Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts various examinations to select the deserving candidates for various vacant seats.

SSC conducts the most popular examination named CGL – Combined Graduate Level exam in the month of August.

No SSC CGL exam not cancelled it was postponed.

Below I am providing you important dates related to this exam:

Important Dates for SSC CGL 2016 Tier- I
Starting Date of registration procedure 13th February 2016
Last Date of registration Part I 14th March 2016 extended to 21st March 2016
Last date of application Part II extended to 24th March 2016
Examination Date (SSC CGL 2016 Tier-I) 8th and 22nd May 2016

Important Dates for SSC CGL 2016 Tier-2

Examination Date (SSC CGL 2016 Tier-II) 13th and 14th August 2016

Educational Qualification

You must have done graduation in any stream from a recognized university.

Age Limit: Candidate’s age should be between 18 to 27 years old as on 1st January 2016. Age relaxation will be applicable as per government rule.

Exam pattern:

The duration of Stage I examination is 2 hours (2 hours & 40 minutes for visually handicapped candidates) and total marks are 200.

Stage I examination contains only one paper that will be common for all categories of posts and will be schedules in one session only.

There be a penalty of 0/25 marks for every wrong answer.

The question paper will be in bilingual type i.e both in Hindi and English (except the section of English)

List of books for doing exam preparation:

Math/Quant
Arihant’s Fast Track Objective Arithmetic

English
Objective General English by S P Bakshi (Arihant)

Reasoning
Analytical Reasoning by M K Pandey

General Awareness
Manorama Yearbook 2016 (English)

Previous Years Solved Papers
Arihant’s SSC CGL Solved Papers (2010-2015)