APSC CCE 2009 Final Cutoff Marks (Mains + Interview)
APSC Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2013 candidates who appeared in Mains exam are now waiting for the results. What was the cutoff last year? How was your performance? Was it good enough to make it to the list? This article is for those APSC mains candidates. Find below the cutoff marks for various categories against various posts in APSC CCE 2009.
APSC Combined Competitive Examination 2009 Final Cutoff:
Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) conducts Combined Competitive Examination for recruiting in various posts under Assam Civil Services and allied services. Following are the category wise cutoff marks of APSC CCE Final exam 2009 (also called as 2011), result of which was announced on April 26, 2013.
| CATEGORY |
ACS (Assam Civil Service) | APS (Assam Police Service) | Superintendent of Taxes | Superintendent of Excise | Inspector of Taxes | Inspector of Excise |
| General (Open) |
961 | 938 | 961 | 957 | 871 | 927 |
| Other Backward Classes (OBC) | 923 | 911 | 917 | 909 | 838 | 833 |
| Scheduled Class (SC) |
860 | 876 | No vacancy | No vacancy | 811 | 799 |
| Scheduled Tribe (Plains) | 862 | 851 | 859 | No vacancy | 802 | 796 |
| Scheduled Tribe (Hills) | 847 | 846 | 871 | No vacancy | 762 | No vacancy |
The marks above include interview. That means they are out of all total 1600, not just 1400 of CC (Main) Exam. The highest cutoff was 961 or 60.06% for ACS and APS posts in open category. The lowest cutoff was 762 or 47.62% for Inspector of taxes post in Scheduled Tribe (Hills) category. Category wise, lowest cutoff score for General category was 927 or (57.93%). Lowest OBC cutoff was 833 i.e. 52%. Compared to UPSC Civil Services examination, these values are high.
APSC 2013 Final Cutoff:
Cutoff marks are hard to predict. Because they are influenced by various factors such as candidates in different subjects, pattern of question papers, examiners etc. Higher standards of valuation can easily push cutoff scores down. But it is seen that cutoff marks of civil services examinations fluctuate within a range. The APSC Mains written examination was held in Guwahati from July 1 to July 27, 2014. Though nearly 3000 candidates were selected, several candidates didn’t appeared in the Mains. Also we heard that some papers were tougher than previous years. So, what will be the cutoff for APSC 2013? Will it be around 55-60% for General and 50-55% for OBC? Or it will change drastically? Have any good guess? Feel free to express your views.
Date of APSC 2013 Main results:
Any tentative dates for declaration of APSC 2013 Main exam results? If everything goes smoothly, APSC 2013 Mains examination results will be announced by the end of September or early October. That’s what one APSC employee told us. Basically it is too early to give an exact date. For views and opinion related to APSC civil services exam, don’t forget to view this APSC 2013 discussion page.
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2. The Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF), launched by the Prime Minister at Barpeta in Assam in 2007. The Backward Regions Grant Fund is designed to redress regional imbalances within states in development by way of providing financial resources to the identified backward districts. It thus tries to Bridge critical gaps in local infrastructure and other development requirements that are not being adequately met through Panchayat and Municipality level governance. In 2013-14, an amount of 11,500 crore was released to BRGF. In assam, 13 districts are identified as backward dictricts including barpeta, lakhimpur, dhemaji etc. Assam got about 200 crore under BRGF in 2012-13, but only 111 crore was utilized in actuality.
3. Election Commission of India, came into being on 25 January 1950, is a permanent Constitutional Body. Originally the commission had only a Chief Election Commissioner. It currently consists of Chief Election Commissioner and two Election Commissioners. The Constitution of India has vested in the Election Commission of India the superintendence, direction and control of the entire process for conduct of elections to Parliament and Legislature of every State and to the offices of President and Vice-President of India.
4. The Election Commission of India since 2011 celebrates 25 January, the foundation day of the Commission, as National Voters Day. The theme for the 4th NVD is Ethical Voting. The Commission’s objective through NVD is to increase enrolment of voters, especially of the newly eligible ones, to make universal adult suffrage a complete reality. The National Voters Day is also utilized to spread awareness among voters regarding effective participation in the electoral process.
5. Following Supreme court of India’s verdict, Election Commission of India with an objective of free and fair polls, introduced the Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT), a machine attached to EVMs. It is a step towards winning the public trust in election process. It enables voters to verify that their vote has been cast in the way they wished as a printout of their ballot comes out of VVPAT, if any voter wants to see it. It removes scope of EVM tempering.However the voter cannot take the printout home.
6.The Election Commission in March 2014, just before conducting 16th Loksbha election, created a multi-agency grid of revenue and security intelligence agencies so as to curb the use of black money in Lok Sabha and assembly polls & to keep an eye on any suspected financial movements.
7.Union cabinet in 2008 banned the publication of Exit polls until the end of last polling ot the election, which generally spreads in many phases, so as to ensure free & fair election. The exit polls by media were supposed to influence the voters & voting behaviour.
8.The Union Government decided to amend the rules governing IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officers to assure them at least 2 years in a given posting, following the Supreme Courts direction to check the unnecessary political interference. Earlier in a path-breaking judgement given by the Supreme Court in 2013, the SC had directed the Centre to ensure fixed tenure for bureaucrats meant to curb political interference in civil services, thereby ensuring ‘neutrality’ of the bureaucrats in politics.
9.G20 members, that represent almost 90% of global GDP and 2/3 of the world’s population, in which, 84% of all fossil fuel emissions are produced.
10.University of Washington research report says that Climate Change is a cause for the deaths of the Penguin chicks.
11.In 2013, 1/3rd of Western Ghats declared as Ecologically Sensitive Area under the Environment Protection Act, 1986. The decision of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests bans mining, quarrying, thermal power plants and polluting industries over the entire range. Thus Western Ghats complex becomes the largest protected forests in India.
12. The National Action plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) was launched in 2008 by the Union Government. It is comprised of eight government missions projecting in contribution towards combating climate change including,
a. action plan on solar energy,
b. enhanced energy efficiency,
c. sustainable habitat,
d. conserving water,
e. sustaining the Himalayan ecosystem,
f. a Green India mission,
g. sustainable agriculture and
h. strategic knowledge platform for Climate Change
12. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a National Mission for a Green India in February 2014. The GIM is one of eight missions under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). The Green India Mission (GIM) will be converged with the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and National Afforestation Programme. The Union government will provide 90 percent of the funds for implementing the scheme in the north-eastern states, and 75 percent of the funds for other states. The mission will involve grassroots-level organizations including gram sabhas (village councils) and joint forest management committees (JFMCs). GIM wants to increase forest cover, to respond to climate change by a combination of adaptation and mitigation measures, to improve entire ecosystem and increase forest-based livelihood income for 30 lakh forest dependent households. The GIM scheme envisages a total cost of 46,000 crore rupees over the next 10 years.
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14.Aajeevika or National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) was launched by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) in 2011. NRLM is the biggest programme for women empowerment in India. NRLM aims to cover rural poor households through self-managed Self Help Groups (SHGs) and federated institutions and support them for livelihoods collectives. NRLM believes in harnessing the innate capabilities of the poor and complements them with capacities (information, knowledge, skills, tools, finance and collectivization) to participate in the economic growth
15. Integrated Child Development scheme was launched in 1975. ICDS is meant to respond the challenges of providing pre-school education along with breaking the vicious cycle of malnutrition, morbidity, reduced learning capacity and mortality. The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme has the following objectives
• To improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years;
• To lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child;
• To reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout;
• To achieve effective co-ordination of policy and implementation amongst the various departments to promote child development; and
• To enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education
16. GSLV Mark III is the next generational spacecraft/launch vehicle with launch capability of 4 ton payloads. It is the linchpin for our space vision that will play defining role in India’s economic realm by saving much needed foreign currency which is currently being spent on getting heavy satellite launched from other space agencies. Simultaneously, one can hope India to play a constructive role in space sector in multi-dimensional way.
17.Diamond Quadrilateral is the name given to proposed high speed rail link between 4 metros, on the lines of Golden Quadrilateral project, covering a distance of about 7000 km and would entail a investment of app Rs 12 lac crores.
18. Indian Public Sector Banks (PSB) have burgeoning Non-Performing Assets (NPA) leading to accusations of mismanagement. Therefore, privatization has been cited as a panacea (Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases) by Nayak Committee appointed by the RBI. Proposed banking reforms include Privatization of banks, Mergers of banks, Issuing new bank licenses to corporate houses etc.
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20. Reserve Bank of India has allowed the Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) to lend up to 75% of the value of gold. NBFCs are company registered under the Companies Act, 1956 engaged in the business of loans and advances. The Reserve Bank of India is entrusted with the responsibility of regulating and supervising the NBFCs. NBFCs are different from the commercial banks in the sense that they cannot accept demand deposits and do not form a part of any payment settlement.
21.Goods and Service Tax (GST) is an ad-valorem tax or value added tax that will replace all indirect taxes on goods and services by both Central and State government. It will subsume excise duty, service tax and state imposed taxes like VAT and sales tax. The rationale behind such a move is that it will do away with the differences in taxation from state to state for goods and services and make India one common market. However, the GST also poses certain disadvantages with respect the concerns of the states for getting reduced revenue or becoming more dependent upon the centre for its income. It also to certain extent threatens the federal structure of the country.
22. Portfolio investment is the financial assets, invested in stock markets aiming high returns. It is highly volatile in nature.
23. Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. The perpetuation of the high returns requires an ever-increasing flow of money from new investors to sustain the scheme.
24. Contempt of court means disrespect for the rules of a court of law. SCI arrested Subrata roy for this offence as he didnot appear in the court repeatedly. As per law, a person can be imprisoned upto 6 months for contempt of court in india.
25. POSCO, the South Korean steel maker giant in January 2014 received environment clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) for a steel plant worth 52,000 crore rupees in Odisha.
26. National Investment and Manufacturing Zones (NIMZ) was proposed by Ministry of Commerce and Industry in 2010 in order to increase the overall share of manufacturing in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of India. The objective is to increase the share of manufacturing to 25 percent by 2022 in the GDP of India. In fact, China decided to be one of the partners in the proposed National Investment and Manufacturing Zones (NIMZ) in Andhra in January 2014.
27. GONDWANALAND is a hypothetical continent that according to plate tectonic theory broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica.
28.Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) is for avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
29. Jain community has been granted the minority status by Union Cabinet on 20 January 2014. With this nod of the Union Community, Jain community became the sixth community to attain minority status. Other five communities that has been granted the status of minority are
• Muslims
• Christians
• Sikhs
• Buddhists
• Parsis
30.Viscera test is done in death due to poisoning.
31. crony capitalism is a way of economic system in which the businesses gain benefits through their political connections. Crony Capitalism thus means distorted business where the state colludes with some players and fair-play is hindered.
32. Mining within 1 km of National Parks and Sanctuaries in Goa banned by The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests. As per the order the area up to one kilometer beyond the boundaries of the National Parks and Sanctuaries in Goa can be declared as the Ecologically Sensitive Zone under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and mining activities can be banned as per the Act.
33.National Waterway 1: starts from Allahabad to Haldia with a distance of 1620 km. The NW 1 runs through the Ganges, Bhagirathi and Hooghly river system. It will be the longest National Waterway in India.
National Waterway 2: a stretch on Brahmaputra River from Sadiya to Dhubri in Assam state.
National Waterway 6: It is the proposed waterway in Assam state and will connect Lakhipur to Bhanga in river Barak.
34. NBFCs are different from the commercial banks in the sense that
a.they cannot accept demand deposits and
b.do not form a part of any payment settlement, and
c. deposit insurance facility of Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation is not available to depositors of NBFCs, unlike in case of banks.
35. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to withdraw all currency notes issued prior to 2005 from circulation on 21 January 2014. The move by the RBI is
A. to capture the money flows into the system and
B. also to help flush out counterfeit notes.
C. This would leave currency hoarders with no option but to liquidate their unaccounted holdings by spending or exchanging them.
1.The 6th schedule, meant to preserve the distinctiveness of tribal customs with considerable autonomy in the management of tribal affairs, is only creating obstacles in ending separatedness & distinctiveness in the process of cultural assimilation- so essential for maintaining india’s unity & integrity intact. Rather the distinctive elements are further reinforced by narrow-minded political elites for the sake of votebank politics & for furthering their economic benefits in the name of autonomous councils. 2ndly, increased caste/community consciousness in their united demands for 6th schedule also indirectly resulted in the very breakdown of age-old fraternity. perhaps due to these reasons that xaca committee, constituted to study the socio-economic conditions of the tribal people in india said, “Autonomous councils are creating differences among communities.”
2.Harmonising local people’s livelihood with the ecosystem pf the national park by way of employment generation, say by promoting/investing in tourism sector; creation of special protection force even appointing local people; creation of human chain with active vigilence of VDP personnel all around the park, & thus expanding rhino protection drive to include the active participation of local people; besides use of S&T equipments like RADAR, GPS to constantly monitor etc. needed to stop rhino killing. So required inter-state cooperation to block the safe route to international market.
3.Bangladeshi immigration problem is rooted in porous india’s border security, high population density of bangladesh etc. Bangladesh is a least developed country, but it is a populous country with world’s highest density of population at 1084 person/sq km. so faced with livelihood problems, they resort to cross border & take up manual hardworking works like rickshaw-pulling,which local people hesitates to take up. Hence to solve this problem, the push (population & unemployment increase in a poor & underdeveloped economy) & pull factors (poor border, ready availability of working space for local people’s unwillingness to do manual works etc.) need to be thoroughly examined & then to put in place suitable policies to do away with the pulling factors especially.
4.As per NSSO data, about 90% rural population are consuming less than the required 2400 calories. ICDS shows that about 30% of india’s total 8 crore children below 6 years are suffering from malnutrition. FAO estimates 17% of india’s total population being suffered from malnutrition between 2011-13. FAO also notes that increased foodgrain production alone can’t end hunger unless it is made available at cheap & affordable prices through legal entitlements. In this context, india’s NFSA2013 is a measure in right direction to end hunger, malnutrition & consequently poverty.
5.The newly launched ‘digital india mission’ is in the line of existing e-governance project, meant to have a SMART (simple, moral, accountable& accessible, responsive & responsible & transparent) governance in the country. As per IMF, 10% increase of internet penetration in developing country has the capability to increase GDP by 1.4% annually. This IMF data itself justifies digital india mission, but 40% annual rise of cyber crimes,providing high speed internet connectivity to 125 crore people etc. are the daunting tasks ahead of successful implementation of this mission.
6.It is the lack of infrastructure factor that seems to motivate MODI to initiate ‘make in india’ so as to generate increase employment avenues. Had there been proper infrastructure & capital, it could have possibly been ‘made in india’. But we can’t afford to wait as long as infrastructure completes & sufficient capital forms & then starting ‘made in india’. we’ve to utilise our demographic dividend by now itself, which is not to stay forever.
7.what RTI 2005 act lacked was fulfilled by lokpal act- that is the mechanism to punish the corrupted ones. In fact, lokpal act is the effective implementation of PCA 1988.
8.Globalisation impacted india’s national sovereignty by means of MNC, FTA etc. WTO members objection about india’s NFSA 2013, USA’s objection at WTO about india’s domestic technology-content requirement in solar mission, 123 agreement of indo-us nuclear deal 2008 etc are few examples about it.
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Rajan Committee, Project Kamdhenu, RhoDIS (Rhino DNA Indexing System),Solar Impulse 2,Rotavirus vaccine- Rotavac, RK Laxman, Maritime Silk Road , B.G. Verghese, Eastern Swamp Deer Conservation Project, Eurasian Economic Union ,Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG (DBTL)
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8 Millenium development goals…how india fared so far in fulfilling MDG, M P bezbarua report’s recommendations on north eastern’s safety in delhi
thanks trinayan, pranjal, capsule for ur nice words…plz see the site insightsofindia.com & try to make & use this site like that for the help of all apsc aspirants. plzzz avoid unnecessary negative comments that discourages new apsc aspiants to take up this exam…mind it, this is the only apsc related forum & so every aspirant must have visited this forum at least… 2ndly,want to say something to those who are going to write mains for the 1st time…i wrote mains last year & attemped 294 marks (rest 6 couldnt for time shortage) in GS… besides i wrote the 2 essays of english properly…wht helped me to write it was of course extensive study… now as not much time left out for preparing, i advise the aspirants to compulsorily read Higher secondary pol sc books(especially read the assamese ones, written by akhil ranjan dutta. plus take 3 days atleast & write down the all important points of a assamese newspaper,atleast of 2 months. 3rdly, those using the book ‘lucent general knowledge’ will surely get 30 to 40% questions in GS paper, provided he completes the history,pol sc, economy & geography part… also read at least the last 3/4 month’s pratigoyita darpan completely… there is no alternative to hard work… my last year’s final result yet to come, but i expect good marks in GS paper at least…hope it will help the new apirants…
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