SSC JE Admit Card 2026: City Intimation Slip & Exam Timings

Exam Snapshot / परीक्षा अवलोकन

Important Dates & Event Schedule / तिथियां

Admit Card & City Intimation Schedule / प्रवेश पत्र हाइलाइट्स

Exam Shift Timings & Gate Rules / परीक्षा पाली एवं समय

Mandatory Documents Required / आवश्यक दस्तावेज

• ✓Printed Admit Card (Paper I or Paper II, as applicable)
• ✓Original Photo ID Proof matching the details submitted during registration
• ✓Passport-size photograph (as specified on the admit card)

Aadhaar Biometric Verification Rules / बायोमेट्रिक नियम

Admit Card Download Instructions / डाउनलोड निर्देश

For the previous SSC JE cycle, the Paper I admit card was issued ahead of the December 2025 exam and the Paper II admit card ahead of the 7 April 2026 exam — both are already used and expired. This page explains the standard SSC JE admit card process for reference, ahead of the still-awaited new 2026 notification.

The admit card question for SSC JE right now splits cleanly into two very different timelines, much like it does for most SSC exams sitting between cycles. For anyone who already applied to the previous cycle — formally the Junior Engineer (Civil, Mechanical & Electrical) Examination, 2025 — both admit cards in the process are already behind them: the Paper I hall ticket was issued around 30 November 2025 ahead of the multi-shift CBT that ran across 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13 December 2025, and the Paper II admit card followed ahead of the single-shift exam conducted on 7 April 2026, which ran from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and drew all 15,607 candidates who had qualified through Paper I. Both of those admit cards have been fully used and are now expired documents with no further relevance beyond the record of exam date, shift and centre they once confirmed; this page keeps that process documented for reference and for candidates comparing timelines across cycles, but there is nothing further to download from either of them. For everyone else — the much larger group of prospective 2026 applicants who have not yet submitted a fresh application, because the new notification itself has not been released — there is genuinely no admit card to speak of yet, and any website or forum claiming otherwise for the "2026 cycle" is very likely conflating it with the already-completed 2025 cycle discussed above. The realistic sequence from here starts with the notification itself, which was originally scheduled for 31 March 2026 before slipping, and which multiple exam-news sources now place, on an unofficial basis, somewhere around August 2026. Once that notification does appear, it will open the application window, and only after that window closes will SSC begin the standard runway toward the actual Paper I admit card, generally issuing it somewhere between roughly one and three weeks ahead of the earliest exam date for a given region or shift, consistent with how the Commission handled Paper I admit card timing in the just-completed cycle, where the card appeared around 30 November for a Paper I window beginning 3 December. For reference, the standard download steps that just concluded were straightforward: candidates logged in to the official SSC website, or the relevant SSC regional site, using their registration number (or candidate name) together with date of birth, navigated to the dedicated Admit Card section for the Junior Engineer exam, and downloaded a printable e-admit card carrying their exam date, shift, reporting time and centre address. Carrying that printed card to the centre, alongside an original photo ID whose details exactly matched what had been submitted during registration and a passport-size photograph where the card specified one, was mandatory for entry, and SSC's biometric and photo verification process at the gate meant a mismatched or missing ID could and did result in candidates being turned away regardless of how valid their admit card otherwise was. Candidates preparing for the upcoming 2026 cycle should expect this same basic download process, mandatory-document list and biometric-verification routine to carry over largely unchanged, since SSC has kept this part of the JE process fairly consistent across recent years even as it periodically revises the underlying exam pattern, and the smartest preparation move right now is simply to keep One Time Registration details on the SSC portal current and accurate, since any mismatch between those details and a candidate's photo ID has historically been the single most common reason candidates run into last-minute admit card or entry trouble. There's a broader piece of practical advice worth adding for anyone specifically waiting on the new 2026 cycle, since admit card questions tend to arrive in a predictable sequence that candidates can plan around even before the notification lands. SSC typically communicates centre-city allotment before the actual hall ticket, through what it calls a City Intimation Slip — a shorter, earlier notice confirming which city a candidate has been assigned for their exam, without yet carrying the exact date, shift, or venue address that the full admit card provides later. This two-step release exists partly to give candidates enough lead time to arrange travel and accommodation if their allotted city is far from where they live, particularly relevant for a nationwide, technically demanding exam like JE where candidates from every state compete for a comparatively modest number of central postings; candidates should not mistake the City Intimation Slip for the actual admit card, since attempting to enter an exam centre with only the city slip and no formal hall ticket will not be accepted. Once the full admit card is released, it is worth double- and triple-checking every printed detail against personal records before exam day rather than waiting until arrival at the centre to notice a discrepancy — name spelling, date of birth, photograph clarity, category, engineering discipline (since Paper II is discipline-specific and a mismatch here has real consequences), and exam centre address are the fields most commonly flagged as needing correction, and SSC generally provides a short correction or grievance window immediately after admit card release specifically to catch and fix this class of error before it becomes a problem at the gate. Candidates who spot an error should raise it through the official grievance channel on the SSC portal rather than waiting to explain the discrepancy in person at the centre, since exam-day staff typically have no authority to override what the printed admit card and the corresponding SSC database show. On what to physically carry: beyond the mandatory printed admit card and original photo ID, candidates should also bring a couple of passport-size photographs even when the admit card doesn't explicitly demand one, since SSC centres have occasionally requested an additional photo for on-the-spot verification. Electronic devices, including mobile phones, smartwatches and any Bluetooth-capable accessory, are uniformly prohibited inside JE exam halls regardless of what a candidate's specific admit card states, and SSC centres have increasingly used physical frisking alongside biometric checks to enforce this. For Paper II specifically, candidates should also note that SSC permits certain calculation aids — a slide-rule, non-programmable calculator, logarithm table and steam table — for that paper only, while no such aids are allowed for Paper I; candidates should bring their own permitted aids since centres do not supply them, and should confirm the exact permitted list against that cycle's specific admit card and notification, since SSC has occasionally adjusted this list between cycles. None of this changes meaningfully with each new cycle, which is precisely why the process documented on this page, drawn from the just-completed 2025 cycle, remains the best available guide for what to expect once SSC finally opens the new 2026 admit card window.

पिछले जेई चक्र (2025) के लिए पेपर 1 और पेपर 2 दोनों प्रवेश पत्र पहले ही जारी होकर उपयोग किए जा चुके हैं — पेपर 1 का प्रवेश पत्र लगभग 30 नवंबर 2025 को (3-6 व 13 दिसंबर 2025 की परीक्षा हेतु) तथा पेपर 2 का प्रवेश पत्र 7 अप्रैल 2026 की परीक्षा हेतु जारी हुआ था। यह चरण अब पूरी तरह समाप्त हो चुका है। नए 2026 चक्र के लिए अभी कोई प्रवेश पत्र जारी नहीं हुआ है, क्योंकि अधिसूचना स्वयं अभी जारी नहीं हुई है — यह मूल रूप से 31 मार्च 2026 को निर्धारित थी लेकिन विलंबित हो गई, और अब अनौपचारिक रूप से अगस्त 2026 में अपेक्षित है। उम्मीदवारों को प्रवेश पत्र डाउनलोड करने के लिए एसएससी वेबसाइट पर पंजीकरण संख्या और जन्मतिथि से लॉगिन करना होगा, तथा परीक्षा केंद्र में मूल फोटो पहचान पत्र साथ ले जाना अनिवार्य है। पेपर 2 के लिए स्लाइड-रूल, कैलकुलेटर, लघुगणक सारणी व स्टीम टेबल जैसे उपकरण ले जाने की अनुमति है, जबकि पेपर 1 में कोई सहायक उपकरण अनुमत नहीं है।

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