NTA SSC Military Nursing Service 2024 today; important guidelines

NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct the Military Nursing Service (MNS) Selection for Short Service Commission (SSC) today. The MNS SSC 2024 will hold the computer-based test (CBT) mode from 10 am to 12.30 pm. Candidates who haven’t downloaded the hall ticket can download it through the official website, exams.nta.ac.in.

The NTA has advised candidates to bring their admit card, along with a self declaration (undertaking) downloaded from the NTA website on an A4 size paper and an attendance sheet. Candidates will also have to bring a ball point pen, a personal hand sanitizer (50 ml) and personal transparent water bottle.

The exam authority has also directed candidates not to carry instruments, geometry or pencil box, handbag, purse, any kind of stationery, eatables and water (loose or packed), mobile phone, earphone, microphone, pager, calculator, slide rules, log tables, camera, tape recorder, electronic watches with facilities of calculator, any metallic item and electronic gadgets in the examination hall.

Candidates will have to get 50% marks to clear the examination. Candidates selected in the merit will be called for interview, which will be held at Delhi. Following which, the candidates will be subjected to medical examination. The process of interview and medical examination may take 3-5 days. The candidates called for interview will be paid Sleeper class Railway fare from the place of residence to the place of interview or medical examination and back only on submission of the original tickets.

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Candidates selected for grant of SSC in the MNS will be liable to serve for five years extendable to a total tenure of fourteen (5+5+4) years, anywhere in India in the same way as Military Nursing Service (Regular) Officers of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy and Air Force).