UPSC Toppers 2021 marks released. See here highest marks in main (written) and personality test

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UPSC Toppers 2020 marks released. Check here the IAS Toppers marks.

UPSC Toppers Marks 2021 released. Check here the marks of Shubham Kumar, Jagruti Awasthi and others.

UPSC Toppers marks were released by the Commission on September 28. Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) releases the marks of selected candidates after the declaration of the result. The candidates can check the marks of UPSC toppers 2021 so that they can understand the efforts behind the success of IAS Toppers.

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UPSC Toppers Marks
UPSC Main (written) marks
UPSC Personality Test Marks

UPSC Toppers Marks

Shubham Kumar from Bihar stood first in the Civil Service Exam (CSE) 2020. He scored 1054 marks out of 2025. Shubham scored 176 marks in the UPSC interview out of 275. He scored 878 marks in the IAS main (written) exam 2020. The total marks in the IAS written exam are 1750. The marks secured are approximately fifty per cent of the total marks assigned. This shows the difficulty level of the exam.

Jagruti Awasthi scored more marks in the UPSC interview than Shobhit Kumar. She secured 193 marks out of 275 in the UPSC interview. In the Civil Service Main (written) exam, she scored 859 marks.

One of the interesting facts is that the third rank holder, Ankita Jain, scored 212 marks in the interview, which is the second-highest marks though secured by various candidates. The highest marks in the UPSC interview are 215, which is secured by over one candidate.

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The candidates are arranged as per the aggregate total marks they secured in the UPSC main (written) and personality test. The marks of the top twenty candidates are provided here.

Candidate name and rank	UPSC main (written) marks	Personality test marks	Total marks
Shubham Kumar - Rank 1	878	176	1054
Jagruti Awasthi - Rank 2	859	193	1052
Ankita Jain - Rank 3	839	212	1051
Yash Jaluka - Rank 4	851	195	1046
Mamta Yadav - Rank 5	855	187	1042
Meera k - Rank 6	835	206	1041
Praveen Kumar - Rank 7	848	193	1041
Jivani Kartik Nagjibhai- Rank 8	858	182	1040
Apala Mishra - Rank 9	816	215	1031
Satyam Gandhi - Rank 10	827	201	1028
Devayani - Rank 11	842	182	1024
Mithun Premraj - Rank 12	845	179	1024
Gaurav Budania - Rank 13	850	173	1023
Karishma Nair - Rank 14	834	187	1021
Ria Dabi - Rank 15	859	162	1021
Arth Jain - Rank 16	853	168	1021
Sarthak Agrawal - Rank 17	822	195	1017
Radhika Gupta - Rank 18	838	179	1017
Shashwat Tripurari - Rank 19	852	165	1017
P Srija - Rank 20	831	184	1015

UPSC Main (written) marks

The UPSC main exam is the descriptive exam conducted offline in pen and paper mode. It is called the main exam because the marks secured in this exam are considered for the result. The highest marks secured in the UPSC main exam are as follows.

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Candidate name	UPSC main (written) marks	Rank in UPSC exam
Shubham Kumar	878	1
Jagruti Awasthi	859	2
Ria Dabi	859	15
Jivani Karnik Nagjibhai	858	8
Mamta Yadav	855	5
Arth Jain	853	16
Shashwat Tripurari	852	19
Yash Jaluka	851	4
Gaurav Budania	850	13
Praveen Kumar	848	7

Here we can see the importance of marks secured in the UPSC main (written) exam. Shubham Kumar scored the highest marks in the Civil Service Main (written) exam and topped the exam irrespective of the fact that he did not score the highest marks in the personality test.

UPSC Personality Test Marks

Let us see the top ten candidates who scored highest in the personality test.

Candidate name	UPSC Interview marks	Rank in UPSC exam
Apala Mishra	215	9
Shavya Goyal	215	81
Mohamed Javed A	215	493
Ankita Jain	212	3
Narwade Vinayak Karbhari	212	37
Akshay Simha K J	212	77
Ananth Chandrasekhar	212	145
SHUBHAM BAJAJ	212	232
Kirandeep Kaur Sahota	212	331
Krishan Kumar Singh	209	24

The UPSC personality test depends on various factors. Various candidates scored well in the interview but did not do well in the UPSC main (written) exam. Various candidates scored far above in interviews compared to the UPSC toppers, but because of the marks in the written exam, they ranked lower in the list.

UPSC cut off 2020 data shows that the minimum marks required to clear the IAS prelims exam were 92.5 for the General category candidates. It implies that in the IAS prelims 2020, the candidate who had 47 answers corrects out of 100. UPSC released the Civil Service Result 2020 on September 24.

The individual UPSC scorecard will be released soon and the candidates would be able to download their scorecard from the official website. The marks required to become an IAS officer differs each year and depends on the candidates who appeared and scored in the Civil Service Exam. UPSC IAS prelims 2021 will be conducted on October 10. The candidates who are ranked low in the list will be appearing in the exam to improve their rank.

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