Best Test Series for SSC CGL Tier 1 (English)

1) The Vedic Aryans lived in the area called Sapt-Sindhu, which means area drained by
seven rivers. One of the rivers among the seven is Jhelum. What was its ancient
name?

2) Match The Columns :-

3) Who among the following was the founder of ‘Tiger Legion' or ‘Free India Legion'?

4) Ryotwari system of revenue collection in India, introduced by the British, was based
on the _______.

5) Which of the following is the largest pan-India scheme to strengthen health care
infrastructure across the country with focus on primary, secondary and tertiary care
services?

6) In which industrial policy was the investment limit for tiny industry/unit increased to
₹2 lakh?

7) In 2018, Google Doodle celebrated the 100th birthday of Mrinalini Sarabhai. She is an
exponent of which of the following dance forms?

8) Name a reproductive strategy in which parasites take advantage of the care of other
individuals of the same species or different species to raise their young.

9) Who is the Administrative Head of the Indian Audit and Accounts Department?

10) The consumption of fixed capital is also known as _________.

11) Which of the following countries was the host of AFC Women's Asia Cup
Football–2022?

12) Which of the following states is NOT a part of the Tapi Basin?

13) Who received the Nobel Prize in 1901 for ‘recognition of the extraordinary services
rendered by the discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in
solutions’?

14) On the basis of tribal population (2011), identify the option that arranges the following
states in ascending order.
A. Madhya Pradesh
B. Maharashtra
C. Odisha

15) Which of the following is used as a cooling medium for the Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) and the superconducting magnets in MRI scanners and NMR spectrometers ?

16) Which scientist thought of the concept of steady state of the universe?

17) Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution are related to citizenship?

18) Ms Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni was conferred with the Arjuna Award 2022 for her
outstanding contribution in which of the following sports ?

19) ________ emerged as the poorest state as per the first-ever Multi-dimensional Poverty
Index (MPI) prepared by Niti Aayog and launched in November 2021.

20) Bharatanatyam expresses South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas of
_______.

21) Who among the following musicians is popular for his mastery over the musical
instrument Sitar?

22) In Chola administration, ________ was the assembly in the villages which were
inhabited predominantly by the Brahmanas.

23) In October 2021, 19-year-old ________ won the silver medal at the World Wrestling
Championship.

24) The length of the badminton court for singles is:

25) Which of the following festivals is associated with the term ‘ties of protection’?

1) The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that
contains an error.

Neetu have been / waiting for me / since 10 o’clock / in the morning.

2) Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the
given sentence.

We must remember that what we teach our children is what we inculcate in them.

3) Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
He won’t receive any better choice than this from anywhere.

4) Comprehension:

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the
alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Human life is (1) _______ a unique blessing, which in turn depends on the (2) _______ of the
Self. He who is not aware of the Self can neither have peace nor can he foster peaceful coexistence.
We have to link our soul with God and body with the physical world for substance.
(3) _______ the formless God is invisible to the naked eye, our mind often wanders wherever
it goes. (4) _______ , we are unable to develop any love for the Divine. And religion like the
white light of heavens (5) _______ multi-coloured fragmentations by the prisms of men and
loses its gravity. Instead of uniting, it becomes a major dividing force. French philosopher Tail
hard de Chardin, thinking deeply on meaning of our existence and relationship with the
Divine, expounds, “we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual
beings having a human experience”.

SubQuestion :

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.

5) Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
Feeble

6) Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in
the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. In Bihar and Central India, in particular, every district had smelters that used local
deposits of ore to produce iron which was widely used for the manufacture of
implements and tools of daily use.
B. The smelting was done by men while women worked on the bellows, pumping air
that kept the charcoal burning.
C. But iron smelting in India was extremely common till the end of the nineteenth
century.
D. Production of Wootz steel required a highly specialised technique of refining iron.

7) Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

She is _________ a peacock in the blue satin saree.

8) Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined word in the
given sentence.

She had an ability to persuade others.

9) Comprehension:

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the
alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Human life is (1) _______ a unique blessing, which in turn depends on the (2) _______ of the
Self. He who is not aware of the Self can neither have peace nor can he foster peaceful coexistence.
We have to link our soul with God and body with the physical world for substance.
(3) _______ the formless God is invisible to the naked eye, our mind often wanders wherever
it goes. (4) _______ , we are unable to develop any love for the Divine. And religion like the
white light of heavens (5) _______ multi-coloured fragmentations by the prisms of men and
loses its gravity. Instead of uniting, it becomes a major dividing force. French philosopher Tail
hard de Chardin, thinking deeply on meaning of our existence and relationship with the
Divine, expounds, “we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual
beings having a human experience”.

SubQuestion :

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 2.

10)

11) Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in
the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. He repeated the experiment, increasing the amount until he had weighed up to a
thousand pounds.
B. During the spring of 1717, the iron foundries in a remote district were often visited
by a thin, middle-aged man with a notebook.
C. Three cauldrons were next prepared under his directions.
D. He would weigh out two pounds of iron, have them heated till they were red-hot and
then weigh them again.

12)

13) Comprehension:

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the
alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Human life is (1) _______ a unique blessing, which in turn depends on the (2) _______ of the
Self. He who is not aware of the Self can neither have peace nor can he foster peaceful coexistence.
We have to link our soul with God and body with the physical world for substance.
(3) _______ the formless God is invisible to the naked eye, our mind often wanders wherever
it goes. (4) _______ , we are unable to develop any love for the Divine. And religion like the
white light of heavens (5) _______ multi-coloured fragmentations by the prisms of men and
loses its gravity. Instead of uniting, it becomes a major dividing force. French philosopher Tail
hard de Chardin, thinking deeply on meaning of our existence and relationship with the
Divine, expounds, “we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual
beings having a human experience”.

SubQuestion :

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.

14) Comprehension:

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the
alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Human life is (1) _______ a unique blessing, which in turn depends on the (2) _______ of the
Self. He who is not aware of the Self can neither have peace nor can he foster peaceful coexistence.
We have to link our soul with God and body with the physical world for substance.
(3) _______ the formless God is invisible to the naked eye, our mind often wanders wherever
it goes. (4) _______ , we are unable to develop any love for the Divine. And religion like the
white light of heavens (5) _______ multi-coloured fragmentations by the prisms of men and
loses its gravity. Instead of uniting, it becomes a major dividing force. French philosopher Tail
hard de Chardin, thinking deeply on meaning of our existence and relationship with the
Divine, expounds, “we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual
beings having a human experience”.

SubQuestion :

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.

15) Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the given sentence.

Henry is so servile that other people take advantage of him.

16) Select the most appropriate homonym to fill in the blank.
The hunter dogs followed the hyena’s ________.

17) Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of
words.

A thing fit to eat.

18) Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.

Zealous

19) Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word.
Her dog can climb under the fence.

20) Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Lily-livered

21) Select the INCORRECTLY spelt word in the given sentence.
The village beggars, no longer ill at ease in the gathering of gliterring dignitaries, sat
in their assigned rows and joked with vegetarian Brahmin apprentices.

22) Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The company's board of directors will announce the financial results at the annual
meeting tomorrow.

23) Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in
the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A.The top band is made of saffron, which symbolises power and courage.
B.The constituent assembly adopted our national flag, Tiranga, which means tricolour,
on 22 July 1947.
C.As a symbol of nationalism and freedom, it is fashioned from khadi, which is
domestically spun Indian cotton.
D.It features three horizontal stripes that are all the same width.

24) Select the grammatically correct sentence.

25) Comprehension:

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the
alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Human life is (1) _______ a unique blessing, which in turn depends on the (2) _______ of the
Self. He who is not aware of the Self can neither have peace nor can he foster peaceful coexistence.
We have to link our soul with God and body with the physical world for substance.
(3) _______ the formless God is invisible to the naked eye, our mind often wanders wherever
it goes. (4) _______ , we are unable to develop any love for the Divine. And religion like the
white light of heavens (5) _______ multi-coloured fragmentations by the prisms of men and
loses its gravity. Instead of uniting, it becomes a major dividing force. French philosopher Tail
hard de Chardin, thinking deeply on meaning of our existence and relationship with the
Divine, expounds, “we are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual
beings having a human experience”.

SubQuestion :

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.

1) The second number in the given number-pairs is obtained by performing certain
mathematical operation(s) on the first number. The same operation(s) is/are followed
in all the number-pairs except one. Find that odd number-pair.

2) Select the option that represents the correct order of the given words as they would
appear in an English dictionary.
1. Warriors
2. Warehouse
3. Warcraft
4. Warranty
5. Wardrobe
6. Wardenship

3) Select the Correct Mirror image of the given figure when the mirror is placed at MN as Shown below.

Options :-

Which Option is Correct ?

4) Four letter-clusters have been given, out of which three are alike in some manner and
one is different. Select the odd letter-cluster.

5) Select the correct combination of mathematical signs that can sequentially replace the
* signs and balance the given equation.
256 * 4 * 9 * 3 * 14 = 51

6) In a certain code language, ‘TABLE’ is coded as ELEAT and ‘SWING’ is coded as
GNLWS. How will ‘FRAME’ be coded in the same language ?

7) Which of the following letter-clusters will replace the question mark (?) in the given
series?
UV, OY, IB, EE, ?

8) Ganesh was taking a walk with his mother’s brother’s father’s granddaughter. Who
was he walking with?

9) Three different positions of the same dice are shown. Find the number on the face
opposite the face showing ‘1’.

10) Select the figure from the options that can replace the question marks (?) and Complete the given pattern.

Options :-

Which is Option Correct ?

11) Select the option that is related to the fifth number in the same way as the second
number is related to the first number and the fourth number is related to the third
number.
625 : 5 :: 2560 : 8 :: 5000 : ?

12) Select the set in which the numbers are related in the same way as are the numbers of
the following sets.
(55, 11, 25)
(64,16, 16)

(NOTE : Operations should be performed on the whole numbers, without breaking
down the numbers into its constituent digits. E.g. 13 – Operations on 13 such as
adding /subtracting /multiplying etc. to 13 can be performed. Breaking down 13 into 1
and 3 and then performing mathematical operations on 1 and 3 is NOT allowed)

13) Three statements are given, followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV.
Assuming the statements to be true, even if they seem to be at variance with
commonly known facts, decide which of the conclusions logically follow(s) from the
statements.
Statements:
Some desks are trays.
Some trays are plates.
Some plates are desks.
Conclusions:
I. All desks are plates.
II. All plates are desks.
III. Some plates are trays.
IV. All trays are desks.

14) Which of the following numbers will replace the question mark (?) in the given series?
8, 15, 26, ? , 56, 75

15) Three Different positions of the same dice are shown. Find the number on the face opposite the face showing '4'.

16) Select the option that represents the letters that, when placed from left to right in the
following blanks, will complete the letter-series.
C L _ V E C _ _ W E C L O _ _ C _ O _ E

17) Select the Option Figure which is embedded in the given figure (Rotation is NOT Allowed).

Options :-

Which Option is Correct ?

18)

Options :-

Which Option is Correct ?

19) Select the option that is related to the third word in the same way as the second word
is related to the first word.
(The words must be considered as meaningful English words and must not be related
to each other based on the number of letters/number of consonants/vowels in the
word.)
Skin : Touch :: Nose : ?

20) Select the option that is related to the fifth number in the same way as the second
number is related to the first number and the fourth number is related to the third
number.
5 : 45::3 : 3::6 : ?

21) Which two signs should be interchanged to make the given equation correct?
588 ÷ 28 × 32 + 72 – 160 = 760

22) Select the Venn Diagram that Best illustrates the relationship between the Following Classes.

Ticket, Aeroplane, Rail

Which Option is Correct ?

23) Select the option that is related to the third term in the same way as the second term is
related to the first term and the sixth term is related to the fifth term.
7183 : 3850 :: 6957 : ? :: 8972 : 5639

24) In a certain code language, ‘ASK’ is written as ‘62’ and ‘BYE’ is written as ‘64’. How will
‘CRY’ be written in that language?

25) Select the option that is related to the sixth letter-cluster in the same way as the first
letter-cluster is related to the second letter-cluster and the third letter-cluster is related
to the fourth letter-cluster.
HMD : KOE : : BNQ : EPR :: ? : FLV

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2) If {(3 sin θ – cos θ) / (cos θ + sin θ)} = 1, then the value of cot θ is:

3) 8 men can complete a work in 45 days. 8 women can complete the same work in 18
days. In how many days will 5 men and 8 women, together, complete the same work ?

Which Option is Correct ?

4) Two runners, Sony and Mony, start running on a circular track of length 200 m at
speeds of 18 and 24 km/h, respectively, in the same direction. After how much time
from the start will they meet again at the starting point?

5) The marked price of mustard oil is 25% more than its cost price. At what percentage
less than the marked price should it be sold to have no profit and no loss?

6)

7)

8) A shopkeeper offers the following two discount schemes.
A) Buy 3 get 4 free
B) Buy 5 get 6 free
Which scheme has the maximum discount percentage?

9) If m∠C=m∠Z and AC=XZ, then which of the following conditions is necessary for
ΔABC and ΔXYZ to be congruent ?

10) The Volume of a sphere of radius 4.2 cm is : ( Use π = 22/7)

11) A train 900 m long is running at 108 km/h. How long will it take to clear a 900 m long
platform completely?

12)

13) If A is 95% of B, then what per cent of A is B ?

Which Option is correct ?

14) As part of his journey, a person travels 120 km at 80 km/h, the next 100 km at 40 km/h,
and comes back to the starting point at 75 km/h. The average speed of the person
throughout the journey (approximately) is:

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16) Two concentric circles are of radii 10 cm and 6 cm. Find the length of the chord of the
larger circle which touches the smaller circle.

17) If Sin (a+b) = 1 and Cos (a-b) = 1/2, then find a.

18) A can complete a piece of work in 25 days while B can complete the same work in 30
days. They work on alternate basis, starting with A. Both A and B follow this pattern
for 5 days and then A leaves the work. In how many days will B finish the remaining
work?

Which Option is Correct ?

19)

Which Option is Correct ?

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21)

22) In what time will ₹10,000 at 4% per annum, produce the same interest as ₹8,000 does
in 4 years at 5% simple interest?

23)

24) A man, a boy and a woman can finish a work in 10 days, 15 days and 30 days,
respectively. In how many days can the work be finished by a man, a woman and a boy
when all of them work together?

25) If the four numbers, 39, 117, 17 and y are in proportion, then find the value of y.