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SSC CGL Syllabus and Pattern
The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts the SSC CGL exam. There are various SSC CGL posts for which the SSC Common Graduate Level (CGL) exam is conducted. Candidates appointed for different SSC CGL posts have different duties and responsibilities. The salary, designation, qualifications, etc. are different for each post.
SSC CGL Post Descriptions
The Staff Selection Commission conducts the SSC CGL exam to recruit candidates into various Organizations, departments, offices under the Government of India. It is a national level exam and recruitment to Group B and Group C posts in Government departments is done through this exam.
SSC CGL Posts
| SSC CGL Post | Department/Ministry | Post classification | Job Description |
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| Assistant Audit Officer | Indian Audit & Accounts Department under C&AG | Group “B” Gazetted (Non-Ministerial) | Needs to assist audits in government/public sector organisation. Also needs to travel during an inspection. |
| Assistant Accounts Officer | Indian Audit & Accounts Department under C&AG | Group “B” Gazetted (Non-Ministerial) | Work includes data entry, processing, and recording transactions. Assisting with audits or fact-checking |
| Assistant Section Officer | Central Secretariat Service, Intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Railway, Ministry of External Affairs, AFHQ, Other Ministries/ Departments/ Organizations | Group “B” | It is a desk job and the lowest post in the Central Secretariat Services. Different clerical responsibilities in different departments. Compiling files, reports, keeping track of ongoing cases, etc. |
| Inspector of Income Tax | CBDT | Group “C” | Assessing Income Tax payable by people or companies. Managing TDS and refund claim |
| Inspector (Central Excise) | CBIC | Group “B” | Checking if there is any kind of invasion of excise duty, preventing smuggling & assisting raid teams |
| Assistant Enforcement Officer | Directorate of Enforcement, Department of Revenue | Group “B” | Preventing forgery and money laundering |
| Sub Inspector | Central Bureau of Investigation | Group “B” | Main responsibility is to gather information and make enquiry and investigations |
| Inspector | Central Bureau of Narcotics | Group “B” | Illegal manufacture and transport of opium |
| Junior Statistical Officer | M/o Statistics & Programme Implementation | Group “B” | Assisting the Statistical Officer in drafting documents, data entry and tabulation |
| Statistical Investigator Grade-II | Registrar General of India | Group “B” | Drafting Documents, preparing survey reports, editing and compiling existing data |
| Auditor | Offices under C&AG, CGDA | Group “C” | Audit expense details of the State Departments |
| Accountant/ Junior Accountant | Other Ministry/ Departments | Group “C” | Passing of various bills, salary allowances, office expenses, pension-related issues |
| Senior Secretariat Assistant/ Upper Division Clerks | Central Govt. Offices/ Ministries other than CSCS cadres | Group “C” | Clerical level post. Requires employee to maintain files & data entry |
| Tax Assistant | CBDT/ CBIC | Group “C” | Access, modify and verify tax of individual or business |
| Upper Division Clerks | Government Departments | Group “C” | Maintain files, financial documents and accounts |
SSC CGL Exam Pattern
The Staff Selection Commission conducts the CGL Exam is 4 different stages called Tiers. The last Tier Exam is only for certain posts and for candidates who have qualified certain papers.
| Tier | SSC CGL Exam Pattern |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Online Multiple choice questions |
| Tier 2 | Online Multiple choice-based |
| Tier 3 | Offline Subjective |
| Tier 4 | Skill Test |
SSC CGL Tier I Syllabus
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General Intelligence & Reasoning Symbolic/Number Analogy Semantic Classification, Symbolic/Number Classification Figural Classification, Semantic Series, Number Series, Figural Series Problem Solving, Word Building, Coding & decoding Space Visualization, Venn Diagrams, Drawing inferences Indexing, Address matching, Date & city matching, Classification of centre codes/roll numbers Critical thinking, Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence |
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General Awareness History- Harappa Civilization, Vedic culture, Medieval India and their important systems; India’s freedom movement and their leaders Geography- about countries and their geographical details, Famous Seaport and Airport and their location. Polity- Administrative, Legislative and judiciary of our Country, Election, Important constitution bodies like CAG, Symbols of political parties, duties & responsibilities of the major persons in the Parliament Economy-Budget related information and terminologies, Important persons involved in Economy of the Country and monetary institutions Physics- Laws, major Inventions and Discoveries. Regular Polygons, Right Prism, Right Circular Cone, Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere, Hemispheres, Rectangular Parallelepiped, Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square base. Chemistry- Characteristics of gases, atoms, molecules Chemistry in everyday life. Complementary angles, Heights and Distances, Histogram, Data analysis Biology-Important discoveries, Interesting facts about human body parts, Nutrition in Animals and Plants, Diseases and their causes. |
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Quantitative Aptitude Number System Problems Percentage. Ratio & Proportion, Square roots, Averages, Interest Profit and Loss, Discount, Mixture. |
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English Comprehension skills Synonyms & Antonyms, One Word Substitution, grammar skills, spelling error, comprehension passages. Time and distance, Time & Work, Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra & Elementary surds, Graphs of Linear Equations. Triangle and its various kinds of centres, Congruence and similarity of triangles, Circles. General Knowledge, current affairs |
SSC CGL Tier II Syllabus
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Quantitative Aptitude Spot the Error Synonyms /Antonyms Spelling, Idioms & Phrases One Word Substitution Improvement of sentences The active/ passive voice of verbs Conversion into Direct/ indirect narration Shuffling of sentence parts in passages Comprehension passage |
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English Language & Comprehension Number System Problems Percentage Ratio & Proportion, Square roots, Averages Profit and Loss, Discount Time and distance, Time & Work, Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra Triangles, polygons, circles, cylinders |
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Statistics Data distribution, calculation, a diagrammatic representation of data Mean, mode and median Deviation, dispersion Moments and relationships- skewers, kurtosis Co-relation, regression Probability- theories, distribution Sampling theory, index numbers, time series analysis Variance |
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General Studies- Finance & Economics Finance-Fundamentals of Finance & Accounting. Economic domain Economics-Macro & Micro Economics, Growth & Development Market analysis- production, demand, supply Indian Economy, Economic reforms, Money and banking, Role of Technology |
SSC CGL Tier III Syllabus
As per the SSC CGL Exam Pattern, the Tier 3 Exam is a subjective paper that will be taken offline.
As per the SSC CGL Tier III syllabus, the main aim of this exam is to evaluate the candidates’ language proficiency, grammar knowledge, vocabulary usage, and writing skills in English/Hindi. Candidates are expected to write essays, précis, applications, letters, etc. The duration of this Tier III exam is 60 minutes.
SSC CGL Tier IV Syllabus
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SSC CGL Test Data Entry Speed test Computer Proficiency Test |
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Description 8,000 (eight thousand) Key Depression per hour on the Computer A passage of about 2000 (two thousand) key depressions for a duration of 15 (fifteen) minutes. Word Processing Spreadsheet Generation of slides |
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Post Tax Assistants( Central & Excise) Assistant Section Officer of Central Secretariat Service (CSS), Assistant Section Officer (MEA), Assistant in Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Assistant (GSI) in the Ministry of Mines. |