SSC CGL Tier-I 2018 exam was flagged off on June 04, 2019. The exam was conducted in three time slots. 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 2018 is as follows:
Section |
Total Questions |
Total Marks |
Level of difficulty |
Good |
Approximate time taken |
General Intelligence and Reasoning |
25 |
50 |
Easy-Moderate |
20 - 22 |
15 |
General Awareness |
25 |
50 |
Easy-Moderate |
15 – 16 |
10 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
25 |
50 |
Moderate |
17 - 19 |
20 |
English Comprehension |
25 |
50 |
Easy |
20 - 23 |
15 |
Total |
100 |
200 |
Easy- Moderate |
71-77 |
60 |
For All Posts:
UR (General) |
OBC |
SC |
ST |
VH |
129 - 133 |
113 - 117 |
101 – 105 |
91 - 95 |
88.5 – 91.5 |
The level of difficulty of this section was easy to moderate. The questions in this section were similar to last year and the options could easily be eliminated to reach the correct answer.
| Topic | Number of questions |
Level of difficulty |
Odd One Out |
3 |
Easy-Moderate |
Analogy |
4 |
Moderate |
Series |
1 |
Easy |
Blood Relation |
1 |
Easy |
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 squares |
1 |
Easy |
Mathematical Puzzle – Sign change based |
1 |
Easy |
Puzzles – Chose the set of numbers which has same relation as given in the given set. |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
Coding - Decoding |
3 |
Easy |
Mathematical Problem |
1 |
moderate |
Age problem |
1 |
Moderate |
Venn Diagram |
1 |
Easy |
Dice/Cube based |
1 |
Easy |
Syllogism |
1 |
Easy |
The level of difficulty of this section was easy to moderate. Overall, the paper was on the same pattern as last year. The paper was dominated by Science and Current Affairs questions.
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
History |
3 |
Easy-Moderate |
Geography |
2 |
Moderate |
Polity |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
Economics |
1 |
Easy-Moderate |
General Awareness – Static based |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
Science (Chemistry based) |
3 |
Easy-Moderate |
Science (Physics based) |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
Science (Biology based) |
3 |
Easy-Moderate |
Miscellaneous GK /Current Affairs |
7 |
Easy |
The level of difficulty of this section was moderate. The section comprised questions from a variety of topics, Arithmetic, Algebra, Trigonometry and DI.
| Topic | Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Boats and streams |
1 |
Easy |
Time and work |
1 |
Easy-Moderate |
Geometry |
4 |
Moderate |
Trigonometry |
4 |
Easy-Moderate |
Profit, Loss and Discount |
2 |
Moderate |
Algebra |
2 |
Moderate |
Ratio and Proportion |
2 |
Easy |
Average |
1 |
Easy |
Ages |
1 |
Easy |
Simplification |
1 |
Easy-Moderate |
Simple Interest/Compound Interest |
1 |
Moderate |
Number System |
1 |
Easy |
Data Interpretation (Table) car produced in 5 different years by 5 different companies. |
4 |
Easy |
A majority of the questions in this section can be categorised under Vocabulary and Grammar. There was no reading comprehension passage this year instead 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.
Topic |
Number of Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
Synonyms |
2 |
Easy |
Antonyms |
2 |
Easy – Moderate |
One Word Substitution |
2 |
Easy |
Spot the Error |
2 |
Easy - Moderate |
Sentence Improvement |
2 |
Easy |
Active/Passive |
2 |
Easy |
Idiom/Phrase Replacement |
2 |
Easy – Moderate |
Para jumble/Sentence Rearrangement |
2 |
Easy-Moderate |
Spellings |
2 |
Easy |
Fill in the blanks |
2 |
Moderate |
Cloze Test |
5 |
Easy |
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Team CL