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