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Civil Services Examination 2016: Minimum Qualifying Marks (Cut-Off Marks)

admin Last Update on: 08 Jun 2019

As a part of preparation strategy, Cut-off marks give a rough idea about the current trends at various stages of the examination.

Before commencing preparation for Civil Services Examination, majority of candidates keeps an eye on Cut-off for current as well as previous years that helps them in formulating preparation-plan.

Minimum Qualifying Marks (Cut-off marks) for Civil Services Examination 2016 have been released by Union Public Service Commission.

It indicates the cut-off for various stages of the examination i.e. Preliminary Examination, Main Examination (Written) and the Final cut-off for various categories.

The aspirants for forthcoming Civil Services Examination would be immensely benefited with this information as it clearly gives an idea about the minimum qualifying standards/Marks secured by the last recommended candidate in various categories at various stages of the examination.

The minimum qualifying marks at various stages for various communities have been as under:

Exam	General	OBC	SC	ST	PH-1	PH-2	PH-3
CS Prelims*	116.00	110.66	99.34	96	75.34	72.66	40.00
CS Mains #	787	745	739	730	713	740	545
CS Final	988	951	937	920	927	951	817

* Cut off marks on the basis of GS Paper-I only. However, GS Paper-II was qualifying with 33% (66.66 marks)

# 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.

The Cut-off for final selection in Civil Services Examination 2016 has witnessed a steep surge. For General category candidates it stood at 988 showing an increase of 111 marks over CSE 2015 Cut-off (877).

Even, minimum qualifying marks for Preliminary as well as Main Examination have also gone up.