SSC CGL Partnership Practice Test 2026 — Free Chapter Wise Questions

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Partnership is one rule wearing a great many costumes. Two or more people put money into a business, and the profit is divided in the ratio of capital multiplied by the time that capital stayed in. Write each partner's weight as C × t, reduce the weights to a ratio, and every question in the chapter becomes dividing a total in a given ratio — which is why it is worth doing straight after ratio and proportion.

Almost all the marks turn on two habits. The first is counting each partner's own months: a partner who joins four months after the start is in for eight, one who leaves at the end of the ninth month is in for nine, and a single year can hold three different counts. The second is noticing what leaves the profit before the division — a charity fraction, a working partner's salary, a management share — because the capital ratio applies to the remainder, never to the whole profit. Each test puts twenty-five partnership questions in front of you in one sitting, which is what makes those two habits automatic.

How Many Partnership Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?

Partnership is a small chapter with a high strike rate: the shapes repeat, the arithmetic is light, and a question that appears is almost always solvable inside a minute once the weights are written down.

Counts vary by shift. Partnership rarely carries more than one mark in Tier I, but it is one of the few chapters where the whole syllabus fits on a page — so the sensible target is not to lose that mark rather than to study it at length.

What You Will Practice in the Partnership Chapter

Core topics

• Profit divided in the ratio of the capitals when every partner's money stays in for the same time
• Capital multiplied by months when the periods differ, and reducing the weights to a ratio
• Capitals given as a chain of multiples or fractions instead of amounts
• Profit shares used backwards to recover a capital, or the total capital of the firm
• Each capital scaled by its own fraction, and the new profit ratio
• Investment, time and profit ratios — any two of the three giving the third
• A partner joining after a few months, or two and three joining at staggered dates
• A partner leaving before the year ends, and two leaving at different months
• A partner replaced part-way through, the same capital earning for two owners in turn
• Capital raised or cut by a fraction, or by a fixed sum, once or twice during the year
• An unknown joining or leaving month recovered from the profit ratio
• A fraction of the profit set aside for a charity or a fund before the rest is divided
• A working partner paid a fraction of the profit, or a fixed monthly salary, or both
• A sleeping partner's share, and the management fraction recovered from a total earning
• Non-cash contributions — skilled labour, goods, machinery or premises — valued as capital
• Capitals fixed by a total and successive differences, or share differences read backwards
• Capitals as fractions of the total, with the profit tied to the capital by a fraction
• A second venture funded out of the shares earned in the first
• One sum split between ventures that each return a different fraction
• The capital, or the month, that makes two partners' shares exactly equal
• Loss shared by the same capital-and-time rule as profit
• Rent for a pasture shared by animal-months, with an equivalence between cows, sheep and horses

Formulas worth memorising

Only the first two rows are really formulas; the rest are the same rule read in different directions. If capital times time is written down first, every row below it follows by dividing or by scaling.

The three mistakes that cost the most marks

• Giving a late joiner twelve months. “B joined after 4 months” means B's money was in for eight; “A left at the end of the ninth month” means nine. The paper words this differently each time — after four months, four months later, in the fifth month — and the count has to be made from the partner's own entry to his own exit, not from the closing date.
• Dividing the whole profit by the capitals when something has already left it. A charity fraction, a management share and a salary all come off the top; the capital ratio then applies to the remainder. In a question with a working partner, the number to split is (1 − f)P, and half the wrong options offered are exactly what you get from splitting P instead.
• Not stacking successive differences. If the first invests Rs 6,000 more than the second and the second Rs 3,000 more than the third, the first is Rs 9,000 above the third, not Rs 6,000. The same trap appears with differences between shares, and the distractor for the unstacked reading is always on the paper.

Solved Examples — SSC CGL Partnership

How the Partnership 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 Partnership for SSC CGL

1. Do ratio and proportion first. Partnership is dividing a total in a given ratio, with one extra step in front of it. If ratio is fluent, this chapter takes an evening.
2. Write the weights before anything else. Put C × t under each partner's name, in thousands if the numbers are large, and reduce. Most questions are finished the moment the weights are on paper.
3. Count months from each partner's own entry to his own exit. Never assume twelve. A joiner, a leaver and a replacement can all appear in the same question, each with a different count.
4. Split the year at every change. A partner who alters his capital once gives two stretches, twice gives three. Add capital × months across all of them, and remember that two partners changing at different months cannot share one split point.
5. Ask what leaves the profit first. Charity, salary, management share — all of it comes off the top, and the capital ratio then applies to the remainder only.
6. Learn the two partner words. A working partner is paid extra for running the firm; a sleeping partner puts in money only and takes his capital share of what is left.
7. Work backwards confidently. A single known share fixes everything: one part is that share divided by its own number of parts, and the whole profit is one part times the total. A gap between two shares works the same way, divided by the difference of the parts.
8. For an equal-share condition, set the products equal. C₁t₁ = C₂t₂ answers every question that asks for the capital, or the month, that makes two partners come out level.
9. 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 method, not speed.
10. Repeat Level 1 with the 15-minute clock on, then move to Level 2. After that, verify against a previous year paper and a full mock test under locked sectional timing.

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