The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) is going to conduct the SSC CGL Tier 1 exam on September 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 in computer-based mode. The test will consist of objective type multiple-choice questions and will be held from four sections which are General Intelligence & Reasoning, General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, and English Comprehension. All the questions except the English section will be in English and Hindi language.
Through this recruitment process, SSC will fill 14,582 Group B and Group C posts in a number of ministries, departments and government organisations. For the above-mentioned posts, the total number of vacancies are 6183 for UR, 2167 for SC, 1088 for ST, 3721 for OBC and 1423 for EWS categories. The registration process took place from June 9 to July 4, 2025.
In previous years, candidates faced a number of issues such as technical issues, delays in the Aadhaar verification process, and very far away test centres. To handle such inflated issues, new processes will be implemented. SSC Chairman S. Gopalakrishnan shared with Navbharat Times that the exam procedure has been restructured for it to be smoother and fairer.
One-Shift Exam For All And Centres Within 100 km
For the current year, the CGL examination will indeed be a one-shift exam instead of a multi-shift exam. This has been done to ensure that all candidates are taking the same set of questions, thereby removing concerns regarding different levels of difficulty in different sessions.
To ease travelling now exam centres will be assigned, at most, about 100 km from the candidate’s recorded address. Currently approximately 80% of aspirants have exam centres nearby, but the commission’s aim is to get this percentage above 90% in the exams to come.
The chairman of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) was keen to emphasise examination security cited that the commission has started to keep a close eye on systems as CBTs (Computer Based Testing) is actively happening in private centres, sometimes irregularities and even external interference has been reported.
To combat this issue – new monitoring systems are being put into use. Most of the reported irregularities were in relation to the use of old computers and the support of inadequate networks at some centres. Thereby, the commission will only use centres that have been shown to have reasonably reliable hardware and systems that meet requirements of the SSC’s application. There is also the prospect of auditing the process as a whole pre-CGL exam.
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