SSC CGL Tier I, 24 Sep 2025, Shift 2 question paper
100 questions · 200 marks · 60 minutes · +2 per correct answer, -0.5 per wrong one
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General Intelligence and Reasoning
25 questions
- 1If in a code A=26, B=25, ..., Z=1, what is the code for CAT?
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- 2Choose the address that is the same as the one given below. D-14, New Friends Colony,South Delhi,Delhi - 110065
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- 3In a series of seminars held daily from to Feb, Calicut – Feb 2022, Patna – Feb 2022, Tiruchirappalli – Feb 2022, Raipur – Feb 2022, Rourkela – Feb 2022 Jamshedpur – Feb 2022, Durgapur – Feb 2022, Warangal – Feb 2022 Which city's seminar was held exactly two days after the seminar in Patna?
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- 4If 11 - 3 = 5, 14 - 5 = 4, then 18 - 6 = ?
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- 5If 4 # 3 = 7, 6 # 2 = 8, then 5 # 7 = ?
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- 6If 4#2=10 5#3=18 6#4=28 Then what is 7#5=?
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- 7Find the odd one out.
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- 8A is the daughter of B. B is the daughter of C. How is A related to C?
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- 9Find the missing number: 11 : 1452 :: 12 : ?
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- 10Read the following statement carefully and identify the conclusion that follows. Statement: All squares are rectangles. All rectangles are quadrilaterals. Conclusions: I. All squares are quadrilaterals. II. Some quadrilaterals are rectangles.
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- 11Read the following statement carefully and identify the conclusion that follows. Statement: No woman is lazy. Some men are lazy. Conclusions: I. No man is a woman. II. Some lazy people are men.
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- 12Which of the following words will come first in the dictionary?
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- 13Choose the item that breaks the rule. A5, C7, E9, G11, I10
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- 14Complete the series. 2, 3, 5, 9, 17, ___
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- 15Find the INCORRECT number in the series. 3, 6, 9, 13, 15, 18
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- 16What comes next? G7, T20, H8, S19, ?
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- 17What should come at the place of question mark? : 625, 125, 25, 5, ?, ?
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- 18A cone and a cylinder have the same base radius and the same height. What is the ratio of the volume of the cone to the volume of the cylinder?
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- 19Instruction: In a language, if ‘red green blue’ is coded as ‘ka ta na’, ‘blue white black’ as ‘na ja sa’, and ‘white red’ as ‘ja ka’, Question: what is the code for ‘green’?
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- 20If in a certain code, 'APPLE' is written as 'ELPPA', how will 'PPLEA' be written?
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- 21If + = , - = , = -, = +; 6 + 2 - 4 2 1 = ?
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- 22The sum of two numbers is 40 and their difference is 4. What is the product of the numbers?
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- 23A man buys 1 banana for ₹2 and sells it for ₹3. He repeats this 100 times. Profit = ?
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- 24If MISSION is coded as NJTTJPO, how is NJTTJPO coded?
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- 25If in a code, PEARL is written as SHDUO, how is STONE written?
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General Awareness
25 questions
- 26Which of the following is a key requirement for admissibility of an electronic record under the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), even if it's a secondary evidence?
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- 27The Sun Temple at Konark looks like a big chariot. How many horses does it have?
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- 28Which of the following best characterizes the Mathura school of Buddhist art and architecture?
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- 29The Pola festival, celebrated in the Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh, is dedicated to which of the following?
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- 30Which script is predominantly used in the inscriptions of Emperor Aśoka?
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- 31In the context of Gupta dynasty's administration, which of the following officers is correctly paired with their respective role?
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- 32Consider the following statements about badminton strokes: 1) Backhand Net Kill and Forehand Net Kill are examples of forecourt strokes played near the net. 2) Backhand Drive and Forehand Drive are midcourt strokes played from the middle of the court. 3) Forehand Clear is a type of rear court stroke played from the back of the court. Which of the statements given above are correct?
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- 33The reign of Prithviraj Chauhan concluded in which year?
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- 34What was the role of the India Council established by the Government of India Act, 1858?
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- 35Consider the following statements about the 38th National Games Judo 2025 Final Results: 1) Sidharth Rawat from Uttarakhand won the gold medal in the men's 60 kg category, while Asmita Dev from Uttar Pradesh won the women's 48 kg category. 2) Rohit Majgul of Gujarat won gold in men's -66 kg, and Shraddha Chopade of Maharashtra won gold in women's 52 kg. Which of the statements is/are correct?
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- 36Read the below statements marked as Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Mark the correct options: Assertion (A): In squash, the serve must hit the front wall between the service line and out line and land in the opposite half of the court beyond the half-court line for it to be legal. Reason (R): Players must alternate between service boxes after each successful serve to maintain fairness and court coverage during the match.
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- 37Who is the author of the book 'The Great Indian Novel'?
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- 38Which of the following statements correctly identifies the author and thematic focus of the novel "A Fine Balance"?
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- 39Who did Maharashtra's Kavya Bhatta defeat to win gold at the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 in the girls' singles table tennis final?
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- 40Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding the role of the Rajya Sabha in special legislative and emergency situations? 1) Under Article 249, a Rajya Sabha resolution allowing Parliament to legislate on State List subjects remains valid for one year. 2) The Parliament can extend a proclamation of President's Rule only with the concurrence of the Rajya Sabha.
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- 41The minimum number of rays required to locate the image formed by a spherical mirror is ______.
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- 42Consider the statements about Karma: 1. The ritual honours the Karam tree on Bhadra Ekadashi in Chhattisgarh. 2. The drum most associated is the Madal. Which is/are correct?
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- 43Which of the following best defines Capital Receipts?
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- 44Which of the following statements about factors affecting the Money Multiplier (MM) is/are correct? 1. Cash held by individuals acts as a leakage and reduces the money multiplier. 2. Higher reserves held by banks with the RBI increase the money multiplier. 3. A higher Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) reduces the banking system's capacity to create money.
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- 45Which universities collaborate to produce the Environmental Performance Index (EPI)?
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- 46Thakkar Bapa was a dedicated social worker and freedom fighter primarily known for his lifelong efforts towards the upliftment and welfare of which section of Indian society?
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- 47Which of the following best describes the role and personality traits of Shaheed Kanhu and Sidhu Murmu during the Santhal Rebellion of 1855?
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- 48The lead bank scheme was introduced in which year?
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- 49Which Five Year Plan laid the foundation of India's socialist pattern of society?
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- 50Which sectors were largely excluded from industrial licensing after 1991?
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Quantitative Aptitude
25 questions
- 51Vidhya lent Rs. 6000 to Kavya for 3 years at the rate of per annum compound interest. Calculate the amount that Vidhya will get after 3 years.
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- 52Which of the following statement is TRUE for Whole Numbers?
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- 53Dhiraj goes to his school from his house at a speed of 3.8 km/hr and returns at 2.6 km/ hr. If he takes 5 hours going and coming, the distance between his house and school is:
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- 54A spherical shell has an outer diameter of 20 cm and is 1 cm thick. What is the volume of the material in the shell? (Use ).
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- 55A rectangular aquarium (100 cm L 50 cm W 60 cm H) contains water with an initial level of 20 cm. 10 identical metal spheres, each with a diameter of 10 cm, are gently lowered into the aquarium. Assuming the spheres are fully submerged, what is the rise in the water level?
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- 56'A', 'B', and 'C' formed a consulting firm. Their capital investments were Rs. 6,00,000, Rs. 4,00,000, and Rs. 5,00,000, respectively. After 3 months, 'A' withdrew Rs. 1,00,000, and 'B' added Rs. 1,00,000. The partnership lasted for 9 months. What was the ratio of their effective capital contributions?
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- 57The price of a product is decreased by and then increased by . The final price becomes less than the original. What is the value of x (approximately)?
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- 58A floor is 12 m by 9 m. If tiles of 1.5 m 1.5 m are used, how many tiles are needed?
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- 59A store sign is a 5 m 4 m rectangle with a 2 m 1 m rectangle cut out. Painting cost is ₹180/. How much will the painting cost for the exposed area?
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- 60A regular hexagonal nut has outer side 6 cm and inner hollow side 3 cm. What is the material approximate area in the cross-section?
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- 61A man got of his investment as profit. If he invested Rs. 5000, and the profit was reinvested, what will be the total value after the second year with the same profit rate?
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- 62A dealer sells a packet of cookies at Rs. 120 after giving a discount on the marked price. If the profit earned is , find the cost price.
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- 63In a company, the average salary of 5 engineers is Rs. 60,000. If one engineer leaves and the average salary becomes Rs. 58,000, what was the salary of the engineer who left?
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- 64A triangular storage prism has a base shaped like a right triangle with side lengths in the ratio 5:12:13. If the total perimeter of the base is 60 cm and the height of the prism is 8 cm, calculate the lateral surface area of the prism.
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- 65The average of 9 numbers is 63. When one number is removed, the average becomes 60. What number was removed?
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- 66A wholesaler marks up a batch of 100 identical clocks by on cost and offers a trade discount of to retailers. A retailer purchases all the clocks and spends Rs. 48,000. What is the cost price per clock for the wholesaler?
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- 67If , then what is the value of ?
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- 68If , then what is the value of ?
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- 69A sector of a circle having a radius of 10 cm and has a central angle of radians. What is the area of the sector?
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- 70If and is acute, then what is the value of in terms of x?
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- 71The radii of two circles are 6 cm and 2 cm. The centers of the two circles are 10 cm apart. What is the length of a transverse common tangent?
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- 72In a circle, a chord PQ subtends an angle of at point R on the circumference. What is the angle it subtends at point S on the circumference, on the same side as R?
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- 73A circle with a radius of 20 cm. A chord of length 32 cm is drawn. What is the distance from the center of the circle to the chord?
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- 74In a circle, chord AB subtends an angle of at the center. What is the angle subtended by the same chord AB at any point C on the major arc (opposite side of the center)?
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- 75A line is drawn from a point P located 13 cm away from the center O of a circle with radius 5 cm. If the line is tangent to the circle, what is the length of the tangent from point P to the point of contact with the circle?
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English Comprehension
25 questions
- 76Fill in the blank with the correctly spelt word. The species showed remarkable _________ to extreme conditions.
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- 77Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word: TRUNCATED
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- 78Select the most appropriate antonym of the given word. Pulverize
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- 79Choose the correct meaning of idiom: The writing on the wall
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- 80Choose the correct spelling of the word meaning 'easily broken'.
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- 81Choose the correct one-word substitute for: 'A person who is unable to pay debts'.
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- 82Choose the correct one-word substitute for: 'A person who is skilled in many areas'.
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- In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank: To conceive of gender as ontologically prior or naturally originary is to misrecognize its status as a [1] _______, a semiotic and performative topology whose coherence is secured only through its reiteration across spatial, legal, and psychic apparatuses. Within this regime, embodiment is not merely lived but mediated—filtered through hermeneutic technologies that valorize some corporealities while rendering others abject, deviant, or structurally unintelligible. The state, in tandem with biomedical epistemes and juridico-political grammars, exercises a necropolitical calibration of life itself—where recognition is not a right but a [2] _______, allocated via matrices of intelligibility that are historically contingent and politically fungible. This diposit if renders gender a function of discursive legibility rather than biological inevitability. Resistance, when funneled through these grammars, risks becoming complicit in the very structures it seeks to subvert. Hence, the radical task is not merely to “expand” recognition but to effect a [3] _______ of recognition’s ontological architecture. This entails refusing the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion that liberal frameworks offer and instead exposing their constitutive foreclosure of alterity. Such a politics necessitates the [4] _______ of normativity as a structuring logic of embodiment. Only through its unmaking can a post-identitarian ethics of becoming be envisioned—one that privileges contingency over coherence, opacity over transparency, and relational indeterminacy over categorical fixity. In this schema, freedom is not recuperative but [5] _______—a rupture from taxonomic legibility, a departure from the logocentric compulsion to be known.83What should come in the place of blank number [1]?
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- 84What should come in the place of blank number [2]?
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- 85What should come in the place of blank number [3]?
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- 86What should come in the place of blank number [4]?
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- 87What should come in the place of blank number [5]?
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- 88Choose the correct article: She aspires to become _____ UN envoy for climate affairs.
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- 89Select the correct option: The chief engineer recommended replacing the obsolete part ___ than repairing it.
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- 90Find the part of the sentence that contains an error: It's central location (1)/ makes the conference venue (2)/ convenient for delegates (3)/ travelling from different cities. (4)/
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- 91Find the part of the sentence that contains an error: The suddenness with which the issue escalated (1)/ took not only the negotiators but also the observers (2)/ by surprise who were expecting (3)/ a gradual resolution process. (4)
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- 92Change the following from active to passive: Does the statute bind municipal councils to such obligations?
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- 93Select the sentence containing the homonym of the highlighted word: The philosopher cited a rare aporia in the text.
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- 94Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: The guests were being served refreshments by the host.
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- 95Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: I *met him yesterday night* at the party.
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- 96Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: She has a car, *isn’t it?*
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- 97A sentence is provided in indirect speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding direct speech. The historian observed that the records had been tampered with.
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- 98A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. I said, “Let us start early.”
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- 99Rearrange the following sentences to form a meaningful passage: 1. International space law governs satellite placement and liability. 2. Treaties emerged during the Cold War to prevent militarization. 3. New challenges include space debris and commercial mining. 4. Regulation needs adaptation to current realities.
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- 100Rearrange the following sentences in correct order to make a logical passage. 1. This ensures fairness and minimizes potential conflicts. 2. Conflict resolution is an essential skill in any workplace. 3. It involves active listening and seeking common ground. 4. Training in this area improves team dynamics.
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