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.

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)

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

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)