SSC GD
Complete preparation roadmap with study materials and success strategies
Exam Overview
Eligibility Criteria
18–23 years (as on cut-off date; e.g., August 1, 2025)
Matriculation/10th pass from recognized board by closing date
Indian, or as per official SSC rules (subject of Nepal/Bhutan, PIO, etc.)
OBC (+3), SC/ST (+5), Ex-SM (+3 after deduction for service), others as per notifications
Minimum height (170 cm male, 157 cm female, relaxations for select regions), chest (males only: minimum 80 cm unexpanded, 5 cm expansion).
Application Process
Online at ssc.nic.in (CBE mandatory; no offline forms).
Dates for 2025 (example): Notification: Dec 27, 2024
Dec 27–Jan 31, 2025
Feb 1, 2025
Feb 3–4, 2025
₹100 for General/OBC/EWS male candidates; No fee for SC/ST/PwD/Ex-SM/Female
UPI, Net Banking, SBI e-challan
(1) SSC registration, (2) form fill with all personal & exam details, (3) posts force and state preferences, (4) upload photo/signature, (5) fee payment, (6) submit and save/print acknowledgment
Photo, signature, 10th pass certificate (age/qualification), caste/PwD/EWS/Ex-SM as claimed.
Total Applicants
2024: ~51,00,000 (estimated);
2022: 48,42,589;
2021: 44,45,859;
(SSC GD is India’s largest police recruitment exam—record volume after every notification.)
Cutoff Analysis
Success Rate Analysis
44.45 lakh appeared, 78,000 selected (1.75%).
48.42 lakh appeared, 76,882 final selection (1.59%)
Previous Year Trends
Reasoning section trickier, some states saw cutoff spikes due to more vacancies. Consistent: 60–65% attendance rate; normalization critical; PET/PST filters out 30–40% after written; most errors in qualifying physical, especially height/chest.
Difficulty moderate, more static GK and current events, reasoning even across sets, math simple calculation type. Record female participation, cutoffs moderately higher for General & OBC.
Previous Year Analysis
Consistent trends
Subject Breakdown
- •Reasoning: 20 Q/40 M
- •Series/Analogy/Coding-Decoding: ~40%
- •Direction, Order-Ranking/Puzzles, Syllogism: ~35%
- •Non-Verbal, Miscellaneous: ~25%
- •General Awareness: 20 Q/40 M
- •Current Affairs: ~40%
- •Polity/History/Geo/Eco: ~40%
- •Science/Sports/Books: ~20%
- •Mathematics: 20 Q/40 M
- •Arithmetic (basic calc, percent, ratio, average): ~50%
- •Time & Work, SI/CI, Mensuration: ~20%
- •Data Handling/Geometry/Misc: ~30%
- •English: 20 Q/40 M
- •Comprehension/Fill Blanks: ~25%
- •Grammar/Vocab/One Word/Idioms: ~35%
- •Cloze Test, Rearrangement, Misc: ~40%
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