New Delhi, March 10 Anuj Agnihotri, a graduate from AIIMS Jodhpur who topped the UPSC civil services examination of 2025, scored 1,071 marks with a percentage of 52.88, according to the details of marks released by the commission on Tuesday.
A total of 958 candidates – 659 men and 299 women – qualified the examination, the results of which were announced on Friday.
The civil services examination is conducted annually by the UPSC in three stages – preliminary, main, and personality test (or interview) – to select officers for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.
The topper, Agnihotri, scored a total of 1,071 marks – 867 in the main written exam and 204 in the personality test, according to the details.
The merit is determined out of a total of 2,025 marks – the written or main exam is of 1,750 marks, and the interview is of 275 marks.
Agnihotri (26 years) has an MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) degree from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
The second-ranked candidate, Rajeshwari Suve, scored 52.69%. She scored 1,067 marks – 865 in the written part and 202 in the interview.
Rajeshwari (28), who has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, secured the second rank with sociology as her optional subject in her fifth attempt.
Akansh Dhull, who secured third rank, scored 52.19%. He scored a total of 1,057 marks – 864 in the written exam and 193 in the interview.
The fourth and fifth rank achievers – Raghav Jhunjhunwala and Ishan Bhatnagar – scored 51.45% and 51.25% respectively.
Jhunjhunwala, who has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics from the University of Delhi, scored 1,042 marks (847 in written and 195 in the interview).
Bhatnagar, who holds a BA LLB (Hons) from the National Law University, Delhi, scored 1,038 (823 in the main exam and 215 in the interview).
The civil services (preliminary) examination, 2025 was conducted on May 25 last year. A total of 9,37,876 candidates applied for this examination, out of which 5,76,793 actually appeared in the test.
A total of 14,161 candidates qualified for the written (main) examination, which was held in August, 2025. Of these, 2,736 candidates qualified for the personality test (interview) of the examination.