Losing an attempt due to UPSC's month of reckoning of age- Seek assistance and a way forward

Hi. 

I am starting this thread to inquire about a way forward for people who are born between January to July 1988 and thus would effectively lose an attempt as the month of reckoning of age is August. I feel this is highly discriminatory as the prelims will happen in May this year and it makes no sense to calculate age of a candidate from August. There was a similar thread on discuss.forumias. Now, as discuss is defunct, I was not able to revive the thread there. 

I could not clear mains this year (I had hoped I would clear), and I seek one last shot to correct the mistakes done in this year's attempt. I dont seek additional attempts (as I have attempts left) plus I wont hit the upper age limit (for general) in May (when the prelims will take place). My sole purpose of creating this thread is to:-

1) Seek an effective way forward.

2) Look for other candidates who might be in a similar position as mine to brainstorm further actions (moving on, pleading to appropriate authorities, petition etc)

3) If someone has already filed a petition for this before, what was the outcome

4) As I have no background in law, I wanted to understand the legal processes and ramifications if I indeed go ahead with filing a petition. 

In a previous thread (on discuss), someone had posted an OM dated July 1988 where they had mentioned a logic behind the calculation of age. I believe this cut off date (1st of august) was changed for exams such as the IES (from august to january) in 2012 and moreover, I believe logic behind such dates is purely administrative that can be amended easily without much troubles. Further, for most exams (that are multi staged) the reckoning of age takes place from the month the notification comes out, or from the month when the prelims of the exam takes place (SSC, RBI etc).

I hope someone can throw some light on this and show me a way forward. 

Thanks