SSC Constable (GD)
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Where SSC GD stands today
This round: Constable (GD) 2026 · 25,487 vacancies · 21,56,776 sat the CBE
- Apply
- Exam (CBE)
- Result
- Physical tests (PET/PST)
- Medical and documents
- Final result
The blue stage is the one happening now; a stage outlined in blue is the next to start, with its date. A stage turns red — Closed — once its last date has passed. Green means you have finished every step in it.
Key dates
- Last day to apply · 31 December 2025
- Last day to pay the fee · 1 January 2026
- Correction window · 10 January 2026 to 13 January 2026
- CBE · 27 April 2026 to 30 May 2026
Physical tests (PET/PST), the medical and the final result: dates not announced yet.
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✍️ Your signature — the one file SSC asks you to upload
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📸 Your photo is taken live in SSC's form — nothing to upload
- Good light and a plain background
- Camera at eye level; look straight at it, your whole face inside the frame
- No cap, mask or glasses
- Never photograph a printed photo — the form is rejected
As in Constable (GD) 2026 — the next notice may change it.
At a glance
Apply only on ssc.gov.in or the mySSC app, after the one-time registration. Persons with disabilities can't apply for GD.
This stage has closed for Constable (GD) 2026. What it asked is kept here — for reference, and for the next round.
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SSC asks you to upload one file: your signature. Sign on plain white paper and take a photo or scan of it.
Add it in the signature box at the top of this page. We crop it, clean the background and save it as SSC asks: a JPG of 10 KB to 20 KB, about 6 cm wide and 2 cm high.
A blurred or tiny signature gets the form rejected — unless you registered with Aadhaar authentication.
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The form takes your photograph live with your camera. You don't need an old photo.
Find good light and a plain background, keep the camera at eye level, look straight at it, and keep your whole face inside the frame the form shows. No cap, mask or glasses.
Never photograph a printed or on-screen photo — that form is rejected. You must look like this photo at the exam. With Aadhaar authentication, the form isn't rejected over the photo.
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Every SSC form starts with a One-Time Registration (OTR) on ssc.gov.in or the mySSC app. An old registration on ssc.nic.in doesn't work — make a new one.
SSC advises Aadhaar authentication. With it, your form isn't rejected over the photo or signature, and on exam day you need no extra photos or photo ID.
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Your State/UT: the vacancies are State-wise, and at the medical you must show a domicile certificate of the State you choose here. A certificate from any other State gets you out.
Forces: fill all seven preferences — BSF, CISF, CRPF, SSB, ITBP, Assam Rifles and SSF. Your force is given by merit and these preferences.
NCC: if you hold an NCC certificate, say so here. You can't claim it later.
Moved to another State? SC, ST and OBC candidates choose here whether to take the reservation of their home (origin) State. The choice can't be changed after the correction window.
Enter your date of birth exactly as in your 10th certificate.
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The fee is ₹100, by UPI, net banking or card only. Women, SC, ST and ex-servicemen eligible for reservation pay nothing. A fee once paid isn't refunded.
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You can correct and resubmit your form up to two times in this window: ₹200 the first time and ₹500 the second.
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Your exam city is put up 8 to 10 days before the exam, and the admission certificate 2 to 3 days before, on SSC's website. Nothing comes by post.
SSC has a mock test of the CBE on its website, in the candidate's corner.
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Bring the printed admission certificate. If you didn't use Aadhaar authentication, report two hours before the exam with two recent passport-size colour photos and an original photo ID showing your date of birth as printed on the admission certificate.
No calculator or other electronic gadget is allowed.
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80 questions of 2 marks (160 in all), in 60 minutes: 20 each on reasoning, general knowledge and awareness, elementary maths, and English or Hindi. A wrong answer costs 0.25 marks.
The questions are of 10th-class level, in English, Hindi or one of 13 regional languages. Marks are normalised across shifts.
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SSC puts up the tentative answer keys after the exam. A challenge costs ₹50 a question and is made only through the link SSC gives. The final keys are used for the result.
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21,56,776 candidates sat the CBE. To be considered you need at least 30% (UR), 25% (OBC and EWS) or 20% (SC, ST and ex-servicemen), before any NCC bonus.
About eight times the vacancies are called for the PET/PST, State by State, area by area and category by category, on normalised marks plus the NCC bonus: 15,782 women and 1,81,251 men this time (SSF has its own all-India list).
The lists — List I for women, List II for men — are on ssc.gov.in.
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The final answer keys, your question paper with your responses and your marks come in your login on ssc.gov.in. SSC hasn't given a date.
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The forces hold the PET/PST, and CRPF issues the admission certificates on its recruitment website (rect.crpf.gov.in), about two weeks before your test. Nothing comes by post.
Can't download it? Contact CRPF at least a week before the test — its recruitment cell's helpline is 011-26160255.
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Ex-servicemen don't run. You still go to the PET/PST so your height, chest and weight are recorded.
Men: 5 km in 24 minutes.
Women: 1.6 km in 8.5 minutes.
Men from Ladakh: 1.6 km in 7 minutes.
Women from Ladakh: 800 metres in 5 minutes.
Your identity is checked by biometrics first. There is no appeal against the race. This is recruitment to a combat force: you take part at your own risk, so be fit for it.
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Men: at least 170 cm tall; chest 80 cm, expanding by at least 5 cm.
Women: at least 157 cm tall. A woman's chest isn't measured.
As ST: 162.5 cm, chest 76 cm — ST of the north-eastern states 157 cm, ST of Left-Wing-Extremism-affected districts 160 cm.
As ST: 150 cm — ST of the north-eastern states 147.5 cm, ST of Left-Wing-Extremism-affected districts 147.5 cm.
Your region: 165 cm, chest 78 cm.
Your region: 155 cm.
Your region: 162.5 cm, chest 77 cm.
Your region: 152.5 cm.
Your region: 157 cm, chest 77 cm.
Your region: 152.5 cm.
Your weight is recorded too, but nobody is rejected for weight at the PST — the medical officer weighs you at the medical (see the medical below).
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A relaxed height or chest needs a certificate at the PET/PST in the notice's format (Annexure IX), signed by the District Magistrate, Sub-Divisional Magistrate or Tehsildar. ST candidates show a valid ST certificate instead.
Your claim is checked after you pass the race and before you are measured.
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If you are declared not qualified on height or chest, you can appeal the same day to the Appellate Authority at the centre, through the Presiding Officer. Its decision is final.
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Women submit a self-declaration about pregnancy when they report. If you are pregnant, a test confirms it and you are declared temporarily unfit; a vacancy is kept for you, and you are tested again six weeks after the birth, with a doctor's fitness certificate.
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From those who pass the PET/PST, about two times the vacancies are called for the detailed medical examination (DME), on CBE merit with the NCC bonus. Your documents are checked there too.
The admission certificate comes on CRPF's website about two weeks before. The forces collect your certificates and check them against the originals.
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Your Matriculation (10th) certificate proves your age, name and education. The result must have been declared by 1 January 2026.
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Bring the domicile certificate or Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) of the State/UT you chose in your form. Without it, or with one from another State, your candidature is cancelled and you don't take the medical.
From Assam? Assam doesn't issue one, so you don't need it — your residence is checked with the district.
Moved to another State and chose your home State's reservation in the form? Bring the caste certificate from (or based on) your home State — without it you count as Unreserved in the State you moved to, and you still need that State's domicile certificate.
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The original certificate in the format annexed to the notice (Annexure VI). Without the right certificate you are considered Unreserved.
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The OBC certificate in the notice's format (Annexure VII). You must have been outside the creamy layer on the last date to apply, 31 December 2025.
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The Income & Asset Certificate in the notice's format (Annexure VIII), valid for the financial year 2025-26 and issued on the income of 2024-25.
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Bring the original NCC certificate, issued on or before 1 January 2026. Without it, the bonus marks you were given are withdrawn.
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Ex-servicemen bring the undertaking in the notice's format (Annexure V). Still serving and applying as an ex-serviceman? Bring the certificate from your service in Annexure IV.
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If you claimed a relaxed height or chest, the Annexure IX certificate is checked again with your documents.
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The button below makes one PDF of everything in your documents folder. Keep a printed set with you, and bring every original — the forces check each one.
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Medical boards of the forces examine you under the Ministry of Home Affairs' uniform guidelines for CAPF recruitment, as amended on 9 March 2026.
The medical officer weighs you. Your BMI (weight in kg ÷ height in metres, squared) must be 18 to 25: below or above, you are rejected as underweight or overweight. Your height and chest are taken as the PST board recorded them.
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If you pass the PET/PST and the medical, your place in the final list comes from your normalised CBE marks with any NCC bonus — men and women separately, for each State/UT and area, and for each category. SSF is filled from one all-India list.
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Your force is given by your merit and the order of preference you filled in the form.
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SSC keeps no waiting list after the final result. Those selected may be appointed in phases, as training places allow, and can be posted anywhere in India.
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Full details
Who could apply
Age: 18 to 23 on 1 January 2026 — born between 2 January 2003 and 1 January 2008. For more, see Age relaxation.
Education: 10th pass from a recognised board, with the result declared by 1 January 2026.
Date of birth: as in your 10th certificate — a mismatch can get you rejected at any stage. Citizenship: Indian. Persons with disabilities can't apply.
Age relaxation
| Who | Upper age |
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| SC/ST | +5 years |
| OBC | +3 years |
| Ex-servicemen | +3 years, after deducting your service |
| Children and dependents of those killed in the 1984 riots | +5 (UR/EWS), +8 (OBC), +10 (SC/ST) years |
The riots relaxation needs a certificate from the District Collector or District Magistrate where the victim was killed.
Height and chest, with every relaxation
| Who | Men: height · chest | Women: height |
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| Everyone else | 170 cm · 80 cm | 157 cm |
| Scheduled Tribes | 162.5 cm · 76 cm | 150 cm |
| ST of the north-eastern states | 157 cm · 76 cm | 147.5 cm |
| ST of Left-Wing-Extremism-affected districts | 160 cm · 76 cm | 147.5 cm |
| Garhwalis, Kumaonis, Dogras, Marathas; Assam, Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Ladakh | 165 cm · 78 cm | 155 cm |
| Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura | 162.5 cm · 77 cm | 152.5 cm |
| Gorkha Territorial Administration (Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Kurseong) | 157 cm · 77 cm | 152.5 cm |
The chest must expand by at least 5 cm; a woman's chest isn't measured. A relaxation needs the Annexure IX certificate (ST: the ST certificate). Weight: in proportion to height and age.
Vacancies by force
| Force | Men | Women | All |
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| BSF | 524 | 92 | 616 |
| CISF | 13,135 | 1,460 | 14,595 |
| CRPF | 5,366 | 124 | 5,490 |
| SSB | 1,764 | 0 | 1,764 |
| ITBP | 1,099 | 194 | 1,293 |
| Assam Rifles | 1,556 | 150 | 1,706 |
| SSF | 23 | 0 | 23 |
| All | 23,467 | 2,020 | 25,487 |
Tentative. 10% of the vacancies are for ex-servicemen. Vacancies by State/UT and area are on SSC's website.
The CBE
| Part | Subject | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | General Intelligence and Reasoning | 20 | 40 |
| B | General Knowledge and General Awareness | 20 | 40 |
| C | Elementary Mathematics | 20 | 40 |
| D | English or Hindi | 20 | 40 |
60 minutes in all; 0.25 marks off for each wrong answer; no calculators. Marks are normalised across shifts.
Questions
When is the GD PET/PST?
Not announced yet. The forces hold it, and CRPF issues the admission certificates on rect.crpf.gov.in about two weeks before. CRPF's recruitment helpline: 011-26160255.
I'm from the hills or the north-east. What height do I need?
Choose your region and category in "About you" above, or see the table under "Height and chest, with every relaxation". A relaxation needs the Annexure IX certificate from the DM, SDM or Tehsildar; ST candidates show their ST certificate.
Can I be rejected for my weight?
Not at the PST. At the medical, the medical officer weighs you, and a BMI below 18 or above 25 is rejected.
How much does an NCC certificate add?
"C" certificate 8 marks, "B" 4.8, "A" 3.2 — added to your normalised CBE marks. Only if you claimed it in the form and show the original, issued by 1 January 2026; not for ex-servicemen.
When does the next GD form come?
SSC's calendar for 2026-2027 puts the advertisement in September 2026, the closing date in October 2026 and the exam in January 2027 to March 2027, with NIA added to the forces. A calendar is SSC's plan — the dates that count come with the notice.
Official documents: SSC's notice for Constable (GD) 2026 and SSC's later notices — last checked 18 October 2026