The qualifying mark for each category, year by year. The five move together, so each has a panel of its own on one shared scale rather than five lines on one grid, where only colour would tell them apart.
General
107.34116.00105.3498.0098.0092.5187.5488.2275.4187.9892.6675–76 est
Marks out of 200 in General Studies Paper I. All five panels share one scale, 45 to 120, so their heights can be compared.EWS begins in 2019; the category did not exist before that.UPSC has not released the official cutoff for 2026. The dashed range at the end, 75 to 76, is my own estimate of the General cutoff and nothing more.Show the figuresHide the figures
Year
General
OBC
SC
ST
EWS
2015
107.34
106.00
94.00
91.34
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2016
116.00
110.66
99.34
96.00
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2017
105.34
102.66
88.66
88.66
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2018
98.00
96.66
84.00
83.34
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2019
98.00
95.34
82.00
77.34
90.00
2020
92.51
89.12
74.84
68.71
77.55
2021
87.54
84.85
75.41
70.71
80.14
2022
88.22
87.54
74.08
69.35
82.83
2023
75.41
74.75
59.25
47.82
68.02
2024
87.98
87.28
79.03
74.23
85.92
2025
92.66
92.00
84.00
82.66
89.34
2026
75–76 est
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How the mix moves
Topics by year
What the paper asked about, year by year. The counts are of questions as tagged, so a topic that changes name between years shows as two topics rather than one.