SSC Exam Calendar 2026-27 — All Notification and Exam Dates, GD Constable 2027 Still Pending

The Staff Selection Commission released its Annual Calendar for 2026-27 on 8 January 2026 and revised it on 1 October 2026, moving the CHSL, CPO and JE examination dates.

If you are reading this in October 2026, here is where things stand right now:

• Every single SSC application window for 2026 has closed. CGL, CHSL, JE, MTS, Stenographer, JHT, Selection Post Phase 14 and SI in Delhi Police and CAPF — all notified, all closed.
• What remains this year is examinations, not applications. JE on 2 to 6 November, SI on 20 to 28 November, CHSL from 30 November to 31 December.
• The one notification still to come is GD Constable 2027 — and it is overdue. The calendar listed it for September 2026 with applications closing in October 2026. As on 20 October 2026 it has not been released.

Read this first: GD Constable is the one you can still apply for — and it is late

SSC GD Constable is the largest recruitment in the Commission's year — the previous cycle carried 25,487 vacancies across BSF, CISF, CRPF, SSB, ITBP, Assam Rifles, SSF and the NCB. It is open to Class 10 pass candidates, which makes it the widest-eligibility central government recruitment that exists.

The 2026-27 calendar placed the GD Constable 2027 notification in September 2026, with applications closing in October 2026 and the examination in the January to March 2027 window. That notification date has passed and the notification is not out. We track the live status, and the vacancy numbers being circulated for it, in a separate page: SSC GD Constable 2027 notification status.

So the single thing worth doing today, before the notification appears:

1. Create or update your SSC One Time Registration at ssc.gov.in. Without it you cannot apply at all, and the portal is slowest in the final days of a window.
2. Get your Class 10 certificate, category certificate and domicile in order. For GD Constable, the category certificate in the prescribed central government format is the most common reason a candidate loses relaxation.
3. Start the physical preparation now, not after the notification. GD Constable is decided by the CBT, but candidates are eliminated by the PET and PST — the race, the height and the chest measurement. Those cannot be prepared for in the four weeks between the CBT result and the PET.

We will publish the full GD Constable 2027 notification with the state-wise and force-wise vacancy table the day it is released, and the official PDF will be mirrored here.

SSC Exam Calendar 2026-27 — full table

The exam dates shown for CHSL, SI and JE are from the 1 October 2026 revision, which supersedes the January 2026 version of the calendar. SSC publishes revisions on ssc.gov.in under Latest News, and a revision replaces the earlier date entirely.

Problems candidates hit — and what to do

"I wanted to apply for CGL. When is the next one?"

Not this year. SSC runs one CGL cycle per year, notified in the first half and examined in the second. CGL 2026 notified on 21 May 2026 and closed on 25 June 2026; its Tier-1 CBT is running until 30 October 2026 as you read this.

CGL 2027 will be notified around the same point in the 2027-28 calendar, which SSC will publish towards the end of this financial year. That gives you roughly seven months — which is, honestly, the correct amount of preparation time for CGL Tier-1, and far more useful than a month of panic.

If you are a graduate who missed CGL 2026 and wants something in the next three months, your realistic options are GD Constable 2027 (Class 10 eligibility, so a graduate qualifies comfortably) and the next Selection Post phase, which SSC notifies without a fixed slot in the annual calendar.

"My exam is in November and I have not received an admit card"

That is normal and not a reason to worry yet. SSC releases documents in a fixed sequence, and each step has its own window:

1. Application status — region-wise, roughly three to four weeks before the exam
2. Exam city intimation — about ten to fourteen days before, telling you the city only
3. Admit card — typically three to four days before your exam date, with the exact centre and shift

Two things matter here. First, the admit card is published on your regional SSC website, not only the national one, so bookmark the region you applied under. Second, the city intimation is not the admit card — every cycle, candidates travel on the strength of a city slip and arrive without a valid admit card. You need the admit card and an original photo ID.

"The calendar says 'to be announced' for MTS. Is the exam cancelled?"

No. MTS & Havaldar 2026 notified on 20 August 2026 and closed on 20 September 2026; its exam date simply had not been fixed when the calendar was last revised. SSC fills these in through the year.

For a candidate who has already applied, "to be announced" means one thing in practice: do not stop preparing and do not assume you have months. SSC has announced MTS dates with four to six weeks' notice in past cycles. Check ssc.gov.in weekly.

"Why does the calendar matter if all the applications are closed?"

Because of what it tells you about next year. Read down the notification column and the pattern is unmistakable:

• April to June — Selection Post, JHT, Stenographer, CGL
• August to September — MTS, JE, CHSL, Sub-Inspector
• September — GD Constable

SSC has held this rhythm for years. It means a candidate who sets up their One Time Registration and collects their certificates in February and March is ready for every notification in the following twelve months, instead of scrambling in each window. The twenty-to-thirty-day application windows are not the problem; arriving at them unprepared is.

"My One Time Registration details do not match my certificates"

Fix it before the next notification, not during it. SSC's OTR carries your name, date of birth, parents' names, category and education, and the application pulls these fields automatically. A mismatch between your OTR and your Class 10 certificate — a middle name, a spelling, a date — surfaces at document verification, long after you have cleared the CBT, and it is the cruellest way to lose a selection.

SSC permits certain OTR corrections through its own correction facility, and some fields are editable only once. Do that audit now, in a month with no deadline in it.

"Is there negative marking, and does it apply everywhere?"

It depends on the examination and the tier, and this is specified in each notification rather than in the calendar. What is consistent across SSC CBTs is that a wrong answer costs you marks and an unattempted question costs you nothing — so the arithmetic of guessing is almost always against you on a paper you are not finishing anyway.

Read the marking scheme in the notification PDF of the specific exam. Do not carry an assumption from one SSC exam into another.

Where to check, and what to ignore

All SSC announcements — calendar revisions, notifications, application status, city intimations, admit cards, answer keys, results — appear on ssc.gov.in and the regional websites. Nothing else is authoritative.

Vacancy numbers circulating before a notification are estimates, including the ones on coaching sites that present them as confirmed. The vacancy table in a GD Constable notification is itself provisional and is revised later in the cycle, which is normal and not a cause for alarm.

The official SSC Annual Calendar 2026-27 is mirrored below so you have the authoritative document rather than a transcription of it.