Are you within the age limit for your exam?

Pick your exam and enter your date of birth. You get a yes or no on that exam’s official cut-off date — with your category’s relaxation applied, and the last year you can still apply.

Date of birth Exam Category

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Age in years. Once you fill the form above, your age and the exam’s window appear on this axis.

Most searched right now: SSC CGL · UPSC Civil Services · NDA · NEET UG · GATE · CDS

Age limits at a glance

General category, on each exam’s own cut-off date. Open an exam for the category relaxations, the source and the calculation.

Exam	Age window	Category relaxation	Age counted on
SSC CGL	18 to under 32	yes	as on 1 August 2025
UPSC Civil Services	21 to under 32	yes	as on 1 August of the year of examination
NDA	16 to under 19	none	candidates must be born within a stated date range, not simply "aged X"
NEET UG	17 and above	none	as on 31 December of the year of admission
GATE	no age limit at all	none	not applicable — GATE sets no age condition
CDS	19 to under 25	none	stated as a born-between date window, and it differs per academy
UGC NET	under 30	yes	as on the first day of the month of the examination
CAT	no age limit at all	none	not applicable — CAT sets no age condition
RRB NTPC	18 to under 33	yes	as on 1 January of the recruitment year
CTET	18 and above	none	not applicable — CTET sets no upper age condition
SSC GD Constable	18 to under 23	yes	as on 1 January of the recruitment year
AFCAT	20 to under 26	none	stated as a born-between window, and it differs between flying and ground duty
JEE Main	no age limit at all	none	not applicable — JEE Main sets no age condition
RBI Grade B	21 to under 30	yes	as on the first day of the month stated in the advertisement
SBI PO	21 to under 30	yes	as on the cut-off date stated in that year's advertisement
SSC CHSL	18 to under 27	yes	as on 1 August 2025
CAPF AC	20 to under 25	yes	as on 1 August of the year of examination
IBPS PO	20 to under 30	yes	as on the cut-off date stated in that year's notification
SSC MTS	18 to under 27	yes	as on 1 August 2025

“Category relaxation: none” is a statement, not a missing value — defence entries grant no caste age relaxation, and adding the usual +3 or +5 there would tell you that you qualify when you do not.

What this calculator actually does

19 Indian national exams

Exams covered

5 — and that is the correct answer for them

Of them with NO upper age limit at all

8, mostly defence entries

Of them giving NO category age relaxation

calendar years, months and days — never by dividing days by 365.25

How age is computed

21 out of 15 188 we tested — all of them people born on the cut-off date itself

Birth dates where dividing by 365.25 gives the wrong year

none — the whole calculation runs in your browser

Your date of birth and category sent to our server

Method	Who this fits	Where it falls short
Read the notification PDF yourself	Anyone about to actually apply — this is the only authority, and we say so on every result.	The age clause is spread across the eligibility section, a post-wise table and a relaxation annexure, and the cut-off date is often a different date from the one you expect.
Type your date of birth into a search box	Someone who only wants their plain age today.	It gives you your age, which you already knew. It does not know the exam's cut-off date, its age window, or whether your category changes the ceiling.
A general age calculator	Working out an age gap or a duration for any purpose at all.	Measures the gap between two dates. The eligibility question is a different one: it is your age on a date the board chooses, compared against a limit that moves with your category.
This page	You know the exam and want the yes-or-no plus the year you age out.	We can be out of date. A notification can change a limit between our last check and your application, which is why every result carries the source link and the date we last verified it.

When this calculator will not help you

Honest about the limits: in these cases another route is the better answer.

You are asking whether you are qualified, not whether you are the right age

Age is one clause among many. Degree, percentage, attempts, physical standards, nationality and domicile are all separate conditions, and this page checks none of them.

What to do: Use the age answer as a first filter, then read the eligibility section of the notification in full.
Your exam sets a born-between window rather than a number of years

NDA, CDS and AFCAT are written as "born not earlier than X and not later than Y". We approximate that as whole years, and around the edges an approximation is exactly what you must not rely on.

What to do: If our answer is close to the boundary, open the notification and compare your date of birth against the printed window directly.
The upper limit depends on which post you apply for

SSC CGL runs 27, 30 and 32 depending on the post; RRB NTPC splits by undergraduate and graduate level. We show the widest ceiling, so a pass can mean "eligible for some posts, not all".

What to do: Find your post in the post-wise table of the notification and use its own limit.
You need a state PSC or a state police recruitment

Every state sets its own limits and its own relaxations, and they differ from the national pattern more often than they match it. We cover national exams only.

What to do: Go to that state commission's own notification — a national figure will mislead you here.

The words that appear in every notification

Cut-off date: The single date on which your age is measured. It is set by the notification and is usually not the exam date and not today — often 1 August or 1 January of the recruitment year. Your age on every other date is irrelevant to eligibility.
Age relaxation: Years added to the UPPER limit for a reserved category. It never lowers the minimum age. The amount is set per exam, so the familiar OBC +3 and SC/ST +5 are a common pattern, not a rule.
Upper age limit: The greatest age you may be on the cut-off date. Several exams have none at all: for them the honest answer is that no upper limit exists, not a number.
Completed years: Age counted as whole birthdays passed, not rounded. A person one day short of 32 is 31 — which is why a calculator that divides days by 365.25 can hand you the wrong verdict on the boundary.
Two cut-off dates: Some recruitments measure age once for the application and again at appointment. Where an exam does that, both dates matter and the second one can disqualify a candidate the first one accepted.
PwBD: Persons with Benchmark Disability. Where an exam grants a relaxation on this ground it is usually the largest one, and it stacks with a category relaxation in several recruitments.
Notification: The official document announcing a recruitment. It is the authority on every figure on this site. Where this year's is not out yet, last year's limits are a forecast, not a fact.

Questions people ask about exam age limits

Which date is my age actually measured on?

The cut-off date printed in the notification — not today, and usually not the exam date. It is commonly 1 August or 1 January of the recruitment year. This is the single most common reason a candidate believes they are eligible when they are not: they compute their age today instead of on the cut-off date.

I turn the maximum age exactly on the cut-off date. Am I in or out?

Out — and the two ends are not symmetric, which is where most calculators go wrong. Notifications say a candidate "must have attained the age of MIN years and must not have attained the age of MAX years" as on the cut-off date. Attaining the minimum on the cut-off puts you in; attaining the maximum on the cut-off puts you out. SSC CGL 2025 (18–32, cut-off 1 August 2025) states it as dates and settles the argument: candidates born between 2 August 1993 and 1 August 2007. A person born on 1 August 1993 is exactly 32 that day and is not eligible. Our result panel prints that date range for your exam so you can check it against the notification word for word.

I was born on 29 February. Does that break the calculation?

No, and it is the case we test hardest. Age here is counted in calendar years, so a person born on 29 February 2004 attains 18 on 1 March 2022 — there is no 29 February that year, and the anniversary has not occurred on 28 February. Methods that divide elapsed days by 365.25 get this wrong, and they get it wrong precisely for people born on the cut-off date.

Does my category always add years to the limit?

No. Defence entries such as NDA, CDS and AFCAT grant no caste age relaxation at all, so a calculator that adds +3 or +5 there tells you that you qualify when you do not. Relaxation is also never subtracted from the minimum age. We store the relaxation per exam rather than applying a general rule, and when your category earns nothing we say so explicitly instead of quietly showing the base limit.

The exam I want has no age limit shown. Is that a gap in your data?

Usually not. GATE, CAT and JEE Main set no age condition at all, and NEET UG has a minimum but no upper limit. For UGC NET the cap applies only to the JRF route, while Assistant Professor eligibility has no upper limit. "There is no upper age limit" is a real and useful answer, and we show it as one.

This year's notification is not out. What are you showing me?

The previous notification's figures, with a visible marker saying so on the result itself. Limits and cut-off dates do move between years, so treat those numbers as a plan, not a decision. We would rather mark a forecast as a forecast than present it as this year's fact.

Do you store my date of birth?

No. The whole calculation runs in your browser: your date of birth and category are never sent to our server, never placed in the page address and never written to any log. Date of birth combined with category is sensitive personal data, and the safest way to protect it is not to receive it.

Can I rely on this instead of the notification?

No, and we will not claim otherwise. A wrong age limit can cost you a year, so the notification is the authority and every result on this site carries a link to it plus the date we last checked. We tell you what we could not verify rather than filling the gap with a confident-looking number.