General Intelligence and Reasoning | Quantitative Ability | English Language | General Awareness |
---|---|---|---|
Logical Reasoning | Simplification | Reading Comprehension | History |
Alphanumeric Series | Profit & Loss | Cloze Test | Culture |
Ranking/Direction/Alphabet Test | Mixtures & Allegations | Para jumbles | Geography |
Data Sufficiency | Simple Interest & Compound Interest & Surds & Indices | Miscellaneous | Economic Scene |
Coded Inequalities | Work & Time | Fill in the blanks | General Policy |
Seating Arrangement | Time & Distance | Multiple Meaning/Error Spotting | Scientific Research |
Puzzle | Mensuration – Cylinder, Cone, Sphere | Paragraph Completion | Awards and Honors |
Tabulation | Data Interpretation | One Word Substitution | Books and Authors |
Syllogism | Ratio & Proportion, Percentage | Active/Passive Voice | |
Blood Relations | Number Systems | ||
Input Output | Sequence & Series | ||
Coding Decoding | Permutation, Combination &Probability |
As stated above, this paper calls for candidates to write an essay and Letter/Application that tests their writing skills of the candidates. The essay topics will be related to National Interest, Finance & Economy, Ecological Issues, Politics, Social Issues, Schemes & Governance, Sports, Technology, Geopolitics, Environmental Concerns etc. While, the type of letter/ application asked will be Application, Complaint, Suggestion, Official Appreciation, Follow up or Feedback etc.
Tier-III of SSC CHSL 2017 will be a Skill/ Typing Test of qualifying nature. The final merit of the selected candidates will be based on the basis of total score obtained in Tier-I and Tier-II.
Eligibility Conditions:
1. Nationality/ Citizenship: A candidate must be either:
(a) a citizen of India, or
(b) a subject of Nepal, or
(c) a subject of Bhutan, or
(d) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India, before the 1st January,1962, with the intention of permanently settling in India, or
(e) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania (Formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.
Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (b), (c), (d) and (e) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.
2. Age Limit: Candidates age should be 18-27 years as on 01.08.2018 (Candidates born not before 02-08-1991 and not later than 01-08-2000).
Permissible relaxation in Upper age limit for different categories are as under:
Code |
Category | Permissible age relaxation |
01 |
SC/ ST | 5 years |
02 |
OBC | 3 years |
03 |
Persons with Disabilities (PwD) | 10 years |
04 |
PwD + OBC | 13 years |
05 |
PwD + SC/ ST | 15 years |
09 |
Ex-Servicemen | 03 years after deduction of the military service rendered from the actual age as on the closing date. |
15 |
Central Govt. Civilian Employees who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on Closing date. | Up to 40 years of age |
19 |
Central Govt. Civilian Employees (SC/ ST) who have rendered not less than 3 years regular and continuous service as on Closing date. | Up to 45 years of age |
21 |
Candidates who had ordinarily beendomiciled in the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period from 1st January 1980 to 31stDecember 1989 | 5 years |
24 |
Widows/ Divorced Women/ Women judicially separated and who are not remarried | Up to 35 years of age |
26 |
Widows/ Divorced Women/ Women judicially separated and who are not remarried (SC/ ST) | Up to 40 years of age |
27 |
Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof | 3 years |
29 |
Defence Personnel disabled in operation during hostilities with any foreign country or in a disturbed area and released as a consequence thereof (SC/ ST) | 8 (3+5) years |
33 |
Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces | Up to 45 years of age |
35 |
Service Clerks in the last year of their colour service in the Armed Forces (SC/ ST) | Up to 50 years of age |
36 |
Retrenched census employees of Office of Registrar General of India (They will be considered only for offices under RGI in their order of merit and subject toavailability of vacancies) | 3 years plus length of service rendered by them in connection with census, before retrenchment, and weightage of past service. |
3. Educational Qualification:
i. Must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or University.
ii. For Data Entry Operator in the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG): 12th Standard pass in Science stream with Mathematics as a subject from a recognized Board or equivalent.
Section |
Books |
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 2017 (English) |
Previous Years Solved Papers |
Kiran’s SSC CGL Solved Papers (1999-2017) |
The SSC CHSL Tier I is of objective type consisting of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). It has four sections with a total of 100 questions. The different sections and marking scheme of SSC CHSL Tier 1 exam are tabulated below:
SSC CHSL Exam Pattern For Tier 1 | |
Sections |
Number of Questions / Maximum Marks |
English Language |
25/50 |
General Intelligence |
25/50 |
Quantitative Aptitude |
25/50 |
General Awareness |
25/50 |
Total |
100/200 |
The total time duration for the Tier 1 exam is 60 minutes. Previously, the time duration was 75 minutes. The time duration has been reduced since last year. There is a penalty for wrong answers in this exam; 0.50 marks will be deducted for every wrong answer,
Except for the English Language section, this test will be conducted bilingually, i.e. in English and Hindi.
The SSC CHSL Descriptive Test is conducted in pen and paper-based mode. The SSC CHSL Tier II exam pattern is tabulated below:
SSC CHSL Exam Pattern For Tier 2 |
||
Topic |
Word Limit |
Maximum Marks |
Letter/Application Writing |
150-200 |
100 |
Essay Writing |
200-250 |
The total time duration for SSC CHSL Tier 2 is 1 hour. This section too will be available in both English and Hindi. Candidates need secure at least 33 percent in this exam in order to clear this stage of SSC CHSL exam.
The SSC CHSL Skill Test / Typing Test is only qualifying in nature. The SSC CHSL Tier 3 score will not be considered for final merit listing. The skill test is only conducted for candidates applying for Data Entry Operator (DEO).
Final selection of SSC CHSL candidates will be made based on the combined score of the candidates in SSC CHSL Tier 1 and Tier 2.
Category | Cut Off Marks |
SC | 122.50 |
ST | 112.00 |
OBC | 139.00 |
UR | 143.50 |
ExS | 83.00 |
OH | 111.50 |
HH | 73.50 |
VH | 95.50 |
Category | Official SSC CHSL Cut off Marks |
General | 127.0 |
OBC | 120.0 |
SC | 108.0 |
ST | 99.0 |
VH | 96.0 |
OH | 97.50 |
HH | 65.0 |
EXS | 64.50 |
Category | Official SSC CHSL Cut off Marks |
General | 127.0 |
OBC | 120.0 |
SC | 108.0 |
ST | 99.0 |
VH | 96.0 |
OH | 97.50 |
HH | 65.0 |
EXS | 64.50 |
Category | Official SSC CHSL Cut off Marks |
General | 119 |
OBC | 110 |
SC | 89.5 |
ST | 99 |
VH | 83 |
OH | 88 |
HH | 55 |
EXS | 45.5 |