SSC CHSL 2026 Exam Date, Notification & Vacancies

SSC's notice of 1 October 2026 gives the proposed Tier-I dates as 30 November to 31 December 2026. Exam city details come about 10 days before the exam. Your admit card is expected 2–3 days before your own exam date. Tier-II dates are not announced yet.

SSC has not announced a date; tentative keys come after Tier-I ends on 31 December 2026. Last year's key came on 8 December 2025, 8 days after that cycle's last exam day. See the answer key page for how to check it and the objection fee.

The notice of 7 September 2026 gives about 2,536 tentative vacancies. SSC will publish the post-wise and category-wise split later. Final numbers may change.

18–27 years as on 1 August 2026, so you must be born between 2 August 1999 and 1 August 2008. SC/ST get 5 more years, OBC 3 years and PwBD 10 years.

No new applications. The last date was 7 October 2026, and fee payment closed on 8 October 2026. If you sent a complete application on time (with the fee, if you had to pay one), you can correct your form from 14 to 16 October 2026 (11 pm). The first correction costs ₹200 and the second ₹500.

Yes. In Tier-I, 0.50 mark is cut for each wrong answer (a correct answer gets 2 marks). In Tier-II, 1 mark is cut per wrong answer in Sections I, II and III (a correct answer gets 3 marks).

No. Tier-I is only used to shortlist candidates for Tier-II. The final merit list uses Sections I and II of Tier-II only. Tier-I marks are used only to break a tie.

For LDC/JSA, the official cut-offs (out of 200) were: UR 144.26, OBC 143.83, EWS 141.42, SC 125.40 and ST 115.25. DEO cut-offs were higher (UR 169.54 for Science-stream DEO posts and 165.27 for other DEO posts). Cut-offs change every year.