If you last checked the SSC CPO pattern a couple of years ago, most of the mock tests floating around are the wrong shape. The Commission's current notice sets Paper-1 at 100 questions for 100 marks in one hour, split into four parts of 25 with a 15-minute sectional timer on each — not the old 200-question, two-hour paper that many sites still reproduce. A mock that lets you wander back into Quantitative Aptitude at minute 50 is not testing the thing that will actually break you in the hall. This one locks, the way the real paper does.
Paper-1 is 100 questions for 100 marks in one hour, with a sectional timer of 15 minutes for each of the four parts, and 0.25 marks are deducted for each wrong answer. Questions in Parts I, II and III are set in both Hindi and English. This is a change from earlier CPO cycles, where Paper-1 was 200 questions for 200 marks over two hours with no sectional timer — so previous-year CPO papers you download will be twice the length of the paper you will actually sit. Our free mock runs 100 questions as four sections of 25 with 15-minute sectional locks, which matches the current structure; it uses the SSC CGL Tier-1 marking of +2 and -0.5 rather than CPO's +1 and -0.25, so your raw total sits on a 200-mark scale. The penalty-to-reward ratio is identical at 4:1, so every attempt-or-skip decision you learn here transfers to CPO unchanged. Always confirm the pattern against the notice for your cycle before exam day.
The sectional timer is the single biggest change to CPO Paper-1 and the one that catches experienced aspirants out. You get 15 minutes for Reasoning and then it is gone, whether you finished or not; you cannot bank saved time from General Awareness and spend it on Quantitative Aptitude. Our free mock enforces the same lock. Most candidates discover on their first attempt that their Quant is not weak — their Quant pacing is, and 15 minutes exposes that in a way an untimed question bank never will.
Around 29,000 of the roughly 31,000 questions in our bank are genuine previous-year SSC questions carrying the commission's official answer keys, drawn from CGL, CHSL, MTS and other SSC examinations. CPO Paper-1 tests the same four subjects that CGL Tier-1 does, at a comparable standard, which is why those questions are directly usable for CPO practice. You are seeing how SSC actually phrases a coding-decoding question or a profit-and-loss sum, not how a content writer imagines it.
With four options and 0.25 deducted per error, a pure blind guess is break-even — you gain 1 mark a quarter of the time and lose 0.25 the other three. Eliminate even one option and guessing becomes clearly profitable. Under a 15-minute sectional clock that matters, because the alternative to a 50-50 guess is usually not a solved question, it is an unread one. The mock report shows how many of your wrong answers came from two-option guesses versus wild ones, so you can see whether your instinct is calibrated.
A score of 62 tells you nothing you can act on. After the mock, the AI sorts every mistake into conceptual, calculation, careless and time-pressure, and builds a seven-day plan from what it finds. For CPO that separation is especially useful: a time-pressure cluster in one part means your sectional pacing is off and drilling more theory will not help, while a conceptual cluster in Quantitative Aptitude means slowing down is exactly the wrong fix.
Yes. Three full mock tests a week — 100 questions across four sections with sectional locks and instant scoring — are free, with no card needed, and 15-minute single-section papers are unlimited. The free tier also includes the Daily Practice Paper of 10 questions a day, 8 AI tutor messages per day, and one AI mock analysis per week. If you want unlimited full mocks, AI analysis and tutor access, paid plans start at Rs 499 a month or Rs 2,999 a year, but nothing on this page requires them.
One hundred questions for 100 marks, in four parts of 25 each: General Intelligence and Reasoning, General Knowledge and General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, and English Comprehension. The total duration is one hour, with a 15-minute sectional timer on each part. This is a reduction from the earlier CPO format of 200 questions over two hours, so be careful with older preparation material and with previous-year papers, which will be the longer version.
Yes, and it is not optional. Each section runs for 15 minutes and then closes; you move to the next part and cannot return. That mirrors how the Commission's revised Paper-1 works. The first time you attempt it you will probably leave questions unanswered in at least one part — that is the point. The report shows how many marks you left on the table in each section, which is usually a more useful number than your total.
The large majority are real previous-year SSC questions with the Commission's own official answer keys — roughly 29,000 of about 31,000 in the bank. They come from CGL, CHSL, MTS and other SSC papers rather than exclusively from CPO sittings, because SSC recycles question styles and difficulty bands across its examinations. Where a question is a previous-year one, the interface says so, so you always know what you are looking at.
For Paper-1, largely yes. The four subjects and the indicative syllabus in the CPO notice are close to CGL Tier-1's, and the revised Paper-1 now has the same 25-questions-per-section, sectional-timer structure. The differences are that CPO Paper-1 awards 1 mark per question with a 0.25 penalty rather than 2 and 0.5, and that CPO's Paper-2 is a separate, much heavier English-dominated paper with no CGL equivalent. So use CGL-style practice for Paper-1 pacing, and prepare Paper-2 on its own terms.
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