UPSC Civil Services Exam is known for its low-scoring trends. No wonder, Kanishak Kataria, secured All India Rank 1 by scoring 55.36 per cent marks. He scored 1121 out of 2025.
Kanishak’s Marks Reveal Tough Standards in UPSC Civil Services Exam
In general, UPSC Civil Services Exam (CSE) is a low scoring exam – and is widely considered as one of the toughest exams to crack.
This is because while the vacancies are only less than 1000, the number of applicants is around 10,00,000.
Last year, a general category candidate just needed 49% marks to be in the final rank list.
Percentage required to be All India Rank 1? 55.36%
UPSC Topper 2018 Marks
Kanishak Kataria scored 942 marks in the Main Examination (written) out of 1750, securing a percentage of 53.8. He secured 65 per cent marks in UPSC Interview when he scored 179 out of 275. His total score – Mains plus Interview – is 1121 out of 2025 (55.36 per cent).
Kanishak Kataria’s Marks – Break Up
- Essay Paper – 133/250
- General Studies Paper 1 – 98/250
- General Studies Paper 2 – 117/250
- General Studies Paper 3 – 117/250
- General Studies Paper 4 – 116/250
- Optional 1 (Mathematics) – 170/250
- Optional 2 (Mathematics) – 191/250
Written Total – 942/1750
Personality Test – 179/275
Final Total – 1121/2025
Marks of Rank 2 and Rank 3
Rank 2 and Rank 3 too were not far behind.
Akshat Jain, Rank 2 secured 1080 marks out of 2025 (53.33%) while Junaid Ahmed, Rank 3 secured 1077 out of 2025 (53.18%).
You can find the marks of other candidates who took the UPSC Civil Services Examination from the below links:
Previous UPSC Toppers’ Marks
- Durishetty Anudeep, UPSC Topper 2017, scored 1126 out of 2025 (55.60 percent)
- Nandini K R, Rank 1 UPSC CSE 2016, secured 1120 marks out of 2025 (55.30 percent).
- Tina Dabi, the topper of UPSC CSE 2015, had got 1063 marks out of 2025 (52.49 percent).
- Ira Singal, All-India Rank 1 2014, secured 1082 marks out of 2025 (53.34 percent).
- Gaurav Agrawal, All-India Rank 1 2013, secured 975 marks out of 2025 (48.14 percent).
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