SSC CHSL 2025 Final Result — Department-Wise Cut-Off for All 56 Posts

The Staff Selection Commission declared the final result of the Combined Higher Secondary (10+2) Level Examination 2025 on 7 October 2026. A total of 3,515 candidates have been provisionally shortlisted against 3,522 vacancies in 56 posts across the central government. Only 7 vacancies went unfilled.

Every other site will give you the five-line category table and stop there. That table is not the number you want. Allocation in CHSL is post-wise, so the cut-off that decided your result is the cut-off of the department you preferenced — and those range from 211 marks to 321 marks in the very same exam. The full 56-department list is below, read out of the 339-row table in para 6 of the official write-up, along with our mirrored copies of every PDF.

How many candidates are in the CHSL 2025 final result

Para 3 and para 5 of the write-up give the vacancies as reported by the user departments and the candidates actually recommended against them.

The horizontal categories below are counted again inside the vertical categories above, so they are not added to the total.

Set against the 13,395 candidates who appeared in Tier-II and submitted their online post preferences between 19 and 25 June 2026, the final selection rate works out to 26.2%. Roughly one in four of the candidates who reached the preference stage has a post.

Half of every UR name in this result is a reserved-category candidate

This is the single most misread line in the whole document, and it is a footnote. The 1,674 candidates shown in the UR column include 241 EWS, 17 SC and 583 OBC candidates who qualified at the UR standard — 841 people, or 50.2% of the UR column. A further 3 EWS and 1 OBC candidate of the horizontal categories were also placed against UR vacancies.

FIX, FLOAT and the 328 posts that opened up because candidates did not turn up

CHSL 2025 is the first SSC cycle in which the Sliding Mechanism ran end to end. The Commission introduced it by notice dated 3 March 2026 under para 16.4 of the Notice of Examination, with a follow-up notice on 8 April 2026, to cut down the vacancies lost every year when selected candidates simply do not join.

After the First Round of Tentative Allocation on 17 August 2026, every recommended candidate had to attend Sliding / Identity Verification in person at their Regional Office city between 1 and 3 September 2026, having booked a venue and slot between 20 and 22 August. At that stage each candidate either fixed the post already allotted to them, or let it float in the hope of a higher preference. Para 4 of the final write-up gives the outcome.

Department-wise cut-off marks — all 56 post codes

This is para 6 of the write-up, condensed. For each post code it gives the vacancies reported, the candidates actually allocated, and the total marks of the last selected UR candidate together with that candidate's Tier-I score. Total marks here means the aggregate of Section-I and Section-II of Tier-II only — Section-III (Computer Knowledge Test) and Section-IV (Typing or Skill Test) are qualifying in nature and do not add to merit.

Read down that cut-off column and the point makes itself. Among the 53 LDC / JSA and JHAA post codes, the UR cut-off runs from 293 at the Border Roads Organisation to 321 at the Central Vigilance Commission. Two candidates 28 marks apart both got an LDC post; which one they got was decided entirely by the preference order they filled in online in June.

The widest gap in the result: 211 at SSC, 321 at the CVC

The lowest UR cut-off anywhere in CHSL 2025 — 211 marks — is at post code D54, the Staff Selection Commission's own DEO Grade 'A' posts. The highest, 321 marks, is at the Central Vigilance Commission. That is a 110-mark spread inside one exam.

The three Data Entry Operator codes behave quite differently from the 53 clerical ones, and the reason is the Skill Test. For DEO Grade 'A' the Commission allowed only 5% errors for UR candidates and 7% for everyone else, against 7% and 10% in the LDC / JSA typing test. Fewer candidates clear that bar, and fewer still preference DEO posts, so the merit required to get one collapses. Note the last column for D54: that candidate scored 171.67 in Tier-I, the highest Tier-I score of any last-selected UR candidate in the whole result, while carrying the lowest Tier-II total. Strong Tier-I, modest Tier-II, DEO preference — that combination worked.

It is also the only department that ran short in any serious way.

Fifty-four of the 56 post codes filled every single vacancy. The Commission could not fill its own.

Category-wise cut-offs for the five biggest recruiters

These five post codes account for 1,685 of the 3,515 selections — close to half the result. Marks against a horizontal category (ESM, OH, HH, VH, PwD-Others) belong to the last candidate selected under that horizontal category, not under their vertical one.

L16 — Border Roads Organisation (BRO) — 392 posts, male candidates only

L31 — Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs — 361 posts

L35 — Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) — 321 posts

L02 — Intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs — 316 posts

L04 — Canteen Stores Department (CSD), Ministry of Defence — 295 posts

The ESM rows repay a second look. At the Border Roads Organisation the last selected Ex-Servicemen candidate scored 161 against a UR figure of 293, and at the Canteen Stores Department 177 against 296. Ex-Servicemen quotas in CHSL are consistently the softest entry anywhere in the result.

How the merit list was built

The sequence, from the FRTA write-up of 17 August 2026: Tier-I was declared on 27 February 2026, Tier-II ran on 10 April and 22 April 2026, and merit was prepared from Section-I and Section-II of Tier-II only. Minimum qualifying marks in each of Section-I, Section-II and Section-III were 30% for UR, 25% for OBC and EWS, and 20% for all other categories.

Section-III and Section-IV are qualifying in nature, but a candidate who missed either standard was out regardless of their aggregate. Those standards were:

Ties were broken in a fixed order, under para 8 of the final write-up: first the marks in Section-I of Tier-II, then the marks in Tier-I, and finally date of birth, with the older candidate placed higher. That is why the department table above carries a Section-I column and a date of birth column at all — those are the tie-breakers of the last selected candidate.

Fresh ranks, withheld results and what happens next

Para 10 is worth noting if you are comparing documents: fresh ranks have been allotted in the final result and they supersede the ranks you were given in the FRTA. Your August rank no longer means anything.

The result of three candidates has been kept withheld — roll numbers 325160371803, 325160085978 and 325160242982.

From here the process leaves the Commission entirely. Document Verification and all appointment formalities are handled by the department you have been allocated to. Para 11 asks you to wait up to six months from the declaration of the final result, and if you have heard nothing by then, to write to that department — the Commission states it will not entertain correspondence about document verification or appointment under any circumstances. Dossiers are compiled electronically and downloaded by each department's Nodal Officer through the e-dossier module, so there is nothing for a candidate to post or submit.

Final answer keys and the detailed marks of selected and non-selected candidates will be uploaded to the Commission's website in due course, under para 15. They are reached by logging in with your Registered ID, not from the public notice board.

CHSL 2025 is finished — CHSL 2026 is a different exam

Do not confuse the two. The result above closes the 2025 cycle, which began with a notice dated 23 June 2025. The CHSL 2026 cycle is a separate recruitment and its Tier-I is scheduled for 30 November to 31 December 2026 as per the current SSC exam calendar. If you are sitting that paper, the cut-offs above are the most reliable target you have: same post codes, same user departments, same two-tier pattern.

• SSC Exam Calendar 2026-27 — where CHSL 2026 Tier-I sits against every other SSC date
• SSC GD Constable 2026 result and full cut-off list — the other big SSC result out this month
• SSC revised exam dates — JE 2026 and Delhi Police SI 2026

Official documents, mirrored here

Every file below is our own copy, so the link will not rot when the Commission rotates its notice board.

• Final result write-up, 7 October 2026 — 13 pages, the full 339-row department and category cut-off table
• List of candidates selected in the final result, 7 October 2026
• First Round of Tentative Allocation write-up, 17 August 2026 — the qualifying standards and the sliding mechanism