July 2013 News 17 SCORES OF CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION MADE PUBLIC

SCORES OF CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION MADE PUBLIC

[UPSC topper scores 53%] 

As the Times of India has published, for the first time in the history of the elite Civil Service examination, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on May 16, 2013 made public the final marks of all successful candidates who were recently recommended for appointment to IAS, IFS, IPS and other key Central Services.
Curiously enough, only four of them, including two women, obtained more than 50% marks in the examination. Three of the four are from Kerala.
The list for this year shows that the topper, Haritha V. Kumar, a woman engineer from Kerala, scored 53% marks (1193 out of 2250). It also shows that general category candidates who scored between 48% and 50% got selected for the top three services-IAS, IFS and IPS.
In the general category, the cut off was 42%, while in other categories it went as low as 35%. The marks of successful candidates, which were a closely guarded secret for long, also brought into the open the scores in the interview (personality test), which carried 250 marks and which used to play a key role in deciding the future of aspirants.

General category candidates who got between 48% and 50% marks got selected for top three services, indicating that it is tough to score high marks in Civil Services exam.
42% is the minimum cut-off in the general category. In other categories, it went as low as 35%. Move to display final marks on UPSC website comes after a CIC directive.