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.
18-41. Only candidates born between 02.01.1977 and 01.01.2000 (both dates included) are eligible to apply for this post. In the absence of qualified candidates within the age limit, the upper age limit shall be relaxed up to 50 years. But in no case the maximum age limit shall exceed 50 (Fifty) years.
As in your SSLC book. Ages are counted on 1 January of the recruitment year.
Your details stay in this browser.
Check the notification
Special recruitment is open only to the community or group named in the notification.
Educational Qualifications: • Must have passed SSLC or its equivalent • Must possess any one of the following: (i) SMT (Sri Moolam Technical Institute) Overseer's Course (Mechanical) (2 Years Course), (ii) Draftsman Course (Mechanical) College of Engineering Guindy, (iii) Pass in the following subjects under KGTE or MGTE or any other qualification recognised as equivalent thereto: a. Applied Mechanic (Higher), b. Machine Drawing (Higher), c. Heat Engine (Higher), d. Hydraulics & Sanitary Engineering (Higher), e. Practical Plane & Solid (Lower) Geometry OR Geometrical Drawing (Lower), f. Mensuration (Lower), (iv) Certificate Course Mechanical Engineering (2 Years Course) of the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, (v) ITI Diploma/Certificate in the trade of Draftsman (mechanical) issued by the Government after completion of 18 months course or its equivalent, (vi) Kerala Government Certificate Examination in Mechanical Engineering (2 year Course) Equivalence / KS&SSR Rules: Rule 10(a)(ii) of Part II of KS & SSR is applicable. Candidates who claim equivalent qualification instead of qualification mentioned in the notification shall produce the relevant Government Order to prove the equivalency at the time of verification.
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.
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.
With relaxations, the upper age cannot go beyond 50.
For a 2025 post with the range 18–36 (born 02.01.1989 – 01.01.2007).
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.