RSSB 4th Grade 2025: Reserved Category Cut-Off Drops After Normalisation

The Rajasthan Staff Selection Board (RSSB) Grade 4 Recruitment 2025 has big changes in cut-off marks after using the normalisation process. This surprised many candidates. Even with lots of job openings, the cut-offs dropped a lot, mainly for reserved groups. Normalisation fixed score differences between exam shifts with easy or hard questions. This made cut-offs lower than expected, especially for SC, ST, OBC, and EWS groups. The unexpected trend has surprised thousands of candidates.

The recruitment drive covers 53,750 Grade 4 posts, including 5,550 posts in the TSP (Scheduled) area and 48199 posts in NTSP (Non-Scheduled). The written examination was conducted in multiple shifts, and the board applied normalisation to ensure fairness across different question papers.

RSSB 4th Grade 2025: Reserved Category Cut-Off Drops After Normalisation

Last week, Rajasthan 4th Grade Result and Score Cards were released along with category-wise cut-off marks. Now a news has been circulated depicting that “reserved category cut-offs have dropped by nearly 21 to 43 marks compared to the general category. In some cases, candidates reported a reduction of 1 to 8 marks in their scores after normalisation, even with the same number of correct answers.”

4th Grade Cut-Off Trends (After Normalisation)

In the TSP area, a candidate with merit rank 886 saw a reduction of 7.9946 marks, while marks reduced from 169.1877 to 169.8102 after normalization. Similarly, a widow category candidate with merit rank 880 saw an increase of 3.9119 marks, from 165.812 to 169.7239.

Compared to the general category, the cut-off in the ST category dropped by 21.2556 marks, and in the SC category by 11.0789 marks, while the Divyang category witnessed the highest decline of 43.7502 marks.

4th Grade Final Selection

Even with huge number of vacancies, competition stayed tough because lakhs of candidates applied. Over 21 lakh people submitted applications, and about 26,436 got rejected during checks. Candidates who skipped more than 10% of questions were also removed, which changed the final merit list.

The board has also clarified that the final selection for 4th-grade posts will be confirmed only after the completion of document verification (DV) and eligibility checks. As the written exam is completed, qualified candidates will now have to appear for the DV round, the list of finally selected candidates will be published online at https://rssb.rajasthan.gov.in/.