SSC does not publish a cut-off in advance. It publishes cut-offs when a result is declared. This page reproduces the official figures from the two most recent cycles we could read, the 2025 examination (Paper-I and PST/PET) and the 2024 examination (final result), and then explains how far they can be used for the 2026 cycle, which is the newest notified one as of 13 November 2026. Every number is from an SSC document linked in the sources. Nothing is estimated. Percentages, sums and differences are our arithmetic and are marked.
Read this first: the 2026 scheme is not the scheme these cut-offs come from
| 2024 and 2025 results on this page | 2026 notice | |
|---|---|---|
| Paper-I | In the 2025 notice: 200 questions, 200 marks, 2 hours | 100 questions, 100 marks, 1 hour |
| Paper-II | In the 2025 notice: English only, 200 marks | Four subjects, 320 marks (arithmetic total) |
| Final selection | 2025 notice: Paper-I and Paper-II; the 2024 result reports aggregate marks of the two papers | Paper-II (para 16.8) |
So a Paper-I cut-off of about 119 out of 200 cannot be halved to give a 2026 number, and a final cut-off on a two-paper aggregate says little about a selection made on a 320-mark Paper-II. The figures below are useful for three things only: the gap between categories, the gap between forces, and how many candidates each stage removes.
Paper-I cut-off, 2025 examination (shortlisting for PST/PET)
Paper-I of the 2025 examination was held from 9 to 12 December 2025, and the result was declared on 30 March 2026. Marks were normalised. Bonus marks were provisionally given to candidates who claimed an NCC certificate. The paper was out of 200.
List-I: female candidates
| Category | Cut-off marks | Candidates available |
|---|---|---|
| UR | 128.01610 | 743 |
| OBC | 124.22057 | 1,601 |
| SC | 100.91972 | 867 |
| ST | 95.19641 | 426 |
| EWS | 126.55856 | 660 |
| ESM | 40.00000 | 23 |
| Total | 4,320 |
List-II: male candidates
| Category | Cut-off marks | Candidates available |
|---|---|---|
| UR | 119.47517 | 4,975 |
| OBC | 115.02519 | 15,858 |
| SC | 88.95164 | 9,518 |
| ST | 89.06234 | 4,771 |
| EWS | 114.60115 | 6,678 |
| ESM | 40.00000 | 2,267 |
| Total | 44,067 |
List-III: male departmental candidates of Delhi Police
| Category | Cut-off marks | Candidates available |
|---|---|---|
| UR | 127.92622 | 46 |
| OBC | 116.64021 | 86 |
| SC | 101.67331 | 46 |
| ST | 94.89506 | 24 |
| EWS | 120.78203 | 26 |
| Total | 228 |
Notes from the write-up:
- Reserved-category candidates who qualified at the UR cut-off are shown under their own categories. In the male list that was 1,608 SC, 744 ST, 74 ESM, 9,925 OBC and 5,456 EWS candidates.
- Minimum qualifying marks were 30% for UR (60 marks), 25% for OBC and EWS (50 marks) and 20% for all other categories (40 marks), before NCC bonus. All ex-servicemen who reached 40 marks were qualified for PST/PET, which is why the ESM cut-off reads 40.00000.
- The results of 12 candidates were withheld.
- The three lists add up to 48,615 (arithmetic). SSC's later write-up counts 48,387 unique candidates, since a candidate can appear in more than one list.
Arithmetic on these figures: the UR male cut-off was about 59.7% of 200 and the UR female cut-off about 64.0%. The UR-to-SC gap was about 30.5 marks for men and 27.1 marks for women.
PST/PET outcome, 2025 examination
The CAPFs conducted PST/PET from 21 to 30 July 2026, and SSC declared the result on 29 October 2026.
| Outcome | Candidates |
|---|---|
| Absent | 26,949 |
| Not qualified | 10,622 |
| Withheld | 136 |
| Temporarily unfit | 4 |
| Qualified for Paper-II | 10,676 |
| Total who had qualified Paper-I | 48,387 |
The write-up gives the qualified candidates as 518 in the female list (EWS 102, SC 73, ST 42, OBC 185, UR 116) and 10,298 in the male list (EWS 1,779, SC 1,733, ST 831, OBC 3,932, UR 2,023), with 1,189 ex-servicemen shown separately. A further 97 candidates were allowed to sit Paper-II provisionally because their cases are before courts. Paper-II of the 2025 examination is tentatively scheduled for 28 November 2026, so there is no Paper-II or final cut-off for 2025 yet.
Arithmetic: 21,438 candidates turned up (48,387 minus 26,949), and about half of them, 49.8%, qualified. More than half of those shortlisted in Paper-I did not appear at all. There is no cut-off in a physical test, but it removed more candidates than any marks list in this cycle.
Last-selected marks, 2024 examination (revised final result)
For the 2024 examination, SSC shortlisted 22,244 candidates for the medical examination (1,885 female and 20,283 male) in its result of 8 August 2025. Document verification and medical examinations ran from 15 to 27 September 2025. The final result of 20 October 2025 recommended 5,296 candidates (455 female and 4,841 male). After a large number of representations, SSC reviewed the result with the nodal force and issued a revised final result on 26 November 2025 recommending 457 female and 4,902 male candidates, which is 5,359 in all (arithmetic). SSC said it kept the cut-offs of the original result, with slight changes only to address candidates' preferences.
The tables below are from the revised result. "Cut-off marks" are the aggregate marks of the last selected candidate. The write-up refers to the aggregate of Paper-I and Paper-II; we did not reopen the 2024 notice, so we do not state the maximum here. In the 2025 notice each paper carried 200 marks.
Male candidates (vertical categories, excluding ex-servicemen rows)
| Post | UR | EWS | OBC | SC | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A: Delhi Police | 354.01928 | 345.81888 | 348.08091 | 330.04583 | 317.11450 |
| B: BSF | 308.47240 | 302.89529 | 302.83947 | 269.54892 | 267.75780 |
| C: CISF | 324.69218 | 314.66650 | 313.67564 | 286.27158 | 279.79214 |
| D: CRPF | 303.64305 | 297.84840 | 297.48885 | 264.85583 | 266.28713 |
| E: ITBP | 317.82432 | 312.52816 | 310.08382 | 280.84617 | 278.51709 |
| F: SSB | 327.29892 | 320.17766 | 314.41965 | 298.06713 | 298.88755 |
Female candidates
| Post | UR | EWS | OBC | SC | ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A: Delhi Police | 344.65945 | 340.18213 | 335.41051 | 313.95862 | 304.75220 |
| B: BSF | 317.80415 | 315.16985 | 313.19453 | 281.88179 | 275.52137 |
| C: CISF | 328.55960 | 322.22097 | 319.20626 | 291.72456 | 286.15295 |
| D: CRPF | 318.45532 | 315.14324 | 312.77795 | 280.54378 | 277.99622 |
| E: ITBP | 319.20768 | 318.32020 | 312.73904 | 286.60621 | 274.31998 |
| F: SSB | 328.22476 | 325.68297 | 318.85376 | no row | no row |
The OBC row for Delhi Police includes the category "OBC for Delhi only".
Ex-servicemen (male), last selected: BSF 80.31834, CRPF 81.58639, ITBP 103.49023, CISF 157.87772, SSB 198.77090. In BSF and CRPF the ex-servicemen vacancies were not all filled (57 of 102 and 107 of 144).
Things to read from these tables:
- Delhi Police closes far above the forces. For UR men the last selected mark for Delhi Police was about 50 marks above CRPF and about 46 above BSF (arithmetic). Your preference order matters as much as your marks.
- Among the CAPFs, the order for UR men was SSB, CISF, ITBP, BSF, CRPF. SSB had few vacancies (60 UR) and CRPF and BSF had many (559 and 391), so this order partly reflects vacancy size. It can change from year to year.
- Category gaps are wide. For BSF (male), the UR mark was about 39 above SC and about 41 above ST (arithmetic).
- Vacancies that year were much larger. The 2024 final write-up shows 4,728 male CAPF vacancies and 125 male Delhi Police vacancies, plus 394 and 61 for women. That is 5,308 in all (arithmetic), against 1,871 in the 2026 notice.
The write-up also lists the Paper-II marks and date of birth of each last selected candidate. The result for departmental vacancies of Delhi Police was not processed by SSC.
Vacancies
| Cycle | Delhi Police (male + female) | CAPFs SI (GD) | SI (Fire), CISF | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 205 + 112 | 1,320 | 234 | Notice of 10.09.2026 (tentative) |
| 2025 | 142 + 70 | 2,861 | not in the notice | Notice of 26.09.2025 (tentative) |
| 2024 | 125 + 61 | 4,728 + 394 | not in the write-up | Final result write-up of 20.10.2025 |
For 2026 the CAPF figure is 1,173 male and 147 female, spread across CRPF 254, BSF 457, ITBP 187, CISF 250 and SSB 172. The CAPF figure in the 2026 notice is less than half of the one in the 2025 notice. Fewer vacancies can push cut-offs up, other things equal. Treat that as a reasoning aid, not a forecast: the 2026 figures are tentative, the paper is on a new scale, and the number and quality of candidates matter as well.
How to use these numbers
- Do not carry the marks across. The 2026 Paper-I is out of 100 and the final selection is on a 320-mark Paper-II. There is no official cut-off on the new scale yet.
- Carry the shape across. Category gaps, the Delhi Police premium, and the order among forces are the parts of this history that are most likely to remain informative.
- Know the floor. The 2026 notice keeps minimum qualifying marks of 30% (UR), 25% (OBC and EWS) and 20% (others) in each paper. Shortlisting cut-offs in 2025 were roughly double the UR floor (arithmetic: 119.5 against 60).
- Count the physical stage as a cut-off. In 2025 it removed about three in four of the candidates shortlisted in Paper-I, counting absentees (arithmetic). Check the standards on the exam pattern page.
- Compare percentile, not just marks. 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
- Any cut-off for the 2026 examination. The computer-based examination is proposed for 20 to 28 November 2026 and no result exists.
- Paper-II and final cut-offs for the 2025 examination. Paper-II is tentatively on 28 November 2026.
- The Paper-I and Paper-II cut-off write-ups of the 2024 examination, and the 2024 notice. We did not open them in this check, so their figures are not reproduced and the maximum marks for 2024 are not stated.
- Years before 2024.
- Ex-servicemen sub-category rows for Delhi Police and the Paper-II marks of each last selected candidate. They are in the official write-ups.
- A "safe score". We do not estimate one.
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