection process has to be quite rigorous and extreme so that only well qualified and deserved candidates get recruited. Candidates will have to prepare quite well to crack the written exam and proceed to other further rounds.

Civil Service IAS Cutoff Stages:

Basically Civil Service IAS Cutoff marks are applicable at three stages. First it is applied to prelim exam, then to main exam and then finally for the personal interview round. Candidates will have to score marks as per the cutoff criteria in all the rounds so as to qualify for next rounds. If in case marks scored by candidates are just equal to cutoff marks, then candidate will be considered qualified in that case as well.

Significance Of Civil Service IAS Cutoff

Till now it is clear that Civil Service IAS 2016 Cutoff is quite an important part of the exam. Candidates those who succeed in scoring marks as per the cutoff criteria will only be considered eligible. All the other candidates will be disqualified from the selection rounds. Higher the difference in cutoff marks and candidate's marks, more is their chances of selection. Candidates must notice that scoring good marks in only one section will not help them to go through all the selection rounds. Candidates will have to perform well in all the rounds till they are selected finally.

Deciding The Civil Service IAS Cutoff Marks

Civil Service IAS Cutoff 2016  is just a number but it took a lot of experts and their guidance for deciding the cutoff marks. There are various facts that are considered by the exerts for deciding the cutoff marks. Factors like:

1. total application for the exam;

2. actual attendance in the exam;

3. total vacancies;

4. difficulty level of exam;

5. previous year cutoff marks; etc.

All the IAS Exam factors are deeply examined by these experts before reaching to the final cutoff result. Below we have provided the tables for the previous year Civil Service IAS Cutoff marks so that candidates can have an idea of cutoff marks and the level of efforts and preparations required for the exam.

Civil Service IAS Cutoff Marks for Prelims – 2014

Serial             Category                                  Cutoff (Out of 400)
1                  General                                     245
2              OBC (Other Backward Classes)        226
3              SC (Scheduled Caste)                     212
4              ST (Scheduled Tribe)                     208
5             Orthopedically handicapped             201
6             Visually impaired                            190
7             Hearing impaired                            172

Civil Service IAS Cutoff Marks for Prelims – 2013


Serial           Category                            Cutoff (Out of 400)
1               General                                  241
2        OBC (Other Backward Classes)        222
3        SC (Scheduled Caste)                     207
4        ST (Scheduled Tribe)                      201
5       Orthopedically handicapped              199
6       Visually impaired                             184
7       Hearing impaired                             163

Civil Service IAS Cutoff Marks for Main – 2013

Serial          Category                            Cutoff (Out of 1750)
1               General                                 564
2         OBC (Other Backward Classes)      534
3         SC (Scheduled Caste)                   518
4         ST (Scheduled Tribe)                   510
5         Orthopedically handicapped          510
6         Visually impaired                         502
7         Hearing impaired                         410

Civil Service IAS Cutoff Marks for Final Selection – 2013

Serial           Category                             Cutoff (Out of 2025)
1               General                                  775
2          OBC (Other Backward Classes)      742
3          SC (Scheduled Caste)                   719
4          ST (Scheduled Tribe)                   707
5        Orthopedically handicapped              725
6        Visually impaired                             718
7        Hearing impaired                            613