SSC CGL – Combined Graduate Level Examination Tier 1 2025: questions with answers

'My father's wife's only son' is the man himself, and he is the brother of your mother, so he is your maternal uncle.

COLD → FRPE uses shifts +3, +3, +4, +1. Applying them to WARM gives Z, D, V, N = ZDVN.

First and last letters stay X. The 2nd letter goes Z, Y, X, W, V and the 3rd goes Y, X, W, V, U, so the next term is XVUX.

Her brother's wife's sister is related to the speaker by marriage, i.e. a sister-in-law.

Address 2 differs (Flat-203), 3 abbreviates the name and 4 has a different PIN; as printed, the addresses that match on name, flat, locality and PIN are 1 and 2.

The number of seats, seating shape and whether people face the centre are not given, so the answer cannot be determined.

GNITSET reversed is TESTING, just as ETAGIROV reversed is VORIGATE.

Option (a) matches the given address exactly; the others change 'Villa', the PIN or the house number.

Options a, b and d have a common difference of 4; 8, 16, 24 has a difference of 8.

The joule is the unit of energy; the newton is the unit of force.

8 × 3 - 4 + 6 ÷ 2 = 24 - 4 + 3 = 23.

The wife's father's only son is the wife's brother, i.e. the man's brother-in-law.

In each group letters skip one and the number is the letter's position (C3, E5, G7). In F6 : H8 : J11, J is 10, so it breaks the pattern.

The series alternates +9 and -5: 17 + 9 = 26.

B → K is +9 and F → L is +6. So D + 9 = M and K + 6 = Q, giving MQ.

Each letter moves +3: A-D-G-J-M, C-F-I-L-O, E-H-K-N-Q, giving MOQ.

The second word is the first word reversed: ASDFGH → HGFDSA.

The only daughter of his mother is his sister, so her son is his nephew.

Every letter moves +1 in each term: EGKM → FHLN.

Each letter moves +4: P→T, T→X, X→B, giving TXB.

The letters move +5, +4 and +3: R→W, R→V, R→U, giving WVU.

Each group steps down 2 positions (J10, H8, F6). Q17 : O15 : should be M13; L12 breaks the pattern.

The Nile flows in Africa; the Danube flows in Europe.

All others are prime; 21 = 3 × 7.

Alphabetically TEACHING gives A C E G H I N T. The 3rd from left is E and the 2nd from right is N; between them are G, H, I = 3 letters.

The 106th Amendment (2023) inserted Articles 330A and 332A and amended Article 239AA for women's reservation.

The treaty gives India the eastern rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej); the western rivers go mainly to Pakistan.

China's 22.13 km Tianshan Shengli Tunnel in Xinjiang is the world's longest expressway tunnel.

Indian Railways plans to double the originating capacity of 48 major cities by 2030.

Dholavira (Gujarat) is noted for its reservoirs and elaborate water-harvesting and drainage system.

PM-PRANAM encourages states to cut chemical fertiliser use and promote alternatives.

At Wandiwash (1760) Eyre Coote's British forces defeated the French under Lally.

A qubit can exist in a superposition of 0 and 1.

BNS Section 152 (numbered 150 in the draft) covers acts endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India, replacing sedition.

The Curzon Line (1919) was a proposed boundary between Poland and Soviet Russia.

Armenia's COP17 logo features the endemic Erivan Anomalous Blue butterfly.

Lord Canning became the first Viceroy after the Government of India Act 1858.

Mitochondria produce ATP through cellular respiration.

Pitt's India Act created the Board of Control, separating political from commercial functions of the Company.

The Ramsar Convention (1971) is for the conservation of wetlands.

Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj in 1909.

A barometer measures atmospheric pressure.

The pituitary controls most other endocrine glands, hence 'master gland'.

Plinian eruptions are the most violent, with viscous, gas-rich magma.

Nitrifying bacteria oxidise ammonia to nitrites (Nitrosomonas) and then to nitrates (Nitrobacter).

India's falling birth rate with an already low death rate places it in the late third stage, which R explains.

g is zero at the centre of the Earth.

The Kosi, with frequent floods and course shifts, is called the Sorrow of Bihar.

The ozone layer lies in the stratosphere.

The Eighth Schedule had 14 languages in 1950; there are now 22.

Ratio = 90,000 × 8 : 1,50,000 × 5 = 72 : 75. Q's share = 75/147 × 50,000 ≈ ₹25,510.

Capital-months: Rajesh 12,00,000; Suresh 10,50,000; Tushar 10,00,000 (total 32,50,000). Tushar's share = 10/32.5 × 1,50,000 ≈ ₹46,154.

Multiples of 13 run from 156 to 299; their average = (156 + 299)/2 = 227.5.

Total 900. First 5 sum to 340 and the next 5 (average 81.6) sum to 408, leaving 152 for the last two, whose average is 76.

The 10% return on ₹12,00,000 is ₹1,20,000 a year = ₹10,000 a month; adding ₹2,500 maintenance gives ₹12,500.

Python = 50 + 80 = 130 and R = 50 + 70 = 120, so the ratio is 13 : 12.

5/9 ≈ 0.556 < 4/7 ≈ 0.571 < 3/5 = 0.6 < 7/11 ≈ 0.636.

5/6 - 1/6 = 2/3; × 1/3 = 2/9; 2/5 - 2/9 = 8/45; 7/9 ÷ 8/45 = 35/8; 25/3 - 35/8 = 95/24.

32768 + 6859 - 54872 + 312 = -14933.

It triples every 6 years, and 27 = 3³, so it takes 18 years.

The 1200 units sold at ₹93.5 (15% off ₹110) with 3 free per 10 bought means only 10/13 are paid: about 923.08 units → ₹86,308 revenue. Loss = 33,692/1,20,000 ≈ 28.08%.

Juice 30 L, water 20 L. For 3 : 4 water must be 40 L, so add 20 L.

Cost = 30 × 50 + 20 × 55 = ₹2,600; revenue = 50 × 54 = ₹2,700; profit ₹100.

The rate is 8640/7200 = 1.2 (20%), so P = 7200/1.2² = ₹5,000.

Distance +25% in the same time means speed +25%: 200 × 1.25 = 250 km/h.

Area = 22/7 × 28² = 2464 cm²; the uncultivated 20% = 492.8 cm².

Sum of speeds = 480/5 = 96 and difference = 480/15 = 32, so M = 64 km/h.

Cost price of the blend = 140/1.25 = ₹112. By alligation (160 - 112) : (112 - 80) = 48 : 32 = 3 : 2.

3 days × (1/12 + 1/18) = 5/12 done, so 7/12 remains.

Together = 31/70 per hour; in 1.5 h they fill 93/140. The remaining 47/140 at A + B's rate of 12/35 (= 48/140) takes 47/48 h.

SP = CP × 1.7 × 0.8 × 0.85 = 1.156 CP = 39,312, so CP ≈ ₹34,000.

(12² - 8²)/12² = 80/144 = 5 : 9.

A half turn covers half the circumference: 50%.

13 = 2m + 7, so m = 3.

(3 + 2.8) - 1.5 = 4.3.

'not its restructuring... but that it assumes' is unparallel; it should be 'but its assumption...', so part (2) has the error.

The present perfect continuous active becomes 'has been being + V3' in the passive.

'It was being reported by several sources' becomes 'Several sources were reporting'.

'Barely' means only just, fitting 'could barely keep up'.

Engagement is gathered (3), monitored on dashboards (2), users are classified (4), then a strategy is built (1).

The introduction (2) is followed by the definition (1), types (3) and validation (4).

'Would' in reported speech comes from 'will' in the direct speech.

The subject is a noun clause ('That the report overlooked...'), which takes the singular 'was surprising'.

A person fluent in two languages is bilingual.

Parallel infinitives: 'to stop consuming junk food and to work out regularly'.

'Under ... conditions' is the correct collocation.

The correct spelling is 'Ventriculoatrial' (ventricle to atrium shunt).

'At sixes and sevens' means in a state of confusion.

The correct spelling is 'sacrilegious'.

Duplicitous means deceitful.

The passage says wisdom develops through experience, trial and error and reflection.

Wisdom 'deepens understanding' through ethical and moral awareness, i.e. it nurtures profound moral understanding.

The passage names farmers, craftsmen and elders.

The passage contrasts formal education with the practical, ethical application of knowledge (wisdom).

The gap is blamed on rote learning, exam focus and algorithm-driven thinking.

'more ... than' is the comparative needed with 'than expected'.

Duplicitous (deceitful) is the opposite of candid (frank, honest).

The idiom is 'the reputation of being'.

A yes/no question is reported with 'if/whether'; 'did submit' becomes 'had submitted'.

In the sentence, 'canon' is a musical composition; in (a) it refers to a camera (Canon), the same word with a different meaning.