RBI does not announce a cut-off in advance. It publishes one with the marksheets after each stage, as a table of office-wise and category-wise marks. This page reproduces the figures from the two official tables we could read: the Preliminary Examination of Panel Year 2025 (the newest cycle as of 13 November 2026) and the Main Examination of the 2023 cycle. Every number is from an RBI document linked in the sources. Nothing is estimated. Percentages and ranges are our arithmetic and are marked.
Prelims cut-off, Panel Year 2025 (shortlisting for Mains)
The Preliminary Examination was held on 11 and 13 April 2026, and on 30 April 2026 for candidates with centres at Imphal and Kakching. The paper is 100 questions for 100 marks. RBI's table is headed "Office-wise and Category-wise Cut-Off Marks applied on Total". Scores from different sessions are equated before the cut-off is applied, as the advertisement describes.
| Office | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | General |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad | no vacancy | 81.25 | 91.25 | 89.75 | 94.25 |
| Bengaluru | no vacancy | 85.25 | 90.00 | 88.00 | 92.50 |
| Bhopal | 91.75 | 87.00 | no vacancy | 93.00 | 94.75 |
| Bhubaneswar | 89.25 | 83.25 | 94.75 | 93.75 | 95.75 |
| Chandigarh | 92.00 | no vacancy | 93.50 | 94.50 | 96.75 |
| Chennai | 89.25 | 82.50 | 94.00 | 83.00 | 94.75 |
| Guwahati | 90.50 | 86.00 | 91.00 | 87.50 | 93.50 |
| Hyderabad | 93.00 | no vacancy | 95.00 | 93.50 | 96.25 |
| Jaipur | 90.75 | 89.00 | 94.75 | 93.75 | 96.00 |
| Jammu | no vacancy | 86.50 | 90.75 | 89.00 | 95.00 |
| Kanpur & Lucknow | 89.50 | no vacancy | 94.00 | 93.75 | 96.00 |
| Kolkata | 93.00 | 88.75 | no vacancy | 92.00 | 95.25 |
| Mumbai | 86.25 | 85.00 | 90.00 | 86.50 | 90.25 |
| Nagpur | 89.50 | 85.25 | 93.75 | 86.50 | 92.25 |
| New Delhi | 90.50 | no vacancy | 93.75 | 93.75 | 95.25 |
| Patna | 87.00 | no vacancy | 94.75 | 95.00 | 96.00 |
| Thiruvananthapuram | no vacancy | no vacancy | 96.00 | no vacancy | 96.25 |
"No vacancy" is RBI's own note for a dash in the table. The table also has columns for PwBD (A, B, C, D&E) and ex-servicemen (EXS-1, EXS-2). We have not reproduced those. They are in the official cut-off table.
Things to read from this table:
- The General cut-off was above 90 in every office. It ran from 90.25 (Mumbai) to 96.75 (Chandigarh), which is 90% to 97% of the paper (arithmetic).
- Category gaps are small. In Mumbai the cut-offs were General 90.25, OBC 90.00, EWS 86.50, SC 86.25 and ST 85.00. The whole spread is 5.25 marks (arithmetic).
- Across offices: OBC ran from 90.00 (Bengaluru and Mumbai) to 96.00 (Thiruvananthapuram), SC from 86.25 (Mumbai) to 93.00 (Hyderabad and Kolkata), ST from 81.25 (Ahmedabad) to 89.00 (Jaipur) and EWS from 83.00 (Chennai) to 95.00 (Patna).
- The office with the most vacancies had the lowest General cut-off. Mumbai had 144 General vacancies and a cut-off of 90.25. Thiruvananthapuram had 5 and a cut-off of 96.25. This is one cycle, so do not treat it as a rule.
Sectional cut-offs, Prelims Panel Year 2025
The second page of the same RBI document gives the minimum marks in each test.
| Category | English Language (30) | Numerical Ability (35) | Reasoning Ability (35) |
|---|---|---|---|
| EWS and General | 12.00 | 14.00 | 14.00 |
| SC, ST, OBC, PwBD-A, PwBD-C, EXS-2 | 10.50 | 12.25 | 12.25 |
| PwBD-B | 3.00 | 3.50 | 3.50 |
| PwBD-D&E, EXS-1 | 1.50 | 1.75 | 1.75 |
The first row is 40% of each test and the second is 35% (arithmetic). These floors sit far below the total cut-off. Added up, the General sectional minimums come to 40 marks (arithmetic), while the lowest General total cut-off was 90.25. In practice the total decides who goes through, and the sectional marks only remove a candidate who neglected one test.
Vacancies, Panel Year 2025
Cut-offs follow vacancies, so read the two tables together. From the advertisement of 16 February 2026:
| Office | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | General | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad | 0 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 20 |
| Bengaluru | 0 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 24 |
| Bhopal | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 30 |
| Bhubaneswar | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 18 |
| Chandigarh | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 20 |
| Chennai | 13 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 22 | 53 |
| Guwahati | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 15 | 36 |
| Hyderabad | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| Jaipur | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| Jammu | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Kanpur & Lucknow | 14 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 20 | 50 |
| Kolkata | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 29 |
| Mumbai | 54 | 2 | 25 | 24 | 144 | 249 |
| Nagpur | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| New Delhi | 6 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 33 | 49 |
| Patna | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 17 |
| Thiruvananthapuram | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Total | 110 | 37 | 99 | 58 | 346 | 650 |
Notes from the advertisement: one of Mumbai's two ST posts is a backlog vacancy. Bhopal includes 5 vacancies for Raipur. Guwahati includes 2 for Agartala, 1 for Aizawl, 2 for Imphal and 3 for Shillong. Kanpur & Lucknow is 29 for Kanpur and 21 for Lucknow. Kolkata includes 1 for Gangtok. Mumbai includes 23 for Belapur and 2 for Panaji. Patna includes 1 for Ranchi. PwBD and ex-servicemen posts are counted within these totals. The Bank reserves the right to change the numbers. The previous advertisement (Assistant 2023) was for 450 posts.
Mains cut-off, Assistant 2023 (the last one published)
For Panel Year 2025, RBI has published the roll numbers of candidates provisionally shortlisted after the Main Examination, but as of 13 November 2026 we did not find the Mains marksheet and cut-off table. The last Mains table we could read is from the 2023 cycle. That Main Examination was held on 31 December 2023 and is out of 200 marks. The table is headed "Office-wise and Category-wise cut-off marks applied on total".
| Office | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | General |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahmedabad | no vacancy | 98.75 | 110.75 | 113.50 | 116.25 |
| Bengaluru | 95.25 | 87.00 | 104.75 | 105.00 | 111.25 |
| Bhopal | no vacancy | 91.75 | no vacancy | 115.75 | 120.50 |
| Bhubaneswar | 103.00 | 81.50 | 115.75 | 115.25 | 124.50 |
| Chandigarh | 102.50 | 99.25 | 108.50 | 117.75 | 126.75 |
| Chennai | 109.25 | no vacancy | 118.50 | 99.50 | 120.75 |
| Guwahati | 102.25 | 94.00 | 107.00 | 95.50 | 111.50 |
| Hyderabad | 101.50 | 102.50 | 112.75 | 116.50 | 123.75 |
| Jaipur | no vacancy | 111.75 | 121.00 | no vacancy | 124.00 |
| Jammu | 103.75 | no vacancy | 106.00 | 113.75 | 116.25 |
| Kanpur & Lucknow | 100.00 | 98.00 | 112.75 | 114.75 | 119.50 |
| Kolkata | 102.25 | 86.50 | no vacancy | 103.75 | 119.00 |
| Mumbai | no vacancy | 87.50 | no vacancy | 109.00 | 113.75 |
| Nagpur | no vacancy | 93.00 | 114.00 | 113.00 | 115.75 |
| New Delhi | 108.75 | no vacancy | 113.25 | 113.25 | 121.25 |
| Patna | 102.50 | 91.00 | 111.25 | 115.00 | 122.75 |
| Thiruvananthapuram & Kochi | no vacancy | 83.25 | 113.75 | 104.25 | 118.00 |
- The General cut-off ran from 111.25 (Bengaluru) to 126.75 (Chandigarh), which is about 56% to 63% of 200 (arithmetic).
- Mains is a different contest from Prelims. A paper where the General bar is above 90% gives way to one where it is near 60%. Our reading, not an RBI statement: General Awareness and Computer Knowledge are added, and the paper is twice as long.
- These are 2023 figures, with 450 vacancies distributed differently across offices. They show the scale of the Mains cut-off, not what Panel Year 2025 will show.
How to use these numbers
- Look up your office and your category. The all-India picture does not apply to you. A General candidate needed 90.25 in Mumbai and 96.75 in Chandigarh in the same exam.
- Set a Prelims target with a buffer. With the General bar in the 90s, there is almost no room for wrong answers. Each wrong answer costs 1.25 marks against a correct one (arithmetic). Aim for accuracy first and count your attempts second.
- Do not stop at Prelims. Prelims only shortlists about 10 times the vacancies. The order of merit comes from the Main Examination, where 80 of 200 marks are General Awareness and Computer Knowledge.
- Do not pick an office only for a lower cut-off. You must pass the Language Proficiency Test in that office's language, and one cycle's cut-off pattern may not repeat. See the language table on the exam pattern page.
- Check your percentile, not just your score. On Pareeksha everyone in a cohort sits the same fixed paper, so your percentile is a like-for-like comparison. See how fixed-paper percentile works.
What this page does not have
- The Mains cut-off and final-selection marks for Panel Year 2025. RBI had not published them as of 13 November 2026.
- The Prelims cut-off of the 2023 cycle and anything older. We publish only figures we have read from an RBI document in this check.
- The PwBD and ex-servicemen columns of both tables, and the sectional cut-offs of the 2023 Main Examination. They are in the official PDFs linked above.
- The number of candidates who appeared or were shortlisted. RBI's result notice says it will answer such queries only after the selection process is complete.
- Any predicted or "safe" score. We do not estimate cut-offs.
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