MPSC Rajyaseva Cut-Off Marks, By Year and Category
The cut-off is the minimum score that got a candidate shortlisted for Mains — set after the exam, by rank, not a pass mark you can aim at in advance. It moves every year with the number of vacancies, how hard the paper was, and how many people sat it. Below is what recent cut-offs have actually been, and how to read them.
How MPSC Prelims is scored (read this first)
- GS Paper 1: 100 questions, 200 marks, 2 hours. CSAT (Paper 2): 80 questions, 200 marks, 2 hours. Both have 1/4-mark negative marking.
- From the 2023 cycle: CSAT is qualifying-only — you need roughly 33% (about 66 / 200) to stay in the race, but it isn't used to rank you. The shortlisting cut-off is your GS Paper 1 score, out of 200.
- Through about 2021: both papers counted and the cut-off was out of 400. So an older figure near 200 and a recent figure near 110 are on different scales — don't compare them directly.
- Year labels lag: MPSC's exam calendar runs behind, so a paper for “2023” may have been held in early 2024, and prep sites sometimes disagree on which year to call a given cut-off. Match the number to the notification, not the calendar.
Recent Prelims cut-offs — GS Paper 1, out of 200
2022 through the 2026 cycle. The 2026 Prelims was held on 31 May 2026 and its cut-off was released by MPSC on 22 June 2026, for around 110 vacancies.
| Category | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open / General | 106.50 | 108.00 | 117.50 | 98.00 |
| Open — Female | 96.50 | 101.00 | 110.50 | 92.00 |
| SC | 101.50 | 103.50 | 115.00 | 94.00 |
| SC — Female | 94.00 | 93.50 | 107.00 | 91.00 |
| ST | 93.00 | 96.00 | 104.00 | 86.50 |
| ST — Female | 78.50 | 87.00 | 93.50 | 79.00 |
| OBC | 106.50 | 108.00 | 117.50 | 98.00 |
| OBC — Female | 96.50 | 101.00 | 110.50 | 92.00 |
| EWS | 106.50 | 108.00 | 117.50 | 85.50 |
| EWS — Female | 96.50 | 101.00 | 110.50 | 78.00 |
The 2026 cut-off dropped sharply — Open fell from 117.5 (2024) to 98. Note also that EWS (85.5) and OBC (98) split apart in 2026; through 2022–2024 they had matched the Open cut-off exactly. Female, sports, PwBD (Divyang) and orphan sub-category cut-offs are always set separately and run lower — check the official result for yours.
Older cut-offs — out of 400
Through about 2021, when both papers counted toward a 400-mark total, the Open cut-off ran in the high 190s to low 200s — for example around 197 for the 2019 cycle and around 203 for 2020–2021. Prep-site records disagree on the exact year labels for this period and there's no clean cross-check, so these are a rough guide to the era, not figures to plan against. Because the scale changed, they tell you nothing directly useful about what you need today.
MPSC Combined (PSI / STI / ASO)
There is no single Combined cut-off. It's published per post, per category, and often per district cadre with each result, and the spread between posts and years is wide. If you're preparing for PSI, STI or ASO, the only reliable source is the result PDF for that specific recruitment on mpsc.gov.in — a general figure would be misleading.
What to actually do with this
The cut-off is a number you can't know until after the exam, so it's a poor study target. What you can control is the paper itself — the same GS Paper 1 these cut-offs came out of. Every real MPSC Rajyaseva paper is here to practise, with the official answer key and an explanation for each question.
Compiled and cross-checked from publicly available MPSC exam-prep references as of September 2026. MPSC sets and publishes the official cut-offs with each result; vacancy counts, paper difficulty and the exam pattern all change year to year. This page is orientation, not a substitute for the official result for your exam and category. Found something out of date? Tell us.