The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has issued a crucial final notice for candidates who missed the initial self-slotting window for the Junior Engineer (JE) Examination 2025. This last-gasp opportunity allows such aspirants to choose their preferred examination city and avoid being excluded from the recruitment process entirely.
A Final Lifeline for Candidates
In an unprecedented move, the Commission has announced that candidates who failed to utilize the self-slotted facility can now select their examination city through the feedback module available on their candidate login portal. The deadline for this special window is November 28, 2025, until 11:00 AM.
The SSC has clearly emphasized that city allocation during this final opportunity will be conducted strictly on a "best effort basis." Candidates who neglect to use this final chance will face serious consequences: they will not be scheduled for the JE (Paper-1) examination, and their admit cards will not be generated.
Meanwhile, candidates who successfully exercised the self-slotting option earlier, between November 10 and 13, 2025, will have their city-live status activated on November 25, 2025.
Structural Shift in SSC's Examination Process
This latest directive builds upon the Commission's transformative decision to introduce a self-slot selection mechanism for two of its major examinations: the Junior Engineer (JE) and the Sub-Inspector (SI) in Delhi Police and CAPFs exams for 2025.
This year marks a significant departure from SSC's traditional centrally allotted system. For the first time, aspirants are permitted to choose both their preferred exam date and city. This initiative is designed to reduce travel hardships, prevent scheduling conflicts, and expand flexibility for candidates managing jobs, long distances, or multiple examinations.
The original self-slot selection windows were scheduled as follows:
- JE Paper-I: November 10–13, 2025 (until 11 PM)
- SI Paper-I: November 17–21, 2025 (until 11 PM)
Once selected, slot choices became non-editable. The Commission retained the authority to automatically allocate cities for those who missed the deadlines. The newly announced extension, therefore, represents a rare concession and underscores the SSC's attempt to ensure fairness during an intensified recruitment cycle.
SSC JE 2025: Examination Overview
Separate from the slotting update, the SSC is concluding the registration process for the Junior Engineer (JE) Recruitment 2025. Applications are open on the official website, ssc.gov.in, for 1,340 vacancies across Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical engineering streams.
The recruitment advertisement, issued on June 30, 2025, offers Group B (Non-Gazetted) posts under Level-6 of the 7th Central Pay Commission. The pay scale ranges between Rs 35,400 and Rs 1,12,400 per month.
The examination structure is as follows:
Total posts: 1,340
Paper-I (CBT): October 27–31, 2025 (Tentative)
Paper-II (CBT): January–February 2026 (Tentative)
Selection Stages:
- Paper-I (200 marks): General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, and General Engineering (discipline-specific). Negative marking: 0.25
- Paper-II (300 marks): Subject-specialised engineering assessment. Negative marking: 1
- Document Verification for successful candidates
This reform arrives ahead of one of SSC's largest recruitment years, with 5,308 vacancies each for JEs and SIs. With millions competing for these positions, this step signifies a long-term shift toward digitally empowered, candidate-centric examinations, aligning with the broader Digital Governance mission of the government.
