SSC CGL Reasoning Chapter Wise Test 2026 — General Intelligence Topic Wise Practice

All 28 SSC CGL General Intelligence & Reasoning Chapters — Pick a Chapter to Practice

Every chapter below is a separate SSC CGL reasoning practice set. Tap a chapter to pick a level and start a test.

1. 🔗 Analogy (Word / Letter / Number) 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
2. 🧩 Classification (Odd One Out) 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
3. 🔢 Series (Number / Alphabet / Mixed) 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
4. 🔐 Coding-Decoding 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
5. 👨‍👩‍👦 Blood Relations 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
6. 🧭 Direction & Distance 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
7. 🏅 Ranking & Order Arrangement 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
8. 💺 Seating Arrangement 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
9. ⭕ Syllogism 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
10. 💭 Statement & Conclusion / Inference 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
11. ◑ Venn Diagram 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
12. ➗ Mathematical Operations (BODMAS / Symbols) 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
13. 🔤 Word Formation & Dictionary Order 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
14. ❓ Missing Number (Matrix) 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
15. 🧠 Puzzle / Data Arrangement 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
16. 📅 Calendar & Clock 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
17. 🪞 Mirror Image 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
18. 💧 Water Image 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
19. 📄 Paper Folding & Cutting 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
20. 🔍 Embedded / Hidden Figures 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
21. ▧ Figure / Pattern Completion 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
22. 🔷 Figure Series 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
23. 🔶 Figure Classification 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
24. 🔺 Figure Analogy 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
25. △ Counting of Figures (Triangles etc.) 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
26. 🎲 Dice 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
27. 🧊 Cube & Cuboid 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾
28. ⚫ Dot Situation 3 levels · 50 questions per test Practice→ ▾

Reasoning is the highest-accuracy section in SSC CGL. Toppers routinely score 46 to 50 out of 50 in Tier I, which means anything below that is a direct loss against the cut-off. The section is entirely pattern-based, so the only thing that separates a 40 from a 50 is how many question shapes you have already seen.

This page splits General Intelligence & Reasoning into twenty-eight chapters — verbal topics such as analogy, classification, series, coding-decoding and syllogism, and non-verbal topics such as paper folding, mirror image, embedded figures, dice and cube. Each chapter has three levels and 15 to 20 tests per level, so you can drill one shape until it becomes automatic.

How Many Reasoning Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?

Reasoning carries 50 marks in Tier I and 90 marks in Tier II Paper I, and it is the section where a well-prepared candidate should be losing almost no marks at all.

Tier I runs on locked sectional timing from the 2026 cycle — you cannot carry unused minutes from one section into the next, which is exactly why chapter-level speed matters.

Chapter-wise weightage in SSC CGL Tier I Reasoning

Typical spread seen across recent SSC CGL Tier I shifts. SSC does not publish a chapter-wise breakup, so treat these as planning ranges, not guarantees — the section total is always 25 questions / 50 marks.

How the Reasoning Chapter Wise Tests Work

Every chapter on this page opens the same test player. You pick a level, pick a test number, choose English or Hindi, and choose whether you want the clock running.

• 50 questions per test, with a full question palette (answered, skipped, marked for review).
• Optional 30-minute timer — attempt with the clock to build exam speed, or without it while you are still learning the chapter.
• Marking: +2 for a correct answer, −0.5 for a wrong one, 0 if left blank — the same scheme as the real paper.
• Solutions, tricks and concept notes open after you submit, question by question.
• English and हिंदी — the same test in both languages wherever the Hindi set has been uploaded.
• No login needed to attempt a chapter test.

SSC CGL Reasoning Syllabus 2026 — Chapter by Chapter

Verbal reasoning — the core scoring block

Analogy, classification, series and coding-decoding alone contribute roughly eight to twelve questions in every Tier I shift. They are pure pattern recognition, which means speed comes from exposure: the more variants you have solved, the faster you spot which relationship is being tested. These four chapters should be your first target on this page.

Logical reasoning — syllogism, Venn, statement and conclusion

This block rewards a fixed method rather than intuition. Syllogism solved by Venn diagram, statement and conclusion solved by strict validity, and Venn diagram questions solved by set overlap — once the method is fixed, accuracy stops depending on how tricky the wording is.

Non-verbal and figure-based reasoning

Paper folding and cutting, mirror and water image, embedded figures, figure series, counting of figures, dice and cube. These carry five to eight questions per shift and are the chapters candidates most often skip while preparing, which makes them a cheap source of marks for anyone who does drill them.

Miscellaneous — blood relations, direction, ranking, calendar and clock

Individually small, collectively worth three to five questions. Each has a single reliable technique — family tree notation, direction diagram, position-from-both-ends formula, odd-days method — and once that technique is fixed, the questions take under thirty seconds.

How to Use Chapter Wise Practice for SSC CGL Reasoning

1. Start with analogy, classification, series and coding-decoding. They are the four biggest chapters and they share the same underlying skill, so progress in one lifts the others.
2. Do not skip the non-verbal chapters. Paper folding, mirror image, embedded figures and counting of figures are where most candidates lose two or three easy marks per shift simply from lack of practice.
3. Fix one method per chapter and never switch. Syllogism by Venn, blood relations by family tree, direction by diagram — inconsistency is what makes reasoning feel slow.
4. Practise with the timer on from Level 2. Reasoning is not about whether you can solve it, it is about solving 25 questions in 12 minutes so the extra minutes go to maths.
5. Review the trick, not just the answer. Each solution carries the shortcut alongside the full method; the shortcut is what turns a 40-second question into a 15-second one.
6. Verify against the real paper. Once several chapters reach Level 2, attempt a previous year paper and a full mock test with locked sectional timing.

Chapter Tests, PYQs or Mock Tests — Which One, When?

The three are not alternatives. Chapter tests build the parts, previous year papers calibrate them against the real paper, and mock tests teach you to hold all four sections together for 60 minutes under locked sectional timing.

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