BPSC TRE cut-off marks: every round, by subject and category

Checked 22 September 2026. These are published historical cut-offs and do not change. What will change is TRE 4.0’s own cut-off, which does not exist yet — this page deliberately does not predict it.

Where other pages get this wrong

BPSC TRE cut-offs are out of 120 marks, not 150.

Commonly published instead: Every competitor page reproduces the cut-off tables without stating the base at all, which leaves readers to assume 150 and conclude the exam is far easier than it is.

Part I (Language, 30 questions) is qualifying only and is excluded from merit. BPSC’s own notice, as reported in December 2023, says the merit list is prepared "excluding the marks of language, ie. the marks of the remaining 120 questions." A cut-off of 75 is therefore 62.5%, not 50%.

A published cut-off of 39 is impossible on a 150-mark base

• The lowest number anywhere in the TRE 3.0 tables is 39.
• BPSC’s minimum qualifying mark for SC and ST candidates is 32%.
• 32% of 120 is 38.4 — so 39 is the smallest whole mark that clears the floor. It fits exactly.
• 32% of 150 is 48 — so on a 150 base, a published SC cut-off of 39 would sit below BPSC’s own statutory floor. The Commission cannot publish a cut-off beneath its own qualifying minimum.
• Those 39s are the fingerprint of a 120-mark base, and they recur across every level.

This check is ours. The underlying figures are aggregator transcriptions of BPSC result notices, not the notices themselves — see the note on sourcing below.

Unresolved: What is the EBC qualifying percentage?

• One report of BPSC’s December 2023 notice groups BC and EBC together at 36.5%.
• A separate Careers360 table gives EBC 34%.

Our position: We are not picking one. If you are an EBC candidate, plan against 36.5% — the higher of the two — because being wrong in that direction costs you nothing.

Four things these outliers tell you

• Your subject matters more than your level. Class 9-10 Mathematics closed at 102 out of 120 — 85% — while Class 11-12 Physics closed at 40. Same round, same commission.
• Level inversion is real. Class 9-10 Mathematics (102) was nineteen marks harder than Class 11-12 Mathematics (83). A "higher" level is not a harder one.
• Cut-offs move violently between rounds. Class 11-12 Hindi went from 39 in TRE 1.0 to 88 in TRE 3.0. Any prediction built on one round is worthless.
• Women’s cut-offs are not automatically lower. They are separate sub-list cut-offs, and they are sometimes higher: Class 9-10 Hindi ST was 54, ST women 69. Class 6-8 Sanskrit ST was 47, ST women 68.

Where other pages get this wrong

The tables published across the internet as "TRE 2.0 cut-offs" are actually TRE 1.0.

Commonly published instead: Oliveboard, Physics Wallah and Career Power all label the same table set as TRE 2.0 or simply "2023".

The set contains no Class 6-8 table — and TRE 1.0 advertised zero Class 6-8 posts, while TRE 2.0 did include that level. Its subject coverage also matches the TRE 1.0 release of 25 October 2023. We label them TRE 1.0. We could find no genuine TRE 2.0 cut-off release, so we publish none rather than relabel these.

The composition shift is the real story

• Total posts have fallen round on round: 1,70,461 → 1,22,286 → 87,774 → 32,388. TRE 4.0 is under a fifth the size of TRE 1.0.
• Classes 11-12 was 33.8% of TRE 1.0 and roughly 25% of TRE 3.0. In TRE 4.0 it is 49.7% — very nearly half of all posts.
• Classes 1-5 has collapsed from 79,943 posts to 3,847.
• So this is not simply "a smaller TRE". It is a differently shaped one, and a primary-level candidate faces a far harsher round than the headline reduction suggests.

Fewer posts generally push cut-offs up, but the direction is not guaranteed — the domicile condition may shrink the applicant pool at the same time. Two large effects pulling opposite ways is exactly the situation in which a confident prediction is worth nothing.

Sources

• reported — Careers360 — BPSC on the merit list and qualifying percentages, 22 Dec 2023
• reported — Careers360 — TRE 3.0 final answer key, Class 9-10
• reported — Scroll.in — TRE 3.0 Class 11-12 final answer key on bpsc.bih.nic.in
• official — BPSC Advertisement 14/2026 (TRE 4.0), 18 Aug 2026
• reported — Physics Wallah — Bihar teacher exam pattern (TRE 3.0)
• reported — Career Power — BPSC Bihar teacher syllabus
• reported — Adda247 — BPSC TRE 4.0 notification

official = a BPSC or Bihar Government document. reported = a news or coaching site's transcription, which we could not check against the original. Where sources disagree this page says so rather than picking a winner.

The rest of the BPSC TRE series

• TRE 4.0 exam pattern — one exam or two, and what to prepare either way
• TRE in-hand salary calculator — Bihar HRA slabs, NPS and the real number
• Eligibility decoded — STET vs CTET vs B.Ed vs D.El.Ed, level by level
• Eligibility checker — answer six questions, see which levels you can apply for
• Domicile and reservation — the 85% policy, and what a non-Bihar candidate can apply for
• Previous year papers, answer keys and how to file an objection that works
• बीपीएससी TRE 4.0 — पूरी जानकारी हिंदी में

Every page in this series carries a "checked on" date and stamps each source as official or reported. If you find something here that is wrong, it is worth telling us — these pages are rebuilt from one file, so a correction fixes it everywhere at once.