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I am a General category candidate preparing for my Civil Service exams. Born on 22nd April 1987. Will I be able to appear for exams next year also? If not do I have a chance for any other Central Government jobs of higher rank? Please do clarify.

You will be not eligible to appear for Civil Service Examination conducted by UPSC next year.

The eligibility to appear for examination is that candidate must have passed bachelor degree from a recognised university.

The age limit is 21-32 years for general category as on 01st August of year of appearing for examination.

The examination is conducted in three stages.

For most of the central government jobs the upper age limit is 30 years. For detail information about examination visit at http://www.upsc.gov.in

Civil Services examination is held by UPSC once every year for recruitment of administrative officers like IAS, IPS, IFS, etc. .

As far as you are concerned about the age limit for appearing in Civil Services examination 2019 then it is 21 years to 32 years by the 1st August 2019 for general category candidates. Age relaxation is applicable for reserved category candidates as per the government norms.

So as you have mentioned that your age will exceed 32 years by the 1st August 2019 hence you are not eligible for appearing in Civi Services examination 2019.

For more details and FAQs related to Civil Services examination you can refer to its notification by downloading it from the link www.upsc.gov.in.

No, you are not eligible to appear for Civil Service Examination. It is conducted by UPSC.

The eligibility to appear for examination is that candidate must have passed bachelor degree from a recognised university. The age limit is 21-32 years as on 01st August of year of appearing for examination.

So, you cannot appear for the examination. For detail information about examination visit at www.upsc.gov.in.

The notification for Civil Services examination 2018 has been released. Online application for CSE 2018 is going on. The eligibility criteria for CSE 2018:

>>Candidate must be graduate from a recognized university to be eligible to apply for Union Public Service Commission Civil Services exam.

>>The age limit for general category candidate is 21-32 years calculated on 01st August of year of examination.

You are eligible for 2018 exam but you will not be eligible for 2019 exam as you will complete your upper age limit on 22nd April, 2019.

The full form of UPSC is Union Public Service Commission.

Eligibility criteria for UPSC Civil Services exam:

1. The age limit for general category candidate is 21-32 years calculated on 01st August of year of examination.

2. You can not apply for UPSC Civil Services exam after attaining 32 years before 1st August, 2019.

You are eligible for UPSC Civil Services exam 2018.

Being born on 22nd April 1987 belonging to general category, you are not eligible for appearing in Civil Services 2019 examinations as the age criteria for general category candidates for appearing in the same examination is that, the age of candidate must lie in between 21 years to 32 years by the 1st August of 2019. Further there is provision of age relaxation for reserved category candidates as per the government norms.

For more FAQs related to Civil Services examination you can refer to the link www.upsc.gov.in.

Civil Service Examination is conducted by UPSC for recruitment as an I.A.S, I.P.S, I.F.S Officer's.

The eligibility to appear for examination is that candidate must have passed bachelor degree from a recognised university. Candidates appear for final year examination are also eligible to appear for examination.

The age limit is 21-32 years as on 01st August of year of appearing for examination. There is no limitation on discipline and aggregate of bachelor degree.

So, being a candidate of general category, you are not eligible to appear for examination.

For detail information about examination visit at www.upsc.gov.in.

Civil Services exam is conducted by UPSC.

Eligibility criteria for this exam:

Candidate must hold a Bachelor's Degree from a recognized university.

Nationality: Indian

Age limit: 21-32 years

Relaxation is allowed for reserved category.

You are not eligible for this exam.

For a general category candidates basically in civil services examination restriction will be made on the candidate in 2 ways.
1.Number of attempts
2.Age criteria.

Even if the candidate has required qualification and required age, a candidate will not be eligible for applying if the number of attempts exceeds 4(for general category candidates only).

Second criteria is age and for the general category candidates the maximum age is 32 years and for other category candidates there will be age relaxation as per norms.

But in your case you are not eligible for attempting the civil services examination as you have not met the required age criteria.

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I am a General category candidate preparing for my Civil Service exams. Born on 22nd April 1987. Will I be able to appear for exams next year also? If not do I have a chance for any other Central Government jobs of higher rank? Please do clarify.

The cut off date of calculating age is 1st August of the exam year.

for the 2018 exams candidates must have been born not earlier than 2nd
August, 1986 and not later than 1st August, 1997.

So for 2019 exams you are not eligible.

You can apply for the State public service commission exams of your state.