Last verified: 9 October 2026. The portal check is CONFIRMED — the official NTA AISSEE portal (exams.nta.nic.in/sainik-school-society/) was opened this evening and shows only 2026-cycle items, no AISSEE 2027 notification. The 10 October 2025 opening date and last year’s schedule are CONFIRMED from Careers360’s AISSEE tracker and AglaSem, which independently report the same dates. Everything about the 2027 cycle beyond the exam date is EXPECTED, based on past patterns.
Tomorrow, 10 October 2026, marks exactly one year since the AISSEE 2026 application window opened. Last year’s form went live on 10 October 2025, closed (after an extension) on 9 November 2025, and the exam followed on 18 January 2026.
This year, on the evening of 9 October 2026, there is nothing. No notification, no information bulletin, no application link. The official portal’s “Latest News” section lists only 2026-cycle items: the score card, the qualified-not-qualified lists, the answer keys, the counselling. The 2027 cycle exists officially in exactly one place so far — a single line in the NTA examination calendar: 31 January 2027.
That makes this the most concrete thing that can be said about the delay: it is now officially later than last year’s launch date, and NTA has offered no explanation.
The exam date is not moving around like the notification is. The NTA exam calendar dated 16 September 2026 places AISSEE 2027 on 31 January 2027 — the tentative date is CONFIRMED at the calendar level. Between today and that date are 114 days.
If NTA follows even a compressed version of last year’s pattern — a ~30-day application window plus a correction window — the notification has to arrive within the next two weeks for the January exam to stay comfortable. A mid-November form launch would leave roughly two months between form closure and the exam, tighter than any recent cycle. None of this means the exam date will change. But every week of delay is a week of preparation parents are planning around a form that does not exist yet.
Two things, and only two, are worth doing this week:
1. Finish the documents now. When the form opens, you will need a scanned photograph, signature and left-thumb impression in JPG/JPEG, plus the birth certificate and domicile certificate within NTA’s size limits. Last year’s bulletin required the photo between 10–200 KB. Assemble these today so a sudden announcement does not catch you scanning certificates at a cyber cafe.
2. Keep studying to the January timeline. The delay in the notification does not delay the syllabus. The exam pattern — Class 6’s 150-minute, 125-question paper and Class 9’s 180-minute, 150-question paper, both with no negative marking — is set by the last published bulletin, and the safest assumption is that it repeats.
What you should not do: trust any YouTube thumbnail or WhatsApp forward announcing “form dates out” or “last date confirmed”. Until the portal itself carries the bulletin, every date you see is someone’s guess. We check the portal every day and will report the moment the notification actually appears.
Is the AISSEE 2027 notification released? No. As of 9 October 2026, the NTA’s official AISSEE portal shows no AISSEE 2027 notification or application link — the portal still carries only 2026-cycle updates.
When will the AISSEE 2027 application form open? No date has been announced. Last year’s form opened on 10 October 2025, so many parents expected news this week, but NTA has confirmed nothing yet. The October–November 2026 window remains the expectation based on past patterns.
Is the AISSEE 2027 exam date confirmed? The exam is tentatively set for 31 January 2027 in the NTA’s examination calendar released on 16 September 2026. That date stands even while the application schedule is awaited.
What should parents do while waiting for the notification? Keep the child’s documents ready — birth certificate, domicile, photograph, signature and thumb impression in JPG format within NTA’s size limits — and continue exam preparation. When the form opens, early applicants also get a better choice of exam cities.
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