The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts the Combined Graduate Preliminary Examination once a year for selection of candidates for the main Examination. Candidates declared by the commission to have qualified for admission to the Main Examination on the basis of this combined preliminary examination will have to apply again with requisite fees in the prescribed application form which will be send to such qualified candidates by the concerned regional offices of the commission. Blank application forms and other particulars are published in the 'Employment News'. 

How to apply :  Application either by Regd Post/Speed Post/UPC must be submitted at the address shown in column against the selection centre selected by the candidate from the list of centres given below.  The application must be submitted in the prescribed format. Click here for the application format. Application format must be neatly typed on white paper (fullscape size) in double space and typed on only one side of the paper. Candidates can either use the Blank application forms published in the Employment News as such. 

Selection Centres :

A candidate must select one centre out the centres mentioned in coloumn-2 of the Table below.  A candidate must submit his application only to the address mentioned in Column-3 against the centre selected by him. The applications should be addressed to the Regional Offices of the Commission as indicated in the table below :-

Sl.No	Centre of Examination	Address to which Applications should be sent	Post Offices at which IPOs should  be made payable
1.	Delhi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Udaipur, Bikaner, Ajmer	Regional Director (NR), Staff Selection Commission, 5th Floor, Block No.12, C.G.O.Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003	Lodhi Road Post Office, New Delhi
2	Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Chennai, Madurai, Guntur, Tirupathi, Rajamundhry, Coimbatore, Pondicherry, Kurnool, Trichirappalli, Tirunelvelli	Regional Director (SR), Staff Selection Commission, E.V.K.Sampath Building, 2nd Floor, College Road, Chennai	Anna Road Head Post Office, Chennai
3.	Kolkata, Port Blair, Gangtok, Jalpaiguri,Midnapur,Burdwan, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Koraput,Sambalpur	Regional Director (SR), Staff Selection Commission, 5 Esplanade Row West, Old Assembly Building, Ground Floor, Kolkata-700001	GPO, Kolkata
4.	Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Pune, Rajkot, Kolkhapur, Vadodara	Regional Director (WR), Staff Selection Commission, Army Navy Building, 2 nd Floor, M.G.Road, (Opp. Jehangir Art Gallery), Kalaghoda, Mumbai - 400 001	GPO, Mumbai
5.	Allahabad, Patna, Ranchi, Dehradun, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Bokaro, Katihar, Agra, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi	Regional Director (CR), Staff Selection Commission, 8-AB, Beli Road, Allahabad-211002	Kutchery Post Office, Allahabad
6.	Guwahati (Dispur), Itanagar, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Imphal, Shilong, Aizwal, Kohima, Agartala	Regional Director (NER), Staff Selection Commission, Rukmini Nagar, P.O.Assam Sachivalaya, Guwahati-781 006	Head Office, Guwahati
7.	Bangalore, Kochi, Dharwar, Mangalore, Gulbarga, Kozhikode,Trichur, Thiruvananthapuram	Regional Director (KKR),Staff Selection Commission, Ist Floor, 2nd Block, 'E'Wing, Koramangala, Bangalore 560034	Basavanagudi H.P.O. Bangalore
8.	Raipur, Bhopal, Ambikapur, Gwalior, Indore, Jabalpur, Jagdalpur, Guna, Mandsaur, Khandwa, Chhindwara, Bilaspur, Chhattarpur, Jhabua	The Dy.Director (NWR), Staff Selection Commission, Block No. 3, Ground Floor, Kendriya Sadan, Sector -9, Chandigarh-160017	G.P.O.Chandigarh.