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Admit Cards
An admit card is released shortly before the examination and carries the details that determine whether you actually sit it: your centre, your reporting time, your shift, and the identification and items you may bring. Candidates lose examinations to this stage every cycle, almost always for avoidable reasons.
The two most common are travel and identification. A centre in an unfamiliar city, allocated a fortnight before the date, requires planning that cannot be done on the morning. And an identity document that does not match the name on the application has ended attempts at the gate.
Exam updates · checked 19 September 2026
Application forms closing soon, from the official notices
Every deadline below was read on the conducting body’s own portal. Apply days before the close — the last day is when portals slow down and no commission grants an extension for it.
Admit cards — checked 19 September 2026
Admit cards and call letters: what is out, and how each body issues them
No conducting body emails an admit card. SSC and the RRBs show an exam-city slip first and the card three to four days before the shift, through the login; IBPS and SBI post call letters as a login link; UPSC posts e-admit cards about three weeks before; the Navy issues call-up letters in the candidate login. The rows below are the current ones.
| Date | Exam | What was published | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September | Navy Agniveer SSR/MR/Apprentice 1/27 | Navy Agniveer 1/27 batch: Stage II call-up letters issued. The Indian Navy has issued the Stage II call-up letters for the Agniveer SSR, MR and Apprentice 1/27 batch — candidates who cleared the INET 2026 held from May — for download through the candidate login on joinindiannavy.gov.in, with Stage II at the naval recruitment establishments. The 2/27 batch call-ups are due in early 2027. | joinindiannavy.gov.in (page updated 18 September 2026) |
| 17 September | TNPSC Group 1 2026 prelims | TNPSC Group 1 prelims hall tickets out for 27 September at 38 district centres. Press Release No. 111/2026 of 17 September 2026: the hall tickets for the preliminary examination of Notification 05/2026 (46 posts), on 27 September forenoon at 38 district centres, are on tnpsc.gov.in and tnpscexams.in for download through the One Time Registration dashboard with the application number and date of birth. | tnpsc.gov.in press release 111/2026 |
| 13 September | RRB NTPC graduate typing test | RRB NTPC (Graduate) typing-test city intimation from 13 September for the 24 September test. The link for the exam city intimation for the computer-based typing skill test of CEN 06/2025 opened on 13 September 2026 on the RRB websites; the test is scheduled for 24 September and the computer-based aptitude test for Station Master and Traffic Assistant for 30 September. The undergraduate CBT 2 of 17 September issued its e-call letters the same day. | RRB portal (RRB Chennai) |
| from 30 September | SSC CGL 2026 Tier 1 | SSC CGL Tier 1 admit cards: through the candidate login before the 30 September – 30 October window. SSC issues the exam-city intimation about a week before and the admission certificate three to four days before each candidate’s date, through the login on ssc.gov.in; there is no separate admit-card notice. Keep the registration number and password ready and check the login from the last week of September. | ssc.gov.in |
| 7 September | RRB NTPC UG CBT 2 | RRB NTPC undergraduate CBT 2 held 17 September; city intimation from 7 September. For CEN 07/2025 (3,058 undergraduate posts), the CBT 1 result came on 24 August 2026 and the CBT 2 was held on 17 September with exam-city intimation from 7 September and e-call letters four days before. The typing skill test for the graduate CEN 06/2025 is on 24 September and the aptitude test on 30 September. | RRB portal |
| 2 September | SBI PO 2026 mains | SBI PO mains held 12 September; call letters from the mains information handout of 2 September. For the 1,500-post recruitment (CRPD/PO/2026-27/09), 15,802 candidates shortlisted in the prelims result of 28 August sat the main examination on 12 September 2026. Phase III — psychometric test, group exercise and interview — and the final result follow. | sbi.co.in/careers |
On release
What to verify immediately
- The centre address and how long it takes to reach. Not the notional distance — the actual journey, at the time of day you will be travelling, allowing for the traffic that a large examination generates around a centre.
- The reporting time, which is earlier than the exam time. Gates close before the paper begins, and closing times are enforced.
- Your personal details against your identity document. Name spelling, date of birth and photograph. Discrepancies are best raised immediately, not at the gate.
- The list of permitted and prohibited items. It has become stricter over time, and what was allowed in a previous cycle may not be now.
- Whether anything must be carried in a specific form. Some examinations require a printed photograph, a specific identity document, or the admit card printed rather than shown on a phone.
On the day
What actually goes wrong
- Arriving after gate closing — the commonest cause of a lost attempt, and entirely a planning failure rather than a preparation one.
- Identity document mismatch — a different name spelling between the application and the document produced.
- Prohibited items — watches, electronic devices and stationery that the instructions excluded.
- Not carrying a required photograph — several examinations require one to be affixed or carried separately.
None of these is a hard problem. All of them are solved by reading the admit card instructions properly on the day it is released, and by making the journey to the centre — or at least researching it seriously — before the morning of the examination.
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Admit Cards — FAQs
When will the SSC CGL 2026 Tier 1 admit card be released?
Through the candidate login on ssc.gov.in, not as a dated notice: the exam-city intimation appears about a week before each candidate’s shift and the admission certificate three to four days before, and Tier 1 runs from 30 September to 30 October 2026, so the first city slips are due in the last week of September. Keep the registration number and password of the new SSC portal ready; the card is not sent by email or SMS, and a candidate who cannot log in should raise it through the portal’s helpdesk well before the date.
What should I check when my admit card is released?
The centre address and the realistic journey time to it, the reporting time — which is earlier than the exam time and is enforced by gate closing — your personal details against the identity document you will carry, and the list of permitted and prohibited items, which has become stricter over time. Check all of this on the day the admit card is released rather than the night before the exam, so that any discrepancy can be raised while there is time to resolve it.
What are the most common admit card mistakes?
Arriving after gate closing, which is the single commonest cause of a lost attempt and is a planning failure rather than a preparation one; a mismatch between the name on the identity document and the application; carrying prohibited items such as watches or electronic devices; and not carrying a photograph where one is required. All four are avoidable by reading the admit card instructions carefully and researching the journey to the centre in advance.
What if there is an error on my admit card?
Raise it with the conducting body immediately through the channel the admit card or the notification specifies, rather than assuming it will be accepted at the centre. Minor discrepancies in name spelling or date of birth are sometimes resolved on production of supporting documents, but that is at the centre’s discretion and not something to rely on. The safe course is to have the correction acknowledged in writing before the examination date.
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