UPSC 2010: Candidates Applied, Appeared & Selected
How many candidates applied, appeared and were selected in CSE 2010. Category-wise cut-offs for this year are not on UPSC's website, so we show only what UPSC published.
UPSC 2010 at a glance
UPSC 2010 cut-off
UPSC's cut-off notices online begin with CSE 2012, so the 2010 category-wise cut-offs are shown as —. The candidate numbers below come from UPSC's own records.
UPSC 2010: from application to selection
- Applied
- Appeared in Prelims
- Qualified for Mains
- Appeared in Mains
- Called for interview
- Recommended
Bar lengths use a log scale so the last stages stay visible.
In CSE 2010, 49% of applicants actually sat Prelims. About 1 in 22 of them reached Mains, 1 in 5 Mains writers got an interview call, and 40% of those interviewed were finally recommended.
Category-wise numbers, 2010
| Category | Applied | Appeared | Qualified for Mains | Appeared Mains | Interviewed | Recommended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | 1,92,207 | 91,048 | 5,060 | 4,894 | 1,171 | — |
| OBC | 1,67,623 | 87,250 | 4,407 | 4,129 | 860 | — |
| SC | 1,36,502 | 66,683 | 2,011 | 1,893 | 378 | — |
| ST | 51,366 | 24,055 | 1,015 | 949 | 178 | — |
What changed from 2009
No earlier UPSC figures are available to compare with.
Cut-offs are a moving line, and that is good news: they reward the candidate who prepares for any paper, not the one who guesses the number. Practise with the real 2010 questions below and you will see exactly where those marks came from.
UPSC Prelims 2010 question paper with answers
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How many candidates appeared in UPSC 2010?
5,47,698 applied for CSE 2010 and 2,69,036 appeared in Prelims. 12,493 qualified for Mains, 11,865 wrote it, 2,589 were called for interview and 1,042 were recommended.