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Beat Forest Officer physical and medical standards

Beat Forest Officer under Category 211/2025 published the most detailed medical standard of any Kerala PSC post we examined, naming hearing, colour vision, night blindness, muscles and joints, and the nervous system as explicit checks. It also published separate tables by gender: 168 cm and 81 cm chest for men with a five-of-eight PET, and 157 cm for women with a five-of-nine PET, plus a 2 km endurance run at different times.

Steps

  1. Read the table for your own gender

    This post publishes separate event lists. Men take five events from eight; women take five from nine, because the women’s list adds pull-ups on top of skipping. The times and distances differ too.

  2. The endurance run has different limits by gender

    2 km within 13 minutes for men and within 15 minutes for women — and note this differs from Civil Excise Officer’s 2.5 km within 13 minutes under Category 564/2025. The two posts are not interchangeable.

  3. The medical standard goes further than other posts

    Category 211/2025 states requirements as explicit lines: colour vision normal, night blindness nil, muscles and joints with no paralysis, and a perfectly normal nervous system. Most other notifications we examined do not itemise these.

  4. The usual physical-defect disqualifiers apply as well

    Knock-knee, flat foot, varicose vein, bow legs, deformed limbs and defective speech or hearing are named, as in the other uniformed posts.

  5. Measurement precedes the test, as everywhere

    The notification states that physical measurement is taken prior to the Physical Efficiency Test or endurance test, on the same visit.

  6. Eligibility exclusions were stated in the notification

    Category 211/2025 stated that differently abled candidates were not eligible for the post. Exclusions like this are set per notification — check your own.

Frequently asked questions

Do women take the endurance run for this post?#

Yes — 2 km within 15 minutes under Category 211/2025, against 13 minutes for men.

Why do women have nine PET events here?#

The women’s list for Beat Forest Officer adds pull-ups alongside skipping, giving nine events rather than the eight on the Woman Police Constable list. Five must be qualified in either case.

Official sources

Steps last verified against official Kerala PSC sources on 25 August 2026.

Where the Commission has not published a rule, this guide says so rather than guessing. Anything marked “not officially published” is exactly that.

This is an independent guide for aspirants, written from the Commission’s own published instructions. Portal screens and rules change — always confirm on keralapsc.gov.in and in your own Thulasi profile before acting. PSC Mastery is not affiliated with the Kerala Public Service Commission.