India Post GDS Recruitment 2023, Selection Criteria
Post updated on 3 August 2023
As you know Recently Department of posts announced a huge number of Vacancies. This year GDS vacancies are more than thirty thousand. Different vacancies are allotted to each circle which you can check from the official website. If applicants with higher qualifications think that they will be given more preference than 10th Pass candidates then they are wrong because the candidates will be selected on the basis of marks obtained in 10th standard. This means no additional weightage/preference will be given to highly qualified candidates.

India Post GDS Recruitment 2023 Important Dates
- Start date for submission of Registration/Application is 3 August 2023.
- Last date for submission of Registration/Application is 23 August 2023.
- Correction/Edit Window for Applicant will be available from 24 August 2023 to 26 August 2023.
India Post GDS Recruitment 2023, Selection Criteria
you can also check “Selection criteria” details from Official Notification. Candidates are Advised to Check details about “Communications of selection” from official Notification.



✓ Applicants having both marks and grades in the marks sheet have to apply with marks only. In case any applicant applies with grades instead of marks, his/her application will be liable for disqualification. However, if for any particular subject (s) only grades are mentioned in the mark sheet then for that subject (s) grades can be mentioned and the same need
not to be converted to the marks by the candidates.
Applicants having only grades subject-wise, marks will be arrived for each subject (compulsory and elective subjects but not extra subjects), by applying the multiplying factor of 9.5 in the following manner:-
Grade | Grade Point | Multiplication factor |
A1 | 10 | 9.5 |
A2 | 9 | 9.5 |
B1 | 8 | 9.5 |
B2 | 7 | 9.5 |
C1 | 6 | 9.5 |
C2 | 5 | 9.5 |
D | 4 | 9.5 |


and are required to mention the grades/points only, while filling up the online
applications. The conversion of grades/points to the marks would be carried out by
the system before declaration of result for the purpose of arriving at the merits.
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In case of tie amongst applicants, the merit would be decided on the basis of following priority order:
DOB (Older in age) |
ST trans-woman |
ST female |
SC trans-woman |
SC female |
OBC trans-woman |
OBC female |
EWS trans-woman |
EWS female |
UR trans-woman |
UR female |
ST trans-male |
ST Male |
SC trans-male |
SC Male |
OBC trans-male |
OBC male |
EWS trans-male |
EWS male |
UR trans-male |
UR male |
additional criteria in case of ‘Tie’ to determine the merit. The decision of the
Department shall be final.



download complete details from official notification
More details and Notification link: Click Here