Staff Selection Commission (Combined Graduate Level) Tier I Examination 2019: Analysis - Slot III (March 03, 2020)

SSC CGL Tier-I 2019 exam was flagged off on March 03, 2020. It is a Computer based Test (CBT) containing 100 objective type questions to be answered in 60 minutes.      
There are four sections, namely, General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude and English Comprehension consisting of 25 questions each. All sections, except the English Comprehension section are available bilingual i.e., in both Hindi and English medium. Every correct answer will fetch 2 marks and 0.50 marks will be deducted for each wrong answer. No marks will be deducted for unanswered questions.

The detailed break-up of SSC CGL Tier I Exam 2019 is as follows:

Section Total Questions Total Marks Level of difficulty

Good
Attempts

Approximate time taken
(in Minutes)
General Intelligence and Reasoning 25 50 Easy 21 - 23 15
General Awareness 25 50 Easy-Moderate 16 - 18 10
Quantitative Aptitude 25 50 Easy-Moderate 18 - 20 20
English Comprehension 25 50 Easy 21 - 23 15
Total 100 200 Easy- Moderate 76-84 60

Expected Tier I Cut-offs (Out of 200 Marks):

For All Posts:

UR (General)

OBC

SC

ST

VH

136 - 138

131 - 133

110 - 112

103 - 105

70 - 72

General Intelligence and Reasoning

Topic

Number of questions

Level of difficulty

Odd One Out

3

Easy

Analogy

3

Easy

Series

2

Easy-Moderate

Blood Relation - Symbol based

1

Moderate

Visual Reasoning - Paper Folding and Cutting

1

easy

Visual Reasoning -Mirror Image

1

Easy

Visual Reasoning - Embedded/Hidden Figure

1

Easy

Visual Reasoning - Complete the figure sequence

1

Easy

Counting of triangles

1

Easy

Mathematical Puzzle - Sign change based

1

Easy

Missing Term/matrix based

2

Easy-Moderate

Coding - Decoding

3

Easy

Mathematical Problem

1

moderate

Venn Diagram

1

Easy

Dice/Cube based

1

Easy

Syllogism/Statement-Conclusion

1

Easy

Miscellaneous

1

Easy

The level of difficulty of this section was easy. The questions in this section were similar to last year and the options could easily be eliminated to reach the correct answer.

General Awareness

The level of difficulty of this section was easy to moderate. The paper was dominated by Miscellaneous GK/Current Affairs and Science questions. There were 8/9 questions from current affairs, 4/5 questions from science, 3 questions from history, etc.

Quantitative Aptitude

Topic

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Time, Speed and Distance

2

Easy-Moderate

Time and work

2

Moderate

Geometry

2

Moderate

Trigonometry

3

Easy-Moderate

Profit, Loss and Discount

1

Easy-Moderate

Algebra

3

Easy-Moderate

Ratio and Proportion

2

Easy-Moderate

Average

2

Easy-Moderate

Percentage

1

Easy-Moderate

Simplification

1

Easy-Moderate

Simple Interest/Compound Interest

1

Moderate

Number System

1

Easy-Moderate

Data Interpretation (Table)

4

Easy

The level of difficulty of this section was easy to moderate. The section comprised questions from a variety of topics, Arithmetic, Algebra, Trigonometry and DI.

English Comprehension

Topic

Number of Questions

Level of Difficulty

Synonyms

2

Easy

Antonyms

2

Easy

One Word Substitution

2

Easy

Spot the Error

2

Easy

Sentence Improvement

2

Easy-Moderate

Active/Passive

2

Easy

Idiom/Phrase Replacement

2

Easy

Para jumble/Sentence Rearrangement

2

Easy-Moderate

Spellings

2

Easy

Fill in the blanks

1

Moderate

Narration

1

Moderate

Cloze Test

5

Easy

A majority of the questions in this section can be categorised under Vocabulary and Grammar. There was one cloze test containing 5 questions of easy level. Overall, the level of difficulty of English in this year’s paper was easy.

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