UPSC CMS Admit Card 2026: e-Admit Card, Exam Rules, e-Summon

The CMS 2026 e-Admit Card was uploaded on 24 July 2026 for the written examination held on 2 August 2026, so no CMS admit card is pending now. The stage under way is the Personality Test, scheduled from 12 October to 17 December 2026 for 2,842 candidates, who are called through e-Summon Letters on upsconline.nic.in. Keep your e-Admit Card: UPSC says it must be preserved till the final result of CMS 2026.

How was the CMS 2026 e-Admit Card issued?

Under the CMS 2026 notice, eligible candidates get the e-Admit Card on the last working day of the week before the examination, on upsconline.nic.in, and nothing is sent by post or email. Candidates who changed their scribe up to seven days before the exam get it three days before the exam. Anyone who has not received it by that last working day must contact UPSC at once, in person at the Facilitation Counter or on helpdesk 011-24041001; if UPSC hears nothing at least three days before the exam, non-receipt is the candidate's own responsibility. An e-Admit Card does not mean candidature is cleared: UPSC checks original documents only after a candidate qualifies for the Personality Test.

What should you check on it?

• The 24 July 2026 press note asks candidates to confirm that the Name, Photograph and QR Code are correct. Discrepancies were to be emailed to [email protected]. The name may appear abbreviated for technical reasons.
• If the photograph is not clear, bring a photo identity card and two passport size photographs, one for each session, to be affixed on an undertaking at the venue.
• A candidate who has changed name must produce a Government photo ID in the changed name at each session.

Exam-day rules UPSC set for CMS 2026

• Timings: Paper-I (General Medicine and Paediatrics) from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM and Paper-II (Surgery, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Preventive & Social Medicine) from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. Entry closed 30 minutes before each session, at 09:00 AM and 01:30 PM, and UPSC advised arriving one and a half hours early for face authentication, identity verification and frisking.
• Documents: the printed e-Admit Card and the Photo ID whose number is on it, for each session; without the e-Admit Card a candidate is not allowed to sit. The notice accepts Aadhaar, Voter Card (EPIC), PAN, Passport, Driving Licence or another State/Central Government photo ID.
• Allowed in: only the e-Admit Card print, pen, pencil, identity proof, water in a transparent bottle and copies of self-photographs. Use a black ball point pen: both OMR answer sheets and the attendance list must be filled with it. A simple wrist watch is allowed; calculators are not.
• Banned: mobile phones (even switched off), smart or digital watches, other IT gadgets, books and bags, with no safe-keeping at the venue. Violations can lead to cancellation of candidature, an FIR and exclusion from later sessions.
• You may sit only at the venue printed on the e-Admit Card.

Personality Test e-Summon Letter

Written qualifiers had to update and finally submit their application form on upsconline.nic.in by 21 September 2026 (6:00 P.M.), even if nothing had changed, with proof of passing the final MBBS. The interview notice of 25 September 2026 says anyone who did not submit gets no e-Summon Letter and loses candidature. Requests to change the interview date are ordinarily not entertained. Candidates must bring original certificates of age, education, community and disability; without them they cannot appear before the board and get no travel allowance, which is limited to second or sleeper class train fare (Mail Express).

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