IBPS RRB Office Assistant Cut-Off: What IBPS Publishes, and What It Does Not

Candidates usually arrive on a cut-off page wanting one number. For IBPS RRB Office Assistant we cannot give one honestly, and this page explains why, what the official rules say about how the cut-off is made, and which official numbers you can use instead. It is based on the CRP RRBs XV notification of 1 September 2026 and on what the IBPS website listed on 13 November 2026.

The short version

• CRP RRBs XV (2026-27): no cut-off exists. The Office Assistant Preliminary exam is scheduled for 6, 12 and 13 December 2026 and the Main exam for 30 January 2027, per the IBPS calendar.
• CRP RRBs XIV (2025-26): that cycle is complete; the IBPS page for it lists a reserve-list provisional allotment for Office Assistants dated 26 October 2026. But the page lists no cut-off document or scorecard document that we could open. So we reproduce no figures for it.
• IBPS has, in its notification, no fixed pass mark. Cut-offs are decided after each exam.

How the cut-off is built, per the notification

Prelims

The notification says candidates "have to qualify in both the tests by securing minimum cut-off marks" and that an "adequate number of candidates in each category, depending upon requirements, will be shortlisted for Online Main Examination."

In plain terms there are three hurdles:

1. A minimum in Reasoning.
2. A minimum in Numerical Ability.
3. A place high enough on the total out of 80, within your state and category, to be among those shortlisted.

The notification does not state the sectional minimums, a qualifying percentage, or how many candidates per vacancy go through.

Mains

Clause F says each Office Assistant candidate "will be required to obtain a minimum score in each test of Online Main examination to be considered to be shortlisted for provisional allotment", and that candidates are shortlisted "depending on the number of vacancies available in each state". It adds a line that matters:

Merely passing in individual tests may not be sufficient as candidates should also score sufficiently high on Total score in order of merit.

So Mains also has a minimum in each of its five tests, and then a merit order on the total out of 200.

What makes the number move

• State. You compete only for the RRB of the state or UT you applied for. Each state has its own vacancies and its own pool of applicants, so each has its own cut-off.
• Category. Shortlisting is done category-wise (SC, ST, OBC non-creamy layer, EWS, General), with horizontal reservation for PwBD and ex-servicemen.
• Vacancies. The figures in the notification are indicative. Allotment is made on the actual vacancies RRBs report, which can differ.
• Difficulty of your shift. Where the exam runs in several sessions, corrected scores are normalised by the equi-percentile method, so the cut-off is on normalised scores, to two decimal places.
• Negative marking. A wrong answer costs 0.25 of the marks for that question, so raw attempts are a poor guide to the final score.

Ties and the reserve list

• If two candidates have the same score, the older one is placed higher.
• IBPS keeps a reserve list in each category. It says allotment from this list can happen three to four times within a year if RRBs report more vacancies, and that the list does not guarantee allotment.

Official numbers you can use: vacancies by state

A cut-off is the result of applicants meeting vacancies. The applicants are unknown to us, but the vacancies are published. This is the Office Assistant table from Annexure I as updated on 25 September 2026. We reproduce the total column and the General column only. The figures are indicative, in IBPS's own word.

State or UT	RRB	General	Total
Andhra Pradesh	Andhra Pradesh Grameena Bank	360	900
Arunachal Pradesh	Arunachal Pradesh Rural Bank	12	26
Assam	Assam Gramin Bank	73	181
Bihar	Bihar Gramin Bank	202	500
Chhattisgarh	Chhattisgarh Gramin Bank	148	296
Gujarat	Gujarat Gramin Bank	211	510
Haryana	Haryana Gramin Bank	94	211
Himachal Pradesh	Himachal Pradesh Gramin Bank	23	51
Jammu and Kashmir	Jammu and Kashmir Grameen Bank	98	200
Jharkhand	Jharkhand Gramin Bank	115	285
Karnataka	Karnataka Grameena Bank	112	279
Kerala	Kerala Grameena Bank	182	350
Madhya Pradesh	Madhya Pradesh Gramin Bank	170	484
Maharashtra	Maharashtra Gramin Bank	122	300
Manipur	Manipur Rural Bank	0	0
Meghalaya	Meghalaya Rural Bank	12	26
Mizoram	Mizoram Rural Bank	25	45
Nagaland	Nagaland Rural Bank	1	6
Odisha	Odisha Grameen Bank	240	600
Puducherry	Puducherry Grama Bank	6	11
Punjab	Punjab Gramin Bank	36	85
Rajasthan	Rajasthan Gramin Bank	109	225
Tamil Nadu	Tamil Nadu Grama Bank	106	244
Telangana	Telangana Grameena Bank	301	750
Tripura	Tripura Gramin Bank	18	39
Uttar Pradesh	Uttar Pradesh Gramin Bank	492	1,200
Uttarakhand	Uttarakhand Gramin Bank	120	214
West Bengal	West Bengal Gramin Bank	82	204

IBPS prints no grand total. Adding the Total column gives 8,222 (our addition). IBPS updated this annexure three times in September 2026 (9th, 15th and 25th), which shows how much the figures can move before allotment.

Two cautions when reading the table. A large state has many seats but also many applicants, so more vacancies does not mean a lower cut-off. And a state with very few seats, such as Nagaland or Puducherry, can swing sharply from one cycle to the next.

Where IBPS shows scores and cut-offs

IBPS does not attach cut-offs to the notification. After each result it posts dated links on the CRP RRBs page of that cycle, and these links come and go. On 13 November 2026:

• The CRP RRBs XV page listed the notification, vacancy updates, corrigenda, and the Officer Scale I Preliminary call letter and handout. Nothing on results, as no Office Assistant exam had been held.
• The CRP RRBs XIV page listed the 2025 notifications and corrigenda, application reprint links, and the 26 October 2026 reserve-list allotment for Office Assistants. No cut-off or score document was listed.

If you sat the previous cycle, your own scorecard, where IBPS made one available through candidate login, is the only reliable record of that cycle's marks for your state and category. We cannot see or verify individual scorecards, so we do not quote from them.

How to plan without a cut-off

This section is our advice, not IBPS's.

• Do not anchor on a number you read elsewhere. A figure for another state, another category or another year tells you little. Vacancies in your state have changed, and so has the pool.
• Clear both sectional hurdles first. A strong total with a weak Numerical Ability score fails Prelims. In every mock, look at each test separately before you look at the total.
• Measure yourself against other candidates, not against a line. A percentile on a fixed paper that many people have attempted says more than a guessed cut-off. Our fixed-paper percentile page explains how we compute it.
• Track accuracy. With a 0.25 penalty, four wrong answers cancel one right answer. An attempt count of 70 with 20 wrong is 45 marks; 60 attempts with 6 wrong is 52.5 (arithmetic).
• Keep Mains in view. Prelims only gets you through the door. The final merit is the Mains total out of 200, and each of its five tests has its own minimum.

What this page does not have

• Any cut-off figure, sectional or total, for any state, category or year. We could not open an official IBPS document that states one, so none is reproduced. This includes CRP RRBs XIV.
• Estimated, expected or "safe" scores. We do not publish them.
• The CRP RRBs XV cut-off. The exam has not been held. We will add official figures if IBPS publishes them in a form we can open and cite.
• The number of applicants per state. IBPS does not publish it in the documents we opened.
• Category-wise vacancies other than the General and Total columns. They are in Annexure I, linked in the sources; we left them out to avoid transcription errors.
• Final actual vacancies. The table is indicative. RRBs report actual numbers before allotment.

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