SSC CGL 2025 · Shift 2

SSC CGL 24 Sept 2025 Shift 2 – Question Paper

100 questions · 200 marks · 60 minutes · +2 for a correct answer, −0.5 for a wrong one. With answer key and detailed solutions in Hindi and English.

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SectionQuestionsMarks
General Intelligence & Reasoning2550
General Awareness2550
Quantitative Aptitude2550
English Comprehension2550

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Q1.
If A = 5, B = 10, C = 15, …, Z = 130, then what is the code for ACE?
यदि A = 5, B = 10, C = 15, …, Z = 130 है, तो ACE का कूट क्या होगा?
  1. A5, 15, 25
  2. B5, 20, 25
  3. C5, 15, 30
  4. D5, 20, 30
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Concept: Each letter's code = its alphabet position multiplied by 5 (Z = 26 × 5 = 130).

  1. Positions: A = 1, C = 3, E = 5.
  2. Multiply each by 5: 1×5 = 5, 3×5 = 15, 5×5 = 25.
  3. Code for ACE = 5, 15, 25.

Trick: A, C, E are odd positions 1, 3, 5, so the codes must jump by 10 each time (5, 15, 25). Only option (A) does this.

Answer: (A) 5, 15, 25

अवधारणा: हर अक्षर का कोड = वर्णमाला में उसका स्थान × 5 (Z = 26 × 5 = 130)।

  1. स्थान: A = 1, C = 3, E = 5।
  2. 5 से गुणा: 5, 15, 25।
  3. ACE का कोड = 5, 15, 25।

ट्रिक: A, C, E में हर बार 2 अक्षर का अंतर है, तो कोड में हर बार 10 बढ़ेगा: 5, 15, 25।

उत्तर: (A) 5, 15, 25

SSC CGLGeneral Intelligence & ReasoningLetter coding – position × 5
Q26.
Under the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), which condition is essential for an electronic record to be admissible in court, even if treated as secondary evidence?
भारतीय साक्ष्य अधिनियम (BSA) के अंतर्गत इलेक्ट्रॉनिक अभिलेख को न्यायालय में ग्राह्य होने हेतु कौन-सी शर्त आवश्यक है, चाहे उसे द्वितीयक साक्ष्य ही माना जाए?
  1. AIt must be digitally signed by a government officerउस पर किसी सरकारी अधिकारी के डिजिटल हस्ताक्षर हों
  2. BIt must be stored on a certified cloud serverवह प्रमाणित क्लाउड सर्वर पर संग्रहित हो
  3. CIt must be accompanied by a certificateउसके साथ प्रमाणपत्र संलग्न हो
  4. DIt must be notarized and stamped by a courtवह नोटरीकृत और न्यायालय द्वारा मुहरबंद हो
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Concept: A computer output (secondary electronic evidence) is admissible only with a supporting certificate.

  1. Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 replaced the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (in force from 1 July 2024).
  2. Section 63 BSA (old Section 65B) requires a certificate describing the device and how the record was produced.
  3. Digital signature by an officer, cloud storage or notarisation are not the legal test.

Yaad rakhein: BSA has 170 sections; it was passed along with BNS (replacing IPC) and BNSS (replacing CrPC).

Answer: (C) It must be accompanied by a certificate

अवधारणा: इलेक्ट्रॉनिक रिकॉर्ड (द्वितीयक साक्ष्य) तभी मान्य है जब उसके साथ प्रमाणपत्र (certificate) हो।

  1. भारतीय साक्ष्य अधिनियम, 2023 ने भारतीय साक्ष्य अधिनियम 1872 की जगह ली (1 जुलाई 2024 से लागू)।
  2. BSA की धारा 63 (पुरानी धारा 65B) में उपकरण व रिकॉर्ड बनने की प्रक्रिया बताने वाला प्रमाणपत्र ज़रूरी है।
  3. अधिकारी के डिजिटल हस्ताक्षर, क्लाउड सर्वर या नोटरी – कानूनी शर्त नहीं।

याद रखें: BSA में 170 धाराएँ हैं; इसके साथ BNS (IPC के स्थान पर) और BNSS (CrPC के स्थान पर) आए।

उत्तर: (C) उसके साथ प्रमाणपत्र संलग्न हो

SSC CGLGeneral AwarenessBSA 2023 – electronic evidence
Q51.
Arya lent Siya ₹10,000 for three years at 5% annual compound interest. What will be the total amount Arya will receive after 3 years?
आर्या ने सिया को ₹10,000 तीन वर्ष के लिए 5% वार्षिक चक्रवृद्धि ब्याज पर उधार दिए। 3 वर्ष बाद आर्या को कुल कितनी राशि मिलेगी?
  1. A₹11,576.25
  2. B₹11,750.25
  3. C₹11,749.25
  4. D₹11,649.25
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Concept: Amount A = P(1 + R/100)ⁿ.

  1. A = 10,000 × (1.05)³.
  2. (1.05)² = 1.1025; × 1.05 = 1.157625.
  3. A = ₹11,576.25.

Trick: Successive % method: 5% for 3 years = 15.7625% total; 10,000 + 1,576.25 = ₹11,576.25.

Answer: (A) ₹11,576.25

अवधारणा: मिश्रधन A = P(1 + R/100)ⁿ।

  1. A = 10,000 × (1.05)³।
  2. (1.05)² = 1.1025; × 1.05 = 1.157625।
  3. A = ₹11,576.25।

ट्रिक: 5% की 3 वर्ष की प्रभावी दर = 15.7625%; 10,000 + 1,576.25 = ₹11,576.25।

उत्तर: (A) ₹11,576.25

SSC CGLQuantitative AptitudeCompound interest – amount for 3 years
Directions (Qs. 76-80): In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

To treat gender as ontologically prior or naturally originary is to misunderstand its position as a (76) ____ — a semiotic and performative formation whose apparent stability is produced only through continual repetition across spatial, legal and psychic structures. In this framework, embodiment is not simply experienced but actively mediated, shaped by interpretive regimes that legitimize certain bodies while casting others as abject, deviant or structurally unintelligible. The state, working alongside biomedical epistemes and juridico-political grammars, engages in a necropolitical management of life itself, wherein recognition is not inherent but (77) ____ , distributed through historically contingent and politically malleable matrices of intelligibility. This arrangement positions gender as a matter of discursive legibility rather than biological inevitability. Resistance, when articulated within these same grammars, can inadvertently reinforce the structures it aims to challenge. Consequently, the radical imperative is not merely to broaden the scope of recognition, but to pursue a (78) ____ of recognition’s ontological foundations. This move requires rejecting the liberal dialectics of inclusion and exclusion and revealing their constitutive foreclosure of alterity. Such a politics demands the (79) ____ of normativity as the organizing principle of embodiment. Only through this dismantling can a post-identitarian ethics of becoming emerge — one that favours contingency over coherence, opacity over transparency and relational indeterminacy over categorical fixity. Within this schema, freedom is not recuperative but (80) ____ — a break from taxonomic legibility and a refusal of the logocentric demand to be fully known.
Q76.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number (76).
  1. Apraxis-field
  2. Bontotheological mirror
  3. Cdiffident
  4. Dnomos
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Concept: The blank is a noun explained right after the dash: 'a semiotic and performative formation' made by repetition.

  1. Gender is described as produced through repeated practice, not as natural.
  2. 'Praxis-field' = an area formed by practice/action – fits 'performative formation'.
  3. 'Diffident' (shy) is an adjective – grammatically impossible after 'a'; 'nomos' (law/norm) and 'ontotheological mirror' do not match 'performative'.

Trick: In cloze tests, read the phrase after a dash or colon – it usually defines the missing word.

Answer: (A) praxis-field

अवधारणा: रिक्त स्थान एक संज्ञा है, जिसकी व्याख्या डैश के बाद दी है: 'a semiotic and performative formation' जो दोहराव से बनता है।

  1. Gender को स्वाभाविक नहीं, बार-बार के अभ्यास (performance) से बना बताया गया है।
  2. 'Praxis-field' = अभ्यास/क्रिया से बना क्षेत्र – 'performative formation' से मेल।
  3. 'Diffident' (संकोची) विशेषण है – 'a' के बाद संज्ञा चाहिए; 'nomos' और 'ontotheological mirror' 'performative' से मेल नहीं खाते।

ट्रिक: क्लोज़ टेस्ट में डैश या कोलन के बाद वाला भाग पढ़ें – वहीं प्रायः रिक्त शब्द की परिभाषा होती है।

उत्तर: (A) praxis-field

SSC CGLEnglish ComprehensionCloze test – noun fitting the definition

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