NICL AO Cut Off 2025: As the NICL AO Prelims exam has been successfully conducted on July 20. The main exam is going to be held on 31st August 2025. In such a scenario, students who had appeared for the prelims stage wanted to know the expected cutoff. We have come up with the same after interacting with the appeared candidates and thoroughly analysing the number of vacancies along with the number of students who appeared for the examination, we have come up with expected cutoffs both category-wise as well as post-wise.
NICL AO Expected Cutoff 2025
NICL AO has successfully conducted the preliminary examination, and based on the interaction with the students and NICL AO Exam analysis, we can predict the expected cutoff for this year. Here is a table showing both category-wise and post-wise expected cut-off. The expected cutoff will help the aspirants to know the level of competition they have to fight for the next level, and also in this phase as well.
NICL AO Expected Cutoff for Prelims 2025
In prelims, it has been observed that the cut off for the generalist category can be around 77-81 marks, and similarly, for different posts under the specialist category, we have given the expected cutoff marks in the table given below-
| Post | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | UR | PWbD(A) | PWbD(B) | PWbD(C) | PWbD(D & E) |
| Generalist | 72-76 | 64-68 | 77-81 | 77-81 | 77-81 | 67-71 | 35-39 | 59-63 | 28-32 |
| Doctor(MBBS) | 13-17 | 11-15 | 11-15 | 18-22 | 18-22 | 19-23 | 32-36 | 27-31 | 28-32 |
| Legal | 35-39 | 24-28 | 35-39 | 35-39 | 35-39 | ||||
| Finance | 57-61 | 41-45 | 63-67 | 63-67 | 63-67 | ||||
| Acturial | – | – | 63-67 | – | 63-67 | ||||
| Information Technology | 59-63 | 53-57 | 61-65 | 59-63 | 61-65 | ||||
| Automobile Engineers | 19-23 | 17-21 | 19-23 | 17-21 | 19-23 |
NICL AO Section- Wise Expected cut off for Prelims 2025
Based on NICL AO Exam analysis and interaction with students, it is observed that ——-english has ——no. Of questions from reading comprehension quants have —— and reasoning has–. Here is an section-wise expected cut off for prelims 2025.
| Post | Category | English | Reasoning | Quants |
| Legal, Finance, IT, Generalist | SC, ST, OBC, PwBD | 10-14 | 3-7 | 2-6 |
| EWS, UR | 14-18 | 8-12 | 6-10 | |
| Actuarial | OBC, PwBD | 10-14 | 3-7 | 2-6 |
| EWS, UR | 14-18 | 8-12 | 6-10 | |
| Doctors (MBBS), Automobile Engineers | SC, ST, OBC, PwBD | 5-9 | 1-3 | 1-3 |
| EWS, UR | 9-13 | 1-4 | 1.5-4.5 |
NICL AO Previous Year Cut off
Here are the NICL AO (Generalist) previous-year cutoff marks for Prelims and Mains (overall, category‑wise).
| Year | Stage | UR | OBC | SC | ST | Notes & Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Prelims | 79.50 | 79.50 | 74.50 | 66.75 | Practicemock.com |
| Mains | 141.00 | 141.00 | 128.25 | 116.25 | Practicemock.com | |
| 2023 | Prelims | ~65‑70 | 59‑64 | 57‑63 | 51‑55 | Practicemock.com |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | (No reliable publicly available data) |
Conclusion
In this blog, we have given all the information regarding the expected cutoff in category-wise and section-wise both. If you have given the preliminary exam and are planning to take the NICL AO mains examination, then check out our mock test series, where we have full-length mock tests along with topic-wise tests, in which one full-length mock test and 3 topic tests are absolutely free. The link is given below.
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FAQs
Yes, there is a sectional cutoff in prelims along with a sectional time limit as well.
Yes, there is negative marking of 0.25 for wrong answers, and there is no compulsion to attempt all the questions in the examination
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