Check if you are eligible for a government job
Every exam measures your age on a different date, and most rejections come from using the wrong one. Fill this in and you will see which of the 13 exams covered here accept you, each judged on the reckoning date printed in its own notification. Nothing you type leaves this page.
The full checker page
The same tool, with the age and physical tables for every exam, the relaxation rules and a link to each official notification.
Open the eligibility checker →Height & Chest Standards
Physical standard figures for railway, CAPF and defence posts, including the lower limit published for reserved-category candidates.
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Document Checklist
Which certificate carries your age relaxation, and the original plus self-attested copy rule that decides whether it is accepted at verification.
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Why the age limit changes with the exam
A notification does not ask for your present age. It fixes a date, usually called the crucial date or the age reckoning date, and measures you on that day. SSC and UPSC use 1 August of the recruitment year, railway boards use 1 January, IBPS used 1 July for Probationary Officer and SBI used 1 April. For someone born in late July those choices do not agree, and picking the wrong one is the most common reason an eligible candidate is rejected at document verification.
On top of that, upper-age relaxation is added by category: OBC gets 3 years, SC and ST get 5, and a candidate with a benchmark disability gets 10 years, rising to 13 with OBC and 15 with SC or ST. The minimum age is never reduced. Those figures only count if the matching certificate is produced at document verification, in the format the conducting body accepts.
Exams covered
Each entry is checked against the reckoning date and limits in its most recent notification. Where a notice publishes a fixed date-of-birth window instead of an age range, that window is used instead.
- SSC CHSL (LDC, JSA, DEO)
- SSC CGL (Combined Graduate Level)
- SSC GD (Constable, Rifleman, Sepoy)
- UPSC Civil Services (Prelims)
- Railway RRB Group D (Level 1)
- Railway RRB NTPC (Undergraduate)
- IBPS Probationary Officer / Management Trainee
- SBI Probationary Officer
- IBPS Clerk (Customer Service Associate)
- SSC MTS (Multi-Tasking Staff)
- NDA (National Defence Academy)
- Indian Army Agniveer (General Duty, Other than Tradesman)
- RPF Constable (Railway Protection Force)
Conducting bodies covered: Staff Selection Commission, Staff Selection Commission / CAPFs, Union Public Service Commission, Railway Recruitment Boards, Institute of Banking Personnel Selection, State Bank of India, UPSC, Indian Army, Railway Recruitment Boards / SSC.
Guides
All guides →Longer explanations of the rules behind the form, written to be read once rather than skimmed.
Age limits
Which date counts your age for a government job?
28 September 2026 · 9 min read
Age limits
Age relaxation in central government jobs: the table and the certificate rule
24 September 2026 · 10 min read
Age limits
Ex-servicemen age relaxation: the two rules that catch candidates out
20 September 2026 · 11 min read
Physical standards
Physical standards and the PST: how height, chest and running tests are measured
16 September 2026 · 10 min read
Before you rely on any result
Clearing an age limit is only the first filter. Attempts already used, physical standards where the post has them, medical fitness and subject-specific degree requirements all sit behind it, and none of that is decided here. Read the original notification on the conducting body’s website before you apply, because it always supersedes whatever is written on this page.