SSC MTS 2021 Exam from 5th to 20th October: SSC MTS 2020-2021 Exam will be held for recruitment of Multi Tasking Staff (MTS) in Pay Band-1 (Rs 5200-20200) + Grade Pay Rs 1800, (Revised Pay Scale after 7th CPC: Pay Level in Pay Matrix – Level-1), a General Central Service Group ‘C’ Non-Gazetted, Non-Ministerial post in various Ministries/ Departments/ Offices of the Govt. of India. Every year lakhs of candidates apply for the SSC MTS Exam with the aspiration of getting a Government Job.
To keep you updated about the latest notifications on SSC MTS 2021 Examination, we have compiled all the relevant and the most recent information. Let’s look at the list of topics covered below in the article:
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SSC MTS 2021 Exam Notification
The Staff Selection Commission released the official notification for MTS 2020-21 Recruitment on 5th February 2021 for recruitment of Multi Tasking Staff in Pay Band-1 (Rs 5200-20200) + Grade Pay Rs 1800, (Revised Pay Scale after 7th CPC: Pay Level in Pay Matrix – Level-1), a General Central Service Group ‘C’ Non-Gazetted, Non-Ministerial post in various Ministries/ Departments/ Offices of the Government of India, in different States/ Union Territories. SSC MTS 2020-21 Paper-1 Online Exam will be conducted from 1st to 20th July 2021 and SSC MTS 2020-21 Paper-2 Descriptive Paper will be held on 21st November 2021.
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SSC MTS 2021 Exam Dates
Below are important dates for SSC MTS 2021 Exam:
| SSC MTS 2020-21 Exam |
Important Dates |
| Opening and Closing of Online Application |
5th February to 21st March 2021 (11:30 PM) |
| Last Date of Onilne Payment of Application Fee |
23rd March 2021 (11:30 PM) |
| Last date for Generation of Offline Challan |
25th March 2021 (11:30 PM) |
| Last date for payment through Challan |
Earlier 29th March 2021 (During working hours of Bank) Candidates are being provided final opportunity to make the payment of fee through Bank Challan at designated Branches of the Bank from 5th April to 6th April 2021 provided the Challan has been generated by them before 25th March 2021 (23.30 Hours) |
| Date of Computer Based Exam (Paper-I) |
5th to 20th October 2021 |
| Date of Paper-II Exam (Descriptive Paper) |
To be announced soon |
Click here to get the SSC 2021 Exam Calendar
SSC MTS 2021 Eligibility Criteria
SSC MTS Vacancies are divided into two age groups:
| SSC MTS 2021 Age Limit |
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| Age Group |
Age Limit (As on 1st January 2021) |
| I |
18-25 years (i.e. candidates born not before 02-08-1996 and not later than 01-08-2003) |
| II |
18-27 years (i.e. candidates born not before 02-08-1994 and not later than 01-08-2003) |
Permissible relaxation in the Upper age limit for different categories is as under:
| S. No. |
Category |
Age Limit Relaxation (Upper Age) |
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Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe |
5 years |
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| 2 |
Other Backward Classes (OBC) |
3 years |
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| 3 |
Person with Disabilities (PwD) Note: Persons with Disabilities are not eligible for any post in Border Road Organisation (BRO) |
General |
10 years |
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| OBC |
13 years |
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| SC/ ST |
15 Years |
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| 5 |
Ex-Servicemen |
3 years after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on closing date of receipt of online application |
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| 6 |
Candidates who had ordinarily been domiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 1st January 1980 to 31st December 1989 |
5 years |
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| 7 |
Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof |
General/ OBC |
3 years |
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| SC/ ST |
8 years |
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| 8 |
Central Government Civilian Employees: Who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on closing date for receipt of online applications |
General/ OBC |
Upto 40 years of age |
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| SC/ ST |
Upto 45 years of age |
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Widows/ Divorced Women/ Women judicially separated and who are not remarried |
General/ OBC |
Up to 35 years of age |
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| SC/ ST |
Up to 40 years of age |
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Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces. |
General/ OBC |
Up to 45 years of age |
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| SC/ ST |
Up to 50 years of age |
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Retrenched census employees of the office of Registrar General of India (They will be considered only for offices under RGI in their order of merit and subject to availability of vacancies) |
3 years plus length of service rendered by them in connection with census, before retrenchment and weightage of past service |
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Click here to know the SSC MTS 2021 Eligibility Criteria in Detail
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
Below is the brief educational qualification details of the different posts offered through the SSC MTS 2021 Exam:
| Post Name |
Minimum Educational Qualification as on 1st January 2021 |
| Multi Tasking Staff (MTS) |
The candidates must have passed the Matriculation Examination (10th Pass) or equivalent from a recognized Board. |
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SSC MTS 2021 Recruitment and Vacancies
Staff Selection Commission announced total 9029 Vacancies under SSC MTS 2019 Recruitment under two age groups. Below are the Total Vacancies for Multi-Tasking (Non-Technical) Staff Examination, 2019 as on 15th May 2020:
| SSC MTS 2019 Vacancies as on 15th May 2020 |
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| Category |
Age 18-25 Years |
18-27 Years |
Combined Vacancies |
| General (UR) |
3502 |
706 |
4208 |
| OBC |
2145 |
534 |
2679 |
| SC |
576 |
94 |
670 |
| ST |
594 |
139 |
733 |
| EWS |
574 |
165 |
739 |
| Total |
7391 |
1638 |
9029 |
| ESM |
678 |
147 |
825 |
| OH |
110 |
22 |
132 |
| HH |
86 |
18 |
104 |
| VH |
78 |
16 |
94 |
| Others |
27 |
13 |
40 |
Check SSC MTS 2020 Final Selection Under 2 Age Groups
SSC MTS 2021 Application Process
Let’s look at the procedure of applying for the SSC MTS 2021 Exam:
- Application Fee: The required application fee is Rs. 100/-
- Exemption: No fee is required to be paid by female, SC, ST, Physically Handicapped, and Ex-Servicemen candidates.
- Mode of Payment: Applications fee should be paid only through SBI either in the form of Challan or through SBI Net Banking or any other bank Credit/Debit Card. Challan form will be generated online
- Offline mode of payment: To pay a fee in cash, the candidate should take a printout of Challan generated online after the completion of Part-1 registration. Deposit the requisite fee in any branch of SBI and then continue with the Part-2 registration.
- Online mode of payment: Those candidates who want to pay online can go directly to part-2 registration after completion of part-1 registration. Candidate must supply registration number and date of birth to continue to Part-2 registration.
SSC MTS 2021 Admit Card
All candidates who register for SSC MTS 2021 Exam within the stipulated time will be assigned an e-admit card/hall ticket/call letter to appear in the Tier-I Computer Based Examination. Admit Cards for calling candidates to appear in Tier-I as well as all subsequent tiers/ stages of the examination will not be sent by post. Admit Cards for all stages of the examination will be issued online on the websites of the concerned Regional/ Sub-Regional Office of the Commission. Candidates are advised to regularly visit the website, i.e., www.ssc.nic.in to get the updated notifications.
SSC MTS 2021 Exam Centres & Application Status
A candidate must indicate the Centre(s) in the online Application Form in which he/she desires to take the examination. Details about the Examination Centres and Regional Offices under whose jurisdiction these Examination Centres are located are as follows:
| SSC Region and States/ UTs under the jurisdiction of the Region |
Examination Centres and Centre Code |
| Central Region (CR)/ Bihar and Uttar Pradesh |
Agra (3001), Allahabad (3003), Bareilly (3005), Gorakhpur (3007), Kanpur (3009), Lucknow (3010) Meerut(3011), Varanasi (3013), Bhagalpur (3201), Muzaffarpur (3205), Patna (3206) |
| Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, Odisha, Sikkim and West Bengal |
Gangtok (4001), Ranchi (4205), Barasat (4402), Berhampore (WB) (4403), Chinsurah (4405), Jalpaiguri (4408), Kolkata (4410), Malda (4412), Midnapur (4413), Siliguri (4415), Berhampore (Odisha) (4602), Bhubaneshwar (4604), Cuttack (4605), Keonjhargarh (4606), Sambalpur (4609), Port Blair (4802) |
| Karnataka, Kerala Region (KKR)/ Lakshadweep, Karnataka and Kerala |
Bangalore (9001), Dharwar (9004), Gulbarga (9005), Mangalore (9008), Mysore (9009), Kochi (9204), Kozhikode(Calicut) (9206), Thiruvananthapuram (9211), Thrissur (9212) |
| Madhya Pradesh Sub-Region (MPR)/ Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh |
Bhopal (6001), Chindwara (6003), Guna (6004), Gwalior (6005), Indore (6006), Jabalpur (6007), Khandwa (6009), Ratlam (6011), Satna (6014), Sagar (6015), Ambikapur (6201), Bilaspur (6202), Jagdalpur (6203), Raipur (6204), Durg (6205) |
| North Eastern Region (NER)/ Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura |
Itanagar (5001), Dibrugarh (5102), Guwahati (Dispur) (5105), Jorhat (5107), Silchar (5111), Kohima (5302), Shillong (5401), Imphal (5501), Churachandpur (5502), Agartala (5601), Aizwal (5701) |
| Northern Region (NR)/ NCT of Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand |
Almora (2001), Dehradun (2002), Haldwani (2003), Srinagar (Uttarakhand) (2004), Haridwar (2005), Delhi (2201), Ajmer (2401), Alwar (2402), Bharatpur (2403), Bikaner (2404), Jaipur (2405), Jodhpur (2406), Kota (2407), Sriganganagar (2408), Udaipur (2409) |
| North Western Sub-Region (NWR)/ Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab |
Anantnag (1001), Baramula (1002), Jammu (1004), Leh (1005), Rajouri (1006), Srinagar(J&K) (1007), Kargil (1008), Dodda (1009), Hamirpur (1202), Shimla (1203), Bhathinda (1401), Jalandhar (1402), Patiala (1403), Amritsar ( 1404), Chandigarh (1601) |
| Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Telangana |
Guntur (8001), Kurnool (8003), Rajahmundry (8004), Tirupati (8006), Vishakhapatnam (8007), Vijaywada (8008), Chennai (8201), Coimbatore (8202), Madurai (8204), Tiruchirapalli (8206), Tirunelveli (8207), Puducherry (8401), Hyderabad (8601), Nizamabad (8602), Warangal (8603) |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Goa, Gujarat and Maharashtra |
Ahmedabad (7001), Vadodara (7002), Rajkot (7006), Surat (7007), Bhavnagar (7009), Kutch (7010), Amravati (7201), Aurangabad (7202), Kolhapur (7203), Mumbai (7204), Nagpur (7205), Nanded (7206), Nashik (7207), Pune (7208), Thane (7210), Bhandara (7211), Chandrapur (7212), Akola (7213), Jalgaon (7214), Ahmednagar (7215), Alibaug (7216), Panaji (7801) |
SSC MTS 2021 Exam Pattern & Syllabus
The section-wise details of the exam are shown in the table given below:
| Dates of SSC MTS Computer Based Exam (Paper-I) |
Parts – Subjects (Not in Sequence) |
Number of Questions/ Maximum Marks |
Time Duration (For all four Parts) |
| 1st to 20th July 2021 |
Part I – General English |
25/25 |
1 hour 30 Minutes (2 Hours for candidates eligible for scribes) |
| Part II - General Intelligence & Reasoning |
25/25 |
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| Part III – Numerical Aptitude |
25/25 |
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| Part IV - General Awareness |
25/25 |
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| TOTAL |
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100 |
The section-wise details of the exam are shown in the table given below:
| Dates of SSC MTS 2021 Descriptive Paper-II |
Max Marks |
Exam Duration |
| 21st November 2021 |
50 |
30 minutes (40 minutes for the candidates eligible for scribes) |
Final selection and allocation of States/ UTs will be made on the basis of performance of the candidates in Paper-I, the preference of States/ UTs given by them in the online Application Form, and the age group of the candidates. Normalized scores of the candidates in Paper-I will be used to determine merit and the candidates will only be considered against the vacancies of States/ UTs for which they have given their preference in the online Application Form.
SSC MTS 2021 Cut Off
SSC MTS 2019 Paper-1 Candidates Shortlisted in the age-group of 18-25 years: Candidates qualifying against vacancies in the age-group of 18-25 years:
| SSC MTS 2019 Paper-1 Cut-Off Marks in the age-group of 18-25 years |
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| Category |
Candidates Available |
| General |
38955* |
| OBC |
23370 |
| EWS |
6420 |
| SC |
5850 |
| ST |
6630 |
| OH- PwD |
1095 |
| HH- PwD |
1020 |
| VH- PwD |
885 |
| Other-PwD |
315 |
| Ex-Servicemen |
238 |
| Total |
84778 |
Note: * Includes 2498 SC, 601 ST, 18381 OBC and 2272 EWS candidates provisionally qualified at UR standard.
SSC MTS 2019 Paper-1 Candidates Shortlisted in the age-group of 18-27 years: Candidates qualifying against vacancies in the age group of 18-27 years:
| SSC MTS 2019 Paper-1 Cut-Off Marks in the age-group of 18-25 years |
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| Category |
Candidates Available |
| General |
11775* |
| OBC |
7410 |
| EWS |
2040 |
| SC |
1905 |
| ST |
2130 |
| OH- PwD |
405 |
| HH- PwD |
300 |
| VH- PwD |
270 |
| Other-PwD |
105 |
| Ex-Servicemen |
44 |
| Total |
26384 |
Note:*Includes 788 SC, 174 ST, 3551 OBC and 957 EWS candidates provisionally qualified at UR standard.
Click here to know SSC MTS Region-wise Previous Year Cut-Off Marks
SSC MTS 2021 Answer Keys
Staff Selection Commission officially releases the answer keys of SSC MTS Paper-I and Paper-II exams on their website after 10 to 15 days of the successful completion of the respective exams. Candidates can calculate their approximate marks and expected rank based on the answer key released by SSC.
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SSC MTS 2021 Results
As the vacancies for MTS are in two age groups i.e. (i) 18 to 25 years and (ii) 18 to 27 years, in the final result, there will be separate age group-wise, State/ UT-wise and category-wise cut-offs. For the candidates who are eligible for both the age groups, vacancies will first be filled in the age group of 18-25 years. Candidates can check the result from the direct link to the official SSC website as and when the results are announced.
