SSC CHSL 2016- Tier I Exam Analysis 10th January (First Shift)

Today marks the fourth day, 10^th January, for SSC CHSL Tier I Exam. The exam is being conducted for the recruitments for the posts of LDC, DEO, Postal Assistant and Court Clerk, through this exam.

Beginning from this session, SSC has changed the mode of examination to online instead of pen and paper. Starting from today, the online exam will be conducted in three shifts. The first shift now being over, we are here providing you with an analysis for the exam to help you better your preparation level. This review has been collated from you readers and aspirants only to give you a more accurate overview of the current paper scheme and the questions and further help other candidates. The level for the exam today remained moderate.

Ordering of the sections in the exam is as follows.

1. Reasoning – 1 – 25 Qs
2. General Awareness – 26-50 Qs
3. 3. Quant –50- 75 Qs
4. 4. English –76-100 Qs

Note: You can navigate to any section of your choosing, depending upon your strategy and start the paper from there. Now let’s move onto the Analysis part. We start our analysis in the same order of the sections as appears in the paper.

General Intelligence & Reasoning 

With questions from topics spanning nearly all of the topics, the paper maintained an overall easy level. The questions asked followed the previous patterns only, without any new type of question.  We enlist below the topics and the difficulty level associated with the questions.

Below are a few of the questions that were asked:

1. Odd one out from the following: Shrub, herb, Tree, Root
2. 36:25::100:?

Note: A good attempt in Reasoning Section could have been around 21-23 out of 25

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General Awareness 

Encompassing all the general topics for this section, no new surprises were present in this section. Thus, for the well prepared, the level ranged from moderate and leaned towards easy.

Below Few Questions Asked: 

1. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a book written by Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1909
2. Who played role of Gandhi in Oscar winning movie Gandhi? -Ben Kingsley
3. Where is Ranthambore fort situated? -Rajasthan
4. Dogri is the language of which state? -An Indo-Aryan language, chiefly in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, but also in northern Punjab, other parts of Jammu and Kashmir, and elsewhere
5. What is the velocity of object at maximum height? -The Vertical velocity at maximum height is zero
6. Fundamental duties have been borrowed from which country? Russia USSR
7. Azadirachta indica is the scientific name for? -Neem
8. Oscar winner actress for 2016 was? -Brie Larson for Room
9. Which fundamental right cannot be suspended?- Right to Life and Personal Liberty
10. If same force is applied on two diff body whose mass is diff, what will be same Acceleration, Velocity, Kinetic Energy, Momentum
11. Chromite is the ore for metal Chromium
12. Full form of PVC?
13. Eldest Pandava Brother’s name?
14. Oncogene leads to?

Note: A Good Attempt in General Awareness Section – 15-17 out of 25

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III. Quantitative Aptitude 

Overall level for this section again remained moderate for a majority of the aspirants.

A few of the questions asked are given below:

1. Tan -240 = ?
2. Find total surface area of hollow cylinder whose outer and inner radius is 7 n 6 cm and its height is 22 cm.
3. A man sold a piece of land for Rs.51 lakh and bears some loss. If he had sold for Rs. 60 lakh profit would be 8 times the loss. Find the CP?
4. At 12℅ rate of interest, difference of SI and CI is 72. Hence, find the principal sum.
5. A does 75% work in 50 days after which B joins in and they both finish the rest of the work in 10 days. How many days will B take to do the work alone?

Note: Good Attempt in Quant Section – 17-20 / 25

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English Comprehension

The level of this section remained Easy for most of the candidates. With commonly used phrases and without any much difficult vocabulary, the section was a walk in the park for many.

Below are few of the questions asked for this section:

1. Synonym of Consolidate and Inscription
2. A Drop in a Bucket
3. To       about the bush.
4. Change the voice: Has the car broken?
5. Change the voice: Have the car stolen.
6. Direct/Indirect question: The teacher said to the students, "Don't talk".

Note: Good Attempt in English Section – 19-20 / 25

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Note: This scheme will keep on getting updated as soon as we receive any new updates from other aspirants.

Key Point: The paper level although remained same as yesterday. However, the aspirants are advised to continually improve the level of GK, from here on the GradeUp App as the level of questions have been rising gradually.

Note: The level of the exam of the first shift was easy. An overall good attempt will be 80+.

• SSC CHSL 2016- Tier I Exam Over all Analysis 9th January

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