Exam Age Limit Calculator

About the Exam Age Limit Calculator

Every exam notification sets an age the same way: a minimum age, often a maximum age, and one cut-off date the age is counted on — not the exam day, and not the day you apply. This calculator takes your date of birth and that cut-off date and answers the only question that matters: are you inside the limits, and by how much.

It counts the way notifications word their rules. The minimum is "has completed N years on the cut-off date", so the birthday may fall on the cut-off itself. The maximum is "has not attained N years on the cut-off date", so the birthday must come after it — on the day you turn the maximum age you are already over the limit by one day. Getting that one day wrong is how an application is rejected after the fee is paid.

Your category relaxation is added to the maximum age, as the notifications do. You also get the two dates that decide everything: the day you complete the minimum age, the last cut-off date on which you are still eligible, and the whole range of birth dates that cut-off accepts — useful for checking a sibling or a friend in a second.

Where to find your exam’s age limits

Age limits and cut-off dates change from one notification to the next, and they differ by post inside the same exam, so the only safe figures are the ones in the notification you are applying under. Take the minimum age, the maximum age, the cut-off date and your category relaxation from these official sources:

• Union Public Service Commission — Civil Services, NDA/NA, CDS, Engineering Services and the rest, each with its own notification
• Staff Selection Commission — CGL, CHSL, MTS, GD Constable and Selection Posts; the age limit there is set per post
• National Testing Agency — NEET (UG), JEE (Main), CUET and the other national entrance tests
• Institute of Banking Personnel Selection — PO/MT, Clerk, Specialist Officer and the RRB recruitments
• Railway Recruitment Boards — the centralised employment notices for NTPC, Group D and technical posts

Type the figures in and the calculator does the rest. Nothing here is copied from a previous year, so there is no stale table to mislead you.

The exams listed here, and why only these

An exam is listed with figures only when its own notification states the rule as an age on a fixed day of the exam year, and the figures were checked in that document:

• UPSC Civil Services (CSE) — a candidate must have attained 21 years and must not have attained 32 years on 1 August of the year of the examination. The upper limit is relaxed by up to 5 years for SC/ST, 3 years for OBC candidates eligible for reservation, 10 years for PwBD, 5 years for ex-servicemen (and ECOs/SSCOs) with five years of Military Service and 3 years for Defence Services personnel disabled in operations; the SC/ST or OBC relaxation is added to the PwBD or ex-servicemen one (Union Public Service Commission).
• NEET (UG) — a candidate must have completed 17 years of age on or before 31 December of the year of the examination, and the National Medical Commission has set no upper age limit (National Testing Agency).

SSC, bank and railway recruitments set their limits post by post and restate them, with the cut-off date, in each notification; the NDA gives a range of birth dates for each course instead of an age. For those the limit lives in the notification you apply under, which is why this page sends you to the official source instead of showing a number that may already be wrong. If a figure cannot be checked in the body’s own document, it is not printed here.

How the two conventions work

Notifications use two different phrasings, and both are applied here exactly:

• "must have attained / completed N years" (the minimum): you satisfy it from your Nth birthday onwards, including the birthday itself — a birthday that falls on the cut-off date still counts.
• "must not have attained N years" (the maximum): your Nth birthday must fall after the cut-off date, so a birthday on the cut-off itself puts you one day over the limit.

That is why a notification writes its limits as a range of birth dates ("born not earlier than … and not later than …"). The calculator shows the same range, so you can check it line by line against your notification. The worked examples above show both edges.

If your notification words a limit differently — "must not be more than 30 years of age", for instance — read the birth-date range it gives and make sure the range on this page matches it.

Limitations

• The figures for an exam come from its notification, which you enter: a limit that differs by post, by state quota or by gender has to be taken from the row that applies to you.
• Relaxations are added to the maximum age only. Where a notification grants a relaxation in months, enter it in years as a decimal (six months is 0.5).
• Eligibility also depends on qualifications, attempts, domicile and category certificates. This page checks the age, nothing else.
• Dates are plain calendar dates, so a birth date recorded differently on your certificate and your application will give a different answer. Use the date on the certificate the body will accept.
• A 29 February birthday is counted on 28 February in other years. If your notification counts it on 1 March instead, check the day either side.

Privacy

Your date of birth and the limits you type stay in this browser: the calculation runs on your device and nothing is sent anywhere or stored on a server.