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SSC CGL Tier 1 Mock Test
Tier 1 has four sections of 25 questions each — General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude and English Comprehension. Every correct answer earns 2 marks and every wrong one costs 0.5.
Exam updates · checked 19 September 2026
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Before you begin
Instructions
This is a shortened paper built on the current pattern. The full paper runs 100 questions · 60 min · 200 marks.
- Questions
- 25
- Time limit
- 20 min
- Total marks
- 50
- Marking
- +2 / −0.5
- The clock starts as soon as you press Start and the paper submits itself at zero.
- You can move between questions freely and change any answer before you submit.
- Mark a question for review to come back to it — a marked question still counts as answered if you have chosen an option.
- A wrong answer costs 0.5 marks, so leave a question blank when you have no idea.
- Your score, the answer key and a full explanation for every question appear as soon as you submit.
Sections in this test
General Awareness7 Q
Reasoning6 Q
Quantitative Aptitude6 Q
English6 Q
Use the result
How to learn from this SSC CGL mock
Treat the SSC CGL Tier 1 Mock Test as a measurement, not as a verdict. The useful output is a short correction plan built from the questions that cost marks or time.
- Reproduce real conditions. Use one uninterrupted 20-minute sitting, no notes and the same answer discipline you would use in the examination.
- Review correct guesses as well as wrong answers. A lucky mark is unresolved knowledge and should enter the correction list.
- Classify the cause of every loss. Mark it as an unknown concept, wrong method, misread question, calculation slip, poor selection or time pressure.
- Choose only three immediate corrections. Revise or drill the highest-frequency causes before attempting another full paper.
- Retest with a fresh paper. Allow enough practice time for the correction to work, then check whether the same error class has declined.
How to interpret this score
This is a shortened SSC CGL practice paper, so compare accuracy, section balance and decision-making rather than treating the raw mark as a predicted official score. Cut-offs depend on the recruitment cycle, category, vacancies, paper difficulty and the authority’s scoring rules.
This exam
What this SSC CGL set is measuring
Tier 1 is a speed paper with four equally weighted sections and no sectional timing, which means the whole of it is a single allocation problem. This shortened set keeps the section split and the marking so that the allocation decision is the same one.
Read these four numbers off your result
- Accuracy, section by section — with a deduction for every wrong answer, the section where you are least accurate is costing you twice — once in the mark forgone and once in the penalty.
- Where the minutes went — quantitative aptitude absorbs time disproportionately, and candidates routinely finish it having left answerable general awareness questions unread. General awareness is the fastest section in the paper and should be attempted early.
- Blanks versus wrong answers — a blank costs nothing and a wrong answer costs the deduction. If your wrong answers outnumber your blanks by a wide margin, you are guessing past the point where the guess is informed.
- English accuracy in particular — it is the section most often treated as filler and the one where a small amount of grammar work moves a score quickly.
Tier 1 screens; Tier 2 decides
Marks from Tier 1 do not build the final merit list — Tier 2 does. That has a direct planning consequence: once your Tier 1 score is comfortably clear of the level that gets called, further effort belongs in Tier 2 preparation rather than in raising a Tier 1 score that will be discarded. Confirm the current stage structure in the notification for your cycle.
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