Analysis of 2017 cut off marks of the civil service examination conducted by UPSC. Comparison of cutoff marks trend in last 3 years are detailed for a better understanding.

In the Civil Services Examination 2017, the minimum qualifying standards/marks secured by the last recommended candidate in various categories at various stages are as follows:-

IAS CUT OFF MARKS

Exam	General	OBC	SC	ST	PH1	PH2	PH3
CS (Prelims)	105.34	102.66	88.66	88.66	85.34	61.34	40.00
CS (Mains)	809	770	756	749	734	745	578
CS (Final)	1006	968	944	939	923	948	830

*Cut off marks 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, 2017.

# 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.

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PRELIMS CUTOFF COMPARISON

CATEGORY	2017	2016	2015
GENERAL	105.34	116	107.34
OBC	102.66	110.66	106.00
SC	88.66	99.34	94.00
ST	88.66	96.00	91.34
PH1	88.88	75.34	90.66
PH2	6.34	72.66	76.66
PH3	40.00	40.00	40.00

*Cut off marks 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, 2017.

MAINS CUTOFF COMPARISON

CATEGORY	2017 (Out of 1750)	2016	2015
GENERAL	809	787	676
OBC	770	745	630
SC	756	739	622
ST	749	730	617
PH1	734	713	580
PH2	745	740	627
PH3	548	545	504

# 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 and 25% marks in compulsory papers.

FINAL LIST CUTOFF COMPARISON

CATEGORY	2017	2016	2015
GENERAL	1006	988	877
OBC	968	951	834
SC	944	937	810
ST	939	920	801
PH1	923	927	802
PH2	948	951	830
PH3	830	817	697

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