If you are searching for the SSC GD cut-off hoping to find one number, the honest answer is that no single number exists. The Commission fixes the GD Constable cut-off separately for each combination of state or area, category and gender, because the vacancies themselves are earmarked that way. Two candidates with identical marks can get opposite results purely because one of them is domiciled in a state with more posts. This page explains the machinery that produces those figures, so you can set a target that makes sense for your own state and category instead of chasing a screenshot forwarded on a group.
Every cut-off you will ever see for GD Constable is computed on this 160-mark Computer Based Examination and nothing else. Each correct answer adds 2 marks and each wrong answer deducts 0.25. Raw marks are first normalised across shifts using the formula the Commission publishes, NCC bonus marks are added where applicable, and only then is a separate cut-off fixed for each state or area, category and gender. PET, PST and the medical examination are qualifying stages - clearing them adds nothing to your merit position, and failing them removes you regardless of your score.
The notice sets a minimum qualifying mark in the CBE before any merit cut-off is applied: 30% for UR, 25% for OBC and EWS, and 20% for all other categories, calculated without NCC bonus marks. That is only a floor. Candidates are then shortlisted for PET and PST state-wise, area-wise, category-wise and gender-wise in merit order, to roughly eight times the number of vacancies in each bucket. Clearing 30% and being inside the top 8x of your own state-category-gender list are two completely different things, and most people who are disappointed on result day had cleared the first and missed the second.
GD is conducted over many shifts across several days, so the Commission normalises marks using a published procedure before merit is prepared. That means a genuinely harder shift is adjusted for, and the cut-off figures published in the official PDF are normalised marks, not raw ones. This has a practical consequence people miss: comparing the raw score you calculated from the answer key against last year's published cut-off is not a like-for-like comparison. Treat it as an indication of the neighbourhood you are in, not a verdict.
When two candidates finish on the same score including NCC bonus, the notice breaks the tie by Part A marks first, then Part B, then Part C, then date of birth with the older candidate placed higher, then alphabetical order. In a state-category bucket with thousands of candidates packed into a few marks, that is not a theoretical rule. It means Reasoning accuracy carries a second, hidden value beyond its 40 marks. SSCIntel's post-test analysis reports your accuracy part by part rather than only a total, so you can see whether your reasoning half is strong enough to win a tie.
We do not publish an expected SSC GD cut-off, and you should be suspicious of anyone who does with a precise number before the result. A state-wise, category-wise, gender-wise cut-off depends on that cycle's vacancy split and that cycle's normalised score distribution, neither of which is knowable in advance. What SSCIntel does instead is score you honestly against real previous-year SSC questions carrying the Commission's own answer keys, sort your mistakes by type, and give you a seven-day plan aimed at the specific errors costing you marks. For the actual cut-off, read the PDF the Commission attaches to the result.
No. Vacancies for BSF, CISF, CRPF, ITBP, SSB and Assam Rifles are allotted state and UT wise, so the cut-off is fixed separately for each state or area, each category and each gender. Only Secretariat Security Force vacancies are filled on an all-India basis. On top of that, some vacancies are earmarked specifically for Border Guarding Districts and for militancy or Naxal affected districts, and those carry their own separate cut-offs. This is why the same mark can be comfortably above the line in one state and below it in another.
The notice prescribes 30% of maximum marks for UR candidates, 25% for OBC and EWS, and 20% for all other categories, and these are calculated without adding NCC bonus marks. Because the paper is out of 160, these percentages translate to fixed marks you can work out for yourself. Remember that this is an eligibility floor for being considered for shortlisting, not the cut-off. The actual shortlisting cut-off in most states and categories sits well above the floor.
Since the examination runs across multiple shifts with different question sets, the Commission converts your raw score into a normalised score using a procedure it publishes by notice. The published cut-off marks and the final merit list are both in normalised terms. Practically, this means a candidate who sat a tougher shift is not penalised for it, and a candidate who sat an easier one gains no windfall. It also means you cannot cleanly predict your position by matching a raw answer-key score to a previous year's cut-off number.
Yes, and meaningfully. The notice grants bonus marks added to the normalised score: 5% of maximum marks for an NCC C certificate, 3% for a B certificate and 2% for an A certificate. On a 160-mark paper those are substantial margins in a competition often decided by a mark or two. The bonus is granted provisionally at first and confirmed only after your certificate is verified, so claim it only if you actually hold the certificate as on the crucial date stated in the notice.
The Commission uploads a cut-off PDF along with the result of the Computer Based Examination on ssc.gov.in, in the results section for that examination year. Open it and find your own state or area row, your category column and your gender table rather than reading a headline figure. Coaching pages often quote the highest or lowest number from that same PDF out of context, which is how a candidate ends up believing the bar is far higher or far lower than it is for their own bucket.
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