Exams, admissions, results and career trends, written by the CareerBox editorial team.
Gujarat’s UG medical admission committee has opened registration for round 4, the final stray vacancy round for MBBS and BDS. It is meant for NEET-UG 2026 qualifiers who never registered in rounds 1 to 3. Buy the PIN by 8 am and register by 10 am on 17 October, then verify documents at a help centre by noon the same day.
The Union health ministry has cut the NEET-MDS 2026 qualifying percentile by 20.576 points, bringing the general cut-off down to 234 out of 960. Gujarat’s PG medical admission committee has reopened MDS registration for newly eligible dentists: register by 5 pm on 18 October and verify documents on 19 October.
The Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board is filling 11 Class III staff nurse posts in the state’s Employees’ State Insurance Scheme through a special recruitment drive open only to candidates with benchmark disabilities. B.Sc Nursing or GNM holders can apply on OJAS from 15 to 29 October 2026. Pay starts at ₹40,800 a month.
GPSC has told applicants for nine Gujarat Maritime Board advertisements, from marine engineer and pilot officer to naval architect, to upload their experience, caste and income certificates on its gpsc-iass portal between 1 pm on 16 October and 11:59 pm on 25 October. Anyone who misses it is out before the 13 December preliminary.
The Gujarat Panchayat Service Selection Board has published provisional results and document-verification lists for two July exams: Laboratory Technician (108 posts, 220 candidates listed) and Additional Assistant Engineer (Electrical) (200 posts, 404 listed). Candidates can see their marks until 4 November. Verification dates come next.
The Medical Counselling Committee has pushed the all-India stray vacancy round for MBBS, BDS and B.Sc nursing to 16 October. Registration closes at 4 pm, choices lock by 11:55 pm and the result is now due on 19 October. Its clear vacancy list puts 4,068 seats on the table, 3,426 of them MBBS.
The Medical Counselling Committee has posted its final seat matrices for round 1 of NEET PG 2026 counselling: 14,113 all-India quota MD/MS seats, 7,537 deemed university seats, 857 central institutional seats and 9,201 DNB seats. Registration closes at noon on 21 October and choice filling at 10 am on 22 October.
The Railway Recruitment Boards have two NTPC notices running together: CEN 06/2026 for 3,548 graduate posts, including 2,750 Goods Train Managers, and CEN 07/2026 for 1,688 posts open to Class 12 pass candidates. Graduate applications close on 6 November and undergraduate ones on 13 November. The typing test has been dropped for clerk-typist posts.
The Railway Recruitment Boards have opened the answer keys and response sheets for the Technician Grade I Signal and Grade III computer-based tests held between 6 and 9 October. Candidates can raise objections at ₹50 a question until 11:55 pm on 22 October. The recruitment covers 6,557 posts.
West Bengal’s Medical Counselling Committee has set round 1 of state counselling for MD, MS and PG diploma seats. Register and pay ₹3,000 between 22 and 28 October, verify documents from 26 to 29 October, fill choices from 30 October to 1 November. Allotment comes on 4 November. Only candidates with a West Bengal MBBS or in-service doctors can claim state quota.
Karnataka’s school examination board has opened online registration for students who want to sit the 2027 II PUC Exam-1 as private candidates, in arts or commerce. You must be 17 by 31 March 2027, register through a government PU college, and pay ₹2,355 (₹1,755 for SC, ST and Category-1) by 21 November.
The Consortium of National Law Universities will close CLAT 2027 applications at 11:59 pm on 31 October. The offline test is on Sunday, 6 December, from 2 pm to 4 pm. Class 12 students sitting their boards in 2027 can apply for the UG test, and final-year LLB students for the PG test.
Gujarat’s UG medical admission committee has reopened round-3 reporting for students who did not finish their admission formalities. Pay the tuition fee by 3:30 pm on 15 October and report with original documents at a help centre by 4 pm on 16 October. The extension follows a Medical Counselling Committee notice of 14 October tied to the all-India stray vacancy round.
IIM Ahmedabad is taking applications for the 2027-29 batch of its two-year blended MBA in Business Analytics and AI, built for working professionals. Round 1 closes on 2 November and round 2 on 20 December. You need a CAT, GMAT or GRE score, or you can sit IIMA’s own test on 22 November. The programme costs ₹21 lakh.
The Centre, the Gujarat government and ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India have signed the shareholders’ agreement to upgrade ITI Surat and four nearby ITIs under the PM-SETU scheme. The industry partner will hold 51% of the company that runs the cluster. Over five years the plan targets about 25,000 trainees and 3,528 additional seats in new and upgraded trades.
The Gujarat Public Service Commission has scheduled phase 9 of interviews for Advertisement 82/2024-25, which covers Medical Officer, Insurance Medical Officer and Tutor posts in the Gujarat Medical Service, Class-2, on 19, 21, 22 and 23 October. The advertisement has 2,290 posts and the schedule lists 3,595 candidates. Call letters are downloaded from gpsc-ojas.gujarat.gov.in.
Andhra Pradesh’s School Education Department issued brief notifications on 13 October for 2,721 teacher posts, to be filled through the Andhra Pradesh Teacher Recruitment Test (APTRT-2026). The posts cover School Assistants, Secondary Grade Teachers, special-education teachers and posts in residential societies. Eligibility rules, application dates and the exam date will be in a detailed notification due on or before 3 November.
BPSC’s fourth school teacher recruitment exam now has 33,320 posts, after 932 more were added for Classes 9 to 12. A notice of 13 October also lets candidates who passed the D.El.Ed (2024-26 session) this year apply by uploading the web copy of their marksheet. Fees must be paid by 25 October and the online form closes on 26 October.
The Bihar Public Service Commission has called off the Integrated 72nd Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination that was to be held on Sunday, 25 October, citing unavoidable reasons. No new date has been given. The exam was already postponed once, from 26 July. It now covers 1,187 posts across Bihar government services.
Tamil Nadu’s Directorate of Government Examinations has released the 2026-27 public exam time table. Class 12 (HSE second year) runs from 3 to 29 March 2027 and the SSLC from 17 March to 12 April. The Class 11 paper in March is for arrear candidates only. Practicals run in February, and results are tentatively due on 7 May (Class 12) and 20 May (Class 10).
IIT Madras has reopened GATE 2027 registration, with a late fee, from 10:30 am on Thursday, 15 October to 10:29 am on Friday, 16 October, after many requests. Candidates who have already applied can correct their forms until 21 October. Exam city allotment comes on 4 January, the exam runs over three weekends in February 2027, and results are due on 19 March.
CBSE has announced its free Science Challenge for students of Classes 8, 9 and 10. Schools register students on the board’s portal from 14 to 30 October, and hold a 60-minute in-school round between 2 and 13 November. Each school then sends six students, two from each class, to a computer-based national round between 30 November and 4 December.
The State Examination Board has notified the National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship exam for 2026-27. Class 8 students in government, local-body and grant-in-aid schools whose family income is up to ₹3.5 lakh can apply on sebexam.org from 3 pm on 15 October to 11:59 pm on 24 October. Gujarat has 5,097 scholarships worth ₹1,000 a month for four years.
Gujarat’s nursing and allied-health admission committee has opened a fourth round covering only the 463 seats still vacant in government ANM and GNM schools, B.Sc. Nursing colleges, physiotherapy colleges and two other government colleges. Every earlier choice has been wiped, so candidates must give fresh consent and refill choices by 10 am on Friday, 16 October. Empty self-financed seats have been handed to the colleges to fill themselves.
