New Delhi: Civil services exam topper Nandini K R got 55.3 per cent marks, reflecting the tough standards adopted by the UPSC in the conduct of the prestigious test to select the country's bureaucrats.

The examination is conducted annually in three stages -- preliminary, main and interview -- to select candidates for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Revenue Service (IRS) among others. Nandini, an officer of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise), has topped the examination, the result of which was declared on May 31.

Among the successful ones, the one with the lowest marks is Abhishek Srivastava, who has got 1,099 rank. He has secured a total of 817 marks, or 40.34 per cent.

She got 1,120 marks (927 in main and 193 in interview) out of the total of 2,025 -- 55.3 per cent. Second rank achiever Anmol Sher Singh Bedi got 1,105 marks (54.56 per cent) and third rank holder Gopalakrishna Ronanki secured 1,101 marks (54.37 per cent), the UPSC said. The topper of civil services examination 2015, Tina Dabi, had got 1,063 marks (52.49 per cent).

A total of 1,099 candidates (846 men and 253 women), including 500 in General category, 347 belonging to Other Backward Class, 163 from Scheduled Caste and 89 from Scheduled Tribe, have been recommended for appointment to various central government services on the basis of the 2016 civil services exam results.

All of these candidates will get central government services. "The marks of the successful candidates show the tough standard followed by the commission in selecting the country's bureaucrats," said a senior official in the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the nodal authority for the UPSC.