SSC CPO (SI & ASI) Paper I Exam 2017 was conducted today (July 01, 2017). There were 200 questions, which had to be answered in 120 minutes. There were four sections - General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Knowledge & General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude and English Comprehension. All the other sections, except the English Comprehension section, were available bilingually, that is, in both English and Hindi. Each question had 4 options. Every correct answer will fetch 1 marks and 0.25 marks will be deducted for each wrong answer.
|
Section |
Total Questions |
Level of difficulty |
Good Attempts |
Good Score |
Approximate time taken (in Minutes) |
|
General Intelligence & Reasoning |
50 |
Easy |
33-35 |
30-32 |
35 |
|
General Knowledge & General Awareness |
50 |
Moderate -Difficult |
25-28 |
23-25 |
20 |
|
Quantitative Aptitude |
50 |
Moderate -Difficult |
30-32 |
28-30 |
40 |
|
English Comprehension |
50 |
Difficult |
28-32 |
25– 28 |
25 |
|
Total |
200 |
|
124-132 |
106-115 |
120 |
In this section, questions were from an array of topics and most of them had an easy to moderate level of difficulty.
|
Topic |
Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
|
Analogy |
6 |
Easy |
|
Series |
4 |
Easy |
|
Odd one out |
6 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Visual Reasoning |
7 |
Easy |
|
Directions |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Venn diagram |
3 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Statement-conclusion/Syllogism |
2 |
Easy |
|
Word formation |
2 |
Easy |
|
Missing number |
4 |
Moderate-difficult |
|
Coding-decoding |
2 |
Easy |
|
Blood relation |
1 |
Easy |
|
Matrix based |
2 |
Easy |
|
Meaningful order/Dictionary Order |
1 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Miscellaneous |
8 |
Easy-Moderate |
As usual, maximum questions were from Science section, which were of moderate level of difficulty. Polity, Economics and Current Affairs were quantitatively second in number, having 9 questions. History was third with 7 questions. Rest of the sections were as usual in nature.
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
|
Polity |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Biology |
8 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Chemistry |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Physics |
4 |
Moderate |
|
Economics |
6 |
Moderate |
|
Geography |
6 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
History |
7 |
Moderate |
|
Current Affairs |
9 |
Moderate-Difficult |
There were few questions which were time consuming and required some rigorous calculation but could have been easily solved had they been worked out through options. Some questions were directly based on formulas.
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
|
Data Interpretation |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Work & Time, Pipes & Cisterns |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Geometry |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Mensuration |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Trigonometry |
5 |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Algebra |
4 |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Percentage |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Time, Speed and Distance |
4 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Profit, Loss and Discount |
4 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
SI/CI |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Ratio and Proportion |
1 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Mixture & Alligation |
1 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Average |
2 |
Moderate |
There were 2 Reading Comprehension Passages with 5 questions each. A majority of the questions in this section can be categorised under Vocabulary and Grammar. In Vocabulary, there were questions on Antonyms, Synonyms and One-word Substitution. In Grammar, there were questions on Sentence Improvement and Spot the Error.
|
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
|
Reading Comprehension |
10 |
Moderate-Difficult |
|
Cloze Test (Story Based) |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Spelling |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Sentence Improvement |
10 |
Easy-Moderate |
|
Spot the error |
5 |
Moderate |
|
One-word substitution |
4 |
Difficult |
|
Synonyms and Antonyms |
6 |
Difficult |
|
Idiom/Phrases |
5 |
Easy-Moderate |
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