Upsc Civil Service Analysis and cutoff marks 2013 ias exam

As it was expected that upsc never repeat that questions and never repeat the type of the questions, this myth once again becomes true in upsc civil service examination 2013. Question paper 1 of general study and questions paper 2 csat of upsc preliminary examination was out of the expectation of the aspirant. Those who participated in the examination of civil service Pre exam 26 may 2013 (morning and evening) are saying that questions paper was easy but they are not sure about the answer because mostly answer was too similar.

On the basis of response given by some good scholar we got a conclusion that what will be expected cutoff marks for this year.

Category	Expected Cutoff marks	Maximum marks
General / UR / Unreserved	210-220	400
OBC	185-195	400
SC	170-180	400
ST	170-175	400

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If you look at the previous year trend of civil service examination then you will find out that overall question paper was full of comprehension and decision making type of the questions and very few questions were asked from reasoning and math section . If you analyze the question paper then you can easily got conclusion that this time upsc asked questions from every filed

For example in CSAT paper 2 , 23 questions was asked from reading comprehension, 8 questions was asked from English passage, 6 question form data interpretation, 12 questions quantitative ability, 7 question from general mental ability, 18 questions question from analytical reasoning , and 6 questions was related to decision making

If you analyze the question paper 2 on difficulty level then your will get following conclusions

 Easy questions 8

Moderate level of difficulty 36

Easy to moderate : 36

So an average serious student can easily score 115 of marks out of 200. so don’t expect much more that cutoff will be low for this year for Upsc IAS exam 2013. Questions paper was easy so cutoff and qualifying marks will be high .

What do you think?

Paper 1 Analysis summary

History and Culture 15 questions

Polity 19 questions

Geography and Ecology 27 questions

Science 21 questions

Economy 18 questions

Paper 1 difficulty Level

Easy 15 questions

Moderate 37 questions

Moderate to Difficult 48 questions

So don’t expect much more from paper. I think 75 to 95 score out of 200 marks will be enough for qualifying preliminary examination.