Seating Arrangement 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.
Level 1 SSC CGL Level Checking… View tests
Same difficulty as the real SSC CGL paper — five to eight people and three to five clues. Rows where everyone faces north or everyone faces south, and round tables where everyone faces the centre or everyone faces outside. Questions ask who sits k-th to the left or right, who sits opposite, how many sit between two people, who is in the middle or at the ends, the immediate neighbours, the western end of a south-facing row, which statement is true, the odd pair, the effect of two people swapping seats, one person’s position with respect to another, and alphabetical re-seating. A steady score here means the chapter is exam-ready.
Level 2 Above SSC CGL Level Checking… View tests
Harder than the exam asks. Seven to ten people and five or six clues, with the facing itself part of the puzzle: rows where some face north and some face south, round tables where alternate people face the centre or a named group faces outside, square tables with corners facing in and side-middles facing out, and two rows facing each other. Questions are chained — “the person to the right of whoever sits second to the left of X”, “the person beside whoever faces X” — or ask which statement is NOT true. Wrong options are the slips students actually make: reading right from your own view, stopping at the middle person, counting the two people themselves.
Every seating question is one drawing and one direction rule. Once the seats are drawn correctly, the question itself takes seconds — and almost every wrong option is built on reading “right” from the wrong person’s point of view.
Marks are lost in three places. The first is using your own right instead of the person’s — someone facing south has the right hand towards the West. The second is mixing the circle rule: facing the centre, left is clockwise; facing outside, left is anticlockwise. The third is placing a relative clue too early — a clue such as “Y sits second to the right of X” cannot be drawn until X has a seat.
How Many Seating Arrangement Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?
Usually zero to one question in a Tier I shift, sometimes inside a short puzzle. CGL keeps these puzzles small — five to eight people and a handful of clues — so the question rewards a clean drawing more than long working. The 300 questions in these tests cover the arrangements as follows.
| Arrangement | Level 1 | Level 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Linear row — everyone faces north or everyone faces south | 98 | 28 |
| Circular table — everyone faces the centre or everyone faces outside | 52 | – |
| Circular table — alternate or mixed facing | – | 48 |
| Linear row — some face north, some face south | – | 32 |
| Square table (corners and middles of the sides) | – | 22 |
| Two parallel rows facing each other | – | 20 |
Level 1 stays with the shapes CGL asks most — one row or one round table with a single facing. Level 2 adds the shapes that appear in harder papers and in puzzle sets.
What You Will Practice in the Seating Arrangement Chapter
Linear arrangement
- Rows facing north and rows facing south — the left and right ends, the middle seat, the western and eastern ends
- Rows where some people face north and some face south
- Who sits k-th to the left or right, how many sit between two people, how many sit to one side
- A row of nine with six clues, and two parallel rows facing each other
Circular and square arrangement
- Round tables of five to eight facing the centre, facing outside, alternate facing or mixed facing
- Opposite seats, immediate neighbours, k-th to the left or right in each person’s own direction
- Square tables of eight — four corners and four middles of the sides
Question forms
- Direct: who sits where, who is opposite, who are the neighbours, how many between
- Statements: which one is true, which one is NOT true
- Odd pair, interchange of two seats, position of one person with respect to another, alphabetical re-seating
- Two-step: “the person to the right of whoever sits second to the left of X”
Rules worth knowing instantly
| Situation | Rule |
|---|---|
| Facing north | Right = East, left = West |
| Facing south | Right = West, left = East |
| Facing the centre | Left = clockwise, right = anticlockwise |
| Facing outside | Left = anticlockwise, right = clockwise |
| People between two seats in a row | Seat gap − 1 |
| Opposite seat (even number of seats n) | n ÷ 2 seats away, either way round |
| Two rows facing each other | Same position from the same end = facing each other |
In a circle only relative places matter — fix one person at the top and count every seat from there.
The three mistakes that cost the most marks
- Reading right from your own view. If X faces south, “the person on X’s right” is on your left as you look at the drawing from the north.
- Counting the two people themselves. Two seats apart means one person between, not two.
- Using the centre rule for an outward-facing circle. Facing outside reverses left and right.
Solved Examples — SSC CGL Seating Arrangement
How the Seating Arrangement Tests Work
- 25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
- Each question is a complete small puzzle — its own people, its own clues and exactly one possible arrangement.
- 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 — each solution places the people clue by clue, draws the final arrangement and explains every wrong option.
- English and हिंदी, chosen at the start of every test.
- Free with a TrickySSC account — sign in once with Google or your mobile number, and every test is open to you.
How to Prepare Seating Arrangement for SSC CGL
- Learn the four direction rules above by heart. North, south, facing the centre and facing outside cover every question in the chapter.
- Draw before you read the question. A row of boxes or a circle of dots, filled clue by clue, is faster than holding the arrangement in your head.
- Mark facing on the drawing. An arrow under each person in a mixed row, or “in” and “out” around a table, stops most left-right mistakes.
- Start with fixed clues. Ends, the middle, counts and “opposite” come first; relative clues attach afterwards.
- Keep two cases side by side. When a clue allows two places, draw both and let the next clue cut one away.
- 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.
All SSC CGL Chapter Wise Tests
Every chapter below has its own free Level 1 and Level 2 tests with full solutions.
Browse all 52 chapter tests — Maths (35) · Reasoning (17)
- Word Analogy
- Letter Analogy
- Number Analogy
- Number-Set & Triad Analogy
- Mixed Analogy
- Word Classification
- Letter Classification
- Number Classification
- Number-Pair & Triad Classification
- Word-Pair & Mixed Classification
- Series (Number, Letter & Alphanumeric)
- Alphabet Test
- Coding-Decoding
- Blood Relations
- Direction & Distance
- Time Sequence, Number & Ranking
- Seating Arrangement
- All Reasoning chapters →
- Number System
- Rule of Divisibility
- Remainder Theorem
- Decimal & Fraction
- LCM & HCF
- Square & Cube Root
- Number Series (AP & GP)
- Power, Indices & Surds
- Algebraic Formula
- Algebraic Result
- Algebraic Expression & Identities
- Percentage
- Profit & Loss
- Discount & Marked Price
- Simple Interest
- Compound Interest
- Ratio & Proportion
- Partnership
- Average
- Problems on Ages
- Mixture & Alligation
- Time & Work
- Pipe and Cistern
- Time, Speed and Distance
- Quadratic Equation
- Boat and Stream
- Races
- Trigonometry
- Heights & Distances
- Geometry
- Mensuration
- Coordinate Geometry
- Probability
- Statistics
- Data Interpretation
- All Maths chapters →
SSC CGL बैठक व्यवस्था (Seating Arrangement) चैप्टर टेस्ट — हिंदी में
इस अध्याय में पंक्ति में बैठक (उत्तर या दक्षिण की ओर मुख), मिश्रित दिशा वाली पंक्ति, वृत्ताकार मेज़ (केंद्र की ओर या बाहर की ओर मुख), वर्गाकार मेज़ और आमने-सामने की दो पंक्तियों के प्रश्न आते हैं। मूल नियम: केंद्र की ओर मुख होने पर बायाँ = दक्षिणावर्त (CLOCKWISE) और दायाँ = वामावर्त (ANTICLOCKWISE); बाहर की ओर मुख होने पर ठीक उल्टा।
सबसे आम गलतियाँ: अपनी दृष्टि से दायाँ-बायाँ पढ़ना (दक्षिण की ओर मुख वाले का दायाँ हाथ पश्चिम की ओर होता है), “बीच में कितने” गिनते समय दोनों व्यक्तियों को भी गिन लेना, और बाहर की ओर मुख वाले वृत्त में केंद्र वाला नियम लगा देना।
TrickySSC पर इस अध्याय के सभी टेस्ट हिंदी में उपलब्ध हैं — प्रश्न, विकल्प, विस्तृत हल और शॉर्टकट ट्रिक सब हिंदी में। दो स्तर हैं: लेवल 1 (SSC CGL के स्तर का) और लेवल 2 (SSC CGL से कठिन)। प्रत्येक टेस्ट में 25 प्रश्न, वैकल्पिक 15 मिनट का टाइमर और +2 / −0.5 की वही मार्किंग जो असली परीक्षा में होती है।