SSC JE 2025 Final Answer Key: Paper-II Marks & Response Sheet Out

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SSC uploaded the Final Answer Key along with Question Papers, Response Sheets, and candidate marks for the Junior Engineer 2025 Paper-II examination on 21 August 2026. The candidate login facility will remain active only until 4 September 2026 at 18:00 Hrs.

SSC's answer key process for Junior Engineer runs in two separate rounds, one for each paper, and the previous — now essentially complete — 2025 cycle has just produced its final piece of documentation: the Paper-II Final Answer Key, Question Paper cum Response Sheet, and full marks, uploaded on 21 August 2026 under official reference number HQ-C-3019/4/2025-C-3. This is genuinely the most current, time-sensitive item on the entire SSC JE page right now, so it's worth walking through exactly what it is, what it isn't, and what candidates need to do before it disappears. Rewinding slightly for context: after Paper I concluded across its multiple December 2025 shifts, SSC released the provisional Paper I answer key on 19 December 2025, paired with each candidate's personal response sheet, and opened a formal objection window that ran until 22 December 2025, during which candidates could challenge a specific question for a fee of ₹100 per question — a fee SSC refunds for any objection its expert panel ultimately upholds. That review process fed into the Paper I final answer key, released on 23 March 2026, and the Paper I result itself had already been declared slightly earlier, on 6 March 2026, shortlisting 15,607 candidates for Paper II. The same two-step rhythm then repeated for Paper II: a tentative answer key was released on 16 April 2026, shortly after the 7 April 2026 exam, with an objection window running through 19 April 2026, following the identical ₹100-per-question structure used at Paper I. SSC's evaluation team then reviewed the objections raised, finalised the Paper II key internally, and used that finalised key to compute the merit list that ultimately produced the Final Result declared on 3 August 2026, provisionally recommending 1,731 candidates. What happened on 21 August 2026 is a distinct, subsequent step, and candidates should not confuse it with a fresh objection round — there is no new challenge window open right now. Instead, this is SSC formally publishing, for full transparency and candidate record-keeping, the exact Final Answer Key that was actually used for evaluation, alongside each candidate's own Question Paper, Response Sheet, and final marks — extended to every candidate who appeared in Paper II, not merely those who had raised an objection back in April. The Commission's own notice frames this clearly: candidates log in using their Roll Number and Password, and the facility remains available for a strictly defined period — from 21 August 2026, 18:00 Hrs to 4 September 2026, 18:00 Hrs — after which, per the notice, it "will not be available" and individual requests from candidates for these documents "will not be entertained in the future under any circumstances." That is an unusually firm closing statement even by SSC's normal standards, and candidates genuinely should not assume they can request a copy later if they miss this window; the practical action item is to log in, download, and print (or securely save) the Final Answer Key, Question Paper, Response Sheet and scorecard well before 4 September 2026 evening. It's also worth noting SSC's specific condition attached to the saved question paper: candidates will see an undertaking during login confirming the downloaded question paper is strictly for personal use and self-analysis only, not for redistribution. For candidates trying to understand their own final standing using this newly available data, the underlying marking scheme is worth restating precisely, since it differs meaningfully between the two papers and shapes how a candidate should read their own scorecard. Paper I is scored simply: 200 questions across three sections — General Intelligence & Reasoning (50 questions), General Awareness (50 questions) and General Engineering in the candidate's chosen discipline (100 questions) — each worth 1 mark, with a 0.25-mark deduction for every wrong answer and no penalty for questions left unattempted, giving a maximum raw score of 200 across the 2-hour paper; crucially, Paper I functions only as a qualifying gate and does not itself carry forward into final merit. Paper II, now fully objective following the pattern change SSC introduced in 2023 (moving away from the older descriptive format), is discipline-specific — candidates attempt only the Civil & Structural, Electrical, or Mechanical section corresponding to their own branch — and carries 300 total marks across a 2-hour paper, with each question worth 3 marks and a full 1-mark deduction for every wrong answer, a considerably steeper negative-marking penalty than Paper I's 0.25 mark. It is Paper II's raw score, after SSC's normalisation process, that determines a candidate's final rank; the minimum qualifying marks required for consideration in the final result were 90 for Unreserved candidates, 75 for OBC/EWS, and 60 for all other reserved categories, out of the 300-mark paper. Since the answer key currently available is the genuinely final version — already used for the actual evaluation behind the 3 August 2026 result — candidates comparing their own responses against it are not looking at a provisional estimate the way they would have been back in April; the marks shown in a candidate's individual scorecard during this login window are the actual, final marks that determined their result, making this by far the most authoritative self-check a JE 2025 candidate can perform. Candidates should still bear in mind that Paper II's final marks reflect SSC's normalisation adjustment for any shift-related variance and the outcome of the April objection review, so a candidate's final mark may differ slightly from what they might have calculated by hand against the original tentative key back in April — the newly uploaded final key and marks supersede that earlier self-calculation entirely. Looking beyond this specific cycle, it's worth candidates understanding that this two-stage answer key pattern — a tentative key with an objection window shortly after each paper, followed eventually by a final key used for evaluation, and in JE's case a further post-result publication of the final key alongside individual marks — has been broadly consistent across recent JE cycles, and there is no reason to expect it will change materially once the new, still-awaited 2026 notification finally arrives and its own Paper I and Paper II exams eventually take place. Until that new cycle begins, there is nothing else live in the SSC JE answer key pipeline beyond this closing 21 August to 4 September 2026 viewing window, and the next fresh provisional key will only appear once the delayed 2026 notification is released and its application and exam cycle run their course from the start.

एसएससी जेई की उत्तर कुंजी प्रक्रिया दो चरणों में चलती है — पेपर 1 और पेपर 2 के लिए अलग-अलग। पेपर 1 की अनंतिम उत्तर कुंजी 19 दिसंबर 2025 को जारी हुई थी (आपत्ति की अंतिम तिथि 22 दिसंबर 2025), और अंतिम कुंजी 23 मार्च 2026 को जारी हुई। पेपर 2 की अनंतिम उत्तर कुंजी 16 अप्रैल 2026 को जारी हुई (आपत्ति की अंतिम तिथि 19 अप्रैल 2026)। हाल ही में, 21 अगस्त 2026 को (संदर्भ सं. HQ-C-3019/4/2025-C-3), एसएससी ने पेपर-2 की अंतिम उत्तर कुंजी, प्रश्नपत्र, रिस्पॉन्स शीट तथा अंतिम अंक अपलोड किए हैं — यह सुविधा केवल 21.08.2026 शाम 6 बजे से 04.09.2026 शाम 6 बजे तक ही उपलब्ध रहेगी, इसके बाद पुनः उपलब्ध नहीं होगी और व्यक्तिगत अनुरोध स्वीकार नहीं किए जाएंगे। अंकन योजना: पेपर 1 में प्रत्येक प्रश्न 1 अंक का है, गलत उत्तर पर 0.25 अंक कटते हैं (कुल 200 अंक)। पेपर 2 में प्रत्येक प्रश्न 3 अंक का है, गलत उत्तर पर 1 अंक कटता है (कुल 300 अंक) — अंतिम मेरिट केवल पेपर 2 पर आधारित होती है। पेपर 2 की न्यूनतम क्वालीफाइंग अंक: सामान्य 90, ओबीसी/ईडब्ल्यूएस 75, अन्य 60।

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