Polity Tests — Pick a Test and Start
Tap below to see all the tests. They follow the order of the syllabus — Test 1 starts with constitutionalism and the making of the Constitution, Tests 3 and 4 cover Fundamental Rights, Duties and Directive Principles, Tests 5 to 9 cover Parliament, the Union and state executives, and Test 14 ends with elections and the administrative system — so you can take them one after another or jump to the topic you are revising. Choose English or हिंदी on any test.
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Set at real SSC CGL and CHSL level. Each test mixes the four ways SSC asks Polity — direct one-line questions, statement questions, match the following and assertion–reason — and no fact is asked twice across the 350 questions.
Indian Polity is a fact chapter built on numbers — Article numbers, Amendment numbers, Schedules, ages and time limits. SSC does not ask you to discuss federalism; it asks which Article deals with the Finance Commission, which Amendment lowered the voting age to 18, or within how many days the Rajya Sabha must return a Money Bill. The four options are always taken from the same table — four neighbouring Articles, four Amendments, four office-holders — so a half-remembered number is exactly what the paper is built to catch.
Marks are lost in three places. The first is Article–subject pairs: Art 32 and constitutional remedies, Art 72 and the President’s pardon, Art 110 and the Money Bill, Art 280 and the Finance Commission, Art 324 and the Election Commission. The second is Amendment–change pairs: the 42nd and the Preamble, the 44th and the right to property, the 61st and the voting age, the 73rd and 74th and local bodies, the 86th and Art 21A. The third is who appoints, who administers the oath and who removes the President, Governor, judges, CAG and Election Commissioners. The tests here are built around exactly these three.
How Many Polity Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?
Indian Polity and the Constitution usually give three to four of the 25 General Awareness questions in an SSC CGL Tier I shift, and sometimes five. CHSL, MTS and the Tier II General Awareness paper follow the same pattern. The topics below are the ones SSC returns to most often, roughly in order.
| Topic | How often | What is usually asked |
|---|---|---|
| Fundamental Rights, DPSP and Duties | Very frequent | Article numbers, writs, which Amendment added which right, duty or directive |
| Parliament | Very frequent | Composition, Speaker, Money Bill, joint sitting, motions, committees |
| President, Prime Minister and Governor | Frequent | Election, impeachment, oath, ordinance, pardon and veto powers |
| Amendments, Parts and Schedules | Frequent | 42nd, 44th, 61st, 73rd, 74th, 86th, 101st; what each Schedule holds |
| Judiciary | Regular | SC and HC Articles, removal of judges, jurisdiction, Lok Adalats |
| Constitutional bodies and elections | Regular | CAG, Finance Commission, UPSC, Election Commission, anti-defection |
Polity also overlaps with Modern History — the Regulating Act of 1773, the Government of India Acts of 1919 and 1935, the Cabinet Mission and the Constituent Assembly are asked under both headings.
What Each Polity Test Covers
The 350 questions run through the syllabus in order, 25 to a test. Where a topic ends partway through a test, the next one begins in the same test.
| Test | Topics |
|---|---|
| Test 1 | Constitutionalism and rule of law, parliamentary vs presidential system, borrowed features and the Schedules, federal features, separation of powers and basic structure, types of majority and Art 368; the Regulating Act 1773 to the Indian Independence Act 1947; the Constituent Assembly, Objectives Resolution and its committees |
| Test 2 | The Preamble — its terms, the Berubari and Kesavananda views and the 42nd Amendment; Articles 1 to 4 and reorganisation of states; citizenship under Articles 5–11 and the Citizenship Act 1955, OCI, CAA 2019, NRC and NPR; features of Fundamental Rights and Art 12 |
| Test 3 | Art 13 doctrines and the amendability cases; equality (Art 14–18), EWS and the 93rd and 103rd Amendments; Art 19 to 22, Maneka Gandhi and privacy, Art 21A; exploitation and religion; minority rights; Art 32 and the five writs; Art 33–35 |
| Test 4 | Rights outside Part III; Fundamental Duties — Swaran Singh Committee, Art 51A, the 11th duty, Verma Committee; Directive Principles — Irish source, classification, Amendments adding DPSPs, FR vs DPSP cases, Uniform Civil Code; composition of Parliament and the Rajya Sabha |
| Test 5 | Rajya Sabha elections and UT seats; Lok Sabha strength, reservation and the end of Anglo-Indian nomination; duration of the Houses; qualifications, disqualifications and vacating of seats; Speaker, pro tem Speaker and Chairman; sessions, prorogation and lapsing of bills; Question Hour, Zero Hour, adjournment and no-confidence motions |
| Test 6 | Censure, closure and other motions; ordinary bills, Money Bills (Art 110), Financial Bills (Art 117) and joint sittings (Art 108); budget, cut motions, vote on account, charged expenditure, grants and funds; Rajya Sabha's special powers; parliamentary privileges; the President — Art 52 and qualifications |
| Test 7 | President’s term, impeachment, election and electoral college; pardoning power, ordinances and veto; constitutional position; Vice-President; notable Presidents; Prime Minister’s appointment, the 15% limit and collective responsibility |
| Test 8 | Council of Ministers vs Cabinet, kitchen cabinet and caretaker government; Attorney General and Solicitor General; cabinet committees; PAC, Estimates Committee, DRSCs and other parliamentary committees; state legislature — bicameral states, Art 169 and composition of the Houses |
| Test 9 | State legislators, presiding officers and law-making; Governor’s assent and reservation of bills; the Governor — appointment, oath, pardon, ordinance and the Sarkaria and Punchhi views; state Council of Ministers, Chief Minister and Advocate General; Seventh Schedule, residuary powers and Art 250–256 |
| Test 10 | Distribution of taxes and grants, state borrowing; Art 262, Inter-State Council, Art 261, Part XIII and Zonal Councils; National Emergency, Art 358 and 359, President’s Rule and S.R. Bommai, Financial Emergency; Union Territories, Delhi and Ladakh; Art 371 special provisions |
| Test 11 | Panchayati Raj — Ripon, Nagaur, the Mehta committees, 73rd Amendment and Eleventh Schedule, PESA and Forest Rights Act; urban local bodies and the Twelfth Schedule; Fifth and Sixth Schedules; co-operatives and the 97th Amendment; Supreme Court — strength, collegium, NJAC and qualifications |
| Test 12 | Removal of judges; court of record and the original, writ, appellate, special leave and advisory jurisdiction; review and curative petitions; Indian vs American Supreme Court; High Courts and subordinate courts; Lok Adalats, NALSA, ADR, plea bargaining and tribunals; UPSC and State PSCs |
| Test 13 | Joint PSC; Finance Commission and its chairmen; CAG; GST Council; NCSC, NCST, NCBC and the Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities; CIC, CVC and CBI; NITI Aayog; NHRC, Lokpal and the National Commission for Minorities |
| Test 14 | Election provisions (Part XV), the 61st Amendment, RPA 1950 and 1951, electoral offences, Model Code of Conduct and election machinery; electoral systems, EVMs and NOTA; anti-defection law and Kihoto Hollohan; Election Commission and the 2023 Act; Cabinet Secretariat, PMO and District Collector; Official Language and the Eighth Schedule |
The three traps that cost the most marks
- Neighbouring Articles. Art 72 (President’s pardon) and Art 161 (Governor’s pardon), Art 32 and Art 226, Art 352, 356 and 360, Art 123 and Art 213 — SSC puts the pair side by side. Learn each Union Article with its state twin.
- Two Amendments of the same year. The 73rd and 74th (1992), the 42nd and 44th (Emergency and after), the 101st GST and 102nd NCBC — read what the question asks before picking the familiar number.
- “Only”, “cannot” and “both Houses” in statements. Who can introduce a Money Bill, which motion lies only in the Lok Sabha, who votes in the President’s election — the wrong statement usually hides in one absolute word.
Solved Examples — SSC CGL Polity
(a) Article 14
(b) Article 19
(c) Article 21
(d) Article 32
1. Elected members of both Houses of Parliament are part of the electoral college.
2. Nominated members of the Rajya Sabha are part of the electoral college.
3. Elected members of the Legislative Assemblies of Delhi and Puducherry are part of the electoral college.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 3 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Assertion (A): The Council of Ministers remains in office only as long as it enjoys the confidence of the Lok Sabha.
Reason (R): Under Article 75(3), the Council of Ministers is collectively responsible to the Lok Sabha.
(a) Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true, but R is false
(d) A is false, but R is true
(a) दसवीं अनुसूची
(b) ग्यारहवीं अनुसूची
(c) बारहवीं अनुसूची
(d) नौवीं अनुसूची
How the Polity Tests Work
- 25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
- 14 tests, 350 questions, in syllabus order — from the making of the Constitution and Fundamental Rights to Parliament, the executive, the judiciary, constitutional bodies and elections, with no fact repeated across the chapter.
- All four SSC question types — direct questions, statement questions, match the following and assertion–reason.
- Optional 15-minute timer — with the clock for exam speed, without it while you are still learning the Articles.
- Marking: +2 correct, −0.5 wrong, 0 unattempted — the same scheme as the real paper.
- 6–7 point solutions open after you submit — the answer, the facts around it (Articles, Parts, Schedules, Amendments, cases) and what each wrong option actually refers to, so one question revises a whole topic.
- English and Hindi — every test is available in both; choose the language when you start.
- Free with a TrickySSC account — sign in once with Google or your mobile number, and every test is open to you.
How to Prepare Polity for SSC CGL
- Keep an Article table. Article – subject – Part, for the 60 or so Articles SSC keeps asking: 12–35, 36–51A, 52–78, 79–123, 124–147, 280, 324, 352–360 and 368. More Polity questions come out of this one table than any other.
- Learn the landmark Amendments as a list. Number, year and change — 1st (Ninth Schedule), 42nd, 44th, 52nd, 61st, 73rd, 74th, 86th, 91st, 101st, 103rd, 104th and 106th.
- Make one “who appoints, who removes” chart. President, Vice-President, Governor, judges, CAG, Election Commissioners, UPSC members — with the age, term, oath and removal procedure for each.
- Read the solutions, not just the answer. Each solution here carries six or seven related facts — reading them is how 350 questions cover the whole chapter.
- Revise in short rounds. One test a day keeps the Articles fresh while you move ahead, and then check yourself on a previous year paper.
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