Years, months & days as on today or any cutoff date — 01-01-2026, 01-07-2026, 01-08-2026 — plus running age, next birthday and school admission age.
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Paste this line directly into exam & government forms asking for age as on the cutoff date.
Under the NEP-aligned guideline followed by CBSE, a child should be 6+ years as on 31 March of the admission year. Enter the date of birth above, pick the session, and check.
Some states permit admission at 5+ or set a different cutoff date. Always verify with the school or the state education department notification.
India has two ways of stating age, and mixing them up on a form can cost you an application. Your completed age is the number of full years, months and days you have actually finished — if you were born on 15-05-2000, then on 11-07-2026 your completed age is 26 years, 1 month, 26 days. Your running age is the year of life you are currently in — the same person is "running 27". Grandparents and astrologers use running age; every official form, exam application and legal document uses completed age. This calculator shows both, clearly labelled, so you never write the wrong one.
Recruitment bodies do not check your age on the day you apply. They fix a single cutoff date and every candidate's minimum and maximum age is measured on that one day. That is why notifications say "candidate must have attained 18 years and must not have attained 30 years as on 01-08-2026". Being even one day over the limit on the cutoff date makes an application invalid — and every year candidates are rejected for exactly this.
| Recruitment | Commonly used cutoff pattern |
|---|---|
| SSC (CGL, CHSL, MTS) | Usually 01 January or 01 August of the exam year |
| UPSC Civil Services | Usually 01 August of the exam year |
| Banking (IBPS, SBI) | Usually the 1st of the notification month (often 01 July / 01 August) |
| State PSCs (TNPSC, BPSC etc.) | Usually 01 July of the exam year |
| Class 1 school admission | 31 March of the admission year |
These are typical patterns, not guarantees — the exact cutoff is printed in each notification. Use the preset chips above, or type the precise date from your notification into the "age as on" field.
Most Indian forms want age in the exact format "__ years, __ months, __ days as on DD-MM-YYYY". This calculator generates that sentence for you with a one-tap copy button, using the same completed-age method that recruitment bodies use. Double-check that the date of birth you enter matches your Class 10 certificate — for government purposes, the matriculation certificate DOB is final.
If you are a "leapling", your birthday exists only once every four years. For age computation, the accepted convention — which this calculator follows — is that you complete your next year of age on 1 March in non-leap years. Your next-birthday countdown also lands on 1 March when 29 February does not exist that year, and returns to 29 February in leap years.
Because real months have different lengths, the days figure can differ by a day from calculators that assume every month has 30 days. When a notification says "attained X years", only the completed-years figure matters — the months and days simply show how far past (or short of) the birthday you are.
Enter your date of birth, then tap the 01-08-2026 preset chip (or type any date in the "age as on" field). The calculator shows your completed age in years, months and days on that exact date, plus a ready-to-copy sentence in the format government forms expect.
Always write your completed age — the full years, months and days you have actually finished. Running age (the year you are currently in) is a colloquial Indian convention and is never used on official forms, exam applications or legal documents.
In non-leap years, a 29 February birthday is treated as completed on 1 March. This calculator follows that convention, which matches the general legal reading in India: you attain the next year of age on 1 March when there is no 29 February.
Most differences come from how the days component borrows from months of different lengths (28, 29, 30 or 31 days). This calculator uses the standard borrow method — the same approach used by major international calculators and accepted for official age computation.
Under the NEP-aligned guideline followed by CBSE, a child should be 6 years or older as on 31 March of the admission year for Class 1. Some states apply slightly different cutoffs, so use the school admission checker on this page and verify with your state or school notification.
Yes. Set any future date in the "age as on" field — useful for checking whether you will meet a minimum or maximum age limit on an upcoming exam cutoff, joining date or retirement date.