BPSC Cut Off for Prelims, Mains and the Final List

How the commission fixes each line

No fixed pass score is declared ahead of the screening paper. After the answer key is final, it ranks every candidate and moves down the list until it has enough people for mains, roughly ten for each vacancy in a category. Whoever sits last inside that group sets the line with their marks. So the line depends on three things at once:

• Seats: more posts in a category mean a deeper list and a lower line.
• Paper difficulty: a tough question set pulls every score down together.
• The penalty: every wrong bubble and every fully blank row is docked a third, so loose guessing drags many totals below the line.

Because Bihar reserves a share of state service posts for women, the commission publishes a separate, usually lower, figure for women of each category.

BPSC cut off in the 71st prelims

About 3.17 lakh candidates appeared and 13,368 were declared eligible for the integrated mains through this list. BPSC also issued a separate list, with its own higher lines, for financial administrative officer and equivalent posts, which had 893 qualifiers. If you applied for those posts, read that table in the result notice rather than the one above.

Earlier BPSC pre cut off trend

For unreserved men, the prelims line was 91 in the 70th CCE (held 2024) and 91.67 in the 69th CCE (held 2023), according to reports of those official results. For unreserved women it was 81 in the 70th cycle and about 84 in the 69th. So the 71st figure of 88 was a drop of about three marks.

Published numbers for the reserved groups in those two cycles do not agree from one report to the next, so they are not reproduced here. What the numbers do show is a clear pattern: a general candidate who scores in the low 90s after negative marking has usually been safe, while scores in the low 80s have depended heavily on category and gender.

Minimum marks are not the BPSC prelims cut off

Two different ideas get mixed up. The qualifying mark is a floor in each paper. As reported, the floor sits at 40 percent on the unreserved side, falling to 36.5 percent (BC), 34 percent (EBC) and 32 percent, the lowest floor, which covers SC, ST, women and disabled applicants; the General Hindi paper at mains needs 30 percent. The cut off is the much higher competitive line that actually decides who moves on.

In practice, clearing the floor is never enough at prelims, since tens of thousands of candidates do so. At mains, though, the floors on General Hindi and the optional paper genuinely knock people out, even strong GS writers, so treat both papers seriously.

BPSC mains cut off and the BPSC final cut off

Only General Studies 1, General Studies 2 and the Essay, 900 marks in all, feed the mains ranking. The commission calls about two and a half candidates per post to the interview, so the written line falls wherever that count is reached in each category. In the 70th CCE, for example, 5,401 candidates were called to interview for 2,035 posts.

To build the final list, BPSC adds interview marks (out of 120) to the 900 written marks. Since posts such as SDO, DSP and BDO are filled in rank order by preference, the lowest selected total differs from one post to another, and BPSC releases category wise final marks along with or after the result. Read those official tables rather than a single figure quoted for the whole exam.

What could move the line next time

• Vacancies: the 72nd CCE advertised fewer posts than the 70th, which tends to push the prelims line up.
• Option E rule: blank rows are now penalised as well, so careless candidates may score lower and the line may ease slightly.
• Paper level: a single tricky section, such as mental ability or Bihar current affairs, can move the whole list by a few marks.
• Applicants: more candidates chasing the same seats raise the bar.

None of this lets anyone predict an exact mark, and claims of a guaranteed safe score should be ignored. Use the past lines only as a target band for your mocks, and see the BPSC syllabus page to plan the topics behind that score.

Checking the BPSC prelims cut off officially

1. Visit bpsc.bihar.gov.in, where results sit among the latest notices.
2. Pick the notice that carries your CCE number. Category lines normally appear on the last pages of the roll number list itself.
3. Check the right list: the main integrated list or a separate one for special posts.
4. Match your category and, if you are a woman, the women's line for that category.

Mains and final cut offs appear in the later result notices of the same cycle. For other states with a similar three stage exam, compare the UPPSC cut off, or use our state exams hub to look at other Indian state commissions.