SSC GD Constable Answer Key 2026: Provisional Key, Objection Process & Score Calculation

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SSC released the provisional answer key for the GD Constable 2026 CBT on 15 June 2026, along with the response sheet, after the four-phase exam concluded on 30 May 2026. The objection window closed on 20 June 2026. This page covers the answer key process and how to estimate your CBT score.

SSC's answer key process for GD Constable 2026 followed its now-standard format for this exam: rather than publishing one static, publicly downloadable PDF the way some other recruiting bodies do, SSC made the provisional answer key available on 15 June 2026 through individual candidate login, alongside each candidate's personal response sheet and the actual question papers used in their specific shift and phase — a structure that lets a candidate directly compare their marked answers against SSC's provisional key for their exact paper set, which matters given that this cycle's CBT ran across four separate phases with different question sets per shift. Accompanying the answer key was a formal objection window, open from 15 June at 6 PM through 20 June at 6 PM, during which candidates who believed a specific question had an incorrect, ambiguous, or out-of-syllabus answer marked could submit a formal representation online, backed by a fee of ₹50 per question challenged; SSC's standard practice is to refund this fee for any objection its expert review panel ultimately upholds, while objections submitted after the deadline, or through any offline channel, were explicitly not entertained, in line with how SSC has run this process for previous GD cycles. It's worth being precise about what the provisional key does and doesn't tell a candidate: it lets you calculate an approximate raw score using SSC's standard CBT marking scheme — each of the 80 questions across the four sections (General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Knowledge & General Awareness, Elementary Mathematics, and English/Hindi) carries 2 marks, with a flat 0.25-mark deduction for every incorrect response and no penalty at all for questions left unattempted, giving a maximum raw score of 160 across the full 60-minute paper. What the provisional key does not do is tell you whether you've cleared the cutoff, because SSC does not publish a cutoff figure alongside the answer key, and more importantly for this particular cycle, the marks that ultimately determine your standing are not your raw score at all but a normalised score, adjusted across the four separate exam phases and shifts to account for difficulty variance between them — a process that can shift a candidate's effective ranking slightly compared to a purely raw-marks calculation, which is precisely why self-assessed scores from the answer key should be treated as a directional estimate of standing rather than a precise prediction of qualification. The final answer key, incorporating whatever objections SSC's review panel accepted during the 15-20 June window, has not been separately published as a standalone release as of this update; SSC's typical practice for this exam is to finalise the answer key internally and use it directly to compute the result, rather than issuing a second public 'final key' document ahead of the result itself, meaning the practical next milestone for candidates to watch for is the CBT result announcement, not a separate finalised-key release. In the meantime, most exam-preparation platforms have used the 15 June provisional key to publish their own crowd-sourced expected-cutoff estimates, generally built from aggregated self-reported scores across the various shifts; given that this cycle saw over 48 lakh candidates competing for a notably reduced pool of 25,487 vacancies compared to the previous cycle, most such estimates lean toward a higher cutoff than in recent years, though — as with the result date itself — none of these figures carry any official weight until SSC's own cutoff is published alongside the declared result.

एसएससी जीडी कांस्टेबल 2026 सीबीटी की अनंतिम उत्तर कुंजी 15 जून 2026 को उम्मीदवार लॉगिन के माध्यम से जारी की गई, साथ ही व्यक्तिगत रिस्पॉन्स शीट और प्रश्नपत्र भी उपलब्ध कराए गए। आपत्ति दर्ज करने की अंतिम तिथि 20 जून 2026 (शाम 6 बजे) थी, जिसके लिए प्रति प्रश्न ₹50 का शुल्क देना होता था — यदि आपत्ति सही पाई जाती है तो यह शुल्क वापस कर दिया जाता है। स्कोर गणना: सही उत्तर x 2 - गलत उत्तर x 0.25 (कुल 160 अंक, 80 प्रश्न, 60 मिनट)। हालांकि, अंतिम मेरिट कच्चे अंकों पर नहीं बल्कि चार अलग-अलग चरणों में कठिनाई अंतर के आधार पर सामान्यीकृत (नॉर्मलाइज्ड) अंकों पर आधारित होगी। अंतिम उत्तर कुंजी अलग से जारी नहीं होगी — यह सीधे परिणाम के साथ उपयोग की जाएगी। लगभग 48 लाख उम्मीदवारों ने परीक्षा दी, जबकि रिक्तियां केवल 25,487 हैं, इसलिए अनुमानित कट-ऑफ इस बार अधिक रहने की संभावना जताई जा रही है।

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