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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