The SSC GD Constable paper is short and fast: 80 questions in 60 minutes, two marks for every correct answer and 0.25 deducted for every wrong one, with everything pitched at Matriculation level. That means the contest is rarely about hard concepts - it is about speed, and about how many wrong answers you can stop yourself from marking in the last ten minutes. You can take a free full-length mock on SSCIntel and practise from real previous-year SSC questions carrying the Commission's own answer keys. Below we are also straightforward about where our mock's shape differs from the GD paper, so that nothing surprises you on exam day.
The Computer Based Examination is one objective paper of 80 questions carrying 2 marks each, 160 marks in total, to be completed in 60 minutes. There is no sectional timer - the hour is yours to spend across the four parts as you choose, which makes section-switching discipline a skill worth practising. Negative marking is 0.25 marks for each wrong answer, and all questions are set at Matriculation level. The paper is conducted in English, Hindi and 13 regional languages (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu). Scores are normalised across shifts using the Commission's published procedure. Cut-offs, vacancy figures and exam dates differ every cycle and by state - read them from the notice on ssc.gov.in, not from any prediction post.
Our free full-length mock is 100 questions arranged as four sections of 25 with a 15-minute lock on each section, modelled on the SSC CGL Tier-1 shape. The GD paper is different: 80 questions, 20 per part, one undivided hour, and no sectional lock. Use our mock for exam-hall pressure, section discipline and stamina, and know the difference in advance. Our marking of +2 and -0.5 is also harsher on wrong answers than GD's +2 and -0.25, which is the safer direction to train in - a habit of restraint built here costs you nothing in the real paper.
Of roughly 31,000 questions in our bank, about 29,000 are genuine previous-year SSC questions carrying the official answer keys the Commission published. Because GD is a Matriculation-level paper, its arithmetic and its non-verbal reasoning sit on the same ground covered by MTS, CHSL and other SSC papers, so that previous-year material is directly usable practice rather than an approximation. Practising on questions that were actually asked, with keys that were actually published, is the difference between learning the exam and learning somebody's guess about it.
Eighty questions in sixty minutes leaves an average of forty-five seconds each, including reading time - so a two-minute mensuration sum you eventually get right can quietly cost you three questions you would have got right for free. After a mock, our AI sorts each mistake into conceptual, calculation, careless and time-pressure, then builds a seven-day plan from the mix. It also estimates an All-India rank against real 2020-24 cut-off data, which is a reference point rather than a prediction for your cycle.
Nobody sits a full mock every day, and you should not. The Daily Practice Paper gives you ten questions a day with a streak and a daily leaderboard, which is enough to keep arithmetic and reasoning warm on days when you have twenty minutes and no more. The four AI subject tutors answer doubts in Hindi and English. On the free tier you get 8 tutor messages a day and one AI mock analysis a week; paid plans begin at Rs 499 a month or Rs 2,999 a year.
Yes. Three full-length mock tests a week are free, plus unlimited 15-minute single-section papers, the Daily Practice Paper and access to the previous-year question bank. The free tier also includes 8 tutor messages a day and one AI mock analysis a week. If you want unlimited full mocks with the mistake analysis on every one, paid plans start at Rs 499 a month or Rs 2,999 a year - but you can prepare seriously without paying anything.
No, and it would be dishonest to say otherwise. Our full mock follows the CGL Tier-1 shape - 100 questions as four sections of 25, with a 15-minute lock per section and +2 or -0.5 marking. The GD paper is 80 questions worth 2 marks each in one undivided hour with -0.25 negative marking, at Matriculation level. The four subjects overlap closely, so the mock is useful for timing and accuracy training; just do not read your raw mark as a GD score, and practise pacing yourself across a full hour without section locks separately.
We will not publish a predicted cut-off, because GD cut-offs are declared state-wise, area-wise and category-wise after every cycle and shift far more than most aspirants expect. What the notice does fix is the minimum qualifying mark to be considered for shortlisting: 30 per cent for UR, 25 per cent for OBC and EWS, and 20 per cent for all other categories, calculated before NCC bonus marks. Shortlisting for PET and PST is then done on merit within your state, area and category, using scores normalised across shifts. Aim to push accuracy and attempts up mock on mock, and read the actual cut-off from the Commission's result notice.
Yes. The GD paper itself is conducted in English, Hindi and 13 regional languages, and Part-D lets you choose between English and Hindi. On SSCIntel the AI subject tutors for Quant, Reasoning, English and GK answer in Hindi as well as English, so you can work through a doubt in whichever language you actually think in. Choose your Part-D language early in your preparation and stay with it, because switching a month before the exam wastes the vocabulary work you have already done.
Each correct answer earns 2 marks and each wrong answer costs 0.25 marks, so a wrong answer costs one-eighth of what a right one earns. That ratio is far gentler than in CGL Tier-1, where a wrong answer costs a quarter of a correct one, so blind blankness is expensive in GD: if you can eliminate even one option confidently, attempting is usually the better expected-value decision. What you should avoid is guessing on questions where all four options look equally plausible. Our post-mock analysis shows how many marks your skipped questions cost you against what guessing would have, so you can calibrate this with your own data rather than a rule of thumb.
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