Staff Selection Commission (SSC) is conducting the SSC CPO Tier I exam today. The SSC CPO exam was scheduled to be held from 12th to 16th March 2019. The first shift of today’s exam is over and we are here with the detailed exam analysis. The SSC CPO Exam Analysis will help candidates in knowing the pattern followed this year i.e. what kind of questions were asked, their difficulty level, etc. The notification for SSC CPO 2018 exam was released last year for the recruitment of SI in CAPFs, ASI in CISF and SI in Delhi Police.
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SSC CPO Exam Analysis – 12 March 2019 | Shift 1
All the four sections, i.e., English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, General Intelligence and General Awareness, were of easy to moderate level. Let’s look at it in detail:
English Language
Topic | No of Questions | Level |
Antonym/ Synonym | 10 | Moderate to Difficult |
Cloze test | 5 | Easy to Moderate |
Error Detection | 5-6 | Moderate |
Idioms and Phrases | 3-4 | Moderate to Difficult |
One word substitution | 3-4 | Moderate to Difficult |
Reading Comprehension | 5 | Easy to Moderate |
Sentence Correction | 4 | Easy to Moderate |
Spelling | 4 | Easy |
Quantitative Aptitude
Data Interpretation: two types of DI was asked- linear and Pie-chart, in which there was two Linear DI, and 1 Pie Chart.
Topic | No of Questions | Level |
Algebra | 3-4 | Easy |
Average & Percentage | 3-4 | Moderate |
Data Interpretation | 10 | Moderate |
Geometry | 8-9 | Moderate |
Mensuration | 3-4 | Difficult |
SI and CI, Profit and Loss | 5-6 | Moderate |
Speed, Time and Distance/ Boat & Stream | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
Time and Work/ Pipes & Cistern | 5-6 | Moderate to Difficult |
Trigonometry | 4-5 | Moderate-Difficult |
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General Intelligence
In the General Intelligence or the Reasoning section, questions were, again, of Easy to Moderate level. Some questions were time consuming but doable.
Topic | No of Questions | Level |
Syllogism | 2 | Moderate |
Mathematical Ooperations | 3-4 | Moderate |
Non-Verbal Reasoning | 7-8 | Easy |
Odd one out | 6 | Easy-Moderate |
Coding-Decoding | 4-5 | Easy-Moderate |
Direction Sense Test | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
Analogy | 4 | Moderate |
Series | 6-7 | Moderate |
Miscellaneous | 9 | Easy-Moderate |
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General Awareness
This section included questions from History, Geography, Polity, Economy, with majority of questions from General Science, like Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Few questions from recent events, like Sports, Awards and Honours, Agreements and MoUs. etc. were asked. Let’s have a look at them:
- First Female Lok Sabha Speaker
- The sky appears blue due to?
- Winner of National Women Squash 2018 Championship
- Rauf is the folk dance of?
- Winner of Hindu Prize 2018?
- Who recently climbed volcanic mountains?
- Constitutional amendment comes under which article?
- Dachigam National Park is located in?
- Tribal Dance of Orissa?
- Rain Droplets are spherical in shape due to
- Microsoft Handloom Weiver
- Which state does not share its boundary with Bangladesh?
- Sagauli treaty was signed between? British and Nepal King
- Five kingdom classification was given by?
- National Indian cinema museum was inaugurated by?
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