IAS Kracker

Under direction of the Central Information Commission (CIC), UPSC has for the first time released the marks of all successful candidates in the 2012 Civil Services (Main) Examination. The result is downloadable in PDF format at the bottom of the this post but for the convenience of this blog’s readers.  Also go through the analysis of these marks to get an idea of the importance of interview in deciding your overall score.

Note: The table is fully sortable. You can choose to display from 10 to 100 results on a single page. You can sort the table written total marks-wise or interview-marks wise, or from lowest to highest etc. You can even search the table for roll no, name, and marks. Just click on a particular label to sort the table. For instance, clicking on Final Total column twice will sort it from highest to lowest marks. Similarly do it for other heads as well.

Community: SC-1 ST-2 OBC-3 General-4

As can be seen from the marks above, this year like 2011 civil services exam was a low scoring affair. The topper, Haritha V Kumar scored 1193 marks, which though very commendable, is quite low compared to marks scored by toppers in the previous years. In fact, this year, Haritha is the only candidate who managed a written total in excess of 1000 marks; that’s quite something! This does not mean that quality of candidates has dropped, rather UPSC has become more stingy with marks. The cut-off for General category in 2012 Mains exam was just 707 marks (excluding PH category), which is quite low if you compare it with 2008 or 2009 Mains when the cut-off was in excess of 900 marks. A difference of almost 200 marks!

And this difference has stayed constant right till the top if you compare the top rankers marks with marks of previous years toppers. The difference is almost of 150 marks. Another point to note is that interview marks have a great impact on your final tally and ranking. The top 50 rankers have averaged between 180-240 marks out of 300, which is quite high as compared to the bottom 50 rankers who have averaged between 110-160 marks in the personality test.

Due to constraints of space I have not included the PH category column in the above table but the document below contains all the heads.

Category wise cut-off in Mains i.e Written Total (excluding Physically Handicapped category):

General – 707

OBC – 689

SC – 660

ST – 664

So the difference between the lowest score in Mains in reserved and general category was 47 marks as can be seen from the table.

Download the marks document here.

I hope you share your thoughts and insights on the Mains marks in the comments below.