SSC CGL 2024 Tier 1 Question Paper – 10 Sep 2024 Shift 2 (with Solutions)

SSC CGL 2024 Tier 1 10 Sep Shift 2 Previous Year Question Paper

This is the actual SSC CGL 2024 Tier 1 paper from 10 September 2024, Shift 2, with Reasoning, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude and English.

Topic-wise questions in each section of SSC CGL 2024 Tier 1 Question Paper – 10 Sep 2024 Shift 2 (with Solutions)

What this tells you: course of action

Reasoning

• Begin with Analogy, Series and Classification. These carry about 50% of the questions, which makes them the best place for your first study sessions.
• Keep in rotation: Coding-Decoding, Dice & Cube, Mathematical Operations and Syllogism, a steady 40% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
• Save for the end: 2 one-question topics (10% together). Skim them last rather than building long study blocks around them.
• Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 5 for the first group, 4 for the keep-in-rotation group and 1 for the leave-for-last group.

General Awareness

• First priority: Art & Culture, History and Polity, roughly 52% of the questions between them.
• Keep in rotation: Geography, Sports, Biology and Chemistry, a steady 43% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
• Leave for last: 1 topic appears only once, about 4% in total. Revise that topic from short notes after the topics above are solid.
• Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 5 for the first group, 4 for the keep-in-rotation group and 1 for the leave-for-last group.

Quantitative Aptitude

• Start with Data Interpretation, Geometry, Trigonometry and Algebra: together about 46% of the questions, so every hour here pays back the most.
• Keep in rotation: Simplification & Approximation and Time, Speed & Distance, a steady 17% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
• Save for the end: 9 one-question topics (38% together). Skim them last rather than building long study blocks around them.
• Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 4 for the first group, 2 for the keep-in-rotation group and 4 for the leave-for-last group.

English Language

• Begin with Synonyms & Antonyms, Cloze Test and Para Jumbles. These carry about 56% of the questions, which makes them the best place for your first study sessions.
• Keep in rotation: Active & Passive Voice, Error Spotting, Idioms & Phrases, Sentence Improvement and Spelling, a steady 40% that rewards regular practice once the first group feels comfortable.
• Leave for last: 1 topic appears only once, about 4% in total. Revise that topic from short notes after the topics above are solid.
• Splitting your study time: out of every 10 study sessions on this section, about 5 for the first group, 4 for the keep-in-rotation group and 1 for the leave-for-last group.

Key rules worth knowing for this paper

• Successive increases \( a\% \) and \( b\% \): \( a+b+\dfrac{ab}{100} \)
• Two pipes filling together: \( T=\dfrac{xy}{x+y} \)
• Square identity: \( x+\dfrac{1}{x}=\left(\sqrt{x}+\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{x}}\right)^{2}-2 \)
• Similar triangles: \( \dfrac{EF}{HI}=\dfrac{FG}{IJ} \)