Dear Aspirants,
The most awaited exam of the year, SSC CGL 2018-19 Tier 1, has kickstarted from 4th June with lakhs of aspirants appearing for the exam in various shifts. The exam process will continue over a period of 9-10 days and needless to say, sscadda will keep an eye on this exam from the very first day itself. Through this post, we are providing the detailed topic wise analysis of SSC CGL Tier 1 that will help the candidates appearing for the exam in the upcoming days. The exam is of moderate level.
SSC CGL 2018-19 Tier 1 Good Attempts
Let’s look at the exam pattern of SSC CGL 2018-19 Tier 1 and the good attempts that can give you a rough idea of the ideal score for SSC CGL tier 1.
The subject-wise details are given below:
| Section | Subject | No of Questions | Good Attempts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | General Intelligence and Reasoning | 25 | 20-22 |
| 2 | General Awareness | 25 | 17-18 |
| 3 | Quantitative Aptitude | 25 | 15-17 |
| 4 | English Comprehension | 25 | 17-20 |
| Total | 100 | 69-77 |
Note:
- There is a negative marking of 0.5 marks in all sections.
- The duration of the exam is 80 minutes for candidates who are visually handicapped.
Subject Wise Analysis of SSC CGL Tier 1
SSC CGL Exam Analysis: General Intelligence & Reasoning
The General Intelligence and Reasoning section is said to be the easiest and most scoring section of SSC CGL tier 1. However, questions asked in today’s 2nd Shift were easy to moderate level. 3-4 Questions were a bit time consuming.
The topic wise distribution of questions is given in the below table:
| S.No. | Topics | No. Of Questions asked | Level Of Exam |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Analogy | 3-4 | Easy |
| 2 | Odd One Out | 3 | Easy |
| 3 | Series | 3 | Easy-Moderate |
| 4 | Statement & Conclusions | 1 | Easy |
| 5 | Directions | – | – |
| 6 | Sequence (Acc. to Dictionary) | 1 | Easy |
| 7 | Word Formation | – | – |
| 8 | Coding-Decoding | 2 | Easy |
| 9 | Mathematical Operations | 1 | Easy |
| 10 | Matrix | – | – |
| 11 | Blood Relation | 1 | Difficult |
| 12 | Mirror Image | 1 | Easy |
| 13 | Venn Diagram | 2 | Easy |
| 14 | Paper Folding Image | 1 | Easy |
| 15 | Missing Term | 1 | Easy |
| 16 | Hidden Figure | 1 | Easy |
| 17 | Cube | 1 | Easy |
| 18 | Counting Figure | 1 | Easy |
| 19 | Complete Figure | 1 | Easy |
| 20 | Misc. | 1 | Easy |
| Total Questions | 25 | Easy |
SSC CGL Exam Analysis: English Language
The English Language section can be a tough call for aspirants who are weak in this subject. But In today’s SSC CGL 2018 1st Shift Exam, English language section was easy-moderate.
You can refer the below table to check the level of this section with the topic wise distribution of questions:
Idioms- Couch Potato & Leading with nose
Antonym of “Limit”
Synonym of DUBIOUS
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| S.No. | Topics | No. Of Questions asked | Level Of Exam |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fill in the Blanks | – | Easy |
| 2 | Sentence Improvement | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| 3 | Error Detection | 3 | Easy-Moderate |
| 4 | Sentence Rearrangement | 2-3 | Easy-Moderate |
| 5 | Idioms and Phrases | 2 | Easy |
| 6 | Synonyms | 2 | Easy |
| 7 | Antonyms | 2 | Easy |
| 8 | Active Passive / Speech | 2-3 | Easy-Moderate |
| 9 | One word substitution | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| 10 | Word Correction in the sentence (bold word) | – | |
| 11 | Spelling Correction | 2 | Easy |
| 12 | Cloze test | 5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total Questions | 25 | Easy-Moderate |
SSC CGL Exam Analysis: Quantitative Aptitude
Quantitative Aptitude can be a challenging section in SSC CGL Tier 1. This section was lengthy. Quantitative Aptitude Section gave a tough time to the candidates with its 5-6 time consuming questions. 15-17 attempts with accuracy can save your boat in this section.
Check the below table which depicts topic wise analysis of quantitative aptitude section:
- x+y=12, xy= 27, x3 – y3=?
- Sin£=4cos£ to sin£cos£=?
- If the ratio of A:B present age is 8:9 then their ratio after 9 year is 21: 19. And C is 3 year younger than B, then find the age of C?
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| S.No. | Topics | No. Of Questions asked | Level of Exam |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ratio (Age based) | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| 2 | Average | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| 3 | Number System | 2 | Easy |
| 4 | Simplification | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| 5 | Time & Work | 1 | Easy |
| 6 | Time, Speed & Distance | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| 7 | S.I. & C.I. | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| 8 | Profit & Loss | 4 | Easy |
| 9 | Co-ordinate Geometry | – | |
| 10 | Geometry | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
| 11 | Mensuration | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| 12 | Trigonometry | 3 | Easy |
| 12 | Percentage | – | – |
| 12 | Algebra | 2 | Easy |
| 13 | DI (Tabular) | 4 | Easy-Moderate |
| Total Questions | 25 | Moderate |
SSC CGL Exam Analysis: General Awareness
General Awareness covers a vast range of topics that can be asked in the exam. It usually comes up with surprises in SSC CGL tier1. Current affairs have been a favorite topic since previous years and in today’s exam too, there was a fair share of CA questions. Questions were of direct approach from History, General Science and other parts.
Refer to the below table to check which topic was asked the most.
Questions from today’s questions:
- Current affairs were asked from March 2019
- Who is the director of BARC?
- Who is head of Niti Ayog?
- 24th April-30th April was celebrated as which week?
- One question related to Article 43.
- Who was the Founder of Syed dynasty?
- Which pass divides J&K?
- Which article enables a citizen to take constitutional remedy?
- Manjuli island in which state?
- Who is the first lok pal of India
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| S.No. | Topics | No. Of Questions asked | Level Of Exam |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | History | 2-3 | Easy-Moderate |
| 2 | Polity | 2 | Easy |
| 3 | Geography | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
| 4 | Economics | 2 | Easy |
| 5 | Static Awareness | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| 6 | Biology | 2-3 | Easy |
| 7 | Chemistry | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
| 8 | Physics | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| 9 | Computer | – | – |
| 10 | Current Affairs | 6-7 | Easy |
| Total Questions | 25 | Easy-Moderate |
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