SSC MTS Cut-off State-wise: Official 2024 Final, 18–25 and 18–27

SSC MTS has no single cut-off. SSC fills MTS vacancies state by state, separately for each category and for two age groups (18–25 and 18–27), so the mark needed depends on where you asked to be posted. In the 2024 exam, the last UR candidate selected in the 18–25 group scored 120.79 out of 150 in Tamil Nadu and 139.36 in Chandigarh — a spread of nearly 19 marks on the same paper. This guide sets out SSC’s official 2024 final cut-offs, explains how to read them, and has a checker. The 2025 exam’s MTS cut-offs have not been published yet.

SSC MTS 2024 final result, Annexure-I.

The published cut-off is the Session-II normalised mark of the last candidate selected in a given State/UT, category and age group. Candidates choose State/UT preferences in the application, and SSC allocates in merit order against the vacancies in each. So the same score can be enough in one state and short in another, and a state with many vacancies (Delhi, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu) is not necessarily easier than a small one — it depends on how many strong candidates asked for it. For a candidate eligible for both age groups, SSC fills the 18–25 vacancies first.

To use the table, find your category column and look across the states you would accept. The mark shown is the last one selected in 2024, so a score comfortably above it would have been enough that year; a score just below it would not. The “Posts” column matters too — it is every vacancy in that age group across the five categories, of which the UR column is only a part (Delhi 18–25: 681 UR of 1,582). A large state such as Delhi or Maharashtra absorbs many candidates, so its line moves less when a few strong candidates choose it than a state with a handful of posts.

Three patterns stand out. The south and west closed lowest: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat all had UR lines between about 121 and 124. North India closed highest: Chandigarh, Haryana, Bihar and Himachal all above 137. And the biggest employer, Delhi, sat in the middle at 127.89 despite 681 UR seats. Reserved categories often clear the UR line and are selected on merit: of the 3,433 UR MTS seats in 2024, 1,658 went to reserved-category candidates at the UR standard, 1,199 of them OBC.

The age groups have their own lines, and the 18–27 group is small, so its cut-offs can swing more. In Delhi the 18–27 UR line was 126.84 against 127.89 for 18–25; in Punjab, with a single UR post in the 18–27 group, it was 144.88. For a candidate in both groups, SSC fills the 18–25 vacancies first, so the 18–27 list matters mainly for those aged 25 to 27 and for Havaldar aspirants.

Reserved categories show the same geography. ST lines ran from 105.83 in Karnataka and 106.34 in Tamil Nadu to 125.72 in Uttarakhand; SC lines from 114.86 in Tamil Nadu to 138.14 in Himachal Pradesh (where there were only two SC posts). The gap between UR and SC was small in several northern states — in Jharkhand the UR line was 135.59 and the SC line 135.42 — so a reserved-category candidate there needed almost the UR score.

Two things will move the 2025 lines. The vacancies are distributed differently — in the 2025 tentative list Delhi alone has 1,961 of the 6,078 MTS 18–25 posts — and the scores are normalised by the new equipercentile method, so the 2024 numbers are on a different scale. Treat the 2024 table as a map of which states have been easier or harder, not as the mark you will need. When SSC publishes the 2025 final result, the new annexure will replace it.