Hello Aspirant,

See if you would complete your 21 years in the month of August then you will be eligible for UPSC 2024 because the age limit for UPSC IAS exam is 21 year to 32 year with following age relaxation as per the reservation criteria of UPSC :-

>>>> OBC - 3 years

>>>> SC/ ST - 5 years

>>>> Defense Services Personnel, who got disabled during operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence - 3 years

>>>> Ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers (CO) and ECOs/ SSCOs who will render at least five years Military Service as of August 1, 2021, and have been released - 5 years

ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as of 1st August 2021 - 5 years

>>>> In the following cases: blindness and low vision, deaf and hard of hearing, locomotor disability including acid attack, cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, victims and muscular dystrophy, intellectual disability, autism, specific learning disability and mental illness - 10 years

>>>> Candidates ordinarily domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir from January 1, 1981, to December 31, 1989. - 5 years

>>>> So as per the age criteria you are eligible for UPSC IAS exam 2024 because the candidate should have crossed age of minimum 21 years on the August 1st of examination year.

You can check out the detailed eligibility criteria for UPSC IAS from the link given below :-

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-eligibility-criteria

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

Hello Aspirant,

Yes definitely you can apply for UPSC and other government exams depending upon their other eligibility criterion. Graduation is the basic requisite for any of the government exam whether it is conducted by UPSC or any other authority, but there are some other conditions that the candidate needs to satisfy in order to be eligible for examination, like for UPSC some conditions are given below :-

>>>> The candidate should be either an   Indian National or a subject of Nepal or a subject of Bhutan or people of Indian origin migrated from Zaire, Ethiopia, East African Countries of Kenya, the United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Burma, Pakistan, Zambia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam to settle in India or Tibetan refugees came to India, to settle in India before January 1, 1962

>>>> Age limit is 21-32 years for General category and for reservation categories the relaxation is provided below :-

OBC - 3 years

SC/ ST - 5 years

Defense Services Personnel, who got disabled during operations during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence - 3 years

Ex-servicemen including Commissioned Officers (CO) and ECOs/ SSCOs who will render at least five years Military Service as of August 1, 2021, and have been released - 5 years

ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service as of 1st August 2021 - 5 years

In the following cases: blindness and low vision, deaf and hard of hearing, locomotor disability including acid attack, cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, victims and muscular dystrophy, intellectual disability, autism, specific learning disability and mental illness - 10 years

Candidates ordinarily domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir from January 1, 1981, to December 31, 1989. - 5 years

>>>> For IAS your educational qualification should be minimum a graduate with at least one of the subjects namely Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics and Zoology or a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Forestry or in Engineering from recognised university.

You can check out the detailed eligibility criteria for UPSC IAS from the link given below :-

https://competition.careers360.com/articles/upsc-ias-eligibility-criteria

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!