SSC COMMON GRADUATE LEVEL SYLLABUS

SSC CGL Syllabus 2014-2015

Tier I Syllabus:-

Tier I will consist of 4 sections

1.       General Intelligence

2.       English Language  

3.       General Awareness

4.       Quantitative Aptitude

The syllabus of all the sections is here

General Intelligence:  Figural Series, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Analogy, Symbolic operations, Symbolic/Number Analogy, Number Series, Embedded figures etc.

English Language: Fill in the Blanks, Idioms & Phrases, One word substitution, Synonyms/Homonyms, Antonyms, Spellings/Detecting Mis-spelt words, Active/Passive Voice of Verbs etc.

Quantitative Aptitude: Algebra, Trigonometry, Mensuration.

General Awareness:

Questions in this component will be aimed at testing the candidate’s general awareness of the environment around him and its application to society. Questions will also be designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspects as may be expected of an educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighbouring countries especially pertaining to Sports, History, Culture, Geography, economic scene, General polity, Indian Constitution, and scientific research etc. These questions will be such that do not require a special study of any discipline. 

Tier II Syllabus:-

PAPER I

Arithmetic Ability: The paper will be questions based on Number Systems, Computation of Whole Numbers, Decimals and Fractions, Ratio and Proportion, Average, Interest, Profit and  Loss, Discount, relationship between Numbers, Fundamental Arithmetical Operations, Percentage, , Use of Table and Graphs, Mensuration, Time and Distance, Ratio and Time etc.

PAPER II

English Language & Comprehension: Error recognition, fill in the blanks, preposition, articles, Vocabulary, Spellings, Grammar, Sentence Structure, Sentence Completion etc.

PAPER III

Commerce/ Statistics/Economics /Mathematics (for Investigator Grade-II, for Ministry of Statistics & Program Implementation and Compiler for Registrar General of India, Ministry of Home Affairs)

COMMERCE : Accountancy, Business Law, Company Law, Cost Accounting, Auditing and Income Tax, Business Organization, Management, micro-economics, Indian economics, Business Statistics

MATHEMATICS:  Algebra, Algebra of Matrices, Statistics, Analytic Geometry, Differential Equation, and Differential and Integral Calculus

STATISTICS: Graphical presentation of data, Measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion,  measures of association and contingency, scatter diagram, Probability, Probability Distributions, Binomial, Poisson, Normal, Exponential. Compilation, rank correlation coefficient and linear regression analysis ( for  two or more variables ) excluding partial correlation coefficients, classification, tabulation of Statistical Data, correlation coefficient

ECONOMICS: General Economics (Demand and Supply Analysis, Production Function and Laws of Returns, Commodity Pricing, Theory of Factor Pricing, Theory of Employment, Keynesian Theory of Employment etc) and Indian Economics and General Statistics(Collection and editing of data, Sampling types, Schedule and questionnaire, Presentation of data, Measures of Central Tendency, National Income and Accounting, Agricultural sector etc).

Tier III Syllabus:

Only those candidates who qualified in this above two tier will called for Tier III round in which candidates have to face to face interview for interview posts.