What Should Be your Score in SSC CGL Tier-2 to Get A Job?

Dear Aspirants,

SSC CGL 2017-18 after going through many dramatic ups and downs has released answer key for Tier-2 Exam held on 17 February to 22 February 2018 and conducted one re-exam for some particular exam centers on 9th March 2018. Tier-1 Exam for SSC CGL 2017 was conducted from 5 August 2018 to 23 August 2017. The previous Tier-1 cut-offs for AAO, JSO and remaining posts were 152.50, 151 and 131 respectively and the final revised cut off for Tier-1 came out as 148, 146.50 and 126.50 for AAO, JSO and remaining posts respectively.

The alleged cheating practices in the conduct of exam at some particular exam centres across the country, technical glitches, tough level of question sets, protest and CBI Enquiry are some considerable factors that made SSC CGL Tier 2 2017 Exam candidates fall in dilemma regarding expected cut off for Tier-2 Examination.

As answer key for SSC CGL Tier-2 is already out and candidates are all at sea regarding expected cut off for the same, under the tutelage of Adda247 and team, the possible reasons affecting cut off set markings and expected cut off for SSC CGL 2017 Tier-2 Exam are being discussed as follows:

Number of vacancies issued for the particular year
Number of Region wise vacancies for the particular year
Number of applying candidates
Level of Exam
Past 3 years cut off trend

This time cut off for Tier -2 is expected to go down if one considers the complexity of the Exam. Also it is justifiable to mention that an upsurge number of candidates seem to be victimized with errors in the question sets or unsatisfied answers to the corresponding questions and some other technical issues. Taking all the factors into consideration, the expected cut off for SSC CGL Tier-2 2017 can be assumed in the scale ranging 388-397. Check out previous year cut offs and make your speculations more explicit.

Expected SSC CGL Tier-II Cut Off:

Here you need to contemplate this fact that getting qualified in SSC CGL Tier-2 is not necessarily associated with your final selection for the job. You are in dire need to cross set cut off for SSC CGL Tier-2 with a high margin. But if you are somewhere in the mid, recover the possible loss of marks with Tier-3 score.

To check and calculate how many marks you need to score to qualify and to be in the safe zone in SSC CGL Tier-1 + CGL Tier-2 Exam, below provided table is a reflection of our reasonable data and analysis.

SSC CGL Tier-I 2017 Cut Off Marks [Revised]

		SC	ST	OBC	OH	HH	VH	UR	Ex.S
AAO Post	Previous Cut Off	129.00	123.00	140.50	113.50	79.00	–	152.50	–
AAO Post	Revised Cut Off	125.50	119.00	135.50	111.50	75.00	–	148.00	–
JSO Post	Previous Cut Off	127.50	117.00	140.00	104.50	62.00	116.00	151.00
JSO Post	Revised Cut Off	123.50	114.50	135.50	102.00	61.00	116.00	146.50
For Remaining Posts	Previous Cut Off	103.00	93.00	115.00	87.00	40.00	89.50	131.00	73.50
For Remaining Posts	Revised Cut Off	98.00	88.50	110.00	84.50	38.00	89.50	126.50	69.00

If you are at margin in SSC CGL Tier-I 2017 Cut Off then what should you score in SSC CGL Tier-II to be in the safe zone :-

Post Name		Score to get selected in CGL 2017
		UR
		Tier-I	Tier-II
Asst. Audit Officer(AAO)	Tier-I+Tier-II (Paper I+II+IV)	148 [Out of 200]	397+ [Out of 600]
Junior Statistical Officer (JSO)(Grade-II)	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II+III)	146 [Out of 200]	366+ [Out of 600]
Asst. Section Officer in CSS and Asst. in MEA	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II)	126.50 [Out of 200]	329+ [Out of 400]
Remaining Posts	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II)	126.50 [Out of 200]	304+ [Out of 400]

After looking through all the possible factors affecting cut off for this year, CGL Tier-2 cut off is expected to be lower to qualify the same. Strong predictions are made below.

But on the whole hog to get a job confirmation status, score within a limited or expected range in SSC CGL Tier-2 won’t bring any major relaxation to acquire a job in SSC CGL.
Start preparing for Tier-3 i.e Descriptive Exam as hard as possible.

Below is the cut off for previous years SSC CGL Tier-2 Exam. Compare, Analyse and Detect your performance based on it.

SSC CGL 2016 Tier-II Cut Off

	Assistant Audit Officer	Assistant Section Officer in CSS and Assistant in MEA	Junior Statistical Officer (Grade-II)	Remaining Posts
	Tier-I+Tier-II (Paper I+II+IV)	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II)	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II+III)	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II)
UR	536.00	449.00	502.00	422.00
OBC	493.75	424.50	471.00	397.00
SC	454.00	389.00	423.00	363.25
ST	427.00	370.00	397.00	341.00
Ex.S	–	–	–	–
OH	411.00	366.50	364.00	333.00
HH	264.00	262.00	230.25	216.00
VH	–	364.50	267.50	336.00

SSC CGL 2015 Tier-II Cut Off

	All Interview posts	Statistical Investigator/Compiler	Non-Interview Posts
	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II)	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II+III)	Tier-I + Tier-II (Paper I+II)
UR	430.75	554.75	410.25
OBC	411.00	523.00	387.00
SC	373.00	468.25	345.00
ST	359.25	–	327.50
Ex.S	358.00	–	255.00
OH	344.75	–	323.50
HH	253.00	–	210.50
VH	332.00	–	259.00