RRB Office Assistant Cut-Off by State: Official Mains, Prelims Out of 80

There are two kinds of RRB Office Assistant cut-off, and they have different standing. The Mains figures are official: with the provisional allotment of 15 March 2026, IBPS published Annexure B, the minimum and maximum Mains scores (out of 100) of allotted candidates for every State and category, plus the reserve-list minimums. The Prelims cut-offs are not on IBPS’s website: a candidate sees their own State and category on the scorecard inside the login, and coaching sites collect those into State tables. Those numbers are reported, and we say where each comes from. Read them inside the official frame — marks, seats and the rule that sets the cut-off — and they become useful; read them outside it and they mislead.

Prelims figures reported: Oliveboard, updated 22 Sep 2026. Official: CRP RRBs-XV notification (80 marks); IBPS allotment notice 15.03.2026, Annexure B.

The notification describes the process, not the number. In the Preliminary, a candidate must “qualify in both the tests by securing minimum cut-off marks”, and then an adequate number of candidates in each category is shortlisted for the Mains “depending upon requirements”. In the Mains, each candidate must obtain “a minimum score in each test”, and candidates are then shortlisted according to the vacancies in each State. So there are really two layers: a floor in every test, which nobody outside IBPS sees, and the State-and-category cut that falls wherever the vacancies run out.

These are the cut-offs from the CRP RRBs-XIV Preliminary held in December 2025, for General candidates, as collected by Oliveboard. Meghalaya and Puducherry have no reported figure. We print this cycle’s and last cycle’s seats beside each State, because the cut-off is a product of those seats.

One conflict to note: Oliveboard’s State table gives Tamil Nadu 62.25 for 2025, while the 2025 column of its own trend table gives 62.50. PW gives 62.25. We print 62.25 in the table above and 62.50 in the trend table, as each source has it; neither can be checked against IBPS.

Oliveboard’s trend table covers 22 States for six cycles. A dash means no figure was reported for that year. Two patterns stand out. Several States sat in the mid-70s for years and stayed there — Punjab, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh. Others swung by 20 marks from one year to the next: West Bengal went from 77.75 in 2020 to 56.50 in 2021 and back to 77.50 in 2024; Uttar Pradesh fell to 53.75 in 2023 and rose to 69.75 in 2024. A cut-off that moves that far is responding to seats and paper difficulty, not to a rising standard.

Rajasthan is the sharpest example of why a trend is not a forecast. In 2025 it had 1,725 Office Assistant seats — more than any State — and its reported General cut-off fell to 64.25, its lowest in the six years. In 2026 it has 225 seats. Andhra Pradesh moved the other way, from 150 seats to 900. Changes that large make the previous cut-off less transferable, but seats alone do not settle which way the next one moves: applicant numbers, category mix, paper difficulty and normalisation all matter, and none of those is published for 2026. We do not predict the 2026 numbers.

With the CRP RRBs-XIV provisional allotment of 15 March 2026, IBPS published Annexure B: for every State/UT and category, the maximum and minimum Online Main Examination scores (out of 100) of candidates provisionally allotted, and a separate table of minimum scores for the reserve list. The table below prints all 28 States from that annexure — the minimum for each category, the highest and lowest UR (General) score, the spread between them (our subtraction) and the UR reserve-list minimum. “—” is IBPS’s “NA”: no vacancy, no candidate available, or included in a horizontal category. That is why Haryana, Punjab and Puducherry show no ST figure and the North-Eastern States no SC figure.

Two notes on the Mains table. First, the UR minimum ranged from 49.03 (Mizoram) to 64.03 (Puducherry), and the gap between the lowest and highest allotted UR score ranged from 1.44 points (Puducherry) to 14.71 (Haryana) (our arithmetic). A minimum and a maximum do not show how the candidates in between are spread, so the table cannot tell you how many ranks a mark is worth. Second, older Mains tables circulate with the headings swapped: Oliveboard’s own 2024 table is headed “Maximum Scores” yet its values (for example Andhra Pradesh UR 64.69) behave like cut-offs, and PW prints the same numbers as the 2024 cut-off. We did not find the 2024 allotment annexure on IBPS’s site, so we use only the 2025–26 table above.

Only two of the CRP RRBs-XIV dates below come from IBPS documents: the registration window and the provisional allotment notice of 15.03.2026. IBPS’s XIV cycle page no longer lists the Office Assistant result items, so the others are reported.

Use it as a floor for your mocks, not a target. If your State’s last three reported General cut-offs sit between 70 and 76 out of 80, a mock net score in the low 60s tells you the gap is real. Check your State’s 2026 seats against 2025 as well: a large change means last year’s number transfers less well, in either direction. And remember the hidden layer: each test has its own minimum. A 72 made of 40 in Reasoning and 32 in Numerical still fails if the Numerical minimum is above 32 — the Prelims tests are 40 marks each, and IBPS does not publish the sectional minimums.

For the Mains, the practical numbers are your State’s UR (or category) minimum and the reserve-list minimum below it — both official. In 17 of the 28 States the whole allotted UR group sat within ten points of the minimum (our count from Annexure B), so every test counts, including the 20-mark Computer Knowledge test.