How many Candidates applied for SSC Selection Post Recruitment Last Year?

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SSC has released the notification for Phase 9 recruitment for candidates of Matriculation, Higher Secondary and Graduation & above levels on the official site @ssc.nic.in on 24th September 2021. SSC has released notification for 3261 vacancies for SSC Selection Posts on its official website @ssc.nic.in. Through this recruitment process, the Staff Selection Commission will be recruiting various vacancies from different departments. The SSC Selection Post exam will be conducted from 2nd to 10th February 2022.

In this article, we will be discussing the number of candidates who appeared and were shortlisted in the previous year’s examination i.e. Selection Post Phase 8. The notification was released on 21st February 2020. The exam was conducted on 06-11-2020 to 10-11-2020 and 14.12.2020 (in Bihar State) at various centres all over the country.

SSC Selection Post Previous Year Vacancy-> 1355 vacancies

Number of Candidates applied Previous Year

The below table will give you information about how many candidates applied for the posts in the previous year.

Post	No. of Applicants
Graduation & above	326884
Higher Secondary	241415
Matriculation	255872
Total	8,24,171

As the number of candidates who have applied for the various post released by the Selection Post has a huge difference from the number of vacancies released. The candidates must pull up their socks and start the preparation seriously. The number of applications is more than the vacancies. There will be very tough competition as the candidates will be more for fewer posts.

Number of Candidates Shortlisted Previous Year

As the number of applicants and number of shortlisted candidates has huge difference candidates need to prepare themselves according to that for SSC Selection Post Phase 9, 2021.