Tie breaking rule in UPSC Civil Services Exam

Tie breaking rule in UPSC Civil Services Exam

• The UPSC has released tie breaking rules for various exams it conducts. UPSC said these revised tie principles would be applicable for the examinations or recruitment tests notified after August 28,2019.
• Wherever two or more candidates, secure equal marks in aggregate tie breaking rules are used to decide the merit of each candidate. Every organization follows certain rules for deciding the inter se merit in such cases.
• Likewise, for the civil services exam the UPSC resolves tie cases on the basis of scores or mark and the age of the candidates.
• In the two filter tie breaking rules the commission uses the scores first and the age criteria next. UPSC is solely responsible to select and recommend candidates for recruitment to the IAS,IFS,IPS and other central services and posts.
• If the calculated marks are same for the candidates, then the commission would rank the candidates on the basis of age. The candidate senior in age will be ranked higher.
• Until, 2018 there was a third filter according to which in case both filters fail to resolve the case, candidate who has obtain more marks in the compulsory paper will be ranked higher.
• However the third filter has not been included by the UPSC in its new tie breaking rules.