Best Books to prepare for SSC CHSL (subject wise)

Every year a huge number of students from all over India appear for the SSC CHSL (Staff Selection Commission-Combined Higher Secondary Level) examination. The main motive behind these examinations is to select, lower divisions clerks, data operators, sorting/ postal assistants and court clerks for various departments of the Central government. Due to the huge demand for government jobs, the competition at this level is pretty high than any other job vacancies. The preparation for these examinations includes taking all the subjects on an individual level and preparing the same.

Best Books to prepare for SSC CHSL

There are numerous books available in the market and all these books are good in their own way. Here are some of the best books that each of these subjects have based on the candidate’s necessity.

• General Awareness: Lucent’s General Awareness, General Studies by Rakesh Yadav for both Hindi and English medium, Manorama Yearbook and KD Campus’s General Competition.
• Quantitative Aptitude: Fast Track Objective Arithmetic by Arihant, Quicker Maths by M.Tyra, RS Aggarwal’s Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examination and Quant Book by Rakesh Yadav.
• English Book: P. Bakshi’s Objective General English, Paramount Author’s English for Competitive, Norman Lewis’s Word Power Made Easy and any good newspaper in both English or Hindi language.
• General Reasoning: KD Campus’s reasoning for General Competition, M.K. Pandey’s General Reasoning, Non-Verbal and Verbal Reasoning by RS Aggarwal and Arihant Publication’s Lucent Reasoning.
• Practice Questions Sets: For General Reasoning and Quantitative Aptitude Kiran’s previous year Question Papers are available. The Reasoning Practice bilingual sets by Rakesh Yadav are another form of practice book for SSC CHSL. The subjects have their respective previous year question papers available.

Exam Pattern of SSC CHSL

The exam is divided into three tiers and each tier is a qualifying examination.

First Tier:

The first tier is computer-based Multiple Choice examinations wherein the candidates have a total of 60 minutes to answer 100 questions. These 100 questions are divided into four papers viz. English, General Awareness, General Intelligence and Quantitative Aptitude. Each of these papers contains 25 questions and has 50 marks each which make the total of 100 questions and 200 marks, respectively.

Candidates afflicted by OH/VH owing to Cerebral Palsy or any OH deformity in hand that affect their writing are allotted a total of 80 minutes.

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A total of 0.50 marks will be negated for each wrong answer. All the papers except for English will have questions both in English and in Hindi.

Although, all these subjects are indeed basic in nature but still needs the same amount of hard work like any other papers? The best way to start preparing for the first tier is to choose the right kind of books for the same.

Second Tier:

The tier-II of the examination consists of questions in descriptive pattern to be written with pen and paper and consists of 100 marks in total. The candidates will be provided with a total of 1 hour of time to finish up the paper.

The second tier includes one question in form of Letter writing or Application writing and one in form of Essay writing. Each of these questions will have a total of 50 marks each that make up the 100 marks for the tier. Candidates can choose to write the paper in Hindi or in English.

The papers that are written in part Hindi and part English won’t be evaluated and may be subject to cancellation. Thus, it is advised that the students should choose either to write in Hindi or in English as their language option for the 2^nd tier. Candidates afflicted by OH/VH owing to Cerebral Palsy or any OH deformity in hand that affect their writing will be allotted an additional 20 minutes in comparison to the 1 hour allotted to the rest of the students. The candidates have to score a minimum of 33% to qualify for the final list.

Third Tier:

The final tier that decides the candidates who will be chosen to be on the qualifying list includes skill test and typing test.

This qualifying examination will have data entry examination in the skill test section wherein, the students will be provided with 15 minutes and within the time frame, they need to have a speed of 2000-2200 key/strokes-depression in order to qualify this examination. Having a good typing speed in MS Office is also an essential requirement.

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The second pattern will be the typing test where the candidates can either choose Hindi or English as their mode of typing to be mentioned in the application itself. Each of the candidates will be given a text passage wherein, the candidates should have the speed of 35 words per hour in English which means writing 10,500 key depressions in an hour. Candidates typing in Hindi should have a speed of 30 words per hour which means writing 9000 key depressions in an hour.

This tier will consist of 10 minutes and the candidates will be further judged on the accuracy of the typing too. Candidates who have more than 40% of disability are allowed a total of 30 minutes and should have a speed of 1750 key depressions for English and 900 key depressions in Hindi.

Good Luck!