SSC CGL Cut Off: Previous Year Tier 1 Cut-offs (2021 to 2025) and CGL 2026 Status

SSC CGL cut off 2026: where things stand

SSC's schedule notice of 12 September 2026 fixed CGL 2026 Tier 1 from 30 September to 30 October 2026. As of 10 October 2026 the exam is roughly halfway through, and SSC has not released the Tier 1 answer key, the result or any cut-off. The exam notice lists Tier 2 as tentatively December 2026.

When the result does come, expect more than one cut-off. The CGL 2026 notice says separate Tier 1 cut-offs will be fixed for Junior Statistical Officer and Statistical Investigator Grade-II, for Assistant Audit Officer and Assistant Accounts Officer, and for all other posts.

The CGL 2026 cut-off will be published inside the Tier 1 result write-up (a PDF) on ssc.gov.in. Check the Results and Notice Board sections there rather than relying on social media screenshots.

SSC CGL Tier 1 cut-off for the last 5 years, category-wise

The table uses the main list in each result: candidates shortlisted for Tier 2 for all posts other than the statistics posts (and, in CGL 2021 to 2023, other than AAO). Most CGL aspirants fall in this list. Marks are normalised and out of 200. SSC's five decimals are rounded here to two.

Two corrections worth knowing

• CGL 2025: the first result write-up, dated 18 December 2025, printed a UR cut-off of 136.83. A corrigendum dated 14 January 2026 corrected the table to 136.40 for UR, 115.03 for SC and 106.39 for ST, and SSC said no name was added to or removed from the list. The table above uses the corrected figures.
• CGL 2024: after orders of the Central Administrative Tribunal, SSC revisited the result on 17 January 2025 and lowered the cut-offs slightly (UR 152.97, OBC 146.23, EWS 141.82, SC 126.42, ST 111.86), which added 609 candidates. The table shows the original figures from 5 December 2024.

General, OBC, EWS, SC and ST cut-offs at a glance

• UR (general) cut-off: between 114.28 (CGL 2022) and 153.19 (CGL 2024) over these five years. CGL 2025 came in at 136.40, clearly below 2024.
• OBC: from 114.28 to 146.26. In CGL 2022 the OBC cut-off was exactly the same as UR.
• EWS: from 102.35 (CGL 2022) to 143.44 (CGL 2023).
• SC: from 89.09 (CGL 2022) to 126.68 (CGL 2023).
• ST: from 77.58 (CGL 2022) to 118.17 (CGL 2023).

Reserved-category candidates who score at or above the UR cut-off, within the UR age limit, qualify at UR standard but are still shown under their own category. In the corrected CGL 2025 table, for example, SSC notes 25,319 OBC and 3,772 SC candidates who cleared the UR cut-off.

How many marks was the paper out of each year?

Tier 1 itself has not changed in size: 100 questions in four sections of 25, a total of 200 marks, one hour, and 0.50 marks deducted for each wrong answer. That is true of every CGL notice from 2021 to 2026. What changed is the stage after Tier 1, which is why older final cut-offs cannot be compared directly with newer ones.

JSO and Statistical Investigator: a higher bar

If you applied for Junior Statistical Officer, SSC draws up a separate list, and its cut-off has run well above the main list.

For Statistical Investigator Grade-II, the UR cut-off was 152.47 in CGL 2025 and 170.66 in CGL 2024.

SSC CGL Tier 2 and final cut-offs, post-wise

Tier 1 only takes you to Tier 2. The final merit list is built on Tier 2 alone, and for most posts that means Section I plus Section II of Paper-I, a maximum of 390 marks.

Tier 2 qualifying cut-offs

In CGL 2024, SSC evaluated the computer and data entry tests (for all posts except SI Grade-II) only for candidates whose Section I plus Section II total reached 322.77 (UR), 306.28 (OBC), 300.04 (EWS), 285.46 (SC) or 266.50 (ST). CGL 2025 worked differently: SSC applied only the minimum section marks, 54 in Section I and 63 in Section II for UR, 45 and 52.5 for OBC and EWS, and 36 and 42 for SC and ST.

Final cut-offs for popular posts

These are the Tier 2 Paper-I marks (Section I plus Section II, out of 390) of the last candidate selected in each category, taken from SSC's final results. CGL 2024 marks are normalised, hence the decimals.

Junior Statistical Officer is ranked on Paper-I plus the 200-mark Statistics paper. The last UR candidate selected as JSO scored 394.50 in CGL 2025 and 457.05 in CGL 2024.

How normalisation changes your marks

Tier 1 runs across many shifts, and each shift gets a different paper. SSC converts raw scores into normalised scores, and the cut-off is applied to the normalised score, not to the raw total you work out from your response sheet.

• Up to CGL 2024: SSC used the formula it published on 7 February 2019, which adjusted scores using the top scores, average scores and spread of marks in each shift.
• From CGL 2025: SSC moved to an equipercentile method, notified on 2 June 2025. What counts is your rank inside your own shift. SSC's own example: someone who beat 80 per cent of their shift is matched with someone who beat 80 per cent of another shift.
• CGL 2025 also had a re-exam on 14 October 2025 for some candidates. On an expert committee's advice, those candidates were clubbed with their original shifts for normalisation.
• CGL 2026: the notice says the 2 June 2025 procedure will be used again.

So treat any raw-score comparison with these tables as a rough check only. A hard shift can lift a modest raw score, and an easy shift can pull a high one down.

What pushes the cut-off up or down

• How many candidates SSC shortlists. This explains most of the swing in the main table. CGL 2022 shortlisted 3,60,432 candidates in the main list and had the lowest cut-offs; CGL 2023 shortlisted 71,112 and had some of the highest.
• Vacancies. The CGL 2024 final result recommended 18,174 candidates and CGL 2025 recommended 15,118. For CGL 2026, the tentative count as on 24 September 2026 is 10,731, against approximately 12,256 mentioned in the notice. Tentative counts can still change, and fewer vacancies do not automatically mean a higher cut-off.
• Competition. SSC said 28,14,604 candidates registered for CGL 2025 Tier 1, and more than 28 lakh applied for CGL 2026 by the original last date.
• Shift difficulty, handled through normalisation as explained above.
• Minimum qualifying marks. Nobody qualifies below 30 per cent for UR (60 of 200), 25 per cent for OBC and EWS (50) or 20 per cent for other categories (40). That floor is why some PwD and ex-servicemen cut-offs sit at exactly 40.

How to use these numbers in your preparation

Look at the last three results for scale: from CGL 2023 to CGL 2025, the main-list UR cut-off sat between 136.40 and 153.19 out of 200, and JSO ran higher. Set your mock-test targets with a margin above the numbers for your own category, and remember that the cut-off is only a gate. Your post and department depend on Tier 2.

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