Benefits of SSC CGL Previous Year Solved Papers

Solving previous years’ papers help students to prepare better by understanding the type of questions that usually come in the exam and give a fair idea of the exam pattern. Previous years’ papers help to understand the syllabus, pattern and how the difficulty levels have evolved over the years. In ideal situation, students should start their preparation from previous years’ papers, and find out their shortcomings, and accordingly prepare for the exam. Appearing candidates should refer the previous year papers at regular intervals to check their preparation level. Solving previous year papers for preparation could be one of the best strategies. But it is only possible when one is confident enough about her/his preparation and does not require any additional help.

If you see, the pattern of the exam has changed over the years. One can expect some continuous changes and some constants in the paper as well. The key to crack any exam is to mold yourself according to the exam pattern. Solving previous years’ question papers helps you in gauging your strengths and weaknesses. You must solve all the papers in a time-bound fashion at least twice. Although many books are available at your disposal, but I would suggest you Kiran’s solved papers. It is advised that you must do your preparation according to previous years’ question papers, as this will provide you a thought about the sort of questions asked, and will also assist you in ascertaining your skills. If you are a primary time aspirant, you would find it tricky to prepare and create a scheme that works. So, to assist you, here are a few instructions and tricks that you can go through:

1.   To begin the preparation you can go through the exam schedule correctly. It will give the correct idea about the subjects, and you can mark the topics that you think are your weakness.

2.   You can begin the preparation from weak subjects and create it your strength, as you will have much time to prepare.

3.   Going through this curriculum will provide you a lot time to prepare properly for the exam. So, prepare your agenda, split your period and make sure that you assign detailed hours for every topic.

4.   This sector mostly consists of antonyms, sentence correction/ formation, synonyms and grammar for which you can use books of 10^th and 12^th standards, or you can go for SSC CGL books for English.

5.   Although the Mathematics section will consist of class 10 syllabus – the significant fraction is that the queries will be difficult.

In the light of above mentioned points, you are required to solve the previous years’ question papers as much as possible to get yourself totally familiar with the examination system, and about the question patterns to appear in the SSC CGL 2016.