What Is a Good CGPA? Real Cutoffs for Placements, MS & Govt Exams

Grades & CGPA Updated July 2026 16 min read

"Is 7 CGPA good?" has no honest one-word answer — it depends entirely on which door you are trying to open. This guide maps the actual cutoff bands: what mass recruiters, product companies, elite roles, PSUs and MS programs typically ask for, the 10th/12th 60% rule that surprises final-year students, what backlogs do to your eligibility, and what to do if you are below the bar. Wherever we name a company's number, we checked its published criteria in July 2026 — and everything else is labeled as the typical band it is.

What counts as a good CGPA?

A good CGPA is one that clears the eligibility bar of the opportunities you actually want, with a small buffer. In practical terms on India's 10-point scale: 6.0–6.5 keeps mass-recruiter (IT services) doors open, 7.0–7.5 clears most product-company campus shortlists, and 8.0+ is competitive everywhere, including elite roles and strong MS applications. Those are typical published criteria, not laws — the notice for each specific drive always overrides them.

The key mental shift: CGPA in placements is a threshold, not a score. Recruiters use it as a cheap filter to shrink an enormous applicant pool before anyone reads a resume. Once you are above a company's bar, being further above it earns you almost nothing in that company's process — a 9.2 and a 7.6 sit in the same aptitude test and the same interview room. Below the bar, no amount of talent gets that particular application read, because the screening is usually automated.

That is why this guide talks in bands and gates rather than a single magic number. If you are unsure how your CGPA is even computed — grade points, credits, SGPA versus CGPA — read our grading system in India guide first, or rebuild your number with the free CGPA calculator. And if a form wants a percentage instead, the conversion rules (which differ by university) are covered in our CGPA to percentage guide.

How placement CGPA cutoffs actually work

A CGPA cutoff is an eligibility criterion published in a drive notice: only students at or above the stated CGPA or percentage may register for that company's selection process. The criteria live in three places, in decreasing order of authority: the company's official careers page or registration portal, the drive notice your placement cell circulates, and — least reliably — third-party listicles that copy last year's numbers.

Three mechanics matter more than the numbers themselves:

Cutoffs are applied literally. Screening is software. 59.9% fails a 60% bar. 6.9 fails a 7.0 bar. Unless the notice states a rounding rule, assume none exists.
Cutoffs are per drive, not per company. The same company can run a services-grade drive at one bar and a premium-role drive at a higher one in the same season. Two colleges can host the same company at different bars. This is why "the <company> cutoff" you read online is often simultaneously true and useless.
"60% or equivalent CGPA" hides a conversion problem. Whether 6.0 CGPA equals 60% depends on your university's notified formula. Under CGPA × 10 it does; under the 9.5-style rule, 60% is about 6.32; other ordinances subtract a constant first. If you are borderline, this formula — not your effort — can decide your eligibility, so pin it down with our conversion guide or the percentage to CGPA calculator.

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A worked borderline example: a recruiter sets a 75% bar and you hold a 7.9 CGPA. Under CGPA × 10 you have 79% — comfortably in. Under the 9.5 rule you have 75.05% — barely in. Under a (CGPA − 0.75) × 10 ordinance you have 71.5% — out. Same student, three outcomes. Always ask which conversion the drive accepts.

You can pre-check yourself against any drive's published numbers — aggregate CGPA, 10th, 12th, backlogs, gap — in one pass with our free placement eligibility calculator.

CGPA cutoff bands by employer tier

The table below is the honest version of every "CGPA cutoff list" on the internet: bands of typical published criteria by employer tier, not per-company promises. Numbers drift year to year and drive to drive — treat each row as where the bar usually sits, then verify the current drive's notice before you rely on it.

Typical CGPA/percentage eligibility bands by employer tier (10-point scale). Verify every figure against the current drive's own notice.
Tier	Typical published bar	What it usually looks like	Where to verify
Mass recruiters (large IT services)	~6.0–6.5 CGPA / 60%	60% aggregate at every stage (10th, 12th, degree) is the classic pattern; strict backlog and gap rules; huge intake.	Company careers page + drive notice (e.g. TCS NQT criteria, verified below)
Product companies & GCCs	~7.0–7.5 CGPA	Shortlist bar for campus drives; off-campus and challenge-based tracks often skip CGPA entirely and screen on coding tests.	Your placement cell's drive notice — bars differ by college and role
Elite roles (quant/HFT, research, top day-one offers)	8.0+ CGPA (sometimes higher)	Informal screens used by placement cells and recruiters to cap tiny interview slates; branch and college filters often apply too.	Drive notice; these bars are rarely published openly
PSUs via GATE	GATE score first; ~60–65% degree minimum common	Selection rides on the GATE score; recruitment notices commonly add a degree-percentage minimum, often relaxed for reserved categories.	The specific PSU's recruitment advertisement for that year
MS abroad	~3.0/4.0 equivalent stated minimum; competitive admits often 8.0+	Programs state a minimum (often read as first class); evaluators like WES recompute course by course, so your "GPA abroad" may differ from your transcript.	Each university's admissions page; evaluator (WES/ECE) policies

Three honest footnotes to that table. First, the bands overlap on purpose: a services company can run a premium drive at 7.0, and a product company can run an open coding-challenge with no bar. Second, elite-role screens are the least documented — placement cells apply them quietly, and the numbers travel by word of mouth. Third, for MS the bar that matters is often not the stated minimum but the competitive reality of the program you target; our Indian CGPA to US GPA guide covers how evaluators translate your transcript.

Verified examples: TCS NQT and Infosys (July 2026)

These are the two sets of named-company criteria we verified this session. Everything about them below comes from the company's published hiring page or from its current drive notices as circulated — with the caveat that both companies set criteria per hiring cycle.

Named-company eligibility criteria checked in July 2026. The company's current notice always overrides this table.
Program	Academic criterion	Backlogs	Gap / age	Status
TCS All India NQT hiring (B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/MCA/M.Sc, batches 2024–2026)	Minimum aggregate 60% or equivalent CGPA in Class 10, Class 12, diploma (if applicable), graduation and post-graduation — all subjects counted	Maximum one active backlog at the time of the selection process; all cleared before joining	Total academic gap up to 24 months; age 18–28	Verified from TCS's published NQT hiring criteria, July 2026
Infosys off-campus drives (2026 batch; roles incl. Specialist Programmer, Digital Specialist Engineer)	60% or 6 CGPA throughout academics (Class 10, Class 12, graduation), as listed in recent drive notices	No active backlogs at the time of application	Education gap up to 2 years	From recent drive notices as circulated; varies by role — confirm on the current Infosys posting

Notice what these two verified rows have in common: the 60% figure recurs, it applies to school marks as well as your degree, and the backlog rule is written precisely ("active", "at the time of", "before joining"). That precision is typical of mass-recruiter criteria, and it is why the next two sections exist.

The full eligibility checklist (it is not just CGPA)

CGPA is only one axis of a placement eligibility screen. A typical mass-recruiter notice checks all of the following, and failing any single one fails the screen:

The axes a typical placement eligibility screen checks. Typical patterns only — the drive notice is authoritative.
Criterion	Typical published pattern	Notes
Degree CGPA / %	60% / ~6.0–6.5 (services) up to 7.5+ (product shortlists)	Applied literally; conversion formula matters at the margin
Class 10 marks	60% aggregate is the common legacy bar	Cannot be changed; some employers skip it entirely
Class 12 / diploma marks	60% aggregate, all subjects counted	Same legacy pattern; diploma often substitutes for Class 12
Active backlogs	Zero at the drive is the norm; TCS permits one at the test stage	Cleared backlogs are usually fine for services — see below
Education gap	Up to 2 years total is the common ceiling	Usually counted across all stages, sometimes with justification required
Degree & batch	Specified degrees from AICTE/UGC-recognized institutions, named batch years	Part-time or distance degrees are often excluded — read the fine print
Age	18–28 appears in some notices (e.g. TCS NQT)	Rarely binding for regular freshers

The 10th/12th 60% legacy criterion

The rule that ambushes the most final-year students: many large recruiters require ~60% at every completed academic stage, including Class 10 and Class 12 — marks you earned years before you chose a college. It is a legacy of an era when school boards' marks were the only standardized signal available, and it persists because it is an easy automated filter.

If your school marks are below 60%, be strategic rather than discouraged: the criterion is far from universal. Startups, most off-campus product hiring, challenge-based tracks and many GCC drives look only at your degree or at nothing academic at all. Filter your applications toward notices that do not include the school-marks axis, and put your energy where it can still move the needle — your degree CGPA and your skills.

Active backlogs: the eligibility axis that moves

An active backlog — a failed or unattempted subject you have not yet cleared — is the eligibility axis most likely to change between semesters, and the one with the sharpest edge: most published criteria require zero active backlogs at the time of the drive. TCS's verified criteria are the notable partial exception, permitting a maximum of one active backlog when you sit the selection process, with everything cleared before joining.

Cleared backlogs are a different story. For IT-services eligibility they usually do not matter once cleared. But some employers ask about total attempts in forms or interviews, and for MS applications credential evaluators may count attempts on your transcript rather than final outcomes. The distinction between "subjects" and "attempts", how backlogs appear on your degree, and how to plan a clearing semester are covered in depth in our backlogs in engineering guide.

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If you carry an active backlog into placement season, sequencing is everything: clearing it in the supplementary exam before the big drives restores your eligibility for most of them. Ask your placement cell for the drive calendar and your exam cell for the supplementary schedule, and plan the collision consciously.

Eligible ≠ selected: what CGPA does and does not do

Clearing a CGPA cutoff gets you exactly one thing: a seat in the first round. It does not score you a single point after that. Every stage that follows — aptitude and coding tests, technical interviews, HR — is decided by performance on the day, and this is where the large majority of eligible candidates exit the funnel.

The placement funnel. CGPA and the 60% rules act as a pass/fail gate at stage 1 only; every later stage is scored on performance.

This has two practical consequences. If your CGPA is above the bars for your target tier, stop optimizing it — every additional hour poured into moving 8.1 to 8.4 is an hour taken from aptitude practice, data structures and projects, which is where offers are actually won. Our campus placement preparation roadmap lays out that work semester by semester, and our fresher resume guide covers the document that carries you through stages 2–4.

And if you are comfortably above the gate but still not converting offers, the diagnosis is almost never your CGPA. It is test practice, interview fluency or resume evidence — all fixable, none of them printed on your transcript.

CGPA for MS abroad and government exams

For an MS abroad, CGPA works differently than in placements: it is one continuous input among several (statement, recommendations, research or work evidence, test scores), not a hard gate applied by software. Many US programs state a minimum equivalent to a 3.0 on the 4.0 scale — which Indian applicants commonly read as first class, roughly 60–65% or a CGPA in the high 6s to low 7s — while competitive admits at well-ranked programs commonly sit near 8.0 or higher. Two caveats keep this honest: each university states its own minimum, and credential evaluators such as WES recompute your grades course by course, so the GPA an admissions committee sees can differ from the CGPA on your transcript. The mechanics of that translation, including how backlog attempts are counted, are in our Indian CGPA to US GPA guide.

For PSU jobs via GATE, your GATE score does the heavy lifting — shortlisting is driven by it, not by your CGPA. Recruitment notices commonly add a qualifying-degree minimum of around 60–65% or the equivalent CGPA, frequently with relaxation for reserved categories, but every PSU's advertisement sets its own figure and conversion rule. Read the specific notice for the specific year; do not carry one PSU's criterion to another.

For general government exams — UPSC Civil Services, SSC, banking — the published eligibility is typically a recognized bachelor's degree with no minimum percentage attached, so a pass-class degree qualifies. CGPA re-enters only for specific technical recruitments whose notifications say so. In other words: if your goal is the civil services, your CGPA is close to irrelevant; if your goal is a Maharatna PSU, your GATE rank is the number to obsess over.

Does CGPA matter after your first job? (The honest answer)

Mostly no — and this deserves to be said plainly, because the placement season makes CGPA feel like a lifelong label. From your second job onward, employers hire on what you have shipped, the skills you demonstrate in interviews, and references. Experienced-hire application forms rarely ask for a CGPA at all. Two engineers five years in, one a 6.4 and one a 9.1 at graduation, are indistinguishable to the market if their work is comparable.

The honest exceptions, so you are not blindsided: background-verification agencies can still collect your marksheets at any career stage — they are checking that you told the truth, not re-judging the number, which is one more reason never to inflate a conversion. A minority of large employers keep degree-class requirements in their systems even for experienced roles. And your CGPA resurfaces intact if you later apply for an MS, an MBA, or a government post whose notice specifies a minimum. So: your first job is where CGPA matters most, and for most people it is also where it matters last — but the transcript never expires, so keep the number you report accurate.

Below the cutoff? Your realistic options

A CGPA below the bars you care about narrows the on-campus funnel; it does not end your career. In rough order of leverage:

Repair the number if credits remain. CGPA is credit-weighted, so early action is cheap and late action is expensive. Worked example with equal semester weights: at 7.2 after five of eight semesters, your ceiling is (5 × 7.2 + 3 × 10) ÷ 8 ≈ 8.25 with perfect scores; reaching 7.5 needs (7.5 × 8 − 36) ÷ 3 = 8.0 average across the last three semesters — hard but real. Run your own reachable range with the CGPA calculator and the target math in our SGPA to CGPA guide, and prioritize high-credit courses.
Clear active backlogs first. One cleared backlog can restore eligibility for an entire tier of drives — it is usually the highest-return academic move available. See the backlogs guide for a recovery plan.
Go off-campus, where CGPA screens thin out. Direct applications, coding-challenge hiring, hackathons, referrals and startup roles frequently have no academic bar. Your resume and portfolio do the screening instead — invest in them accordingly.
Build verifiable skill signals. Deployed projects, open-source contributions, competitive-programming profiles and certifications are the currencies that off-campus screening actually reads. They also transform your interviews when you do clear a gate.
Consider the GATE route. A strong GATE score opens PSU recruitment (where it, not CGPA, drives selection) and M.Tech admissions — after which placement season runs again on your postgraduate record.
Target the right notices. If the 10th/12th criterion is what fails you, filter for drives that only check the degree. If the degree CGPA fails you, filter for challenge-based tracks. Reading criteria carefully is itself a strategy — the eligibility calculator makes the pass/fail check instant.

Mistakes to avoid

Trusting listicle cutoffs over the drive notice. Third-party "cutoff lists" recycle old numbers. The current notice is the only document that decides your eligibility.
Choosing the flattering conversion formula. Using ×10 when your university notifies ×9.5-style (or vice versa) to clear a bar is misrepresentation, and document verification will catch it.
Assuming rounding will save you. 59.9% is not 60%. If you are within rounding distance of a bar in your penultimate semester, you still have time to move the real number.
Grinding CGPA past the point of return. Above your target tier's bar, hours moved from grades to aptitude practice, DSA and projects buy strictly more offers.
Ignoring the conditions on your offer letter. Final CGPA and backlog conditions survive the offer. A final-year collapse can un-place you.
Letting an active backlog ride into placement season. Its eligibility cost is far larger than its academic cost. Clear it at the first supplementary opportunity.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the minimum CGPA for TCS NQT?

TCS's published NQT criteria (checked July 2026) require a minimum aggregate of 60% or the equivalent CGPA in Class 10, Class 12, diploma (if applicable), graduation and post-graduation, with all subjects counted. At most one active backlog is permitted when you appear for the selection process, and every backlog must be cleared before joining. Criteria are set per hiring cycle, so always confirm the current notice on tcs.com before you apply.

Is 7 CGPA good for placements?

Yes, for most of the market. A 7.0 comfortably clears the 6.0–6.5 bars that mass recruiters typically publish and meets the roughly 7.0 shortlist bar many product-company campus drives use. It can fall just short where a drive sets 7.5, which is why a small buffer above 7 is worth protecting. Remember that clearing the bar only gets you a seat in the test — selection then depends entirely on your aptitude, coding and interview performance.

Can I get placed with a 6 CGPA?

Yes, but your on-campus funnel narrows. A 6.0 typically clears the 60%-style criteria most mass recruiters publish, though some drives set 6.5, so check every notice individually. Product-company drives that shortlist at 7.0+ will usually be closed to you on campus. Compensate with strong skills, projects and off-campus applications, where many employers screen on coding tests and portfolios rather than CGPA.

Is 8 CGPA good enough for product companies?

Yes. An 8.0 clears the roughly 7.0–7.5 shortlist bars product-company campus drives typically use, and it also satisfies most of the stricter informal 8.0 screens placement cells apply for elite roles. At that point CGPA stops being your constraint: offers at product companies are decided by data structures and algorithms, system-design basics, projects and interview performance, not by the difference between 8.0 and 9.0.

Do companies check 10th and 12th marks for placements?

Many large recruiters do. A common published pattern — for example in TCS's NQT criteria — is a 60% aggregate requirement at every completed stage: Class 10, Class 12, diploma and graduation. Other employers, especially startups and many product companies, look only at your degree or skip academics entirely. School marks cannot be changed, so if yours are below 60%, target drives whose notices do not include the school-marks criterion.

Which companies do not have CGPA criteria?

Many startups, companies hiring through open coding challenges and hackathons, and a large share of off-campus hiring have no published CGPA bar — they screen on coding tests, portfolios, referrals and interviews. Even some large firms run challenge-based hiring tracks with no academic criteria alongside their regular campus drives. The pattern is: the more a company hires on demonstrated skill, the less its process depends on CGPA.

What CGPA do Google and Amazon require?

Neither company publishes a universal CGPA cutoff for software roles, and we could not verify any specific number this session — treat every figure you see online as unofficial. Their hiring weight sits on coding interviews, problem solving and system design. When they visit a campus, the placement cell or the drive notice may still apply a shortlist bar for that particular drive, so check your college's notice rather than a generic claim.

Is a 9 CGPA better than projects and internships?

They do different jobs. A 9 CGPA opens almost every eligibility gate, including elite-role screens, and it signals consistency. But interviews are won with projects, internships and problem-solving skill, and past roughly 8.0 the marginal return on more CGPA falls quickly compared to the return on demonstrable work. The strongest profile is a comfortable CGPA buffer above your target tier's bar, plus real projects — not a perfect CGPA alone.

Does CGPA matter after your first job?

Mostly no. From your second job onward, employers hire on work experience, skills and interview performance; almost no one asks for your CGPA. The exceptions: background verification can still re-check your degree and marksheets for honesty, some large firms keep degree-class requirements in their systems, and CGPA resurfaces if you apply for an MS or MBA or for government posts whose notices specify a minimum percentage. Your first job is where CGPA matters most — and last.

How do I convert my percentage to CGPA for eligibility forms?

Use the conversion your university officially notifies — that is the only defensible number in document verification. If no rule exists, the common generic conversions are dividing the percentage by 9.5 (CBSE-style) or by 10, and they give different answers: 72% is 7.58 under one and 7.2 under the other. When a recruiter's form forces one interpretation, state the method you used. Never pick whichever formula flatters you — verification compares your claim to your transcript.

What happens if my CGPA drops below the cutoff after I get the offer?

Campus offers are typically conditional. Offer letters from large recruiters usually state that your final graduating CGPA or percentage must still meet the eligibility criterion and that you must have no pending backlogs at joining; if a final-year slump takes you below the bar, the company is contractually free to withdraw the offer. Read the conditions section of your own letter — it, not a general rule, decides your case — and protect your final-semester grades accordingly.

What CGPA do PSUs require through GATE?

PSU selection is driven primarily by your GATE score, not your CGPA. Recruitment notices commonly also require a minimum of around 60–65% or the equivalent CGPA in the qualifying degree, often with relaxation for reserved categories — but each PSU's notice sets its own figure and its own conversion rule, so treat these numbers as typical, not universal. Read the specific advertisement for the recruitment year you are applying in.

What are the Infosys eligibility criteria for freshers?

Recent Infosys off-campus drive notices for the 2026 batch (roles such as Specialist Programmer and Digital Specialist Engineer) list a minimum of 60% or 6 CGPA throughout academics — Class 10, Class 12 and graduation — no active backlogs at the time of application, and an education gap of at most two years. Infosys criteria vary by role and by drive, so verify the exact figures on the current posting on the Infosys career portal before applying.

Is 6.5 CGPA enough for IT service companies?

Typically yes. A 6.5 clears the 60%-equivalent criterion that mass recruiters most commonly publish and also clears the 6.5 bar that some individual drives set. You would still be below the roughly 7.0–7.5 bars typical of product-company shortlists, so the services route plus off-campus applications is your widest funnel. As always, the number that matters is the one printed in the current drive's notice, not a general rule.

What CGPA is needed for an MS in the US?

There is no single bar. Many US graduate programs state a minimum equivalent to a US 3.0 on the 4.0 scale, which Indian applicants commonly read as first class — roughly 60–65% or a CGPA in the high 6s to low 7s — while competitive admits at well-ranked programs commonly sit near 8.0 or above. Credential evaluators such as WES recompute your grades course by course, so the number a university sees may differ from your transcript CGPA. Check each program's stated minimum.

Do backlogs affect placement eligibility?

Yes, and active backlogs matter far more than cleared ones. Most published criteria require zero active backlogs at the time of the drive — TCS is a partial exception, permitting at most one at the test stage but requiring all cleared before joining. Cleared backlogs usually do not block IT-services eligibility, but some employers count total attempts, and credential evaluators for MS applications may too. Check the exact backlog wording in every notice.

Is 60% the same as 6.0 CGPA?

Not necessarily — it depends on the conversion your university notifies. Under a straight CGPA × 10 rule, 60% is exactly 6.0. Under the CBSE-style 9.5 rule, 60% corresponds to about 6.32, and formulas that subtract a constant before multiplying shift the answer again. When an eligibility form says "60% or equivalent CGPA", the recruiter usually accepts your university's official equivalence, so find out what your ordinance says before assuming you clear or miss the bar.

Does CGPA matter for government exams like UPSC or banking?

For most general government exams — UPSC Civil Services, SSC, banking — the eligibility requirement is a recognized bachelor's degree, with no minimum percentage or CGPA specified, so a pass-class degree qualifies. Specific technical recruitments are different: PSU hiring through GATE and some engineering-services or research posts commonly specify around 60% or an equivalent CGPA in the qualifying degree. The recruitment notification for the specific exam and year is always the authority.

Can I still raise my CGPA in my final year?

Yes, but the remaining credits limit how far it can move. With equal semester weights, a 7.2 CGPA after five of eight semesters can reach at most about 8.25 even with perfect 10s in the last three, and reaching 7.5 requires averaging 8.0 across them — demanding but achievable. The earlier you start, the cheaper each 0.1 is. Compute your own reachable range with a CGPA calculator before setting a target, and prioritize high-credit courses.

Is CGPA or skills more important for placements?

CGPA gets you into the room; skills get you the offer. Eligibility screening is largely automated, so if you are below a drive's cutoff, skills cannot rescue that particular on-campus application — and once you are past the screen, CGPA barely features again, because tests and interviews measure skill. The practical strategy is therefore both: keep your CGPA above your target tier's typical bar with a small buffer, and invest everything beyond that in skills, projects and practice.

Do internships have CGPA cutoffs too?

On-campus internship drives usually mirror the company's placement criteria — the same aggregate percentage or CGPA bar and backlog rules, published in the drive notice. Off-campus internships are far more open: many startups and research groups select on skills, coding tests, portfolios or professor recommendations with no academic bar at all. If your CGPA blocks campus internship drives, the off-campus route is genuinely viable and the experience it earns strengthens your later placement interviews.

What is a good CGPA in engineering overall?

As rule-of-thumb bands, not guarantees: 6.0–6.9 keeps mass-recruiter (IT services) eligibility open; 7.0–7.9 is the safe zone that clears most campus drives including typical product-company shortlists; 8.0 and above is competitive everywhere, including elite-role screens and strong MS applications. Below 6.0, on-campus options thin out and the skills-plus-off-campus route becomes your main path. Every band describes typical published criteria — the current drive's notice always overrides them.

Do placement CGPA cutoffs round up — does 5.95 count as 6?

Assume no. Published criteria are normally applied literally by screening software, so 59.9% fails a 60% bar and 5.95 fails a 6.0 bar unless the notice explicitly states a rounding rule. Universities differ on how they round the CGPA printed on your transcript, but that printed number — not a re-rounded version of it — is what verification compares against. If you are borderline, get your university's official conversion or grade certificate rather than relying on rounding.

Key Takeaways

A "good CGPA" is a threshold, not a score: 6.0–6.5 for mass recruiters, 7.0–7.5 for product-company shortlists, 8.0+ for elite roles — all typical published criteria, always overridden by the current drive's notice.
TCS's verified NQT criteria (July 2026): 60% aggregate at every stage incl. 10th/12th, max one active backlog at the test, all cleared before joining, gap ≤ 24 months.
Cutoffs are applied literally by software — 59.9% fails a 60% bar, and your university's conversion formula can decide a borderline case.
Many large recruiters also require ~60% in Class 10 and 12; if that fails you, target drives that only check the degree.
Active backlogs usually block eligibility; cleared ones mostly do not. Clear them before placement season.
Eligible ≠ selected: CGPA gates only the first stage — offers are won in tests and interviews.
PSU selection rides on GATE; general govt exams mostly need only a recognized degree; MS bars vary by program and evaluators recompute your GPA.
After your first job, CGPA mostly stops mattering — but the transcript never expires, so report it honestly.
Below the cutoff: repair the number early (credits permitting), clear backlogs, go off-campus, and build skill signals that screening actually reads.

References

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