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 Tier 1 Exam Analysis 14 March 2019 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 Tier 1 Exam Analysis 14 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 of Difficulty |
| Antonym | 4-5 | Easy |
| Cloze Test | 3-5 | Moderate |
| Direct / Indirect | 1-2 | Easy-Moderate |
| Idioms & phrases | 2-4 | Easy |
| One-Word Substitution | 2-3 | Easy |
| Sentence Improvement | 4-6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Synonym | 4-5 | Moderate |
Quantitative Aptitude
| Topic | No. of
Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
| Algebra | 4-5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Average | 2-3 | Moderate |
| Data Interpretation | 6-8 | Easy-Moderate |
| Discount | 1-2 | Easy |
| Geometry | 3-6 | Easy |
| Mensuration | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
| Percentage | 2-3 | Easy-Moderate |
| Profit & Loss | 2-3 | Easy-Moderate |
| SI & CI | 2-3 | Easy |
| Time & Distance | 1-2 | Moderate |
| Time & Work | 2-4 | Easy |
| Trigonometric | 4-5 | Easy-Moderate |
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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 of Difficulty |
| Analogy | 5-6 | Easy |
| Blood Relation | 1 | Easy |
| Blood Relationship | 1-2 | Easy |
| Calendar | 1-2 | Easy |
| Codding -Decoding | 1-3 | Easy-Moderate |
| Data Sufficiency | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
| Direction | 2-3 | Easy |
| Matrix Based | 1-2 | Easy |
| Miscellaneous | 7-9 | Easy |
| Odd One Out | 3-4 | Easy |
| Series completion | 4-5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Syllogism | 2-3 | Easy |
| Venn Diagram | 2-3 | Easy |
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General Awareness
| Topic | No. of
Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
| Culture | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
| Current Affairs | 6-8 | Difficult |
| Economic | 2-3 | Easy |
| Geography | 2-3 | Easy |
| History | 3-4 | Moderate |
| Polity | 5-6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Science | 7-8 | Moderate |
| Sports | 1-2 | Easy-Moderate |
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SSC CPO Tier 1 Exam Analysis 14 March 2019 – Shift 2
English Language
| Topic | No. of
Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
| Cloze Test | 6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Idiom/Phrases | 6-7 | Easy-Moderate |
| One-word substitution | 4-7 | Difficult |
| Reading Comprehension | 5 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Sentence Improvement | 7-10 | Easy-Moderate |
| Spelling | 6-7 | Easy-Moderate |
| Spot the error | 3-5 | Moderate |
| Synonyms and Antonyms | 11-15 | Difficult |
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Quantitative Aptitude
| Topic | No. of
Questions |
Level of Difficulty |
| Algebra | 4-6 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Average | 2-3 | Moderate |
| Data Interpretation | 5-6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Geometry | 5-6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Mensuration | 5-6 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Mixture & Allegation | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| Percentage | 3-5 | Easy-Moderate |
| Profit, Loss, and Discount | 4-6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Ratio and Proportion | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| SI/CI | 2-3 | Easy-Moderate |
| Time, Speed and Distance | 4-6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Trigonometry | 5-7 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Work & Time, Pipes & Cisterns | 6 | Moderate-Difficult |
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General Intelligence
| Topic | No. of questions | Level of difficulty |
| Analogy | 6-7 | Easy |
| Blood relation | 2 | Easy |
| Coding-decoding | 3 | Easy |
| Directions | 2 | Easy-Moderate |
| Matrix-based | 3 | Easy |
| Meaningful order/Dictionary Order | 1 | Easy-Moderate |
| Missing number | 6 | Moderate-difficult |
| Odd one out | 4-6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Series | 4 | Easy |
| Statement-conclusion/Syllogism | 3 | Easy |
| Venn diagram | 3-4 | Easy-Moderate |
| Visual Reasoning | 5 | Easy |
| Word formation | 3 | Easy |
| Miscellaneous | 7-9 | Easy-Moderate |
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General Awareness
| Topic | No. of Questions | Difficulty Level |
| Biology | 7-9 | Easy-Moderate |
| Chemistry | 4-6 | Easy-Moderate |
| Current Affairs | 9-11 | Moderate-Difficult |
| Economics | 6-7 | Moderate |
| Geography | 6-8 | Easy-Moderate |
| History | 7-9 | Moderate |
| Physics | 4-5 | Moderate |
| Polity | 6-8 | Easy-Moderate |
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This brings us to the end of the blog. Hope you find the SSC CPO Exam Analysis provided here useful. If you have any queries, write in the comment section below.
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