SSC CGL Discount Practice Test 2026 — Free Chapter Wise Questions

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Discount is the shortest chapter in commercial arithmetic and the one that punishes a careless base the hardest. Every rate in it sits on the marked price — the figure written on the tag — while the profit it earns sits on the cost. Read a discount as though it were measured on the cost, or a gain as though it were measured on the tag, and the arithmetic will be flawless and the answer wrong.

The second habit the chapter demands is that discounts given one after another are multiplied, never added. Two cuts of 20% and 10% are worth 28% of the tag, not 30%, because the second acts on what the first has left. Each test puts twenty-five discount questions in front of you in one sitting, which is what makes the recurring shapes visible: the same successive pairs, the same free-goods offers, the same mark-up-then-discount setups SSC has been recycling for years.

How Many Discount Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?

Discount rarely appears alone. It sits in the middle of the commercial arithmetic block, and that block together is worth five to seven marks in a typical Tier I shift.

Counts vary by shift. Many profit-and-loss questions also carry a discount inside them, so the chapter earns more marks than its own row suggests.

What You Will Practice in the Discount Chapter

Core topics

• Marked price, selling price and the discount between them — and which of the three a given rate is measured on
• The rate of discount from two plain figures, and the reverse: the marked price from what was paid
• Successive discounts, and the single discount equivalent to a whole series
• Mark-up and discount together — gain, loss, and the break-even rate
• The discount a seller can allow and still clear a stated profit
• A flat cash sum taken off besides a rate, and why the order of the two matters
• Slab schemes keyed to the bill value, where buying a little more can cost less
• Category schemes with a different rate for each class of goods
• Free-goods offers such as “buy 5, get 1 free”, and the rate they are really worth
• GST or tax charged on the discounted price, and discounts taken on a taxed figure
• Trade chains from factory to wholesaler to retailer to customer
• Split payments — part cash at a discount, part card with a surcharge
• Short measures and faulty weights combined with a mark-up and a discount

Formulas worth memorising

In the free-goods row the denominator is everything the customer carries away, not the number he pays for — that single choice of denominator is the most common slip in the chapter.

The three mistakes that cost the most marks

• Adding successive rates. Two cuts of 20% and 10% are worth 28%, not 30%, because the second acts on the smaller figure. The correction term xy/100 is always subtracted.
• Dividing by the wrong figure. A discount sits on the marked price and a profit on the cost. Working a discount against the price paid gives a larger rate that answers a different question.
• Undoing a rate by adding it back. A tag cut by 20% is recovered by dividing by 0.80, not by adding 20% to the payment — those two give different numbers.

Solved Examples — SSC CGL Discount

How the Discount Chapter Tests Work

• 25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
• 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.
• English and हिंदी, chosen at the start of every test.
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How to Prepare Discount for SSC CGL

1. Do percentage and profit and loss first. Discount is the third step of the same sale: percentage gives the machinery, profit and loss gives the cost side, and discount adds the tag.
2. Before you divide, say out loud what the base is. Marked price for a discount, cost price for a gain, and the figure standing at that moment for any rate in a chain. More marks are lost here than to any calculation error.
3. Learn to multiply surviving parts. Writing 20% off as ×0.80 and 10% off as ×0.90 turns every successive-discount question into one multiplication, and it is the only method that still works when a tax or a mark-up joins the chain.
4. Do Level 1 untimed, the same day you finish the theory. It is set at real SSC CGL difficulty; the aim is picking the right base and the right formula, not speed.
5. Repeat Level 1 with the 15-minute clock on, then move to Level 2. A Tier I discount question that takes more than about forty-five seconds usually means you are solving it the long way round.
6. Learn the two standing results. Marked x% up and sold x% off always loses x²/100 percent, and a “buy p get f free” offer is worth f/(p+f) — between them they cover a good share of the questions and take seconds once known.
7. Verify against a real paper. Once Level 1 is consistent under the clock, attempt a previous year paper and then a full mock test under locked sectional timing.

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