KPSC TOWN PLANNING · KARNATAKA · SELECTION DATA

Quick answer: KPSC does not publish official cut-off marks for its town-planning exams. What follows is the lowest mark among candidates actually selected in every reservation category and cadre, across all three completed cycles (2020, 2021/22, 2022) - reconstructed directly from the final select lists, category by category. If you're asking "what score do I need," this is the closest verifiable answer that exists.

Read this before the tables: a "lowest selected mark" is not a cut-off KPSC set in advance. It's simply the weakest score among the candidates who were, in fact, selected for that specific slot - a result of how many people applied and competed for that particular category and cadre in that particular cycle. It can move significantly cycle to cycle and category to category, as the numbers below show.

Assistant Town Planner (2022) - Residual Parent Cadre, out of 200 marks

Category Notified Selected Highest mark Lowest selected mark As %
General Merit 25 25 143.75 88.75 44.4%
SC 8 8 120.00 91.75 45.9%
ST 1 1 87.00 87.00 43.5%
Category-1 2 2 119.00 88.25 44.1%
2A 8 8 121.25 89.50 44.8%
2B 2 2 117.50 85.25 42.6%
3A 2 2 119.25 118.75 59.4%
3B 2 2 93.00 92.00 46.0%
Cadre range 50 50 143.75 85.25 42.6%

Assistant Town Planner (2022) - Kalyana Karnataka Cadre, out of 200 marks

Category Notified Selected Highest mark Lowest selected mark As %
General Merit 5 5 121.25 86.25 43.1%
SC 1 1 109.00 109.00 54.5%
Category-1 1 1 76.75 76.75 38.4%
2A 2 2 115.00 83.75 41.9%
2B 1 1 79.50 79.50 39.8%
Cadre range 10 10 121.25 76.75 38.4%

No ST, 3A or 3B posts, and no PwD or Ex-servicemen sub-quota, existed in this cadre for this cycle - those rows simply don't apply here, verified against the notification annexure.

Town Planner (2021/22) - Residual Parent Cadre, out of 600 marks (derived)

Category Selected Highest mark Lowest selected mark As %
General Merit 9 355.50 266.25 44.4%
SC 2 270.00 251.25 41.9%
ST 1 305.25 305.25 50.9%
2A 2 312.00 256.50 42.8%
3A 1 297.75 297.75 49.6%
Cadre range 15 355.50 251.25 41.9%

Posts notified per category are not stated in the available documents for this cycle - only the totals (18 notified, 15 selected) are confirmed.

Town Planner (2021/22) - Kalyana Karnataka Cadre, out of 600 marks (derived)

Category Selected Highest mark Lowest selected mark As %
General Merit 1 262.50 262.50 43.8%
SC 1 217.50 217.50 36.3%
2A 1 295.50 295.50 49.3%
2B 1 294.75 294.75 49.1%
Cadre range 4 295.50 217.50 36.3%

Assistant Director (2020) - out of 420 marks

Block Category Selected Highest mark Lowest selected mark As %
RPC, regular General Merit 5 257.00 176.50 42.0%
RPC, regular SC 1 140.00 140.00 33.3%
RPC, regular 2A 2 192.00 137.50 32.7%
RPC, regular 2B 1 162.00 162.00 38.6%
RPC, regular 3B 1 130.00 130.00 31.0%
RPC, regular range   10 257.00 130.00 31.0%
RPC, backlog SC 5 219.50 140.50 33.5%
RPC, backlog ST 1 88.50 88.50 21.1%
RPC, backlog range   6 219.50 88.50 21.1%
Kalyana Karnataka, regular General Merit 1 (of 2 notified) 177.00 177.00 42.1%
Kalyana Karnataka, regular 2A 1 168.50 168.50 40.1%
Kalyana Karnataka, backlog SC 1 120.50 120.50 28.7%
Kalyana Karnataka, backlog ST 1 74.00 74.00 17.6%

The Kalyana Karnataka regular block's General Merit post (carrying a hearing-impairment PwD sub-reservation) went unfilled - no candidate appears against it, which is why only 1 of 2 notified posts in that row shows a selection.

What Stands Out Across All Three Cycles

  • The lowest score anywhere in the dataset is the 2020 Assistant Director, Kalyana Karnataka backlog, ST category: 74.00 out of 420 (17.6%).
  • Backlog slots ran meaningfully lower than regular slots in the one cycle that had both (2020): the RPC backlog's lowest selected mark (21.1%) was well below the RPC regular block's (31.0%).
  • Percentage bars, not raw marks, are the fair way to compare across cycles - the three cycles use three different total marks (200, 420, 600), so a raw-mark comparison across posts is meaningless on its own.
  • General Merit was never the lowest-scoring category in any cadre in any cycle in this dataset - reserved-category slots, not General Merit, set the floor every time.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the KPSC Town Planner cut-off?

KPSC does not publish an official cut-off for this exam. The closest verifiable figure is the lowest mark among candidates actually selected in a given category and cadre, which varies by cycle - see the full tables above for every category in all three completed cycles.

What was the lowest score selected across all KPSC town-planning cycles?

74.00 out of 420 marks (17.6%), in the 2020 Assistant Director recruitment, Kalyana Karnataka backlog block, ST category.

Do backlog posts have a lower selection bar than regular posts?

In the 2020 Assistant Director cycle, yes - the only cycle with both regular and backlog blocks. The Residual Parent Cadre backlog block's lowest selected mark (21.1%) was noticeably below the regular block's (31.0%).

Which category had the lowest selected mark in the 2022 Assistant Town Planner exam?

Category-1 in the Kalyana Karnataka cadre, at 76.75 out of 200 (38.4%) - the lowest of any category in either cadre for that cycle.

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Disclaimer: all figures are reconstructed from official KPSC final select lists and are labelled "lowest selected mark," not "cut-off" - KPSC publishes no official cut-off for these exams. Where a source document does not state posts-notified-per-category (the 2021/22 Town Planner cycle), this page says so rather than estimating.