SSC JHT 2026 Exam Date & Admit Card — 303 Posts
SSC Combined Hindi Translators (JHT) 2026 Paper I is on 8 September 2026. Admit card due 4 September. Vacancies revised from 84 to 303 on 9 July 2026.
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| Event | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Notification Released | 23 April 2026 | Done |
| Online Application Window | 23 April – 14 May 2026 | Closed |
| Vacancies Revised 84 → 303 | 9 July 2026 | Done |
| Exam City Intimation Slip | 31 August 2026 | Done |
| Admit Card Release | 4 September 2026 | Active |
| Paper I (Computer Based) | 8 September 2026 | Upcoming |
| Paper II (Descriptive) | To be announced after Paper I | Tba |
| Document Verification & Final Result | To be announced | Tba |
Who could apply
SSC accepts several qualifying combinations. Broadly, a candidate needs a Master's degree in one of Hindi or English with the other language studied as a compulsory or elective subject at degree level — or a Master's in any subject with both Hindi and English as compulsory or elective subjects at degree level.
| Route | What it requires |
|---|---|
| Route A | Master's degree in Hindi, with English as a compulsory or elective subject at the degree level |
| Route B | Master's degree in English, with Hindi as a compulsory or elective subject at the degree level |
| Route C | Master's degree in any subject, with Hindi and English as compulsory or elective subjects at the degree level, or with one as the medium of instruction and the other as a subject |
| Additional requirement (certain posts) | A recognised Diploma or Certificate course in translation from Hindi to English and vice versa, or two years' translation experience in a central or state government office |
Age: up to 30 years, with the exact limit varying by post — check the notification for the post you applied to. Standard relaxations apply: 3 years for OBC, 5 years for SC/ST, 10 years for PwBD, and the bands prescribed for ex-servicemen.
Age is reckoned against the cut-off date in the notification, not your application or exam date.
How the vacancy count changed
| Stage | Date | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Original notification (tentative) | 23 April 2026 | 84 |
| Revised ministry-wise vacancy notice | 9 July 2026 | 303 |
Posts covered
- Junior Hindi Translator (JHT)
- Junior Translator (JT)
- Senior Translator
The seats are spread across roughly 32 central government ministries, departments and subordinate offices, with the ministry-wise breakdown published in SSC's revised vacancy notice.
Read the revision, not the notification: the April notification's 84 posts were explicitly tentative. SSC collects indents from participating ministries after the notification goes out, which is why the final figure landed at 303 in July. Any page still quoting 84 is working from a superseded document.
Selection Process
- Paper I — Computer Based Examination, 8 September 2026 (objective, screening)
- Paper II — Descriptive (translation and essay), for candidates shortlisted from Paper I
- Document Verification
- Final merit, based on the combined Paper I and Paper II performance
Paper I pattern
| Section | Questions | Marks | Sectional time |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Hindi | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
| General English | 100 | 100 | 60 minutes |
| Total | 200 | 200 | 2 hours |
- Negative marking: 0.25 marks per wrong answer
- Sectional timing is enforced — one hour for Hindi and one hour for English, with no carry-over of unused time between them
- Paper I tests grammar, vocabulary, sentence structure and correct usage in both languages
Paper II — the stage that actually selects
Paper II is descriptive: translation passages in both directions plus an essay, worth 200 marks over two hours, written conventionally rather than on a computer. Paper I only screens; the translators SSC actually hires are chosen on Paper II. Candidates who prepare exclusively for the objective paper regularly clear it and then lose the recruitment in the descriptive round.
Applications are closed — your checklist for 8 September
- Download the admit card from 4 September 2026 through your SSC candidate login. It is published via your SSC regional office's website, not on a single national page.
- You should already have the exam-city intimation slip — released 31 August 2026. Use it to arrange travel; it is not the admit card and will not admit you to the hall.
- Verify your name, photograph, date of birth, post and centre on the admit card the day you download it. Errors have to be reported to your regional office immediately, not on exam morning.
- Print the admit card and carry one original photo ID — Aadhaar, PAN, Voter ID, Passport or Driving Licence. Photocopies are not accepted.
- Rehearse the sectional split. Paper I gives exactly 60 minutes to General Hindi and 60 minutes to General English, with no borrowing between them. Practising a full 200-question paper without sectional timers does not prepare you for that.
- Start Paper II preparation now, before the Paper I result. Translation and essay writing under time pressure is a trained skill, and the gap between the Paper I result and Paper II is short.
Barred at the centre
Mobile phones, smart watches, Bluetooth devices, calculators, dictionaries and any electronic item. SSC centres generally provide no storage facility.
Full Details
Paper I on 8 September 2026 — Admit Card Due 4 September, and the Vacancy Revision That Nearly Quadrupled the Seats
Paper I of the SSC Combined Hindi Translators Examination 2026 is fixed for Tuesday, 8 September 2026, in computer-based mode. The exam-city intimation slip was released on 31 August and the admit card is due on 4 September 2026. The detail that has not reached most listings: SSC revised the vacancies from 84 to 303 through a notice dated 9 July 2026 — pages still carrying the April figure are understating this recruitment by more than three and a half times.
Quick Highlights Dashboard
| Who is recruiting? | Staff Selection Commission (SSC) |
|---|---|
| Which posts? | Junior Hindi Translator, Junior Translator and Senior Translator, across roughly 32 central ministries and departments |
| How many seats? | 303 (revised on 9 July 2026 from the original 84) |
| Application window | 23 April 2026 → 14 May 2026 (closed) |
| Application status | 🔴 CLOSED |
| Exam city slip | Released 31 August 2026 |
| Admit card | 4 September 2026 |
| Paper I | 8 September 2026 (Tuesday) — Computer Based |
| Paper II | Descriptive translation & essay — date announced after Paper I |
Why the revision matters to you
The original April notification listed 84 tentative vacancies. SSC’s ministry-wise revision on 9 July 2026 raised the total to 303. Because SSC shortlists candidates for Paper II at a multiple of the vacancy count, a 3.6× increase in seats meaningfully widens the Paper I cut-off. If you wrote off this exam in May on the basis of 84 seats, that calculation no longer holds.
Official links
- Download the Admit Card via SSC Candidate Login (ssc.gov.in) — released through your OTR login and your SSC regional office’s website.
- Staff Selection Commission Official Website (ssc.gov.in) — the exam notice and the 9 July revised vacancy statement are both published here.
Important Links
Frequently Asked Questions
303. The April 2026 notification listed 84 as a tentative figure, and SSC revised it to 303 through a ministry-wise vacancy notice dated 9 July 2026. Listings still showing 84 are working from the superseded April document.
On 4 September 2026, ahead of the 8 September Paper I. The exam-city intimation slip came earlier, on 31 August 2026 — that slip tells you the city but will not admit you to the examination hall.
SSC announces the Paper II date after Paper I is conducted and its result is processed. Only candidates shortlisted from Paper I sit it. Do not wait for that announcement to begin preparing — the interval is usually short.
Paper I screens candidates for Paper II, and the final merit is drawn from the combined performance. In practice Paper II carries the decisive weight, because it is where translation ability is actually assessed and where the field narrows sharply.
No. Dictionaries and all reference material are barred at SSC centres, as are electronic devices of every kind. Paper II is written unaided.
Possibly, under Route C: a Master's in any subject is acceptable if Hindi and English were compulsory or elective subjects at your degree level, or if one was the medium of instruction and the other a subject. Some posts additionally require a translation diploma or two years' translation experience.
It is split by section and enforced — 60 minutes for General Hindi and 60 minutes for General English. Time left over in one section cannot be carried into the other, so practising against a single two-hour clock will mislead you about your pace.