1. IBPS CUT OFF MARK CALCULATION, IN DETAILS.
It appears that some of the bank PO aspirants want to know more about the cut off marks in the incoming IBPS
test. The IBPS in its guidebook mentions in section G that:-
“Each candidate will have to secure a minimum standardized score in each of the tests to qualify in the
written examination and to be considered for vacancies in the participating banks. The cut-off points will be
decided based on the average (Average – ¼ Standard Deviation for General category candidates and Average – ¾
Standard Deviation for Reserved Category candidates).”
For those who want to know how it actually works please go through below. Ideally it should work like
this.
At first let me tell something about standard deviation; it shows how much diversion is there from the
average value. It is calculated in this way; let us consider scores like 12, 11, 15 and 14. The average as you can
easily calculate is 13.
1. Now, subtract the average from each number and square it. Like (12-13)2 , which is 1.
2. This way you would get 1, 4, 1, and 4; now find their average (which is 2.5) and simply find the square root,
which is the standard deviation. In this case average is 2.5 and standard deviation will be 1.58.
So in this way let’s say for example there are 20 candidates securing these marks in English out of 50. The
standard deviation comes to 8.54 and average 25.9. Now putting in these values we get the General Candidates
cut off to be 23.05 and Reserved Category Candidates cut-off to be 19.49. Considering everyone belongs to
general category, the green ones indicate the successful candidates.
Names Marks Marks over/below the cutoff
A 25 1.95
B 30 6.95
C 31 7.95
D 22 -1.05
E 18 -5.05
F 26 2.95
G 31 7.95
H 40 16.95
I 12 -11.05
J 33 9.95
K 27 3.95
L 22 -1.05
M 15 -8.05
N 16 -7.05
O 21 -2.05
P 25 1.95
Q 36 12.95
R 42 18.95
S 14 -9.05
T 32 8.95
Average 25.9
Standard Deviation 8.54
General Cut-off 23.05
Reserved Cut-off 19.49