Last verified: 14 November 2026. The dates and rules below are ✅ CONFIRMED from the NTA public notice dated 3 November 2026 and the AISSEE 2027 information bulletin, as reported by The Times of India, The Telegraph, AglaSem and Careers360 (checked 14 November 2026). Where the bulletin leaves the exact editable-fields list to be confirmed, that is labelled 🔶 EXPECTED — and the bulletin itself is the final authority.
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Here’s a question that lands in our inbox every single year, usually in a panic, usually in January: “We picked the wrong exam city — can we change it now?”
The short answer is: probably, but only in December — and only if you act inside a three-day window. After that, the answer is no, full stop. So let’s get the whole picture straight now, while the form is still open and a mistake costs you ten seconds instead of a year.
When you fill the form, you don’t pick one centre. You pick four exam cities, in order of preference, from the list in Appendix IV of the information bulletin. NTA then allots a centre based on your choices and on availability — the number of seats at each centre is limited by its capacity.
Two things parents rarely realise:
The moment you pay the fee, your form locks. The bulletin says it plainly: after payment, the information provided cannot be edited, and no request for a change or amendment will be entertained.
There is exactly one exception: the correction window, 7 to 9 December 2026 (up to 11:50 PM), for “correction in particulars” of the application form. 🔶 EXPECTED: in past AISSEE cycles, exam-city preference has typically been editable during the correction window, and our earlier guide to what you can and cannot edit says the same. But the final list of editable fields for 2027 is set by NTA in the bulletin — so when the window opens, check the portal’s editable-fields list first, and change the cities immediately if the option is there. Do not assume, and do not wait till 9 December evening.
After 9 December, there is no second window, no helpdesk exception, and no offline request that works. The bulletin is blunt about it: no change will be entertained.
| Field | Before payment | Correction window (7–9 Dec) | After 9 Dec |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exam city preferences (4 cities) | Yes — edit freely | 🔶 Typically yes, per past cycles; confirm in the bulletin | No |
| Name, date of birth, category | Yes — edit freely | Yes, for permitted particulars | No |
| Photo, signature, certificates | Yes — re-upload | Yes, re-upload as specified | No |
| Question-paper medium | Yes — choose carefully | No — cannot be changed after submission | No |
| Mobile number and email | Yes | No — cannot be changed after payment | No |
| School preference list | Yes — edit freely | Yes, for permitted particulars | No |
The pattern is simple: the things that identify your child and decide their paper — medium, mobile, email — lock the moment you submit and pay. The things that are genuinely correctable get one three-day chance. Treat the form as final the day you pay, and treat the correction window as a safety net, not a plan.
Honestly, the best fix for a wrong exam city is never picking a wrong one. Here is the checklist we give parents before they touch the form:
One more thing worth doing while you’re at it: check your photo and signature specs before you pay. Photo and signature rejections are the most common reason forms get stuck, and unlike the exam city, a bad photo is something you can fix in an afternoon — if you catch it before payment locks everything.
It happens, even to careful parents — a first choice fills up, and the slip on 11 January names a city two districts away. At that point you cannot change it. What you can do is plan well:
A father once told us his son’s centre was allotted 280 km from home because he had listed cities by “famous name” instead of by distance. The boy still wrote the exam — they drove the previous evening and stayed overnight — but the family spent the whole month before it worrying about the journey instead of the paper. The form gives you four choices for a reason. Use all four, in the right order, and the journey becomes a footnote instead of the story.
And if you haven’t submitted the form yet, do it this weekend — our five reasons to submit now, not on 2 December explain why, and our timeline of what happens after you submit covers the four dates that follow. The form is paperwork. The exam is the real work — and the centre should be the last thing on your mind when January arrives.
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