UPSC Civil Services Topper K.R. Nandini Scores 55.3%

The topper of civil services examination 2016, K.R. Nandini scored 55.3 percent of marks. The score reflects the tough standard adopted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in conducting the prestigious examination to select the country’s bureaucrats. UPSC has released the marks of civil services examination 2016 on the official website. The results of the civil services examination were out on May 31, 2017. K.R. Nandini topped the examination in her fourth attempt. Currently, she is an officer of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Exercise).

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Key Points: -

• K.R. Nandini got 1,120 marks out of 2,025 marks. She scored 927 marks in mains examination and 193 marks in interview. Overall, she scored 55.3%. Nandini belongs to the OBC category.
• For the third consecutive year, a woman has emerged as the topper of civil services examination.
• The second topper of civil services examination Anmol Sher Singh scored 1,105 and an overall percentage of 54.56.
• The third topper Gopalakrishna Ronanki scored 1,101 marks. His overall percentage is 54.37 percent.
• The overall marks scored by Nandini were also more than the marks scored by Tina Dabi, topper of civil services examination 2015.
• Tina Dabi scored 1,063 marks and 52.49 percent.
• The overall percentage of scored by Nandini was high compared to Tina Dabi.
• The lowest marks in the civil services examination 2016 was 817 marks scored by Abhishek Srivastava. His rank was 1,099 with an overall percentage was 40.34.

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Among the candidates who cleared civil services examination 2016, maximum belong to Bihar.