Staff Selection Commission SSC will hold a Combined All India Open Examination for recruitment to the posts of Data Entry Operator and Lower Division Clerk for which 12th Standard Pass or equivalent is the minimum qualification. The Examination will comprise of a Written Objective Type Examination followed by Data Entry Skill Test / Typing Test.
SSC Combined Higher Secondary Level Exam 2013 Pattern
The written examination will consist of one objective type paper as shown below :
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Date of Examination |
Part |
Subjects |
Maximum Marks |
Total Duration |
Duration for Visually Handicapped |
| 10 November 2013 & 17 November 2013 (Sundays) | I | General Intelligence (50 questions) |
50 |
2 Hours (10.00 AM to 12.00 Noon) | 2 Hours 40 minutes (10.00 AM to 12.40 PM) |
| II | English Language (50 questions) |
50 |
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| III | Quantitative Aptitude (50 questions) |
50 |
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| IV | General Awareness (50 questions) |
50 |
The Paper will consist of Objective Type- Multiple choice questions only. The questions will be set both in English & Hindi for Part-I, III & IV.
There will be negative marking of 0.25 marks for each wrong answer. Candidates are, therefore, advised to keep this in mind while answering the questions.
SSC Combined Higher Secondary Level Exam Syllabus
General Intelligence:
| 1. | Â Semantic Analogy | 14. | Symbolic operations |
| 2. | Symbolic/Number Analogy | 15. | Trends |
| 3. | Figural Analogy | 16. | Space Orientation |
| 4. | Semantic Classification | 17. | Venn Diagrams |
| 5. | Symbolic/Number Classification | 18. | Drawing inferences |
| 6. | Figural Classification | 19. | Punched hole/pattern-folding & unfolding |
| 7. | Semantic Series | 20. | Figural Pattern – folding and completion |
| 8. | Number Series | 21. | Embedded figures |
| 9. | Figural Series | 22. | Critical Thinking |
| 10. | Problem Solving | 23. | Emotional Intelligence |
| 11. | Word Building | 24 | Social Intelligence |
| 12. | Coding and de-coding | 25. | Other sub-topics, if any |
| 13. | Numerical operations |
English Language
| 1. | Spot the Error |
| 2. | Fill in the Blanks |
| 3. | Synonyms/Homonyms |
| 4. | Antonyms |
| 5. | Spellings/Detecting Mis-spelt words |
| 6. | Idioms & Phrases |
| 7. | One word substitution |
| 8. | Improvement of Sentences |
| 9. | Active/Passive Voice of Verbs |
| 10. | Conversion into Direct/Indirect narration |
| 11. | Shuffling of Sentence parts |
| 12. | Shuffling of Sentences in a passage |
| 13. | Cloze Passage |
| 14. | Comprehension Passage |
Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude:
ARITHMETIC: Number Systems (Computation of Whole Number, Decimal and Fractions, Relationship between numbers) and Fundamental arithmetical operations (Percentages, Ratio and Proportion, Square roots, Averages, Interest –Simple and Compound, Profit and Loss, Discount, Partnership Business, Mixture and Alligation, Time and distance,Time and work).
ALGEBRA: Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra (and their simple applications), Elementary surds (simple problems), and Graphs of Linear Equations.
GEOMETRY: Triangle and its various kinds of centres viz. Centroid, In-centre, Orthocenter, Circumcentre; Congruence and similarity of triangles; Circle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by chords of a circle, common tangents to two or more circles, etc.
MENSURATION: Triangle, Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons (sum of the internal angles of a polygon), Circle, Right Prism, Right Circular Cone, Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere, Hemispheres, Rectangular Parallelepiped, Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square Base.
TRIGONOMETRY: Trigonometry (for acute angles 0 with 0≤0≤90), Trigonometric ratios, Degree and Radian Measures, Standard Identities like sin20 + Cos20 = 1 etc., and Complementary Angles, Heights and Distances (simple problems only).
STATISTICAL CHARTS: Use of Tables and Graphs, Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar-diagram and Pie-chart.
Syllabus for General Awareness:
Questions are designed to test the candidates’ general awareness of the environment around them and its application to society. Questions are also designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of an educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to History, Culture Geography, Economic Scene, General policy and scientific research.
