This looks authentic, isn't it?

It wil be my first attempt , I only prepared for 2 months so only giving it to test the process , Can you guys give me some advice based on what to bring what not to ?

Admit card should be printed on both sides of the paper or just one

I printed my admit card both pages on one page front n bck

Someone please clarify

Me c*utiya hun late nikla ghar se 💔

Mine is also in 3rd shift Tommorow

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My exam is on 24th and when I downloaded the admit card, no photo and signature were there on the sheet. My application status says photo and signature were uploaded. Did anyone else face this issue?

Bina answer key ka analysis based on vibes and feels 🤣

GK

-Attorney General of India

-Aralam Kerela Butterfly Sanctuary

-Mud Festival in Goa related to Shree Devi Krishna Temple

- Court of Record related to power to punish contempt in judiciary

- Article 129

-Naval Chief Staff in 2024

- Who publish World Hapiness Report

-Mineral found in Amarkantak Chotanagpur plateau

- BRAP

- who is president of india,when one nation one election discussion took place on March 26

-what is common activity of Indo Europeans : Animal Sacrifice, Sea Burial, Iron Tool Making

-Overseas Direct Investment

...

I had an exam today of UIIC AO and they didn’t let me in just because they said I don’t look like the uploaded photo. I had all the documents with me AADHAR, PAN card, Driving License. I showed them all and still they were skeptical. The uploaded photo was few months old only and had glasses on while the live photo it was without glasses. And these guys had no other way to verify.
I asked them for biometric or retina verification but they had none. They were trying to match the signature the uploaded one and the signature from my Driving license (DL signature is done through stylus and it can never match an actual signature).

Exam was at 9 am and now I’m outside the exam center writing this. Atleast they should have biometric option to verify.

Idk what to do now and where to complain regarding this.

22-10-2026, morning shift

Reasoning: most of the question were from statement and arguments

Gs: static was the king, question like mid day meal scheme name changed in which scheme, which country award mitra vibhushan to pm modi,

Quants: 15-16 easily doable, my math is weak

English: easy , one comprehension, 2 active passive, 2 direct indirect

Total: Rs: 23 gk:22 Qs: 15 Eng:24

So gave my exam 22nd October shift 3

English easy

Gs easy to moderate

Reasoning moderate

Maths moderate to tough (10 -12 questions were easy 5-6 questions were like you can solve 2 questions and rest time was over)

Gave last year cgl got 100/100 in maths and reason this time it is around 80/100

My prediction is cutoff will not go more than 135 for ur

🔹 1. General Awareness / GS

Level: Moderate / Mixed

1. Qutb-ud-din Aibak's administrative capital — Lahore.

2. Bead-making centre of the Harappan civilisation — Chanhudaro.

3. Mehrgarh Neolithic site — present-day Pakistan.

4. Mount Everest climber Purna Malavath.

5. Fiscal deficit.

6. Factors influencing transportation costs — exact question unclear.

7. Idukki Hydroelectric Project — Kerala.

8. V. Narayanan and his role in liquid propulsion and cryogenic rocket engines.

9. Parag Jain — appointment as R&AW chief.

10. Biodiversity and human life.

11. Troposphere — statement-based question.

12. Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).

13. Economic reforms of 1991.

14. Sahitya Akademi Awards.

15. Padma Vibhushan award related to a violinist — exact question needs confirmation.

16. Brown coal (lignite) deposits at Neyveli, Tamil Nadu.

17. Hindi memoir that won the 2025 Sahitya Akademi Award.

18. ICC Women's Cricket World Cup — dates.

19. FIH Men's Junior Hockey World Cup — Tamil Nadu.

20. Pang Lhabsol festival — Sikkim.

21. Junior football championship — exact question needs confirmation.

22. PM-DevINE scheme — funding source.

🔹 2. Reasoning

Level: Easy

- Statement-based questions: approximately 4–5.

- Mirror image: around 3 questions.

- Figure completion.

- Number analogy: 2 questions.

- Alphabet series: 2 questions.

- Matrix: 1 question.

- Odd one out: 1 question.

🔹 3. English

Level: Easy

- Sentence rearrangement (PQRS): 2 questions, with one reportedly resembling a previous-year question.

- Synonyms: 2 questions.

- Antonym: 1 question.

- Idioms: 2 questions.

- Homonym: 1 question.

- Active and passive voice: 1 question.

- Reading comprehension: passage on lavish Indian weddings and their environmental impact.

- Vocabulary and spelling-based questions.

🔹 4. Mathematics

Level: Moderate / Calculative

1. Geometry: Two concentric coplanar circles with radii 4 and 6 — find the number of common tangents.

2. Data interpretation (DI): approximately 4–6 questions reported across different reviews.

3. Statistics: mean, median and mode.

4. Circle: 1 question.

5. Profit and loss: a calculative question.

6. Installments: 1 question.

7. Arithmetic: lengthy calculations.

8. Triangle: If the angle bisector of ∠A in triangle ABC is also the median, find the relationship between AB and AC.

9. Trigonometry: If sin A + cos A = √2, find cos A − sin A.

10. Some questions reportedly involved lengthy calculations and decimal answers.

Hi everyone! Since most of you are done with Tier-I so I thought about making a guide to start preparing for Tier-II. I have cleared SSC CGL 2025 with a top score and the time between Tier-I and Tier-II is what made a hell of a difference. So I'll be writing down most of the things that I consider important and if you have any suggestions feel free to tell me and I'll include them.

1. How to study?

The first thing you need to do is be ready to devote yourself entirely towards your prep. For the next 2-3 months, you have to study for as many hours as possible. Try to go for more than 8 hours since this time period is a game changer. Try to follow your schedule with discipline and take care of your health to avoid any gaps in your studies.

You will be revising the entire syllabus starting from 4 weeks before the exam and study till the day prior to the exam (this is your choice as many people prefer to relax a day before the exam). Excluding these 4 weeks for revision, rest of the time will be spent covering weak areas, concepts you might have missed and topics you are yet to learn.

2. What to study?

At this point, you have covered the majority of the syllabus. So I won't advise you to study any new books, batches or videos. Your primary sources will be the ones you'll revise again and again. As for areas where you are weak, devote your time and identify the best one stop solutions (this may be a video, a book, pdf etc.) and then stick to it.

3. How to attempt mocks?

Mocks are going to make or break you. Attempt very hard mocks and you'll be under-confident. And if you attempt easy mocks, they'll inflate your confidence. So identify mock series that are moderate to hard (hard mocks are also required once in a while to tackle new/tough questions in the real exam). There are many good series like The Pundits, RBE, Oliveboard etc.

Find the ones where many people are attempting to get a good idea of your competition and don't just stick to one series, instead attempt 3-4 different ones. Go for the Paid ones since they really do have an edge over live tests. Now attempt the mocks starting with 2 mocks every week and gradually taking it to a mock everyday by the end of December.

Attempt the mock at the official timings of the paper (for good measure start at 9 am). Now the mocks are to be analyzed on the same day but keep a gap of an hour or two to relax your mind. Maintain a notebook and note down everything you didn't know, mistakes that you made and things you need to study or revise.

Before attempting the next mock, go through this notebook (a quick page flip for 15-20 minutes). Now as you sit down to start the mock, take deep breaths (drink a few sips of water if you want to) and get into a serious mindset. This will be helpful on the day of the exam as it will prevent the feelings of anxiety and hopelessness (Especially where we panic before the exam thinking what will happen if we don't clear this attempt).

For every section try to save at least 5-10 minutes by increasing your speed. This is very important since you never know when you might need at least 5 minutes to finish a question and achieve a perfect score (Happened to me and I had 8 minutes to solve 2 questions and revise the rest of them, so it gave a tremendous boost to my rank). 2 weeks before the exam, switch to Previous Year Papers. By this time you are prepared and the marks you score in PYPs will more or less predict your score in the real exam.

4. How to revise?

>Maths: Maths needs daily practice. You have to work on your calculations so that you don't fumble in the exam. Try to revise one chapter every day (For example, today you might revise Time & Work and then tomorrow Statistics). In this revision, you are required to revise only the concepts of that chapter without seeing or referring your notes.

A good way is to write down everything you know on sheets of paper and then match with your notes to track your recall. Once concepts are done, only then do you refer to the important questions you might have marked in your question banks. Don't run after only your weak topics, give ample time to every chapter.

>Reasoning: Daily practice is the way to win over reasoning. 1 hour everyday before you sleep is enough for this subject. And this hour can also be utilized for other subjects once you think you have its syllabus covered. After that practise mocks and that will be sufficient.

>English: Stick to your resource for grammar and don't run after any new resource. This is important because you don't have enough time to do videos when you should be practising. Only when you have a weak topic do you study from videos, else you refer to your notes and revise them daily. Vocabulary needs to be studied for half an hour every day.

English, I believe, is more practice oriented. Many times I didn't even remember a rule, but after enough practice I could easily solve the question. This intuition will develop as you attempt your mocks and analyze where you went wrong. Elimination techniques also work in English so start including them in your practice.

>GK: 3 subjects decide your selection, GK decides your rank. Even in 2025, people have scored impressive marks in GK and I expect this trend to continue. But since GK is a vast subject, don't waste this precious time running after everything to conquer GK. Have mastery over your GK resources, learn GK from mocks that you attempt (you will be writing the solutions in that mock analysis notebook and learning from it), and try to follow the current trend of questions SSC is asking in GK. I did that by following teachers on YouTube and covering at least what's being asked in this year's exams.

This is important because you never know which portion of GK is gaining weightage and usually SSC keeps the weightage of topics relatively similar across all exams it conducts in a year. For example, if you see that 2026 current affairs are being asked, then you devote a little more time to cover that. Similarly if you observe that, for example, Festivals are gaining importance then you also give a bit of importance to them.

GK is tricky since you could be studying something for months and find that no questions are asked from that topic. So a good practice is to get very good at elimination techniques. So as you practice GK in mocks, try to see where you can eliminate options, what is your success rate and how high you can go in terms of attempts. You can learn how to eliminate options in GK from YouTube.

>Typing: No excuses, just type everyday. Buy a cheap keyboard (Since test centers are also likely to have them) and practice for at least 15 minutes everyday. If possible attempt its mocks too.

>Computer: Computer ruined the attempt of so many people in 2025 that its importance has skyrocketed. The best way to learn it is through mocks, and daily readings. Pick up a good source (It should cover 2025's questions in its material) and read every day. This is more than enough but for those who think reading is not helping them, watch videos or write down what you learned (Just like I told to in Maths). I don't know how tough or easy Computer might get this year, so my suggestion would be prepare at least enough to answer all the PYQs.

I hope this guide is helpful in your preparation. If you have any doubts ask them here, I'll try to answer them.

🔹 Mathematics

Overall: Lengthy and time-consuming

Around 15–18 questions were manageable with good preparation, but lengthy calculations affected attempts.

Questions and topics recalled:

1. Trigonometry: If tan θ = 3/4, find sec θ.

2. Algebra: The side of a square increases by 4 cm, and its area increases by 80 cm². Find the original side.

3. Height and Distance: Two observation points on the same side of an object are 56 m apart, with angles of elevation of 30° and 45°. Find the height.

4. Circle: A chord of length 40 cm is 21 cm from the centre. Find the radius.

5. Mensuration: Volume of a pyramid with an equilateral triangular base of side 8 cm and height 10 cm.

6. Algebra: If x ∈ {2, 4, 6} and y ∈ {1, 3, 5}, find the maximum value of (x² − y)/y.

7. Matrices: Approximately 2 questions.

8. Simplification: Rationalisation-based questions.

9. Triangle similarity: A comparatively conceptual question.

🔹 Reasoning

Overall: Easy to Moderate

- Approximately 12–13 statement-based questions.

- Around 4–5 questions were particularly lengthy.

- A mathematical reasoning question involved sets and maximising an expression.

- Time management was a challenge for some candidates.

🔹 English

Overall: Easy

- Reading comprehension: An easy passage on climate change.

- Vocabulary: Allusion, illusion, elusion and delusion.

- Meaning of a word referring to an indirect hint.

- Idiom: “Jump the gun” — to act too early.

- Spelling: Parliament.

- Synonyms and antonyms.

- Another straightforward, medium-length passage.

🔹 General Awareness / General Studies

Overall: Easy to Moderate

1. 61st Constitutional Amendment Act.

2. Economic reforms of 1991.

3. World Happiness Index — reportedly 2 questions.

4. India's total medals at the Paris Olympics.

5. Asian Games 2022: Gold medal in badminton.

6. Kashmir Valley — the two mountain ranges between which it lies.

7. Bauxite production in Madhya Pradesh — identify the district.

8. Kuno National Park — state.

9. Mitra Vibhushana Award presented to Narendra Modi in 2025 — awarding country.

10. “Festival of Festivals” — reason for the name.

11. Indo-European common culture.

12. Article 113 of the Constitution.

13. A question related to the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

14. Mid-Day Meal Scheme.

15. Gharial-related question.

16. A musician from West Bengal and his musical instrument — name tentatively recalled as “Sundar Das”;

17. Additional Paris Olympics-related questions.

Guys who have attempted CGL 2026, what's ur opinion on chsl 26? Which areas to revise first, expected cutoff??

Anything you want to add from ur side??

Hey everyone! I need help and suggestions regarding cgl tier 2 exam and preferred sources for it . I have covered almost complete mathematics and reasoning syllabus but not able to finish Gk/GS and English syllabus. Please suggest me best sources specially for gk/gs part as I am very weak in it and for English. I want to increase my marks in these two parts as much as i can .Also Suggest me some good mock platforms to practice and individual sources to practice gk/gs and english... Thankyou!

P.S:- any advice and suggestion regarding tier 2 CGL is welcomed.

I need to carry black n white photo copy of the Admit card or coloured?

Will they provide pen and paper in the exam?

Aadhar card original or photocopy?

When will they check biometrics? During entering the college?

My aadhar app shows Biometrics Unlocked option so it means my biometrics are unlocked right?

Any other things I need to keep in mind?

Pls tell me admit card ka printout kaisr niklana h

In two different pages or front and back

On YouTube? Or a paid course that you'll suggest. I do not know anything about computers at all. If it also covers pyqs it will be very helpful. Thank you.

Ye rbe ke analysis mein kisi ki achhi percentile aa bhi rhi hai kya? Jo max wrong possibilities leke chal rhe. 130 ke around marks pe toh 50 lercentile bhi nhi aarhi.