IAS Expected Cutoff 2024: Cutoffs for SC, ST, OBC & General

The candidates will get here the IAS expected cutoff 2024 after the first session of exam. 

The Union Public Service Commission released the CSE (IAS) cutoff 2023 on its official website. As expected, the IAS cutoff for the prelims exam remained low. The Commission mentioned the IAS cutoff marks for all the categories and for all the stages of exam. The Commission mentioned that the minimum marks required to qualify the IAS main exam were "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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The IAS result 2024 for the 2023 session was released on April 16, 2024. The Ministry of Personnel will release the UPSC rank-wise post list 2023 later. The Commission mentions the number of candidates selected in the final merit list under each category and the number of candidates kept in the IAS reserve list. 

The UPSC released the IAS cutoff 2023 for the prelims and main exam separately on Apri; 18, 2024. The candidates can see below the IAS prelims and main cutoff:

The IAS prelims cutoff remained a little less in comparison to its previous year.

IAS Main Cutoff 2023

The candidates can see below the IAS Main Cutoff 2023 as released by the Union Public Service Commission:

The Commission released the IAS 2023 notification on February 1, 2023, mentioning over 1,105 vacancies. As the number of vacancies is large, the expected cutoff for prelims is expected to remain low. The Commission asked conceptual and analytical questions in the prelims paper. The Commission also extended the new pattern of answer options in most of the questions. The candidates found it complex to answer such options. The new answer options require more conceptual clarity of the exam. The candidates can see here the IAS cutoff for all the categories. The Commission will release the IAS answer key (official) after the declaration of the final result. IAS exam 2023 was notified on February 1.

The General Studies paper 2 of the IAS prelims exam was made qualifying in 2015 and its marks are not considered for the IAS prelims merit and cutoff. IAS prelims serve as the screening exam for the successive stage. But sometimes even the deserving candidates are filtered out even by the margin of one mark. So the candidates are advised to do IAS preparation with full concentration to cement their place. 

Following is the IAS prelims cut-off trend over the years.

The maximum marks considered for the IAS prelims cut off is 200 only.
In 2014, the total marks were 400 for the IAS prelims.

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The candidates can see here this illustration on IAS Prelims Cutoff trend

IAS Prelims Cutoff Trends 2014-23

IAS main comprised of the written exam and the personality test. The IAS main cutoff (written) is the main benchmark that decided the selection in the IAS exam. Following are the IAS main cutoff trends over the years. The maximum marks for the IAS main are 1750.

The candidates who qualify in the IAS main exam are called for the IAS personality test. The IAS interview is of 275 marks, so the final IAS cut off is derived for the maximum marks of 2025.

The candidates can check here IAS Cutoff for previous years.

IAS Cutoff 2022

IAS Cutoff 2022 was released by the Commission in May 2023. The Union Public Service Commission released the IAS cutoff 2022 for prelims and mains examination in the cutoff pdf. The candidates can see here the IAS prelims and mains cutoff 2022. With the help of IAS answer key, the candidates can calculate their marks and compare their marks with their category cutoff. For the unreserved category, the IAS prelims cutoff was 88.22 marks. For the same category, the IAS main cutoff 2022 was 748 marks. The final UPSC Cutoff 2022 for the selection in the IAS exam 2022 was 960 out of 2025. The IAS cutoff 2022 has been increased for all the major categories by approximately 2 marks in spite of the higher number of categories.

IAS cutoff 2022 will be released shortly. The IAS cutoff is the mark of the last selected candidate in a particular category. The Commission arrives at the cutoff marks after arranging the candidates in the order of their merit and selecting the required number of candidates for the final selection. The merit list is cut for the required number and hence the marks of the last selected candidate is called as a cutoff mark. The Commission released the IAS result 2022 on May 23. Ishita Kishore secured Rank 1 in the Coveted Civil Service Exam 2022. Garima Lohia secured rank 2 in the exam. Uma Harithi N achieved rank 3 in the exam. The Commission released the list of the UPSC toppers in the result pdf. The candidates can see here the category-wise IAS cutoff 2022 for the prelims and main exam. 

*Cut off marks on the basis of GS Paper-I only. GS Paper-II was of a qualifying nature with 33% marks as per Rule-15 of Civil Services Examination, 2022.

IAS Main Cutoff 2022

The Commission released the IAS main cutoff 2022 separately for the main(written) and the interview stage. The candidates can see below the IAs cutoff 2022 for the mains exam as summarised below:

& 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.

IAS cutoff 2022 defines the difficulty level of the exam. Low cutoff means the paper was difficult. IAS cutoff 2022 for the prelims exam is expected to remain low due to two reasons. First, the IAS prelims question paper was more difficult in comparison to the previous year and secondly, the number of vacancies is more than 1,000 this year which is the largest number in the recent past. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) will release the official cutoff after the completion of the exam result. IAS prelims result 2022 was declared on June 22 mentioning the roll number of the candidates.

Shruti Sharma shared her strategy for IAS preparation. IAS cutoff is dependent on three important factors. The expected cutoff for the IAS 2022 (prelims) exam will be lower than the previous years. UPSC asked about the correctness of the number of options rather than giving options to the candidates. These questions will influence the overall cutoff of the IAS prelims exam. Going deeper into the paper, the candidates must see the subject-wise breakup of the paper with the difficulty level of the questions. The candidates can see the IAS exam analysis 2022 with questions breakup and video.

The candidates can read below the factors and conditions that influence the overall cutoff of the IAS prelims exam. It is very difficult to predict the cutoff of the Civil Service Examination at this point in time. But, based on the inputs coming from the candidates, the expected cutoff for the IAS prelims 2022 exam will remain around 85 to 95 marks. The candidates can check here the IAS cutoff of previous years as released by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The official cutoff for the IAS 2022 exam will be released after the completion of the exam process. 

IAS 2021 Cutoff

The candidates can see below the official cutoff for the IAS main exam as provided in the official notice.

The IAS cutoff for General and OBC categories decreased. But, interestingly the IAS cutoff for the EWS category, SC Category, ST Category and for PwBD categories except PwBD1 were increased.

IAS 2020 Cutoff

UPSC cutoff 2020 was low in comparison to the previous years. In certain categories, there was a decline of 12.5 marks in IAS prelims exam.

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