SSC Combined Graduate Level Exam - 2014

Syllabus
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& : General Intelligence Reasoning
It would include questions of both verbal and non-verbal type. This component may
include questions on analogies, similarities and differences, space visualization, spatial
orientation, problem solving, analysis, judgement, decision making, visual memory,
discrimination, observation, relationship concepts, arithmetical reasoning and figural
classification, arithmetic number series, non-verbal series, coding and decoding, statement
conclusion, syllogistic reasoning etc. The topics are, emantic !nalogy, ymbolic"#umber
!nalogy, $igural !nalogy, emantic %lassification, ymbolic"#umber %lassification, $igural
%lassification, emantic eries, #umber eries, $igural eries, &roblem olving, 'ord
(uilding, %oding ) de-coding, #umerical *perations,symbolic *perations, Trends, pace
*rientation, pace +isualization, +enn ,iagrams, ,rawing inferences, &unched hole"pattern -
folding ) un-folding, $igural &attern - folding and completion, Inde.ing, !ddress matching,
,ate ) city matching, %lassification of centre codes"roll numbers, mall ) %apital
letters"numbers coding, decoding and classification, /mbedded $igures, %ritical thinking,
/motional Intelligence, ocial Intelligence, *ther sub-topics, if any.
: General Awareness
0uestions in this component will be aimed at testing the candidates general awareness of the
environment around him and its application to society. 0uestions will also be designed to test
knowledge of current events and of such matters of every day observations and e.perience in
their scientific aspect as may be e.pected of any educated person. The test will also include
questions relating to India and its neighbouring countries especially pertaining 1istory, %ulture,
2eography, /conomic cene, 2eneral &olicy ) cientific 3esearch.
: Quantitative Aptitude
The questions will be designed to test the ability of appropriate use of numbers and number
sense of the candidate. The scope of the test will be computation of whole numbers, decimals
,fractions and relationships between numbers, &ercentage. 3atio ) &roportion,quare roots,
!verages, Interest, &rofit and 4oss, ,iscount, &artnership (usiness, 5i.ture and !lligation,
Time and distance, Time ) 'ork, (asic algebraic identities of chool !lgebra ) /lementary
surds, 2raphs of 4inear /quations, Triangle and its various kinds of centres, %ongruence and
similarity of triangles, %ircle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by chords of a circle,
common tangents to two or more circles, Triangle, 0uadrilaterals, 3egular &olygons , %ircle,
3ight &rism, 3ight %ircular %one, 3ight %ircular %ylinder, phere, 1emispheres, 3ectangular
&arallelepiped, 3egular 3ight &yramid with triangular or square base, Trigonometric ratio,
,egree and 3adian 5easures, tandard Identities, %omplementary angles, 1eights and
,istances, 1istogram, $requency polygon, (ar diagram ) &ie chart
: English Comprehension
%andidates6 ability to understand correct /nglish, his basic comprehension and writing ability,
etc. would be tested.
Note: The questions in &arts !, ( ) , will be of a level commensurate with the /ssential
0ualification viz graduation and questions in &art % will be of 78th standard level.
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Paper I: Quantitative Ability
The questions will be designed to test the ability of appropriate use of numbers and
number sense of the candidate. The scope of the test will be the computation of whole numbers,
decimals ,fractions and relationships between numbers, &ercentage. 3atio ) &roportion,quare
roots, !verages, Interest, &rofit and 4oss, ,iscount, &artnership (usiness, 5i.ture and
!lligation, Time and distance, Time ) 'ork, (asic algebraic identities of chool !lgebra )
/lementary surds, 2raphs of 4inear /quations, Triangle and its various kinds of centres,
%ongruence and similarity of triangles, %ircle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by
chords of a circle, common tangents to two or more circles, Triangle, 0uadrilaterals, 3egular
&olygons , %ircle, 3ight &rism, 3ight %ircular %one, 3ight %ircular %ylinder, phere,
1emispheres, 3ectangular &arallelepiped, 3egular 3ight &yramid with triangular or square
base, Trigonometric ratio, ,egree and 3adian 5easures, tandard Identities, %omplementary
angles, 1eights and ,istances, 1istogram, $requency polygon, (ar diagram ) &ie chart
Paper -II: English Language & Comprehsion
0uestions in this components will be designed to test the candidate6s
understanding and knowledge of /nglish 4anguage and will be based on spot the error, fill in
the blanks, synonyms, antonyms, spelling"detecting mis-spelt words, idioms ) phrases, one
word substitution, improvement of sentences, active"passive voice of verbs, conversion into
direct"indirect narration, shuffling of sentence parts, shuffling of sentences in a passage, cloze
passage ) comprehension passage.
Paper - III: Statistis !or Investigator "ra#e-II$ %inistry o!
Statistis & Programme Implementation & Compiler in &"I'
%ollection %lassification and &resentation of tatistical ,ata - &rimary and econdary
data, 5ethods of data collection9 Tabulation of data9 2raphs and charts9 $requency
distributions9 ,iagrammatic presentation of frequency distributions. 5easures of %entral
Tendency-%ommon measures of central tendency - mean median and mode9 &artition values-
quartiles, deciles, percentiles.
( 5easures of ,ispersion-%ommon measures dispersion - range, quartile
deviations, mean deviation and standard deviation9 5easures of relative dispersion.
( 5oments, kewness and :urtosis - ,ifferent types of moments and their
relationship9 meaning of skewness and kurtosis9 different measures of skewness and
kurtosis. %orrelation and 3egression - catter diagram9 simple correlation coefficient9
simple regression lines9 pearman6s rank correlation9 5easures of association of
attributes9 5ultiple regression9 5ultiple and partial correlation ;$or three variables
only<.
( &robability Theory - 5eaning of probability9 ,ifferent definitions of probability9
%onditional probability9 %ompound probability9 Independent events9 (ayes6 theorem.
3andom +ariable and &robability ,istributions - 3andom variable9 &robability
functions9 /.pectation and +ariance of a random variable9 1igher moments of a random
variable9 (inomial , &oisson, #ormal and /.ponential distributions9 =oint distribution of
two random variable ;discrete<.
( ampling Theory - %oncept of population and sample9 &arameter and statistic,
ampling and non-sampling errors9 &robability and non-probability sampling
techniques;simple random sampling, stratified sampling, multistage sampling,
multiphase sampling, cluster sampling, systematic sampling, purposive sampling,
convenience sampling and quota sampling<9 ampling distribution;statement only<9
ample size decisions.
( tatistical Inference -&oint estimation and interval estimation, &roperties of a
good estimator, 5ethods of estimation ;5oments method, 5a.imum likelihood method,
4east squares method<, Testing of hypothesis, (asic concept of testing, mall sample
and large sample tests, Tests based on >, t, %hi-square and $ statistic, %onfidence
intervals.!nalysis of +ariance -!nalysis of one-way classified data and two-way
classified data
( Time eries !nalysis -%omponents of time series, ,eterminations of trend
component by different methods,5easurement of seasonal variation by different
methods.Inde. #umbers -5eaning of Inde. #umbers, &roblems in the construction of
inde. numbers, Types of inde. number, ,ifferent formulae, (ase shifting and splicing
of inde. numbers, %ost of living Inde. #umbers, ?ses of Inde. #umbers.