PFRDA Grade A Admit Card 2026: Phase II Call Letter Out, Exam on 20 Nov

The PFRDA Grade A Admit Card 2026 is out. The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority put the Phase II call letter on its website on 12 November 2026, and the download window runs till 20 November 2026, the day of the exam. Only the 5,559 candidates who cleared Phase I can download it, and they are chasing 30 Officer Grade A posts. The post pays about Rs 2,05,000 a month at the start of the scale. The link sits on pfrda.org.in under the heading Download of Call Letter for Phase II, and it leads to an IBPS login page where you enter your registration number and password.

PFRDA Grade A Admit Card 2026 at a glance

How to download the call letter

Open pfrda.org.in and look for the link titled Recruitment of Grade A (Assistant Manager) 2026, Download of Call Letter for Phase II, in the What's New section on the homepage. It takes you to an IBPS portal page titled Recruitment of Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager) 2026, Call Letter for Online Phase II Examination. The page offers Hindi and English, and it asks for three things: your registration number or roll number, your password or date of birth in DD MM YY format, and a captcha.

You received your registration number and password when you registered. PFRDA showed them on screen at the time and emailed them to your registered email address, so check that inbox first if you have lost them. The date of birth has to match exactly what you entered in the application, so check the application print rather than guessing from memory. A Forgot Password link sits on the login page if the password will not come back to you any other way.

Download the PDF as soon as you can and take a clear printout. The call letter is the only place that carries your exact shift, reporting time and venue address. PFRDA does not publish those details anywhere else, and the handout says latecomers will not be allowed to take the test.

Candidates should plan to be at the venue for about 160 minutes in total, which covers login, call letter collection and instructions on top of the exam itself. The handout also advises visiting the venue a day before to confirm where it is.

Check these details the moment it downloads

Your name on the call letter has to match the name on your photo ID exactly. If it does not, sort it out before exam day, because the handout is blunt about it: the name must match. Check the photograph and signature as well, and check that the stream printed on the letter is the one you applied for.

The call letter needs a recent passport size photograph pasted on it, preferably the same photo you uploaded with the application. If the print you have is the wrong size, the site's exam photo resizer trims it to the right dimensions before you print it, which beats cutting a photo with scissors on the morning of the exam.

Keep the call letter safe after you print it. You hand it in at the end of the exam, with a photocopy of your photo ID stapled to it, in a drop box at the venue. It does not come back to you, so keep a scanned copy on your phone for your own records.

The Phase II paper, in plain terms

Phase II has two papers and they do not carry equal weight. Paper 1 is a descriptive English test for every stream, worth 100 marks in 60 minutes, and it counts for one third of the total. It has three questions: an essay of about 500 words for 40 marks, a precis of about 150 words for 25 marks, and English comprehension with five questions for 35 marks. It tests drafting skills, and it is in English only.

Paper 2 is objective, worth 100 marks in 40 minutes, and it counts for two thirds. General stream candidates face 50 multiple choice questions on Commerce, Accountancy, Management, Finance, Costing, Companies Act, Economics, Pension Sector, AI, Media, Marketing and Communication. Research, Actuary and Official Language candidates get 50 questions on the specialised subject of their own stream instead. Paper 2 is bilingual, Hindi and English, and every question carries five options.

Candidates who qualified in two streams take both Paper 2s in the same session, one after the other with no break. Their call letter carries one registration number, the latest one, one roll number and both stream names, and the session runs 140 minutes instead of 100.

Two rules in the handout deserve attention before you sit down. First, Paper 2 has negative marking of one fourth of the question's marks for a wrong answer, so a guess costs you. Second, PFRDA applies separate cut offs in each paper as well as an aggregate cut off, and PFRDA reads Paper 1 only for candidates who clear the minimum qualifying marks in Paper 2. A strong descriptive paper will not save a weak Paper 2, because it never gets read.

The exam runs on screen with a question palette that shows which questions you have answered, which you have left, which you marked for review and which you answered and marked. A Report Question facility sits on the screen too. PFRDA corrects scores and then equates them across sessions, which keeps the marking fair when candidates sit in different shifts.

What to carry, and what will get you turned away

Bring the printed call letter with your photograph pasted on it, a currently valid photo ID in original plus a photocopy of it, a ball point pen and an ink stamp pad. The handout accepts PAN Card, Passport, Permanent Driving Licence, Voter's Card with photograph, Bank Passbook with photograph, a photo ID issued by a Gazetted Officer or People's Representative on official letterhead, a valid recent College or University ID, Aadhaar or E-Aadhaar with photograph, Employee ID in original and Bar Council ID with photograph. Ration Card and Learner's Driving Licence are not accepted, so do not carry either as your only proof.

The venue gives you a sheet of paper for rough work, and it goes into the drop box with your call letter when you finish. Leave calculators, books, notebooks, written notes, cell phones and every other electronic device at home. The only exception is the calculator built into the exam screen during Paper 2: a scientific calculator for the Research stream and a simple calculator for General and Actuary.

The part candidates most often miss is the IRIS check. PFRDA captures your photograph and the IRIS of your left eye at the venue. You have to remove contact lenses and spectacles for the capture, and the handout advises avoiding contact lenses and wearing spectacles instead.

If you fail the IRIS verification, you are not admitted, and refusing the scan can cancel your candidature. Turn up with lenses in and you risk losing the exam before it starts.

The handout also warns that impersonation or fabricated documents lead to debarment, that answers are checked for similarity to catch shared responses, and that disclosing test contents can lead to prosecution. It asks candidates to note The Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024.

What happens after Phase II

Phase II decides who reaches Phase III, and the funnel is narrow. PFRDA shortlists candidates equal to five times the number of vacancies for the last stage, in order of merit, which works out to about 150 candidates from the 5,559 who cleared Phase I. Your Phase I marks do not help you here. The advertisement says PFRDA used them only to shortlist candidates for Phase II and they are not counted towards final selection, so everyone who cleared the first round starts Phase II on equal footing.

No date has been announced for Phase III yet. Keep your documents ready in the meantime, because the eligibility checks the Phase I result notice left open will happen before any appointment.

Download the call letter today rather than on 20 November. The login page stays live till the exam day, but a forgotten password or a name mismatch found at the last minute has no fix left by then. The 5,559 candidates on the shortlist have already beaten the first cut. The call letter is the next gate, and it is the easiest one to clear.

Sources & verification: PFRDA homepage, pfrda.org.in, read 13 November 2026: the What's New entries dated 12 November 2026 for Download of Call Letter for Phase II and the Information Handout for Phase II. PFRDA call letter login page on the IBPS portal, read 13 November 2026: download window 12 to 20 November 2026, login fields, Forgot Password link, Hindi and English choice. PFRDA Information Handout for Phase II, English 6 pages and Hindi 11 pages, published 12 November 2026: exam pattern, weightage, negative marking, two stream rule, documents to carry, accepted and rejected ID proofs, IRIS capture, venue timing. PFRDA result notice PFRDA/05/1/0002/2021-HR dated 4 November 2026 and Advertisement No. 03/2026 dated 3 September 2026, read first hand for the earlier result post: 30 posts, 5,559 shortlisted, Phase II exam on 20 November 2026, Phase I marks rule, five times vacancies rule for Phase III, pay scale Rs 62,500 to Rs 1,26,100.