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UPSC Cut Off
2013 – 2025

Official UPSC Civil Services Examination cut-off marks — Prelims, Mains and Final selection — category-wise breakdown from 2013 to 2025.

963Final 2025 (General)

92.66Prelims 2025 (General)

2025Total Marks

🏆 2025 Final Cut Off (out of 2025)

GeneralGEN category

963

OBCOther Backward Classes

931

SCScheduled Castes

905

STScheduled Tribes

902

Cut-offs are declared only after the entire examination process (Prelims, Mains, Interview) is over. The cut-off is determined by difficulty level, number of candidates, and overall performance. Only GS Paper I is counted for Prelims merit ranking — GS Paper II (CSAT) is qualifying only (minimum 33%).

General

EWS

OBC

PwBD

2025 Cut Off

2024 Cut Off

2023 Cut Off

Last 6 Years (2018–2023)

Historical (2005–2017)

2025 Cut Off — All Three Stages

✱ Prelims cut off based on GS Paper-I only. GS Paper-II (CSAT) is qualifying with 33% marks as per Rule-15. | ^# Mains cut off subject to minimum 10% marks in each of the 7 competitive papers (Essay, GS-I, GS-II, GS-III, GS-IV, Optional-I, Optional-II).

Stage	General	EWS	OBC	SC	ST	PwBD-1	PwBD-2	PwBD-3	PwBD-5
Prelims ^*	92.66	89.34	92.00	84.00	82.66	76.66	54.66	40.66	40.66
Mains ^# out of 1750	739	706	717	700	694	703	708	536	451
Final out of 2025	963	926	931	905	902	917	944	804	631

2024 Cut Off — All Three Stages

Category	Prelims (out of 200)	Mains (out of 1750)	Final (out of 2025)
General	87.98	729	947
EWS	85.92	696	917
OBC	87.28	702	910
SC	79.03	685	880
ST	74.23	684	884
PwBD — 1	69.42	663	876
PwBD — 2	65.30	696	913
PwBD — 3	40.56	307	701
PwBD — 5	40.56	361	461

2023 Cut Off — All Three Stages

Category	Prelims (out of 200)	Mains (out of 1750)	Final (out of 2025)
General	75.41	741	953
EWS	68.02	706	923
OBC	74.75	712	919
SC	59.25	694	890
ST	47.82	692	891
PwBD — 1	40.40	673	894
PwBD — 2	47.13	718	930
PwBD — 3	40.40	396	756
PwBD — 5	33.68	445	589

Prelims Cut Off — 2018 to 2023

Out of 200

Category	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018
General	75.41	88.22	87.54	92.51	98	98
EWS	68.02	82.83	80.14	77.55	90	—
OBC	74.75	87.54	89.12	89.12	95.34	96.66
SC	59.25	74.08	75.41	74.84	82	84
ST	47.82	69.35	70.71	68.71	77.34	83.34
PwBD — 1	40.40	49.84	68.02	70.06	53.34	73.34
PwBD — 2	47.13	58.59	67.33	63.94	44.66	53.34
PwBD — 3	40.40	40.40	43.09	40.82	61.34	40.00
PwBD — 4	33.68	41.76	45.80	42.86	61.34	45.34

Mains Cut Off — 2018 to 2023

Out of 1750

Category	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018
General	741	748	745	736	751	774
EWS	706	715	713	687	696	—
OBC	712	714	707	698	718	732
SC	694	699	700	680	706	719
ST	692	706	700	682	699	719
PwBD — 1	673	677	688	648	663	711
PwBD — 2	718	706	712	699	698	696
PwBD — 3	396	351	388	425	374	520
PwBD — 4	445	419	560	300	561	460

Final Cut Off — 2018 to 2023

Out of 2025

Category	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018
General	953	960	953	944	961	982
EWS	923	926	916	894	909	—
OBC	919	923	910	907	925	938
SC	890	893	886	875	898	912
ST	891	900	883	876	893	912
PwBD — 1	894	879	892	867	861	899
PwBD — 2	930	913	932	910	890	908
PwBD — 3	756	632	689	675	653	754
PwBD — 4	589	590	701	465	708	718