The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) holds Combined Graduate Level examination (SSC-CGL) every year wherein thousands of posts for the various profiles are filled by the commission.

The exam is held in three stages called as Three Tier Examination. First two tiers are having the written test whereas the third stage is of a personality test.

Paper pattern:


Subject Questions Marks

General Awareness 25 50
General Intelligence and Reasoning 25 50
Quantitative Aptitude 25 50
English 25 50
Total 100


Time : 75 Minutes
Negative Marking : -0.50
Total Number of Questions: 100
Sectional Cut off : No

Some best books for GK:

General Awareness Manorama Yearbook 2016 (English)

General Awareness:

Objective General Knowledge
Objective General Knowledge (Vastunisth Samanya Gyan- HIndi)


SSC General Awareness - Chapterwise Solved Papers 1997 totill Date (8425+Objective Question) by Kiran Prakashan

Some other books:

Math/Quantative:
SSC Mathematics Chapterwise Solved Papers 1999 – Till Date by Kiran Prakashan
Magical Book On Quicker Maths (Hindi Edition Book buy Link)
Arihant’s Fast Track Objective Arithmetic (Hindi Edition Book buy Link)

English Sec:
Objective General English by S P Bakshi (Arihant)
Objective General English by RS Aggarwal & Vikas Aggarwal
S.S.C. English: PT & Mains - Previous Papers Till 2014

Reasoning Sec:
Analytical Reasoning by M K Pandey
Verbal and Nonverbal Reasoning by R S Aggarwal
New Approach to Reasoning Verbal, Non-Verbal & Analytical by B S Sijwali, Indu Sijwali