SSC: Syllabus of Staff Selection Commission

Syllabus of Staff Selection Commission

• General Intelligence
• English Language
• Quantitative Aptitude
• General Awareness

1. General Intelligence

• Semantic Analogy
• Symbolic operations
• Symbolic/Number Analogy
• Trends, Figural Analogy, Space Orientation
• Semantic Classification, Venn Diagrams
• Symbolic/Number Classification, Drawing inferences
• Figural Classification, Punched hole/pattern-folding & unfolding
• Semantic Series, Figural Pattern – folding and completion
• Number Series, Embedded figures, Figural Series, Critical Thinking
• Problem Solving, Emotional Intelligence, Word Building
• Social Intelligence, Coding and de-coding, Other sub-topics,
• If any Numerical operations. 

2. English Language

• Spot the Error
• Fill in the Blanks
• Synonyms/Homonyms
• Antonyms, Spellings/ Detecting Misspell words
• Idioms & Phrases, One word substitution
• Improvement of Sentences, Active/ Passive Voice of Verbs
• Conversion into Direct/Indirect narration
• Shuffling of Sentence parts
• Shuffling of Sentences in a passage, Cloze Passage
• Comprehension Passage.

3. Quantitative Aptitude

Number Systems

• Computation of Whole Number
• Decimal and Fractions.
• Relationship between numbers Fundamental arithmetical operations.
• Percentages, Ratio and Proportion, Square roots, Averages
• Interest (Simple and Compound), Profit and Loss
• Discount, Partnership Business
• Mixture and Allegation
• Time and distance
• Time and work.

 Algebra

• Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra and Elementary surds (simple problems)
• Graphs of Linear Equations. 

Geometry

• Triangle and its various kinds of centers
• Congruence and similarity of triangles
• Circle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by chords of a circle
• Common tangents to two or more circles. 

 Mensuration 

• Triangle, Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons
• Circle, Right Prism, Right Circular Cone
• Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere, Hemispheres
• Rectangular Parallelepiped
• Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square Base.

 Trigonometry 

• Trigonometry, Trigonometric ratios
• Complementary angles

Height and distances (simple problems only) Standard Identities like sin20 + Cos20=1 etc., 
 Statistical Charts

Use of Tables and Graphs: Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar-diagram, Pie-chart.
Arithmetic

4. General Awareness 

• General awareness of the environment around us and its application to society.
• Current events and such matters of everyday observation
• Related to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General policy and scientific research.