SSC MTS 2026 Notification: Status, Calendar Dates and What to Expect

The Staff Selection Commission names the MTS exam after the year of its notice, not the year it is sat — and that alone explains most of the confusion online. The “MTS and Havaldar Examination, 2025”, notified in June 2025, was actually sat in February 2026, and its final result has still not been published. The 2026 exam was listed in SSC’s calendar for an advertisement on 30 June 2026, but by 25 September 2026 no notice had appeared. This guide sets out exactly where both cycles stand, how far recent cycles slipped from their calendar dates, and what the vacancy numbers have been.

SSC MTS 2025 result write-up and vacancy file; SSC calendar entries.

The 2025 exam slipped four months against its notice: planned for September–October 2025, it was held in February 2026. The final result was still pending in late September 2026, fifteen months after the notice. The 2024 cycle, by contrast, ran from notice to final result in about eight and a half months. Anyone who applied in June 2025 is still waiting to know whether they have a job.

The two cycles followed the same order — written test, Havaldar result, physical test, final result — but at very different speeds. In 2024 the final result came five months after the written test ended; in the 2025 cycle, seven months after the test, the final result was still pending. The Havaldar physical test is the step that decides when both lists appear, because SSC says the first allocation result for MTS and Havaldar will be declared together after PET/PST.

SSC’s calendar listed the 2026 MTS advertisement for 30 June 2026, closing 31 July, with the exam in September–November 2026. The calendar has not proved a reliable clock: the CHSL 2026 notice, calendared for 30 April 2026, actually came on 7 September 2026, and the MTS 2025 exam was calendared for September–October 2025 and sat in February 2026. There is no SSC notice postponing MTS 2026 either — it is simply late against the calendar. Any date for the 2026 notice quoted online is a guess until SSC publishes it.

Vacancies swing enormously — from 1,788 in the 2023 exam to 11,518 in 2024 — so a guide quoting “expected 2026 vacancies” is guessing. The 7,948 figure that some sites present as the 2026 number is the 2025 exam’s tentative count as on 27 November 2025 (MTS 6,810 and Havaldar 1,138). Even that is not settled: the Havaldar vacancy row in SSC’s 03.08.2026 CBE result counts 1,018 across its five community columns (EWS 120, SC 126, ST 87, OBC 237, UR 448), and SSC has not reconciled that with the 1,138. The 2023 figure also moved twice in December 2023.

The pattern of the exam has been the same in 2024 and 2025 — 90 questions in two 45-minute sessions — so preparation does not depend on the notice. Eligibility needs only Class 10, but the age limit depends on the post: 18–25 for MTS, 18–27 for Havaldar and a few MTS posts, counted on 1 August in both recent cycles — so check your date of birth against the group for the post you want now; our eligibility guide does this. Three things from the 2025 cycle are worth acting on early. Applications go through One-Time Registration on ssc.gov.in, which the notice required every applicant to create on the new website. Once the notice appears, the application window has been about four weeks. And after applying, watch for the slot-selection notice: in 2025 a candidate who neither picked a slot (16–25 January 2026) nor confirmed through the Feedback Module by 28 January 2026 got no admit card.