Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Clarification on fresh attempts and age relaxation in Civil Services Examination



Clarification on fresh attempts and age relaxation in Civil Services Examination

With reference to the decision of the Competent Authority conveyed earlier on the website of this department, the existing position in respect of number of attempts and maximum age limits for various categories of candidates and the changes as approved in number of attempts & age-limits consequent to providing two additional attempts would be as under:-

Existing No. of attempts
Categories
Unreserved
SC/ST
OBC
P. H.
04
Unlimited
07
07 for General/OBC
Unlimited for SC/ST
Existing maximum age-limits
30 years
35 years
33 years
40 years
Consequential No. of
attempts.
06
(4+2)
Unlimited
09
(7+2)
09 for General/OBC
Unlimited for SC/ST
Consequential maximum age- limits
32 years
(30+2)
37 years
(35+2)
35 years
(33+2)
12 additional years in each
category (30+12 for
General, 35+12 for SC/ST
& 33+12 years for OBC)


Source: http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02ser/CSE-04032014.pdf