Staff Selection Commission has been one of the most desirable organizations for Government exams in India. It conducts a Combined Graduate Level – SSC CGL exam every year for recruitment to non-technical Group ‘B’ and Group ‘C’ non-gazetted posts in various Ministries/ Departments/ Organizations of the Government of India. The SSC CGL exam is conducted every year to recruit various SSC CGL Posts in the various Ministries and Departments of the Government of India and in its Subordinate Offices. SSC CGL will be a great opportunity for students looking forward to a position in a reputed organization under the central government. While a government job helps to build a stable career, it is also loaded with responsibilities.
The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) conducts the Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam for recruitment to various subordinate services like:
- Assistants in Ministries/Departments, Attached and Subordinate office of the Govt. of India
- Inspectors of Central Excise & Customs
- Inspectors of Income Tax
- Preventive Officers in Customs
- Examiner in Customs
- Sub-Inspectors in Central Bureau of Narcotics & CBI
- Assistant Enforcement Officer in the Directorate of Enforcement, Department of Revenue
- Divisional Accountant, Jr. Accountant, Auditor & UDCs in various offices of Govt. of India
- Auditor Offices under C&AG, CGDA, CGA & others
- Accountant/ Junior Accountant
- Tax Assistant in CBDT and CBEC
- Compiler in Registrar General of India
- Research Assistant
- Postal Assistant/ Sorting Assistant
SSC CGL Application Fee
• The required application fee is Rs. 100/-
• Exemption: No fee is required to be paid by female, SC, ST, Physically Handicapped, and Ex-Servicemen candidates.
• The payment of application fee can be made only through online payment modes such as Net-Banking, Credit/Debit cards and BHIM, UPI etc.
• Those candidates who want to pay online can go directly to part-2 registration after completion of part-1 registration. Candidate must supply registration number and date of birth to continue to Part-2 registration.
SSC CGL Age Limit
There are different sets of age limits for different posts in the SSC CGL Exam, which are tabulated below:
| SSC CGL Age Limit | |
| Name of posts | Age group |
| Auditor | 18-27 years |
| Auditor | |
| Auditor | |
| Accountant | |
| Accountant / Junior Accountant | |
| Senior Secretariat Assistant / Upper Division clerks | |
| Tax Assistant | |
| Sub-Inspector | |
| Upper Division Clerk (UDC) | |
| Inspector Posts | 18-30 years |
| Assistant | |
| Tax Assistant | 20-27 years |
| Assistant Section officer | 20-30 years |
| Assistant Section officer | |
| Assistant Section officer | |
| Assistant Section officer | |
| Assistant | |
| Sub Inspector | |
| Inspector, (Central Excise) | Not Exceeding 30 years |
| Inspector | |
| Assistant | |
| Inspector (Preventive officer) | |
| Inspector (Examiner) | |
| Assistant Audit Officer | |
| Assistant Audit Officer | |
| Assistant Section Officer | |
| Assistant Section Officer | |
| Assistant / Superintendent | |
| Inspector of Income Tax | |
| Divisional Accountant | |
| Assistant Enforcement Officer | Up to 30 years |
| Sub Inspector | |
| Junior Statistical Officer | Up to 32 years |
| SSC CGL Syllabus | |||
| General Intelligence and Reasoning | General Awareness/ GK | Quantitative Aptitude | English Comprehension |
| Classification | Static General Knowledge (Indian History, Culture etc.) | Simplification | Reading Comprehension |
| Analogy | Science | Interest | Fill in the Blanks |
| Coding-Decoding | Current Affairs | Averages | Spellings |
| Series | Indian Geography | Mensuration | Cloze Test |
| Non-Verbal | Current CM & Governors | DI | Synonyms & Antonyms |
| Word Formation | Sports | Percentage | Idioms and Phrases |
| Matrix | Books and Authors | Ratio and Proportion | One word Substitution |
| Important Schemes | Problem on Ages | Sentence Correction | |
Tier I: Preliminary:
| Sections | No. of Questions | Total Marks | Time Allotted |
| General Intelligence and Reasoning | 25 | 50 | A cumulative time of 60 minutes |
| General Awareness | 25 | 50 | |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 25 | 50 | |
| English Comprehension | 25 | 50 | |
| Total | 100 | 200 |
Tier II: Mains Exam
| Paper | Session | Subject | No of questions | Maximum marks | Time allowed |
| Paper 1 | Session 1 | Section-I:Module-I: Mathematical AbilitiesModule-II: Reasoningand General Intelligence | 30+30= 60 | 180 | 1 hour |
| Section-II:Module-I: EnglishLanguage andComprehensionModule-II: GeneralAwareness | 45+25=70 | 210 | |||
| Section-III:Module-I: ComputerKnowledge Module | 20 | 60 | |||
| Session 2 | Section-III:Module-II: Data EntrySpeed Test Module | Only data entry task | 15 minutes | ||
| Paper 2 | Statistics | 100 | 200 | 2 hours | |
| Paper 3 | General Studies (Finance and Economics) | 100 | 200 | ||
SSC CGL Tier-III Syllabus
The detailed SSC CGL Tier-II Syllabus for CGL Exam is as mentioned below:
| Quantitative Aptitude | English Language & Comprehension | Statistics | General Studies- Finance & Economics |
| Number System ProblemsPercentage | Spot the ErrorSynonyms /AntonymsSpelling, Idioms & PhrasesOne Word SubstitutionImprovement of sentences,The Active/ Passive voice of verbs,Conversion into Direct/ Indirect narrationShuffling of sentence parts in passages,Comprehension passage. | Data distribution, calculation, a diagrammatic representation of data | Finance-Fundamentals of Finance & Accounting |
| Ratio & Proportion,Square roots,Averages | Mean, Mode and Median | ||
| Profit and Loss,Discount | Deviation, Dispersion | ||
| Time and distance,Time & Work,Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra | Moments and relationships- skewness, kurtosis | ||
| Triangles, Polygons, Circles, Cylinders | Co-relation, regression | Economics-Macro & Micro Economics, Growth & DevelopmentMarket analysis- production, demand, supply,Indian Economy,Economic reforms,Money and banking,Role of Technology in reforming the Economic domain | |
| Bar graph, Histogram, Pie chart | Probability- theories, distribution | ||
| Sampling theory, index numbers, time series analysis | |||
| Variance |
SSC CGL Syllabus Tier IV
The SSC CGL Tier 4 Exam comprises skill tests that are required for certain government posts. Candidates who secure at least the minimum qualifying marks in the examination (Tier I, II, III) can appear in the Skill Test.
The syllabus for the SSC CGL Tier-IV exam is as follows:
| SSC CGL Test | Description | Post |
| Data Entry Speed Test | 8,000 (eight thousand) Key Depression per hour on the Computer | Tax Assistants( Central & Excise) |
| A passage of about 2000 (two thousand) key depressions for 15 (fifteen) minutes. | ||
| Computer Proficiency Test | Word ProcessingSpreadsheetGeneration of slides | Assistant Section Officer of Central Secretariat Service (CSS), Assistant Section Officer (MEA), Assistant in Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and Assistant (GSI) in the Ministry of Mines. |
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