Civil Services Exam 2018: UPSC released marks of non-recommended candidates

UPSC has released the list of candidates with their personal details and marks in the Civil Services Exam 2018. See here details

Union Public Service Commission has released the marks of candidates who are not recommended in the Civil Services Exam 2018. After the government decided to make the marks of non-recommended candidates’ public in 2017, UPSC started this practice starting from the UPSC CMS exam 2017.  The government decided that the marks of the unsuccessful candidates can serve the purpose of other employers. Other employers such as PSUs, the private sector can directly take the candidates who did not succeed in the Civil Services Exam. The information given shall remain valid for one year.

See here UPSC List of Non-recommended Candidates

UPSC had recommended 759 candidates in the IAS Result 2018 announced on April 5, 2019. Later in October 2019, UPSC released the list of Consolidated Reserve list containing the marks and other details of 53 candidates who were recommended for the Civil Services exam 2018. Now UPSC has released the marks of the candidates who couldn’t make it to the final list. The details of 939 non-recommended candidates were given by UPSC. Following details are mentioned in the list published by UPSC.

1. Roll Number
2. Name
3. Fathers Name
4. Date of Birth
5. Community
6. Gender
7. Educational Qualification
8. Total Marks out of 2025(Civil Service Exam, 2018)
9. Complete Address
10. Email_Id

In addition to the score in the Civil Services Main Exam, the personal details of the candidates with their date of birth and permanent address is also mentioned in the list. This is done to ascertain the identity of the candidates and their marks in the Civil Services Exam. The public disclosure of the marks provides the opportunity to other employers to select the best candidates based on their educational qualification, Marks in the Civil Services Exam and the email-Id of the candidates.These candidates could not crossed the IAS cutoff 2018 to make it to the final merit list.

This is a great initiative taken by the UPSC and it can solve the recruitment woes of various semi-government and private sector companies. The IAS Exam has the high standards and the candidates scoring good marks in the civil services main exam can be successfully employed in various other jobs. 

It can reduce the cost of conducting a separate exam and instead various companies can choose from the list given by UPSC. On the other hand, candidates get an opportunity for employment in other companies as well. In the past, this was not the case and the candidates who missed the final list could not do anything even after performing well in the Civil Services Exam.