At a glance
Live| Organisation | Staff Selection Commission (SSC) |
|---|---|
| Posts on offer | Junior Engineer Computer Based Examination, Paper-I — examination window 2 to 6 November 2026 |
| Notification date | 2 November 2026 |
Figures are reproduced from the recruiting body's own notification. Verify on the official site before applying.
The Staff Selection Commission has scheduled the Junior Engineer Computer Based Examination, Paper-I for 2 to 6 November 2026, across its regional offices. Candidates who applied for the Junior Engineer recruitment should look for their call letter on the regional SSC website that issued their application.
Paper-I is the screening stage of the SSC Junior Engineer cycle, which recruits engineers into central government departments, public sector undertakings and statutory bodies across civil, mechanical and electrical disciplines. It is one of the few remaining routes into a permanent gazetted-style engineering post in the central government without a state-level service examination, which is why the competition per vacancy is consistently heavy.
On the admit card itself, three points that candidates get wrong every cycle. First, SSC does not send call letters by email or post — you download it. Second, the regional sites publish at different times, so if your region has not put it up, check again rather than assume you were left out. Third, the exam city printed on the call letter is final; it is not the city you may have preferred, and candidates routinely book travel before they have read the slip.
Carry a printout of the call letter along with the original photo identity document it names. The commission has become strict about the identity document matching the one declared in the application form, and a mismatch is the most common reason a candidate is turned away at the centre door. If any detail on the slip is wrong — name spelling, photograph, category, date of birth — the correction window, if there is one, is short and runs before the exam, not after.
