Hello Friends,
Staff Selection Commission has successfully conducted the Combined Graduate Level Examination, 2017 (Tier-I) from 5th August 2017 to 23rd August 2017 in 3 different shifts each day. A total of 30,26,599 aspirants have registered for SSC CGL 2017 Exam. The exam was conducted in 43 Batches for 26,63,073 students in which 14,02,331 students have actually given the examination (average attendance 52.66%).
Based on your performance of SSC CGL Tier I Exam, you can easily figure out if you will make it to the Tier 2 of SSC CGL exam this year. The SSC CGL Tier II Exam will tentatively take place on 10th & 11th November 2017. So now is the time for you to start preparing for the Tier II exam. Here is the detailed SSC CGL Exam Pattern for Tier II Exam 2017.
SSC CGL Tier II Exam Pattern:
| S. No. |
Subject | No. of Qs. | Marks | Negative Marking per Qs |
Difficulty Level |
| Paper 1 | Quantitative Aptitude |
100 | 200 | 0.50 marks |
10th+12th standard level |
| Paper 2 | English Language |
200 | 200 | 0.25 marks |
10+2 level |
| Paper 3 | Statistics | 100 | 200 | 0.50 marks |
Graduation level |
| Paper 4 | Finance & Accounting |
40 | 80 | 0.50 marks |
Graduation level |
| Economics & Governance |
60 (Total = 100 Qs.) |
120 (Total =200 Marks) |
Some important things that you should know about the SSC CGL Tier II Exam 2017:
- Paper I & II are compulsory for all the categories of posts while paper III & IV are for some specific post.
- The marks obtained by the candidates in Tier I & Tier II, together, would determine the eligibility of the candidates to appear in Tier III & Tier IV of the CGL exam.
- The final merit of the successful candidates will depend on the total score obtained by them in Tier I, Tier II and Tier III exams.
- Tier III paper will comprise questions based on Essay/Passage and Letter/Application writing.
- Tier IV exam will be of qualifying nature only.
- Tier-II of the examination consists of 4 papers in total.
- Duration of each paper is 2 hours.
