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A mock test is a measuring instrument, not a study session. Its job is to tell you where you actually stand under a clock, and it only does that job if you take it under real conditions.

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SSC CGL · checked 19 September 2026

SSC CGL at a glance, from the official notices

The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.

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19September 2026

Checked 19 September 2026

SSC CGL: the facts that matter now

  1. 01

    Notice 21 May 2026; about 12,256 tentative vacancies; Tier 1 from 30 September to 30 October 2026 (schedule notice of 12 September 2026); Tier 2…

    2026 cycle

  2. 02

    Staff Selection Commission (SSC)

    Conducted by

  3. 03

    Graduate — a bachelor’s degree in any discipline as on the closing date

    Level

  4. 04

    Tier 1 (qualifying, 200 marks) → Tier 2 (merit, 390 + qualifying modules) → document verification

    Stages

Practice

SSC CGL — Using mock tests as a measurement

The free SSC CGL mock on this site follows the Tier 1 pattern — four sections, 100 questions, 200 marks, 60 minutes, with the same negative marking the real paper applies. You get your score, the correct answers and a section-wise breakdown at the end, which is the part worth reading.

Conditions that make a mock score mean something

  • One sitting, no pauses, no looking anything up.
  • A clock you can see, because pacing is half of what Tier 1 measures.
  • The same time of day as your exam slot, once you know it.
  • No second attempt at the same paper — a repeat measures memory, not ability.

What to do afterwards matters more than the score itself. Sort the questions you got wrong into three piles: ones you did not know, ones you knew but misread, and ones you knew but ran out of time for. Those three failures have three completely different fixes, and treating them all as "revise the topic" is why some candidates plateau despite taking dozens of mocks.

Reading your analysis

  1. Accuracy before attempts. An 85% accuracy on 70 attempts beats 60% on 95 attempts once negative marking is applied.
  2. Find your slowest section. Then check whether it is slow because it is hard for you, or slow because you attempt it last when you are rushed.
  3. Look at what you skipped. Skipping is a skill. Skipping the wrong questions — the ones you could have solved in forty seconds — is the most common silent leak.
  4. Re-test in two weeks, not two days. You need enough time in between for the corrections to have actually changed something.

Start practising

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Tier 2 needs its own mock practice, and starting it only after the Tier 1 result is the most common scheduling mistake in this exam. The gap between the two stages is short, the mathematics is deeper, and the modules are separately timed — so a candidate who has only ever practised the open sixty-minute Tier 1 format arrives at Tier 2 having never rehearsed the constraint that actually binds there. Sit at least a few Tier 2 papers while you are still preparing for Tier 1.

Full-length mocks
Measure pacing, stamina and decision-making under a clock. These are the only tests that tell you what your score would be tomorrow. Because each one costs a full sitting plus an hour of analysis, one or two a week is usually the right rate — more than that and the analysis quietly stops happening.
Sectional tests
Measure one subject at a time, which is what you want while you are still building. A twenty-minute reasoning set gives cleaner feedback about reasoning than a full mock does, because nothing else is competing for your attention.
Topic tests
Measure whether a specific topic has actually landed. Use one immediately after finishing a topic, then again three weeks later. The second attempt is the informative one.

When your mock score stops moving

A plateau after several mocks almost never means you have reached your ceiling. It usually means your analysis has become a scoring ritual rather than a diagnosis. If three consecutive mocks produce the same score, stop taking them for two weeks, work only on the topics your error log names most often, and then re-test.

What a CGL Tier 1 result is telling you, section by section.
What you seeWhat it usually meansWhat to change
General awareness answered fast and badlyCoverage rather than technique. These questions are single-fact — you either hold it or you do not.Build the pair-format static sheet and revise it in short daily sessions. Nothing else moves this section.
Quantitative section consumed most of the clockCalculation speed, not method knowledge.Fifteen minutes of daily arithmetic drill. Then re-sit and compare minutes, not marks.
Reasoning slow on non-verbal questionsUnfamiliarity. Non-verbal families are closed and mechanical.Work one non-verbal family to fluency at a time rather than mixing them.
Wrong answers far outnumber blanksGuessing past the point where the guess is informed, in a paper that deducts.Mark every guessed question and study only those topics. Do not raise the attempt count.
Score plateaued for several weeksRevision has replaced practice.Replace reading hours with solving hours for a fortnight, then re-measure.

Exam resources

Everything for SSC CGL

Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.

SSC CGL SyllabusSSC CGL syllabus for Tier 1 and Tier 2 — section-wise topics in reasoning, quantitative aptitude, English, general awareness, statistics and finance.SSC CGL Exam PatternSSC CGL exam pattern 2026 — Tier 1 and Tier 2 tables with questions, marks, time, sectional timers and negative marking, plus the qualifying marks and cut-offs.SSC CGL Previous PapersSSC CGL previous year question papers — how to read them for question trends across Tier 1 and Tier 2 rather than treating them as extra mock tests.SSC CGL Mock TestsFree SSC CGL mock tests on the current Tier 1 pattern — 100 questions in 60 minutes, with scoring, answer key and section-wise analysis.SSC CGL PreparationSSC CGL preparation strategy — how to sequence subjects, build speed for Tier 1 and shift focus to Tier 2, with a realistic timeline.SSC CGL Study MaterialSSC CGL study material — subject-wise notes for quantitative aptitude, reasoning, English and general awareness mapped to the Tier 1 and Tier 2 syllabus.

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