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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

Tracer/Overseer Grade III
Cat. 244/2018Kerala Water AuthorityClosed 30 Jan 2019
Age limit as printed
19-36. Only candidates born between 01.01.1999 and 02.01.1982 (both dates included) are eligible to apply for this post. SC/ST and OBC candidates are eligible for usual age relaxation.
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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What this post asks for

  • Needs your details:
    Age: 19–36 yearsBorn on or after 1 Jan 1999 and on or before 2 Jan 1982.
  • Needs your details:
    Qualification: SSLC / 10th or aboveChoose your highest qualification.
  • Check yourself:
    ExperienceMentioned in the notification. Confirm you have it.
Qualification as printed

Educational Qualifications: • Must possess minimum general educational qualification of the SSLC standard, and any of the qualifications from 1 to VII mentioned below. • 1. Draughtsman's Course (Mechanical) Diploma of ITC (MTI) Trichur, OR Lower Grade Drawing Group Certificate (MGTE or KGTE), OR Second Grade Certificate secured by Draughtsman Civil or Mechanical Trainees under T.T.Scheme, College of Engineering, or under Industrial Training Centre conducted by the Ministry of Labour, Government of India after a Course of 18 months, OR National Apprenticeship Certificate in the trade of Draughtsman (civil) or Draughtsman (Mechanical) awarded after Completion of full term apprenticeship for a minimum period of three years, OR Building Drawing and estimating (Higher or Lower) MGTE Or KGTE and any two of the other Civil Engineering Subjects under (MGTE Or KGTE), OR Diploma in Civil Engineering (Two year Course) of the Women's Polytechnic of the State, OR Surveyor Trade Certificate obtained after 18 months course (followed by six months practical training) at the Industrial Training Institutes or centers conducted by the Government of India, Ministry of Labour. • 2. Must hold a completed SSLC issued under the authority of the Government of Madras or the Government of Kerala with the specified minimum marks in First Language Part I, English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science and Drawing, Applied Science and practical. • 3. Must hold a Junior Technical School leaving Certificate. Experience Required: When persons possessing the prescribed qualifications are not available, those with experience in Tracing, sketching and drawing will be appointed. Equivalence / KS&SSR Rules: Rule 10 (a)ii of Part II KS &SSR 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.

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.

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