Gold medals are awarded to the Officer-Trainees of each Batch of IRS which passes out from the Academy after undergoing 16 month Induction Training Programme. The following are the recipients of Gold Medals that were awarded in the past few years.
| Name of IRS Batches | | Finance Minister’s Gold Medal for All Round Performanc | V.R. Bapat Gold Medal for highest score in Academics | V.R.Akerkar Memorial Gold Medal for highest score in Direct Tax | S.A.L. Narayan Rao Memorial Gold Medal for highest score in Business Laws and Other Taxes | C.C.Ganapathy Memorial Gold Medal for highest score in Advanced Accounting and Finance | V.V.Badami Memorial Gold Medal for highest score in Procedure/ Technique of Investigation and Drafting of Order and Report | The Chairman’s Gold Medal for highest score in the Strategic and Operations Management in the Income tax dept. | D.G.’s Gold Medal for highest score in Information Technology and Operations | Rajbhasha Padak | DG’s Gold Medal for highest Score in Transfer pricing | DG’s Gold Medal for highest Score in International taxation | Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Gold Medal for highest score in Law of Governance and Ethics of Governance |
| | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 76rd Batch | | Ms. Sunita Meena | Ms. Sunita Meena | Ms. Sunita Meena | Mr. Pankaj Rathi | Mr. Jitendra Sharma | Ms. Sonia Katariya | Ms. Sunita Meena | Ms. Sunita Meena | Mr. Kumar Keshav | Mr. Keshav Gupta | Mr. Keshav Gupta | Ms. Aastha |
| 75rd Batch | | Ms. Mehak Mittal | Ms. Mehak Mittal | Ms. Mehak Mittal | Ms. Purvi nanda | Ms. Mehak Mittal | Shri Sidhartha Gupta | Shri Prathyush Sarasa | Shri Shubham Mohanka | Shri Gaurav Singh | Ms. Mehak Mittal | Ms. Mehak Mittal | Ms. Arya Nair |
| 74rd Batch | | Nabal Kumar Jain | Nabal Kumar Jain | Nabal Kumar Jain | Desai Neha Divakar | Nabal Kumar Jain | Vipul Khanna | Rajendra Raj | Abhishek Oswal | Shireen Prakash | Avinash Chandra Sandilya | Avinash Chandra Sandilya | Anup Das |
| 73rd Batch | | Keshav Goel | Vivek Kumar Modi | Agam Singh Bedi | Preetesh Kumar Singh | Keshav Goel | N. Rohinth | Keshav Goel | Vinay K. Chowdary Chimamilla | Ashutosh K. R. Pandey | Katyayani Sanjay Bhatia | Katyayani Sanjay Bhatia | Dondapati Venkata Harish |
| 72nd Batch | | Mr Amandeep Singh | Mr. Shreshth Tayal | Mr Amandeep Singh | Mr. Sumeet Panda | 1. Mr. Amandeep Singh 2. Mr. Nahar Pranay Prakash | Mr. Amandeep Singh | Ms. Rehna R | Ms. Japneet Kaur Mahir | Mr Divyanshu Tiwari | Mr. ShreshthTayal | Mr. ShreshthTayal | Mr.Suthandira Balan P |
| 71st Batch | | Pavan Sameer Kumar Chirravuri | Pavan Sameer Kumar Chirravuri | Pavan Sameer Kumar Chirravuri | Mr. Abhishek J Jain | Mohit Garg | 1. Vinoth P 2. Amogh Gopinath | Teresa Joseph | Sunaina R | Preeti Hooda | Cathy Tresa Mathew | Cathy Tresa Mathew | Ashwani Kumar |
| 70th Batch | | Kavita Gokul Patil | Rakesh Rathi | Rakesh Rathi | Anmoldeep Singh | Punit Daga | Punit Daga | Kavita Gokul Patil | 1. Akhil Goel 2. Sachin Kumar | Vikas Prajapati | Ravi Verma | Ravi Verma | Surbendu Thakur |
| 69th Batch | | Sri Vatsa Sehra | Sri Vatsa Sehra | Sri Vatsa Sehra | Madhukar Anand | Davinder Chodha | Abhijit Awadhiya | Sri Vatsa Sehra | Bhupender Kumar Singh | Londhe Mahesh Dattatraya | Chinmay Ananad Jain | Chinmay Ananad Jain | 1. Shilpi Chopda 2. Rajendra Jaipal |
| 68th Batch | | Priyanka Mashelkar | Priyanka Mashelkar | Akhil Kumar | Priyanka Mashelkar | Priyanka Mashelkar | 1.Akhil Kumar 2.Dheeraj Kr Gupta | Abhinav Agrawal | Ambarnath Bhimrao Khule | Dheeraj Kr Gupta | Krishna Kumar Ramawat | Krishna Kumar Ramawat | Aditi Yadav |
| 67th Batch | | Jatin | Jatin | Jatin | Saumya Mishra | Jatin | Amrita Singh Ahuja | Jatin | Aswathy V | Ashish Kumar Pandey | Nandani R. Nair | Aswathy V | |
| 66th Batch | | B.Fouzia Taranum | B.Fouzia Taranum | Richa Gulati | Vaibhav Agarwal | Vaibhav Agarwal | B.Fouzia Taranum | Rajarajeshwari R | B.Fouzia Taranum | Praveen Kumar | Rajarajeshwari R And Reshma Nair | Neha Nautiyal | |
| 65th Batch | | Amar Gahlot | Amar Gahlot | Deependra Kumar | Amar Gahlot | Amar Gahlot | Amar Gahlot | Amar Gahlot | Amar Gahlot | Lovish Shelley | | | |
| 64th Batch | | Vikram Pagariya | Vikram Pagariya | Vikram Pagariya | Vikram Pagariya | Manveet Sehgal | Kanika Aggrawal | Nithya V | Saren Jose | Chamarthy Hima Bindu | | | |
| 63rd Batch | | Deepika Mohan | Ratinder Kaur | Amit Shukla | Abhyuday A Anand | Ratinder Kaur | Mritunjaya Sharma | Jyoti Shah | Ratinder Kaur | - | | | |
* From 69th Batch- The Papers of International Taxation & Transfer Pricing have been merged.
Best probationer’s Silver Medal for All Round Performance
| Batch No | Batch Year | Year of Award | Name of the Probationer |
| 21st | 1967 | 1968 | Shri N. V. Shridharan |
| 22nd | 1968 | 1969 | Shri G.P. Prabhu |
| 23rd | 1969 | 1970 | Shri A.N. Prasad |
| 24th | 1970 | 1971 | Shri D.K. Das |
| 25th | 1971 | 1972 | Shri R.K. Baqaya |
| 26th | 1972 | 1973 | Ms. Saroj Bala |
| 27th | 1973 | 1974 | Shri Mahesh Chandra |
| 28th | 1974 | 1975 | Smt P. Sahi |
| 29th | 1975 | 1976 | Shri Vinod Khurana |
| 30th | 1976 | 1977 | Shri C.P. Ramaswamy |
| 31st | 1977 | 1978 | Shri A.R. Reddy |
| 32nd | 1978 | 1979 | Shri Rakesh Kapoor |
Another medal for all-round best performance named, R.S. Chaddha Memorial Gold Medal, was instituted from 1977. For three years, both the medals were awarded. However, from the year 1981 onwards, only the, R.S. Chaddha Memorial Gold Medal was awarded.
Winner of R.S. Chaddha Memorial Gold Medal for Best Probationer
| Batch No | Batch Year | Year of Award | Name of the Probationer |
| 30th | 1976 | 1977 | Ms .Sudha Pande |
| 31st | 1977 | 1978 | Shri Biswanath Dutta |
| 32nd | 1978 | 1979 | Shri J.B.S. Gill |
| 33rd | 1979 | 1981 | Shri R.K. Bajaj |
| 34th | 1980 | 1982 | Shri K.K. Sinha |
| 35th | 1981 | 1983 | Shri Kuldip Singh |
| 36th | 1982 | 1984 | Shri R.K. Choudhary |
| 37th | 1983 | 1985 | Shri M.C. Dube |
| 38th | 1984 | 1986 | Shri N.P. Sinha |
| 39th | 1985 | 1987 | Shri Pramod Nangia |
| 40th | 1986 | 1988 | Shri Pushkar Bhatnagar |
| 41st | 1987 | 1989 | Ms. Renu Johri |
| 42nd | 1988 | 1990 | Shri O.P. Yadav |
| 43rd | 1989 | 1991 | Dr. J.K. Goyal |
| 44th | 1990 | 1992 | Dr. Rajiv Agrawal |
| 45th | 1991 | 1993 | Shri Krishna Kishore Jasthi |
| 46th | 1992 | 1994 | Shri Sandip Garg |
| 47th | 1993 | 1995 | Shri Anupam Sharma |
Winners of the Finance Minister’s Gold Medal for Best Probationer
| Batch No | Batch Year | Year of Award | Name of the Probationer |
| 48th | 1994 | 1996 | Shri Rajgopal Sharma |
| 49th | 1995 | 1997 | Shri Peeyush Sonkar |
| 50th | 1996 | 1998 | Shri Madhukar Bhagat |
| 51st | 1997 | 1999 | Shri Vineet Agrawal |
| 52nd | 1998 | 2000 | Shri Vinod Tanwani |
| 53rd | 1999 | 2001 | Ms. Ekta Vishnoi |
| 54th | 2000 | 2002 | Shri Vinay Sinha |
| 55th | 2001 | 2003 | Shri Manish Sareen |
| 56th | 2002 | 2004 | Shri B Saravanan |
| 57th | 2003 | 2005 | Shri T. Sankar |
| 58th | 2004 | 2006 | Ms. P. Saraswati |
| 59th | 2005 | 2007 | V Lalitha lakshmi |
| 60th | 2006 | 2008 | Baljeet kaur |
| 61th | 2007 | 2009 | Anchal Khndelwal |
| 62th | 2008 | 2010 | Ankur Alya |
| 63th | 2009 | 2011 | Deepika Mohan |