As you already know, Prelims Cutoff consists of a cutoff calculated out of General Studies Paper-1 and not General Studies Paper-2 because that is qualifying in nature and requires you to score a minimum of 33%.
Below are the cut-offs of last five years followed by its trend analysis-
| Category | 2021
(Out of 200) |
2020
(Out of 200) |
2019
(Out of 200) |
2018
(Out of 200) |
2017
(Out of 200) |
| General | 87.54 | 92.51 | 98 | 98 | 105.34 |
| EWS | 80.14 | 77.55 | 90 | – | – |
| OBC | 84.85 | 89.12 | 95.34 | 96.66 | 102.66 |
| SC | 75.41 | 74.84 | 82 | 84 | 88.66 |
| ST | 70.71 | 68.71 | 77.34 | 83.34 | 88.66 |
| PwB
D-1 |
68.02 | 70.06 | 53.34 | 73.34 | 85.34 |
| PwB
D-2 |
67.33 | 63.94 | 44.66 | 53.34 | 61.34 |
| PwB
D-3 |
43.09 | 40.82 | 54.66 | 40 | 40.00 |
From the above trend it might seem that in the subsequent years merit is getting lower but do not go by the numbers, it is the difficulty level that is regulating these merit numbers.
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