SCRA Criteria

I want to apply for the Special Class Railway Apprentice (SCRA) exam so please tell me the minimum educational qualification required to apply for this? Also give me details about the age criteria of it? From where can I apply for SCRA exam?

Hi buddy I want to apply for Special Class Railway Apprentices (SCRA) exam and for the same here looking info related eligibility criteria for appear in this exam ??

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Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts an exam for selection of Special Class Railway Apprentices (SCRA) in the mechanical department of Indian Railways.

Eligibility criteria:
Applicants must have passed in the first or second division in the intermediate or an equivalent examination of a recognized university or board approved by the Government of India with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as subjects of the examination.
Graduates with Mathematics and at least one of the subjects Physics and Chemistry as their degree subjects may also apply.

Age Limit:
Applicants must have attained the age of 17 years and must not have attained the age of 21 years

Age Relaxations:
(a)The Age relaxable for SC/ST Applicants 5 years
(b)Age relaxable for OBC Applicants 3 years
(c)Age relaxable for 3 years in case of defence services personnel disabled in operations during hostilities with any foreign country or disturbed area.
(d) 5 years Age relaxable for Ex-service men including commissioned officers and ECOs/SSCOs who have completed an initial period of a assignment of 5 years military service .(As the date given in advt)
(e) 5 years age relaxable in the case of ECOs /SSCOs who have completed an initial period of assignment of 5 years of military service.(As the date given in advt).
(f) Ten years Age relaxation for blind, deaf, deaf, mute and orthopaedically handicapped candidates.
(g) 5 years age relaxable if a Applicants had ordinaly been domiciled in the state of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from the 01-01-1980 to 31-12-1989.

Physical Standards:
Applicants must be physically fit and according to physical standards for admission to Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination.