My First Attempt at SSC CGL (9 OCT)
Maths: Very badly done. I need to fix this or forget the government job. My preparation was done mostly on the arithmetic part; Advanced Maths has more weightage. Only 2 questions from Arithmetic.
Reasoning: About 7 to 8 statement based questions (very big statements and multiple conclusions), 3 address questions, 2 maths questions in Reasoning, 6 simple alphabet type Coding Decoding questions, and 1 missing-number question like a series and square type. 1 syllogism.
Very time consuming. 25 easy questions, but I could only do 21.
GS: Questions this year are like what/why questions and the implications and reasoning behind things that happened in the past. Fact based questions were only 4 to 5. No Current Affairs, some questions on articles, and 1 question from the economy. No festivals, no sports, nothing.
English: 1 synonym, 5 cloze tests, 1 error detection question, 7 Narration/Voice questions, and 4 PQRS, etc. Usual pattern. Easy questions.
Another time consuming section was the cloze test (you need proper English to even solve a cloze test).
PQRS was also time consuming. I only did 20.
Remark: I'm not qualified for the later stages. Maths was so easy, but I haven't done much Advanced Maths. Reasoning had 25 doable questions, but I only did 21. English was easy yet time consuming, and I was only able to do 20. GS was average, okay.
Advice: Don't focus too much on the static part of GS. For some topics that are appearing in other shifts, focus on learning when and why instead of learning everything from one shot chapter-wise videos.
For Maths, instead of studying all the chapters separately, do all of Advanced Maths together. Like one shot something. Focus on solving simple Height and Distance questions, basic Trigonometry, tan and sec identities, circles, algebra, partnership, cross method questions on ratios, etc.
English: If you have no holistic knowledge, then trust me, you can only do around 19- 20 questions. It's up to you.
Reasoning: I also thought of skipping assumptions, statement based, or other moral based types of questions. These questions were also paragraph type questions. But as I skipped them, another set of around 8 similar questions appeared towards the front. Then, when this section ended, there were address matching questions, as if they wanted to waste time. Very clever putting of questions. So be aware and make strategies.
My strategy was that I can solve such questions by reading. Whatever the case, if this takes too much time, even if you're skipping them, you have to do them at some stage, so why not do them early? Also, there's no point in skipping them when the paper is full of them.
Hotspot of Parmar SSC or other such concepts hasn't appeared in the questions (like 1 or 2 articles, I wasn't expecting either).
With the time you invest in 4 to 5 hour GS one shot videos, do invest the same amount of time in Maths, especially Advanced Maths.
With these mistakes, I'm moving forward.