Cut off is the minimum score the candidates must secure to qualify the exam. Candidates who will secure equal to more than the required marks as per their category are declared qualified and become eligible to appear for next stage of selection process. The cut off score depends on factors like number of candidates appeared in the exam, difficulty level of questions and number of vacancies. After considering above factor that are used to determine cut off score, this year SBI Clerk cut off score will be on higher because total number of vacancy is around 10000 as compared to previous year which was around 16000.  Also, as per the notification the approximately 10 times the numbers of vacancies candidates will be selected for next round of selection process while in 2016 the number of candidates selected for next round was 20 times.