Last verified: 14 November 2026. Every date below is ✅ CONFIRMED from the NTA public notice dated 3 November 2026 for AISSEE 2027, as reported by The Times of India, The Telegraph and AglaSem (all checked 14 November 2026). The advice on what to do at each stage is our editorial guidance — labelled 🔶 EXPECTED where it is based on past NTA cycles rather than a fresh announcement.
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You clicked submit, the payment went through, and the confirmation page is saved. Done? Not quite. Between now and the exam hall on 31 January, your form passes through four more checkpoints — and two of them need you to act. Here is the whole road, in order.
Applications close at 11:50 PM on Wednesday, 2 December 2026. If you miss it, NTA allows late applications from 3 to 6 December with an extra late fee of Rs. 500 on top of the regular fee (Rs. 850 for General, OBC-NCL and defence wards; Rs. 700 for SC/ST). The late fee and the form both have to be completed by 11:50 PM on 6 December. It is a real safety net, not a disaster — but it is also the last door. After 6 December, no new applications are accepted at all. Our explainer on whether the late fee is worth paying walks through the trade-off.
From 7 to 9 December 2026 (up to 11:50 PM), NTA opens a one-time correction window for “correction in particulars” of the submitted form. Three days, and then it closes for good — after 9 December, no further changes are permitted.
Here is the part parents miss: the moment you pay the fee, your form locks. The bulletin says plainly that after payment, the information provided cannot be edited and no change will be entertained. The December window is the single exception to that rule. So use it deliberately: re-read every field against your child’s birth certificate, domicile certificate and school records, and fix anything that doesn’t match. Our guide to what you can and cannot edit in the correction window covers the details — including the fields that stay locked, like your registered mobile number and email.
On 11 January 2027, NTA releases the advance city intimation slip, which tells you which of your four chosen exam cities has been allotted. You choose four cities in order of preference when you fill the form; NTA allots based on your choices and availability at each centre. Note carefully: the slip names the city, not the centre. The exact school or building, with its address, appears only on the admit card.
🔶 EXPECTED: in past cycles, the city slip has sometimes differed from a parent’s first choice when a centre filled up — that is why the order of your four cities matters, and why you should plan travel for more than one of them.
Admit cards are available for download from 25 January 2027 on the NTA portal. Check it the day it arrives: your child’s name and photo, the exam centre’s full address, the reporting time, and the paper timing. If anything is wrong, contact the NTA helpdesk (011-40759000 / 011-69227700, [email protected]) immediately — at that stage there is very little time to fix anything.
Then the exam itself: Sunday, 31 January 2027. Class 6 runs 2:00 to 4:30 PM (150 minutes, 125 questions, 300 marks) and Class 9 runs 2:00 to 5:00 PM (180 minutes, 150 questions, 400 marks). Both are offline pen-and-paper OMR tests with no negative marking. Our city slip and admit card explainer lists exactly what to verify when those two documents land.
Last year, a parent told us he only discovered a spelling mistake in his son’s name when the admit card arrived — two weeks before the exam, with no correction window left. He got it fixed through the helpdesk, but he spent those two weeks in a panic no family needs. The dates above exist so that doesn’t happen to you. Use them.
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