The reliability screening and sorting of the solar cells can be quickly and nondestructively realized by measuring their internal low frequency noise.In this paper the screening method based on Mahalanobis distance is proposed to analyze the noise data,so the screening criterion for the whole frequency band can be achieved.Experimental results show that this method is more efficient compared with the usual screening method based on the value of a special frequency point.The screening method based on Mahalanobis distance comprehensively reflects the low frequency noise of the solar cell;it can distinguish not only the solar cells with big 1/f noise,but also the solar cells with G-R noise and burst noise.So this method can sort solar cells more accurately and precisely according to their reliability.