SSC CGL Reasoning · Free chapter-wise notes
SSC CGL Reasoning Notes
21 chapters of SSC CGL Reasoning, written to be taught from directly or read alone. No chapter assumes you have read the others, so start wherever you are weakest. The question counts below are live, straight from the bank.
Chapters
Arithmetic Reasoning
Quick sums, cubes, LCM and HCF, equations from words, ages, ratios, mixtures, percentages, interest, trains, boats, work, pairs and probability.
74 PYQs · 6 subtopicsMissing Number
Rules that add, subtract, halve, multiply or divide, squares and cubes, two-step chains and the 3 by 3 magic square.
12 PYQs · 1 subtopicsCalendar and Clock
Counting dates, odd days, the weekday after a number of days or years, month lengths and the leap-year rule.
9 PYQs · 1 subtopicsBlood Relations
Generations, siblings and gender, chains spoken by one person, in-laws, family puzzles, symbol codes, and coded statements.
154 PYQs · 5 subtopicsOrder, Ranking and Arrangement
Ranks from both ends, people between two ranks, left and right when seated, date chains, floor puzzles and order-with-profession grids.
19 PYQs · 2 subtopicsMathematical Operations
BODMAS, signs that stand for other signs, interchanged pairs, balancing a row with signs, swapping signs and numbers, and hidden rules.
282 PYQs · 6 subtopicsCoding-Decoding
Letter shifts, reversals and opposite letters, letters as numbers and sums, shuffled digit codes, and coded sentences.
247 PYQs · 5 subtopicsAnalogy
Word links, letter positions and shifts, opposite letters, reversed and swapped letters, number pairs, number sets, and squares and cubes.
456 PYQs · 6 subtopicsSeries
Letter positions, clusters, blank series, differences, multipliers, squares, cubes and primes, letter-number terms and wrong terms.
433 PYQs · 8 subtopicsAlphabet and Number Tests
Letter positions and gaps, sorting a word's letters and a number's digits, dictionary order, word formation, and address matching.
180 PYQs · 5 subtopicsClassification
Odd one out among numbers, number pairs and sets, letter clusters, mixed letter-number-symbol groups, and words.
212 PYQs · 7 subtopicsNon-Verbal Series and Analogy
Figure series solved by counting, turning and flipping, moving round the box, alternating forms, and rearranging symbol grids.
148 PYQs · 5 subtopicsFigure Counting
Counting triangles in drawn figures, and squares, rectangles and circles in grids and overlapping shapes.
36 PYQs · 2 subtopicsMirror and Water Images
Strings of letters and numbers in a mirror and in water, and drawn figures in a mirror.
122 PYQs · 2 subtopicsPaper Folding and Cutting
Opening a sheet folded to a quarter, and diagonal folds, folds into thirds and folded transparent sheets.
56 PYQs · 2 subtopicsSyllogism
Two-statement and three-statement syllogisms with All, Some and No, and conclusions about what is possible.
113 PYQs · 2 subtopicsVenn Diagrams
Choosing the diagram for three classes, and counting the people in the regions of a drawn diagram.
44 PYQs · 2 subtopicsStatement-Based Reasoning
Conclusions, assumptions, cause and effect, courses of action, and what to do in a given situation.
65 PYQs · 3 subtopicsInequalities
Reading inequality chains, either-or conclusions, and chains written in coded signs.
12 PYQs · 1 subtopicsDice and Cubes
Opposite faces from views of a dice and from nets, and the common-face rule.
63 PYQs · 2 subtopicsEmbedded Figures and Pattern Completion
Finding a figure hidden in another without turning it, and completing symmetric patterns.
59 PYQs · 2 subtopics