SSC CGL Tier 1 Exam 2017 Analysis and Review: What you should be careful about and how!

The SSC CGL Tier 1 2017 Exam has commenced from the 5^th of August and has experienced successful participation in lakhs. The tier 1 exam ends by the last week of the month with the last exam on the 24^th of August. We know that all the aspirants must be curious and would want to understand what the pattern and level of difficulty of the questions is. To satiate your eagerness, team Edu-Drives, that offers a pendrive course for SSC & Bank, has assembled the complete SSC CGL Tier 1 Exam’s Analysis & Reviews for 2017. This will not only help the current aspirants in their revision, but also provide extra advantage of a strategic preparation to the future aspirants.

 

If the pattern of the SSC CGL Tier 1 exam is concerned, the exam paper falls in the objective category divided into four sections- General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, and English Comprehension. The candidates are expected to attempt all these sections in 60 Minutes. The maximum limit in terms of marks is 200, while referring to 2016’s exam the time limit was 75 minutes.

 

As we interviewed many aspirants who have studied with the help of our SSC pendrive course, and some SSC CGL experts who’ve attempted the paper, we have formed the summary of this year’s observed pattern:

 

Level of the exam:

The level of the exam ranges from easy to moderate. While some questions were as easy as they could be, having appeared in the previous years’ papers, the other set of questions could be considered to be challenging.

 

Important topics that have had more weightage:

 

General Awareness Topics:

 

·         Polity

·         Science

·         History

 

Quantitative Aptitude Topics:

 

·         Simple Interest & Compound Interest

·         Profit & Loss

·         Data Interpretation

·         Trignometry

 

 

General Intelligence & Reasoning Topics:

 

·         Coding-Decoding

·         Ages

·         Figure Counting

 

English Comprehension Topics:

·         Idioms & Phrases 

·         Para Jumbles

·         Cloze Test

·         Active/Passive Voice

·         One Word Substitutions

Section-wise analysis:

 

Section	Difficulty
General Intelligence & Reasoning	Easy
General Awareness	Easy
Quantitative Aptitude	Difficult
English Comprehension	Moderate

 

Time Limit:

Attempting all, the questions in an exam that comprises of negative marking and time constraints is not a wise choice. The level of difficulty varies, and thus one should only attempt questions they are sure about, because accuracy plays a major role.

 

Strategy adopted for accurate answers:

 

With the help of Edu-drives’s mock tests and video lectures, our team had prepared the aspirants completely with strategies and time management. Varied practice questions and SSC mock test have been solved for enhancing the speed and thinking ability of students that helped them in the actual exam.

 

These are the major areas that were discussed by the aspirants and experts which you need to go through before attempting your exam paper. Pay attention to the advices listed above and strike hard. Good luck, dear aspirants!