UPPSC RO-ARO Exam Cut Offs - Complete Details

On 05.03.2021, the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) brought out a notification for the recruitment in 2021 to 337 positions of Review Officer (RO) and Assistant Review Officer (ARO). The examination board will conduct the Preliminary Examination for the post of RO and ARO on 5th December 2021. UPPSC will conduct the Main Examination on 10th April 2022. In this blog, we are going to have a look at UPPSC RO ARO Cut Off in detail. Let us begin:

UPPSC RO ARO Cut Off

When an examination is announced, along with maximum obtainable marks and minimum marks to pass the examination are also announced. If you obtain the minimum specified marks, it does not mean that you have qualified in that exam to move to the next stage of the recruitment process. Based on several factors, cut-off percentages/marks are decided. If you obtain at least those cut-off marks, you will qualify to move to the next stage of the process of recruitment. 

The cut-off mark is the minimum mark or percentage that a candidate requires for qualifying for the next stage.

In other words, Cut-off marks are the minimum percentages or marks that must be obtained by a candidate so that the candidate can qualify for the next stage of the recruitment process for the post for which UPPSC conducted the examination. Previous year’s cut-offs provide a good idea about upcoming recruitment conducted in the past years. 

The UPPSC RO ARO Cut Off Marks are decided based on the average of the combined marks obtained by the candidate who took the examination. Any candidate who sat for the examination and has got marks higher than or equal to the cut-off marks will be declared qualified in that specific examination.

Types of Cut offs

The cut-off mark technique for an examination can be of one of the following 3 types: 

• Sectional Cut-off
• Overall Cut-off
• Both Sectional & Overall Cut-off

The selection of which technique to use is left to the examination board. In the official notification that has been issued for recruitment to the position of RO and ARO by UPPSC, 3 different cut-offs have been specified for the UPPSC RO ARO Examination2021, as mentioned below.

• Qualifying Cut-off
• Category-wise Cut-off
• Overall Cut-off

Minimum qualifying cut-off - UPPSC RO-ARO

UPPSC has set the following percentages as the minimum qualifying cut-off for the candidates appearing for the UPPSC RO and ARO positions in 2021. 

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You should know the cut-off stages in a little more detail. As you have seen in the table above, UPPSC will provide the cut-off for the UPPSC RO and ARO 2021 examination for both Preliminary Examination and the Main Examination on its completion.

The first stage of the examination is the Preliminary Examination. The Preliminary Examination result for RO and ARO will be released by the commission based on the cut-off of the Preliminary Examination. Those who have scored marks more than or equal to the cut-off will be deemed qualified for the next round of the recruitment process. The next round of the process is the Main Examination. 

The candidates who qualify in the Preliminary Examination move on to the Main Examination. Based on the Cut-off of the Main Examination, a list of candidates who have qualified to move to the next examination stage, the Hindi Typing Test, is declared. 

When is the UPPSC RO ARo Cut Off Announced?

The Cut-off for the UPPSC RO and ARO examination is decided based on the average marks obtained by all the candidates who attempted that examination. So, the cut-off for the examination is decided and announced only after that examination’s process is completed. For the RO and ARO examination of UPPSC, the cut-off of the Preliminary Examination will be announced after the Preliminary Examination process is completed. For the Main Examination, the cut-off will be announced when the Main Examination process is completed. 

Factors Affecting Cut Off Scores

The following factors affect the Cut-Off marks for qualifying in any examination and also for the UPPSC RO and ARO examination:

• Number of candidates who appeared for the examination
• The examination’s level of difficulty
• Total vacancies/ posts to be filled

Also, it is essential to note that the cut-off marks for different categories of candidates are different.

UPPSC RO ARO Cut Off 2021

Before the examination is conducted, it is impossible to know the exact cut-off for qualifying for the next stage of the recruitment process. But it is still possible to make an educated estimate of what the cut-off in 2021 will be by looking at the cut-off in the previous few years when UPPSC conducted the examination. Also, the cut-off from the previous years will give some higher understanding of the examination’s difficulty level, completion level and enable you to set your targets. At each examination stage or the recruitment process, the result and the cut-off will be released on the official website of the recruiting authority. The UPPSC RO and ARO stages will be 3 in all: The Preliminary Examination, the Main Examination, and Final Cutoff.

Here are the category-wise UPPSC RO ARO Previous Year Cut Off of the 2017 Examinations for the UPPSC RO and ARO examination.

Based on the previous years’ cut-offs, it is possible to estimate what can be expected as the cut-offs for UPPSC RO and ARO Preliminary and Main Examinations. Please note that these are not the officially announced cut-offs but an estimation based on the previous years’ cut-offs. 

UPPSC Expected Cut Off 2021

Expected Cutoffs would be updated here after the conclusion of exams based on the factors mentioned above.

Conclusion

You must check out the cut-off of the previous years for the UPPSC RO and ARO examination to have a fair idea of what you can expect to be the cut-off in 2021. See what the trend has been in the previous years, is it rising or falling and any other trend that you can see. Then, based on all the information you gather, make our own estimate of the cut-off for your category in 2021.