APSC Prelims Exam 2022 Cutoff Marks & Minimum Qualifying Score
APSC has declared the APSC Prelim 2022 Cutoff Marks
Category | Cut-Off Score |
Open Category (Male) | 74.5 |
Open Category (Female) | 71 |
OBC/MOBC | 54.5 |
SC | 50.5 |
ST (Plain) | 49.5 |
ST (Hills) | 38.5 |
Our Expected cut-off marks were
To settle your anxiety of the Cutoff Marks for APSC Prelims & Mains Exam we have tried to give a precise Cutoff Marks needed to clear the APSC CC Prelims Exam 2022 and qualify for appearing for APSC CC Mains Exam 2022.
To arrive at the cut-off marks, we have conducted a APSC Prelims 2022 – Cut-Off Analysis via Candidates’ Survey and collected data from various sources. This attempt is at best an estimate to provide a fair idea of minimum marks required to clear the APSC Prelim exam.
To put things in perspective, last year APSC CC Prelims Exam 2020 cutoff was as given below:
Ok, but then, how will the cutoff of APSC Prelims 2022 will be different?
Factors that can influence the Cut-off of APSC CC (Prelim) 2022 Exams:
There are many factors that would affect the APSC CCE Cut Off 2023 but some factors would have a more impact on the cut off list. Based on these factors, the APSC CCE Cut Off 2022 will be discovered.
- Huge no. of vacancies in 2022, compare to any of the recent past advertisement (so rationally cutoff should reduce)
- Almost same number of candidates appearing for the exam.
- Difficulty level of the paper.
- Unexpected lever of Qs, not much direct Qs like earlier
- No delay is Exam, and thus, no undue time to study more (or to get destructed more). But some candidates might have been caught by surprise.
Selection numbers in APSC Prelim 2022
- Total no of posts: 913 posts
- No. of eligible candidates: 74,368
- No. of candidates to be selected for APSC Mains 2022 Exam = roughly 11 times of vacancies = 913×11 = 10000
- Posts for General are 475, so Mains selection = 475X11= 5225
Reserved for Women = 133, so Mains selection = 133 x11 = 1463 - Posts for OBC 240, so Mains selection =240×11 = 2640
Reserved for Women 67, so Mains selection = 67X11 = 737 - Posts for SC = 58, so Mains selection = 58X12 = 696
Reserved for Women 12, so Mains selection = 12X12 = 144 - Posts for STP = 98, so Mains selection = 98×12 = 1176
Reserved for Women 24, so Mains selection = 24X12 = 288 - Posts for STH = 42, so Mains selection = 42X12 = 504
Reserved for Women 9, so Mains selection = 9×12 = 108
Cutoff Marks for APSC Prelims Exam 2022
These marks are of GS-1 paper of 200 marks only, as GS-2 paper is of qualifying nature. Based on the nature of questions in the GS Paper and the valuable views expressed by numerous candidates, most of the peoples are expecting lower Cut-off marks than the previous year 2022, mainly due to difficulty level of the questions in GS-1 paper.
Category-wise Cut-off for 2022 (expected)
Category |
Minimum Score |
General (Open) Women |
78 +- 5 72 +- 5 |
Other Backward Classes (OBC)/MOBC Women |
62 +- 5 55 +- 5 |
Scheduled Class (SC) Women |
55 +- 5 53 +- 5 |
Scheduled Tribe (Plains) Women |
50 +- 5 48 +- 5 |
Scheduled Tribe (Hills) Women |
44+-5 44+-5 |
Let’s wait for APSC Surprise!!
The wait is not going to be too long!! As APSC has shown the intent to conduct the exam in expediate manner by sticking to the exam date (even after revision in advertisement). And APSC has released Provisional Answer Key on the exam day itself!! RESPECT!!
Kudos to APSC !!
- To fill-up the (2-minute) online survey – ‘APSC Prelims 2020 – Cut-Off Analysis‘
- APSC Prelims 2018 – Cutoff Marks
- APSC Prelims 2018 – Expected Cutoff Marks
- APSC Prelims Exam 2016, 2015 & 2014 Cutoff Marks & Previous Qualifying Scores
- APSC Prelim 2020 – GS I Question Paper – Solution & Answer Key
- APSC Prelim 2020 – GS II Question Paper – Solution & Answer Key