SSC MTS & Havaldar
Applications openThe CBE, the result, the Havaldar PET/PST and your post — step by step
Where SSC MTS stands today
This round: MTS 2025 · 36,19,834 applied, 8,04,633 sat the CBE · about 7,948 tentative vacancies
- Apply
- Computer Based Exam
- Answer key and CBE result
- Havaldar PET/PST
- Final result and documents
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Key dates
The final result (allocation) for MTS and Havaldar: date not announced. The next round: SSC's calendar had its notice for June 2026 — it hasn't come yet.
One tap puts every MTS date into your phone's calendar — the final result, and the next round's form and exam once SSC announces them. A new date appears there by itself, so you don't have to keep checking.
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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
- A clear, full-frontal view
- No cap, mask, spectacles or earphones
- Never photograph an old photo — the form is rejected
As in MTS 2025 — the next notice may change it.
At a glance
Applications closed on 24 July 2025. The fee was ₹100; women, SC, ST, PwBD and ex-servicemen paid nothing.
This stage has closed for MTS 2025. 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, a JPG of 10 KB to 20 KB, about 6 cm wide and 2 cm high. Add a photo of it in the box at the top of this page and we size it.
A blurred or miniature signature gets the form rejected — unless you used Aadhaar authentication.
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The form takes your photo live. Keep it clear and full-frontal, without a cap, mask, spectacles or earphones. Never photograph an old photo — that form is rejected.
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SSC advises Aadhaar authentication when you register. With it, the 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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In the form you list, in order, the post-cum-states (MTS in a state, or Havaldar in a CBIC or CBN office) you want. You are considered only for those, and the list can't be changed later — so give as many as you would accept.
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Enter your date of birth exactly as in your 10th certificate: a mismatch is a ground for rejection.
Any trouble? SSC's toll-free helpline: 1800 309 3063.
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The fee is ₹100, paid online. Women, SC, ST, PwBD and ex-servicemen eligible for reservation pay nothing.
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You could correct and resubmit the form in this window: ₹200 the first time and ₹500 the second.
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SSC let candidates choose their exam city and block of dates from 16 January 2026 to 25 January 2026. If you didn't choose and didn't confirm you would appear, no admission certificate was made.
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Your exam city and timetable go up on SSC's website about 10 days before your exam; the admission certificate 2 to 3 days before. Print it and bring it.
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With blindness, a locomotor disability affecting both arms, or cerebral palsy, you get a scribe if you opted for one in the form. SSC cleared earlier scribe registrations, so your own scribe must register again with Aadhaar; in this round the scribe's OTR had to be mapped by 2 February 2026.
With a scribe, each session is 60 minutes instead of 45.
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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 on the admission certificate.
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Session-I: Numerical and Mathematical Ability and Reasoning, 20 questions each (60 marks each), no negative marking. Session-II: General Awareness and English, 25 questions each (75 marks each); a wrong answer costs 1 mark. Both sessions are on the same day, and both are compulsory.
Session-I and General Awareness come in English, Hindi and 13 regional languages. Scores from different shifts are normalised.
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SSC put up the tentative answer keys with your response sheet; a challenge cost ₹50 a question, from 3 March 2026 to 6 March 2026. The final keys and marks come after the final result.
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Session-II is marked only if you qualify Session-I, and your merit comes from Session-II alone.
On 3 August 2026 SSC shortlisted candidates for the Havaldar PET/PST, 7 for each vacancy, by Session-II marks. An additional list followed on 7 October 2026.
To qualify you need at least 30% (UR) in each session.
To qualify you need at least 25% (OBC and EWS) in each session.
To qualify you need at least 20% in each session.
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CBIC and CBN hold it at their own centres, anywhere in the country — in this round from 24 August 2026 to 31 August 2026.
Men: walk 1,600 metres in 15 minutes; height 157.5 cm (5 cm less for Garhwalis, Assamese, Gorkhas and STs); chest 81 cm fully expanded, with at least 5 cm expansion.
Women: walk 1 km in 20 minutes; height 152 cm (2.5 cm less for Garhwalis, Assamese, Gorkhas and STs); weight 48 kg (2 kg less for the same groups).
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If you fail the PET/PST you aren't considered for Havaldar, but your CBE merit still counts for MTS.
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The PET/PST is only for Havaldar. For MTS, your Session-II marks and your preferences decide.
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SSC declares the allocation for MTS and Havaldar together, after the Havaldar PET/PST. Your post-cum-state comes from your Session-II merit and the preferences you gave; MTS has separate cut-offs by state, category and age group. SSC keeps no waiting list.
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After the final result, the department you are allotted checks your documents. Bring two recent passport-size colour photos, an original photo ID, your 10th certificate, your caste or category certificate if you are reserved, and the certificate for any age relaxation you claim.
Your disability certificate in the required format.
Ex-servicemen: the serving-defence certificate (Annexure VII) if it applies, and the undertaking (Annexure VIII).
Working for the government or a government undertaking? A No Objection Certificate.
Name changed after your 10th? Bring the proof the notice lists for your case — for example a deed poll or affidavit, and the cuttings of two leading daily newspapers.
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Full details
Who could apply
Age on 1 August 2025: 18 to 25 for MTS (born 2 August 2000 to 1 August 2007); 18 to 27 for Havaldar and a few MTS posts (born 2 August 1998 to 1 August 2007). See Age relaxation.
Education: 10th pass by 1 August 2025. Date of birth: as in your 10th certificate — a mismatch gets the form rejected. Nationality: an Indian citizen, or a subject of Nepal or Bhutan (and others as the notice lists).
Age relaxation
| Who | Upper age |
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| SC/ST | +5 years |
| OBC | +3 years |
| PwBD | +10 (+13 OBC, +15 SC/ST) years |
| Ex-servicemen | +3 years, after deducting service |
| Central government civilian employees with 3 years' regular service | up to 40 (45 SC/ST) |
| Widowed, divorced or judicially separated women, not remarried | up to 35 (40 SC/ST) |
The CBE
| Session | Questions | Marks | Time |
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| Session-I: Maths, Reasoning (no negative marking) | 20 + 20 | 60 + 60 | 45 minutes |
| Session-II: General Awareness, English (−1 a wrong answer) | 25 + 25 | 75 + 75 | 45 minutes |
Qualify both sessions (30% UR, 25% OBC/EWS, 20% others); the merit is Session-II's. General Awareness is up to Class 10.
The posts and the vacancies
| Post | Tentative vacancies |
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| MTS, age 18–25 | 6,078 |
| MTS, age 18–27 | 732 |
| Havaldar (CBIC and CBN) | 1,138 |
Both posts are Pay Level 1, Group C. MTS are posted first in the state allotted, but may be posted in another.
Questions
When does the next MTS form come?
SSC's calendar for 2026-2027 put the advertisement in June 2026, the closing date in July 2026 and the exam from September 2026 to November 2026 — but the notice hasn't come yet. Add the dates to your calendar above and the new ones appear there.
Do my Session-I marks count in the merit?
No. You must qualify Session-I, but the merit list comes from Session-II alone.
I failed the Havaldar PET/PST. Am I out?
Not of MTS: your CBE merit still counts for MTS.
Can I change my state preferences now?
No — the preferences you gave in the form are final, and you are considered only for those.
Official documents: SSC's notice for MTS 2025 · the CBE result · the PET/PST schedule · the tentative vacancies · SSC's exam calendar — last checked 19 October 2026