#CSM_FR2025

Hello comrades,


The Civil Services 2025 final results are likely to be announced Today , March 6

You will receive an “All the best” message here a few hours before the official PDF is released. See you post-lunch!!🤞🏻🤞🏻

Thank you! 🙏🙏

https://upsconline.gov.in/CSE_2025_FR_Eng_06032026.pdf
FR VERIFIED ✅

Congratulations to everyone who made it to the list!!💐💐❤️❤️

Expect service allocation in 3-4 months. Reserve list by October-November.

Reserve list margin : Around 7 marks for UR, 2-3 marks for OBC, 1 mark for SC/ST

Cut off Marks CSE 2025

Name – RSS
Date – 24/02/2026 afternoon
key DAF details – Civil Engineering/ Financial Engineering, IIT, PSIR, Air Pollution, American Express, tree plantation etc, nothing else asked
Board – Sanjay Verma sir
Chairman – Have you watched Raanjhanaa movie
Are you watching cricket match going on
What else do you watch
Discussion on Panchayat series
What if this series has been set in Kerala, what difference it would have been( Chairman said it would have been completely different, everyone laughed)
Discussion on Epstein files, what is the issue here
Can this type of case happen in India

Members
what is GHG, name some GHGs
sources of methane
Ozone pollution – how does it pollute
What is climate change and its impacts
India’s commitments of CO2 etc, why India is doing it, can we focus somewhere else
How will you use financial engineering to fight corruption for example in MGNREGA muster rolls.
How financial engineering can be used to make robust funding strategies
What is financial engineering
As there are many metros coming up in many cities, what should be the criteria to have metros in the city
As we are planting trees in many schemes, how do we ensure there survival
any 3 civil engineering marvels you admire and why would you select them
( I included Statue of unity )
follow up- so for proud can we go on making statues( I said no sir )
What are your views on new IITs coming up
Some questions forgetting
Chairman – you may go now
O2O – OnlyIAS, Saloni ma’am Saarthi IAS, Khan sir (very good – boosted my confidence),
Mocks – Vajiram(Good), Samkalp (good), Next IAS (good), Forum, Quantel, OnlyIAS
Discussion with friends helped a lot, thank you everyone who has helped in this journey

Marks of Recommended Candidates CSE 2025

#New_normal_in_PT

UPSC CSE 2025 - List of Candidates scoring in PT ≥ 210

1. ISHAN BHATNAGAR - 215
2. ZINNIA AURORA - 215
3. ISHITA SHARMA - 215
4. ISHITWA ANAND - 215
5. TEJASWINI SINGH - 225
6. ANIMESH JAIN - 215
7. SRAJIT KUMAR - 210
8. TWINKLE ARORA - 215
9. AAKRITI - 212
10. SUYASH DWIVEDI - 212
11. ADITYA MATHUR - 215
12. VARUN TOKAS - 210
13. NISHCHAL JAIN - 215
14. ARFA USMANI - 215
15. MANIKA GUPTA - 210
16. BHAVESH JAGLAN - 215
17. SAURABH SHARMA - 218
18. VISHNUPRIYA - 215
19. ABHIJEET JAIN - 215
20. SHREYANSH BARODIYA - 211
21. ANJANA B - 220
22. ABHISHEK KUMAR JHA - 210
23. SUKANT JAIN - 214
24. SHASHWAT AGRAWAL - 215
25. U HARSHA VEENA - 215
26. SIDHARTH M JOY - 215
27. VANAJ VIDYAN - 210
28. ABHIJEET NANDAN - 215
29. HARSHDEEP SAGAR - 210
30. AKANKSHA SINGH - 210
31. KOMAL MAVI - 216
32. ASHISH KUMAR - 210
33. VAISHNA BISWAS - 210
34. SANDEEP SINGH SHEKHAWAT - 210
35. HARSHIDAA S NAIR - 215
36. AAYUSH SWAMI - 210
37. ROHIT GARG - 210
38. AMAN VERMA - 210
39. SUNIL SIDH - 212
40. SAURABH RANJAN - 212
41. ASNA ANWAR - 212
42. DHEERAJ CHOUDHARY - 215
43. ROHIT - 210
44. SATYAM SHAH - 215
45. SHUBHAM KUMAR - 210
46. ANITA - 220
47. VAKHARE SHIVAM RAJENDRA - 210
48. KAUSHAL KISHORE - 215
49. ABDUL SUFIYAN K - 212
50. VISHNOORAJA L - 215
51. RAKSHIT PAURWAL - 210
52. ROUNAK AGRAWAL - 212
53. EADULA VEGINI - 212
54. HARIMOHAN MEENA - 210

TOTAL - 54

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On RESERVE LIST (RL) of CSE 2025:

- The UR cut off will probably go 6-7 marks less from the final cut off..

- For OBC category probably- 2 marks less from cut off

- It will come around the 3rd or 4th week of October 2026

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Hello guys,

You all can see that the weightage of Interview (Personality Test) marks in the final selection is increasing year by year. So we have decided to create more analytical transcripts for the CSE community.

For this, we will edit transcripts by adding the PT marks at the bottom. Therefore, we request all candidates who appeared in the CSE 2025 Personality Test to please share the link of your transcript (if already posted on this channel) along with your PT marks (If you haven't shared it yet, you can send it now) in the following format:

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AIR 86
209 MARKS

date : 19 feb, afternoon, 3rd to go
Honourable sheelvardhan sir
asanga
Cordial board. Listening attentively
DAF keywords - meditation, podcasts, IIT BHU, Civil engg, sociology


Sheelvardhan sir
1. Why is smita prakash podcast so popular among aspirants?
2. Which podcasts do you hear?
3. Suggest me a podcast to hear which I can enjoy?
4. If you had to host a podcast, what would you choose? Topic, guests
5. Stoicism vs epicurianism
6. What is joy?
7. What is your philosophy of life? That you actually live, not what you want to?

M2 lady
1. Do you know about holocaust?
2. Who did it?
3. What about the conflicts that happened since the world war?
4. The question of Jewish statehood
3. Discussion on the palestinian issue..she tilted towards palestinian side

M3
1. Suppose you are made an advisor to the BRO, what would you do for border construction?
2. Projects in border areas in The recent years.
2. How do they construct tunnels in Mts.
3. How does TBM (tunnel boring machine ) work?

M4
1. Why btech in civil engineering?
2. Joy vs pleasure vs happiness - not satisfied with my answer
3. In the past few decades, the level of happiness declined ..do you agree?
4. Children - do they experience joy or happiness or pleasure?
5. Marvels of civil engineering in india and in the world

M5
Time was already short..
Long discussion on delimitation. Two schools of thought..what is your opinion on the solution?

Chairman sir - gave me his understanding of happiness, joy and pleasure
I said thank you sirs and thank you mam..left..

Overall good experience.
No grilling
25-30 minutes

Thank you note.
My friends, family and teachers
Special thanks to Dr Bidhan  from Vajiram
Anil Swarup sir for his discussions - because of him, i was able to bring some light moments during the actual PT
Peer group arranged by Study IQ was -  thanks to Neha, Mukesh, Varsith - peers i discussed with
Mahesh Bhagwat sir for discussion and content on his WhatsApp channel
Quantal for arranging so many mocks
Took mocks from almost 10 institutes - samkalp - 2 mocks, vajirao, ensure ias, pw ias, unacademy, next ias, discussed with sjal sir - sarrthi ias,  testbook, spm ias, dronacharya ias
All helped in some way or another


Some questions - I can't remember

Date 16-02-2026
Name : Harry
Board : Sheelvardhan sir

Key word: Haryana, Chandigarh, Painting, Feeding community dogs, providing medical aid to stray animals, Economics Optional.

I greet all the members ( round table)
The chairman asked me to sit.

C:
1. Harry, you belong to chandigarh. What's that hand sign signify.
2. What is the history of rock garden.
3. Can we say that Nek chand is father of waste material ( followup Questions)
4. You feed stray dogs. Don't you think it is creating a public safety issue.
5. Do dogs belong to wolves or jackals ?
6. We as a monkey species believe that dogs are selfish. Because we give them food, love and shelter but what they give us back? Bite us , attack us. Etc..
7. What is K shaped economy
8. Who is richer or who is poorer.
9. Don't you think that when you will get into the service you will be in poor category. Then why do you want to join service.
10. What is different in foreign countries is that there we do not see any stray animals like in India. What they do different.
11. Do you think that we have so much of poor population struggling to get a 3 meals a day can make shelters for all the stray animals.

M1 ( Lady member).
1. What is Sc order related to Stray dogs.
2. Do you think it is only solution. ( I answered about ABC rules )
3. Follow up Question- ABC is already there then why we are lagging behind. ( I said implementation issue and regulation and monitoring)
4. What is India Usa Trade deal. What they both are offering
5. What was the tariff before that.
6. Has the Agriculture sector opened in a trade deal.

M2:
1. how will you manage the Boarder management issue with Pakistan from Punjab.
( I asked him to repeat. As it was a monologue. He asked me thrice the same question)
2. How does the drone operate. ( From previous answer)
3. Does anyone sit in Drone.

M3:
1. What kind of Painting do you do.
2. What's your view on high price paintings like MF Husain. Do you think they are worth that much price

3. How can we reduce income inequality in India. ( I said wealth inheritance tax, progressive taxation system)
4. So you think cross subsidisation is the solution. ( I said simultaneously we need to enhance the capability and human capital)
5. You know amartya sen. What he gave to economics.
6. Did amartya sen get any nobel prize. In which field.

M5: what does women empowerment according to you.
2. What are the important things you believe that are important for women empowerment
3. What do you think about north eastern women and mainland india who are more empowered.
4. Which state has a matrilineal society ( follow up Question) I said Meghalaya.
He was from Manipur. He said. And told about a story to all members. And they all laughed.

More questions. But not able to recall.

Sheelvardhan sir said thank you your interview is over. It was nice talking to you Harry.

One to one: Vision IAS, Anatam IAS
Mocks- vajirao and reddy, study IQ, Tathasatu, Vision faculty mock, ALS ( Quantal), Shankar IAS, Vision Bureaucratic, Vajiram and Ravi. Samkalp 2 mocks

Part of a daily discussion of Umesh Reddy sir. That helps a lot to gather confidence in speaking.

My Interview was very close to Samkalp mocks. Most of the questions were repeated from Samkalp.

PT MARKS -146

Date of interview - 25 February 2026
Afternoon, last to go
Raj Shukla board
C- where are you from?
Have you heard about Mark Twain?
Where have you heard?
Quote- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. What do you understand?
To and forth questions on this. I tried to walk out. Said will read more. He told isme read more kya ye to charcha ka vishay hai.
M1
1. Tell me one moment where your patience was severely tested.
2. Significance of Maldives
3. Malacca Dilemma
4. Can india reckon china
5. Slow cycling vs fast cycling
6. 1 thing you don't like about JNU

M2
2 positive about icse cbse DU JNU
Difference between tolerance and fraternal
M3
India China same duration of liberalisation, why difference
Was liberalisation forced
M4
Chickens corridor
Discarded historical Sightseeing as hobby
Why voter apathy in urban areas?


PT marks- 185