Syllabus & Pattern

 
Staff Selection commission (SSC) is the central government authorized organization, to conduct the competitive examination for the recruitment and direct recruitment for the vacancies under the departments, organizations or ministries of government. SSC recruits the eligible and capable aspirants for the group B and Group C non technical vacancies. SSC conducts the CGL Exam, CHSL exam, Constable GD exam, Junior Engineer, Senior Engineer and Non technical staff exam every year.

Combined Graduate Level (CGL) notification will be released in March every year.
The examination will be conducted in the month of June or July for CGL tier 1 exam. Combined Graduate Level examination consists of three tiers, i.e. tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3.

Vacancies through SSC Combined Graduate Level Exam

The various posts (Group B & Group C) offered through this Combined Graduate Level examination are Inspector of Income Tax, Inspector of Central Excise, Inspector (Preventive Office), Inspector (Examiner), Inspector of Posts, Assistant Enforcement Officer, Inspector (CBN) Compiler, Divisional Accountant, Auditors, UDCs, Tax Assistants, Junior Accountant & Accountant, Sub Inspector (CBN), Statistical Investigator Gr.II and Assistant or Sub Inspector in CBI.

New Pattern from 2016 (online): 
 There will be three tier in SSC CGL examination details of each is given below:

Exam	Details
Tier-1 examination	online computer based examination (objective type questions)
Tier-2 examination	online computer based examination (objective type questions)
Tier-3 examination	Descriptive test(English/Hindi), skill test, computer proficiency test

Candidates who are interested to apply for these posts can check the SSC CGL Tier 1 Exam pattern 2016.

New SSC CGL Tier 1 Exam pattern 2016 online
The Examination is objective type Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). The exam paper consists of four sections with 25 questions each for 100 marks. The four sections are General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude and English Comprehension. Each question carries equal marks i.e. 2 mark. There is also negative marking. 0.5 marks will be deducted for each wrong question. 
SSC Combined graduate Level Tier-I exam pattern

Part	Subjects	Questions	Marks	Duration
Part A	General Intelligence & Reasoning	25	50	75 minuts
Part B	General Awareness	25	50
Part C	Quantitative Aptitude	25	50
Part D	English Comprehension	25	50

Tier-1 will be used to screen the candidates for appearing in tier II for various papers which will be specifically required for different groups of posts. The marks obtained in tier-I examination are also counted along with tier-II marks and marks secured in Descriptive paper for final merit of the candidates.

Syllabus of Tire-1

General Intelligence:

·                     Semantic Analogy

·                     Symbolic operations

·                     Symbolic/Number Analogy

·                     Number Series

·                     Embedded figures

·                     Figural Series

·                     Critical Thinking

·                     Problem Solving etc.

English Language

·                     Fill in the Blanks

·                     Synonyms & Antonyms

·                     Error detection (Grammatical error only)

·                     Spellings/Detecting Miss spelt words

·                     Sentence Improvement

·                     Idioms & Phrases, one word substitution

·                     Comprehension Reading based Question (two passages).

General Awareness:

·                     History & culture of India

·                     Geography & Political Science

·                     Economic Scene

·                     General Science: basic question of Biology, Physics, Chemistry & Computer

·                     Scientific research, Tradition General Knowledge, Current Affairs etc.

Quantitative Aptitude

·                     Time, Work and distance

·                     Data Interpretation (Bar graph, pie chart etc.) 

·                     Averages

·                     Simple and Compound Interest

·                     Profit and Loss

·                     Discount

·                     Partnership Business

·                     Mixture

·                     Trigonometry

·                     Mensuration

·                     Geometry etc.

Tire-2 paper pattern online

Part	Subjects	No. of Questions	Max Marks	Timings for General Candidates	Timings for Handicapped Candidates
1	Quantitative Abilities	100	200	2 Hours	2 Hours 40 min
2	General English	200	200
3	Statistics	200	200

NOTE:

• Tier-II consists of three different papers/subjects and depending upon the category of posts applied for, the candidates are needed to appear in two or three papers.

• Paper-I & II are compulsory for all the categories of posts.
• Paper-III is compulsory only for those candidates who apply for the posts of Statistical Investigators Group II & Compiler.
• There will be negative marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer.

Tier II Syllabus

PAPER I

Arithmetic Ability

• Number Systems
• Computation of Whole Numbers
• Decimals and Fractions
• Fundamental Arithmetical Operations
• Percentage, Ratio and Proportion
• Average and Interest
• Profit and Loss
• Discount
• Use of Table and Graphs
• Mensuration
• Time and Distance
• Ratio and Time etc.

PAPER II

English Language & Comprehension

• Error recognition
• Filling blanks with appropriate verbs
• Preposition
• Articles
• Vocabulary
• Spellings
• Grammar
• Sentence Structure and Sentence Completion etc

PAPER III
Commerce / Mathematics / Statistics / Economics (for Investigator Grade-II, for Ministry of Statistics & Program Implementation and Compiler for Registrar General of India, Ministry of Home Affairs)

Commerce

• Accountancy
• Business Organization
• Management
• Micro-economics and Indian economics
• Business Statistics, Law
• Company Law
• Cost Accounting
• Auditing and Income Tax

Mathematics:

• Algebra
• Matrices
• Statistics
• Analytic Geometry
• Differential Equation
• Differential and Integral Calculus

Statistics

• Probability Distributions, Binomial, Poisson, Normal, Exponential
• Compilation, classification, tabulation of Statistical Data, Graphical presentation of data, Measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, measures of association.
• Contingency, scatter diagram, correlation coefficient, rank correlation coefficient and linear regression analysis (for two or more variables) excluding partial correlation coefficients.

Economics

• General Economics (Demand and Supply Analysis, Production Function and Laws of Returns, Commodity Pricing, Theory of Factor Pricing, Theory of Employment, Keynesian Theory of Employment etc)
• Indian Economics and General Statistics (Collection of data and editing of data, Types of sampling, Schedule and questionnaire, Presentation of data, Measures of Central Tendency, National Income and Accounting, Agricultural secto

SSC CGL Tier 3 :

This exam will follow below sections for 100 marks:

Part	Sections
1.	Descriptive Test(english/ hindi)
2.	Computer Test
3.	skill test

Tier III Syllabus:
In this session only skill test is conduct of 100 marks candidates who qualified in this above two tier will called for Tier III round.

Descriptive test

• Descriptive test will carry a maximum of 100 marks. an essay writing in english/ hindi.
• Candidates applying for Auditor, Accountant, UDCs, Tax Assistant, and Compiler are not required to appear for an interview.

SKILL TEST

• Computer Proficiency Test (CPT) for post of Assistant in CSS only. This test is of qualifying nature and has components of Word Processing, Spread Sheets and generation of slides.
• Skill Test is applicable for the post of Tax Assistants (Central Excise and Income Tax). To get qualified, one should score Data Entry Speed Skill Test at 2000 (two thousand) key depressions for a duration of 15 (fifteen) minutes.