Exams, admissions, results and career trends, written by the CareerBox editorial team.
The Gujarat Panchayat Service Selection Board has given candidates in its Work Assistant recruitment one more chance to withdraw voluntarily on OJAS. The window runs from 3 pm on 1 October to 11:59 pm on 3 October; once you give up your claim, you cannot get it back.
The Fee Regulatory Committee (Technical) has fixed fee ceilings for 2026-27 to 2028-29 for 37 courses at private colleges that wanted rises above 5%. Most were granted far less than they asked, and the circular spells out what a college may not charge on top.
GSSSB’s 2 July calendar lists the 7,338-post Combined Competitive Exam (Advt 378, Group A mains on 28 and 29 November) and a 2,422-post CCE-2 with a December prelim, plus health, nursing and engineering cadres.
UPSC Advertisement No. 11/2026 covers 212 vacancies across seven posts, from Assistant Public Prosecutors in Delhi to Assistant Professors of General Medicine. The online window shuts at 6 pm on 2 October, with a one-week extension only for the Ladakh law post.
IGNOU has pushed the last date for the December 2026 term-end exam form to 7 October without a late fee. From 8 to 15 October the form is still accepted, but costs an extra ₹1,100. Project and practical fees go through a separate link.
UPSC has advertised 13 vacancies in four specialised posts: eight Assistant Legislative Counsel posts, three Delhi Law Officers, one Junior Technical Officer in sugar technology and one NDMC cardiologist. Applications close at 6 pm on 16 October.
Renewal applications for the PM-USP central scholarship for college and university students are open on the National Scholarship Portal until 31 October. Colleges must verify by 15 November, and disabled students must give UDID consent first.
UPSC has published the time-table for the Indian Forest Service (Main) Examination, 2026. Papers run from 22 to 29 November in two sessions a day, with 24 November left free for a gazetted holiday.
Bihar’s entrance board has extended rounds 1 and 2 of Ayush undergraduate counselling after a new private homoeopathic college was added. Registration closed on 28 September; registered candidates have until 11:59 pm on 1 October to fill and lock choices.
Bihar’s entrance board has published the round-3 schedule for undergraduate medical counselling. Resignations open on 1 October, registration runs from 3 to 6 October, the allotment result is due on 14 October and admission on 16 and 17 October.
IGNOU’s admission portal now shows 13 October 2026 as the last date to apply for the July cycle, for everything except certificate and semester-based programmes. Applicants need an APAAR ID, scanned documents and an online payment.
IIT Bombay has launched UCEED 2027, the entrance test for B.Des programmes at IIT Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Roorkee and IIITDM Jabalpur. Students from any stream can apply from 1 to 31 October; the exam is on 17 January 2027.
IIT Bombay has opened registration for the Common Entrance Exam for Design 2027, the gateway to M.Des and PhD programmes at 11 institutes. The exam is on 17 January 2027; there is no age limit and no cap on attempts.
The National Medical Commission has given a second window to students who missed the 30 September deadline for the Eligibility Certificate needed to sit the FMGE Screening Test. Applications run from 10 am on 1 October to 6 pm on 7 October, and incomplete forms will be rejected.
MCC published the provisional result for round 3 of NEET UG counselling on 30 September. Counting the remarks in the 1,920-page list gives 4,685 fresh allotments, 5,168 upgrades and 5,018 retained seats. Grievances closed at 10 am on 1 October; do not report until the final result.
MCC will assess PwD candidates for NEET PG round 1 from 1 to 9 October, with appeals from 5 to 12 October. Under NMC’s guidelines of 16 September, the disability certificate becomes an “Eligibility Certificate” decided on functional ability, not disability percentage.
CSAB has published a refund-status table for JoSAA, CSAB and DASA 2026. Some refunds are already processed; DASA payouts are expected in the first and second weeks of October, and JoSAA seat-fee refunds for students who skipped CSAB by the end of the month.
The National Medical Commission’s PG seat matrix for 2026-27, dated 29 September, lists 63,177 seats in 10,756 course entries. Government colleges hold 33,088, private 21,892 and deemed universities 8,197. Counselling cannot start until MCC schedules it.
NBEMS’s official FMGE 2025 performance report puts Gujarat’s pass rate at 18.24% in June and 25.91% in December. Across both sittings, fewer than one in four attempts by Gujarat-domiciled foreign MBBS graduates cleared the screening test, and passing is only the first step to a licence.
Gujarat’s UG medical admission committee has opened a fresh registration for round 3 of MBBS and BDS admissions. PINs are on sale until noon on 30 September, registration closes at 4 pm the same day, and from this round only original documents will be accepted at help centres.
The Bihar School Examination Board has issued dummy admit cards for the Secondary Teacher Eligibility Test 2026. Candidates can correct errors online until 30 September; changing a reserved category may mean paying more fee.
The Staff Selection Commission has released admit cards for the Combined Graduate Level Tier 1 exam, which runs from 30 September to 30 October in four daily shifts. The recruitment is for about 12,256 Group B and C posts.
IIT Madras has pushed the regular GATE 2027 registration deadline from 27 September to 5 October. The late-fee window now closes on 12 October. DigiLocker-based registration remains mandatory for Indian nationals.
Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak has published the round-3 schedule for Haryana’s MBBS and BDS counselling. Registration and choice locking run from 28 September to 10 October; old choices are void and a security deposit is required.
