Guides
These guides explain the eligibility rules themselves rather than repeating any one recruitment notice. Each one is written to be useful in the year it is read, because the arithmetic and the proformas change far less often than the notices do.
- Age limits28 September 20269 min read
Which date counts your age for a government job?
SSC and UPSC count age on 1 August, railway boards on 1 January, IBPS on 1 July. Here is how each reckoning date changes an answer, with worked examples.
- Age limits24 September 202610 min read
Age relaxation in central government jobs: the table and the certificate rule
OBC gets 3 years, SC and ST get 5, a person with a benchmark disability gets 10 to 15. What the relaxation is worth without the right certificate at verification.
- Age limits20 September 202611 min read
Ex-servicemen age relaxation: the two rules that catch candidates out
One rule gives three, six or eight years. The other deducts actual service and caps the resultant age. Which applies, and why Railway treats it differently.
- Physical standards16 September 202610 min read
Physical standards and the PST: how height, chest and running tests are measured
Height and chest are measured once and a shortfall is permanent. What a reserved category gets, what hill-region relief needs, and how the running test works.
- Documents12 September 20269 min read
The document mistakes that get applications rejected at verification
Most verification rejections are not fraud. They are date of birth mismatches, wrong certificate formats and names spelled differently from the marksheet.
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