SSC CGL Calendar & Clock Questions 2026 (Odd Days, Day of the Week & Angle Between Hands) — Free Chapter Wise Practice Test

Calendar & Clock Tests — Pick a Level and Start

Tap a level to see every test in it. Level 1 is set at real SSC CGL difficulty — start there the day you finish the concept. Level 2 is pitched above the exam, to push accuracy under pressure.

Both halves of this chapter rest on one idea each. For the calendar, count the odd days — the days left over after removing whole weeks — and move the weekday by that many. For the clock, remember that the minute hand gains 5.5° per minute on the hour hand; every angle, meeting and right-angle question follows from it.

Marks are lost in three places. The first is the leap day — counting a 29 February that does not lie between the two dates, or calling 1900 and 2100 leap years. The second is counting the starting day too, which moves the answer one day on. The third is forgetting that the hour hand moves: at 3:20 it is not on the 3, it has gone 10° further.

How Many Calendar and Clock Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?

Calendar and clock is a small but steady part of General Intelligence — usually none or one question in a Tier I shift, and the same forms appear in CHSL. The forms it takes are listed below, most common first.

Puzzles that only order the days of a week, with no dates, are practised in the Ranking, Order & Day Sequence chapter.

What You Will Practice in the Calendar & Clock Chapter

Calendar

• The day of a date when another date in the same year is given, forwards and backwards
• The day of the week for any date by the odd-day method, including century years
• The same date in another year, birthdays many years later, and jumps across years and months
• The next year with the same calendar, the nth weekday of a month, the last weekday of a month and the days that occur 53 times
• “If the day before yesterday was Monday…” puzzles

Clock

• The angle between the hands at any time, the smaller angle and the reflex angle
• The time when the hands are together, opposite, at right angles or at any given angle between two hours
• Mirror images of a clock, with and without seconds
• Clocks that gain or lose time per hour or per day, two such clocks together, and “the hands meet every 64 minutes”
• How many times the hands meet or form right angles in a stretch of hours

Rules worth knowing instantly

For a given angle between two hours, solve 5.5M = 30H ± θ and also check the case with 360° added or taken away — the plain formula can miss a time.

The three mistakes that cost the most marks

• Counting the wrong leap days. A 29 February counts only if it falls between the two dates; 1900 and 2100 have none.
• Counting the starting day. From the 5th to the 12th is 7 days, not 8.
• Freezing the hour hand. It moves 0.5° every minute, so at 7:20 it is 10° past the 7.

Solved Examples — SSC CGL Calendar & Clock

How the Calendar & Clock Tests Work

• 25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
• Both halves in every test — about half calendar and half clock questions in each test, at both levels.
• One answer only — every answer has been worked out a second, independent way, so no option can be argued as correct.
• Optional 15-minute timer — with the clock to build exam speed, without it while you are still learning the chapter.
• Marking: +2 correct, −0.5 wrong, 0 unattempted — the same scheme as the real paper.
• Solutions, shortcut tricks and concept notes open after you submit, question by question — the odd days or the angle are worked step by step, and the trap behind the most tempting wrong option is named.
• English and हिंदी, chosen at the start of every test.
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How to Prepare Calendar & Clock for SSC CGL

1. Learn the century odd days by heart. 5, 3, 1, 0 for 100, 200, 300 and 400 years saves a minute on every old date.
2. Keep the month odd days ready. January 3, February 0 (1 in a leap year), March 3, April 2, May 3, June 2, July 3, August 3, September 2, October 3, November 2, December 3.
3. For the same date in another year, just count the 29 Februaries. Years + leap days crossed, divided by 7, gives the shift.
4. For any clock angle, write |30H − 5.5M| straight away. There is no need to draw the dial.
5. For a given angle, check every case. Solve with + and −, and with 360° added or taken away, then keep the times between 0 and 60 minutes.
6. Do Level 1 untimed first, then with the 15-minute clock. Move to Level 2 once Level 1 is steady, and then check yourself on a previous year paper.

Related SSC CGL Reasoning Chapters

Calendar and clock uses the same counting as ranking and day-sequence puzzles and the same quick arithmetic as series and mathematical operations. Practising them together makes each one faster.

All SSC CGL Chapter Wise Tests

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