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Can I apply? Kerala PSC eligibility checker

Find your post, then check it against the requirements printed in its notification: age with the Kerala PSC relaxations, qualification and anything else the post asks for. Add your date of birth to see which open posts you fit.

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Step 1

Your post

Armed Police Sub Inspector (Trainee)
Cat. 672/2022 & 673/2022Police (Armed Police Battalion)Closed 1 Feb 2023
Age limit as printed
Category - I (Open Market): 20-31. Only candidates born between 02.01.1991 and 01.01.2002 (both dates included) are eligible with usual relaxation to SC, ST, and Other Backward Communities. Category - II (Constabulary): 20-36. Only candidates born between 02.01.1986 and 01.01.2002 (both dates included) are eligible.
Step 2

Check your eligibility

Your details

As in your SSLC book. Ages are counted on 1 January of the recruitment year.

Community

OBC includes Ezhava, Muslim, Latin Catholic / Anglo-Indian, Viswakarma and other backward communities.

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Your result

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Add your date of birth and the result updates as you type.

What this post asks for

  • Needs your details:
    Age: 20–31 yearsBorn on or after 2 Jan 1991 and on or before 1 Jan 2002.
  • Needs your details:
    Qualification: Degree or aboveChoose your highest qualification. The subject must match too.
  • Check yourself:
    Physical standardsMentioned in the notification. Confirm you have it.
Qualification as printed

Educational Qualifications: • Must be a Graduate. • In the case of Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe candidates, if sufficient number of fully qualified candidates are not available, applications of those who have passed Pre-University/Pre-Degree or equivalent Examination of recognized University shall be considered only to fill up the quota reserved for them under Category (I). Physical Standards: Height: 167 cm (Taller persons will be given preference; 160 cm for SC/ST candidates). Chest Measurement: 81 cm with minimum expansion of 5 cm (76 cm with 5 cm expansion for SC/ST candidates). Visual Standards without glasses: Distant vision 6/6 snellen (Left & Right Eye), Near vision 0.5 snellen (Left & Right Eye), each eye must have full field of vision. Free from color blindness, squint, or morbid conditions and apparent physical defects like Knock-knee, Flat Feet, Varicose veins, Bow legs, Deformed limbs, irregular and protruding teeth, defective speech and hearing. Candidates must also qualify in at least five out of eight items of National Physical Efficiency One Star Standards Tests. Equivalence / KS&SSR Rules: KS&SSR Part-II Rule 10 (a) (ii) is applicable. Qualifications recognized by executive orders or standing orders of Government as equivalent shall also be sufficient.

A guide, not a decision of the Kerala PSC. Confirm everything in the official notification before you apply on Thulasi. Age limit looks wrong? Report it.

How the age check works

Kerala PSC gives the age limit as a range of birth dates, for example “18–36: only candidates born between 02.01.1989 and 01.01.2007 (both dates included)”. Ages are counted on 1 January of the recruitment year, so an upper age of 36 in 2025 means you must be born on or after 2 January 1989. Relaxations move that earliest date back.

OBC+3 yearsEzhava, Muslim, LC/AI, Viswakarma and other backward communities
SC / ST+5 yearsScheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
Differently abled+15 yearsAdded on top of the community relaxation
Ex-servicemenup to +5The length of military service

With relaxations, the upper age cannot go beyond 50.

Worked examples

For a 2025 post with the range 18–36 (born 02.01.1989 – 01.01.2007).

  • EligibleGeneral, born 15 Jun 1995Inside 02.01.1989 – 01.01.2007, age 29 on 1 Jan 2025
  • EligibleOBC, born 10 Mar 1987Two years too old for the general range, but OBC +3 moves the earliest date to 02.01.1986
  • Not eligibleSC, born 20 Aug 1983SC +5 moves the earliest date to 02.01.1984, still after the birth date (age 41)

What the checker does not decide

Some notifications say relaxations do not apply, and the checker then uses the range as printed. By-transfer posts, special recruitments, NCA notifications and rules for widows are flagged with “Check the notification” instead of a verdict. The qualification guide compares levels only, not subjects. Always confirm in the official notification before you apply.

Not affiliated with the Kerala Public Service Commission. See also the exam guides and all notifications.