SSC announced on 12 September 2026 that CGL Tier 1 will be held as a computer-based exam in a window from 30 September to 30 October 2026, for 12,256 vacancies, with over 28 lakh candidates who applied. The Commission has announced a window, not per-candidate dates - your own date and shift will be printed on your admit card. So the honest starting point for this checklist is that you have somewhere between roughly two weeks and six weeks left, and you do not yet know which. Either way, the job from here is the same: stop acquiring, start consolidating. Revision is not re-reading a chapter you once understood. It is putting the thing in front of yourself, failing at it, and fixing it - and doing that to a fixed list rather than to whatever you happen to feel anxious about that morning. What follows is that list, section by section, with the items that are genuinely worth touching last.
CGL Tier 1 is 100 questions, 200 marks, 60 minutes, with +2 for a correct answer and -0.5 for a wrong one. Each of the four sections carries 25 questions and 50 marks. Your revision should be weighted the same way the paper is: no section is worth more than any other, so a section you have quietly abandoned is 50 marks you have quietly abandoned. Candidates eligible for a scribe are given the additional compensatory time notified by the Commission - check your admit card and the official notice on ssc.gov.in for your own timing.
SSCIntel's bank holds about 31,000 questions, of which roughly 29,000 are real previous-year SSC questions carried with the Commission's official answer keys. In the last fortnight that distinction matters more than at any other time: your notes tell you what you once wrote down, while a real SSC question from a past paper tells you whether you can still do it under the phrasing SSC actually uses. Work through a topic as a set of past questions, and treat every miss as a checklist item rather than a mood.
After a full mock, the AI analysis sorts your wrong answers by type - conceptual, calculation, careless, or time-pressure - instead of just counting them. That sorting is what makes a revision list honest. A conceptual miss belongs in your revision checklist; a calculation slip belongs in your practice routine; a careless miss usually belongs in your exam-day process, not in any chapter at all. Revising a chapter to fix a careless error is how a fortnight disappears with nothing to show.
The AI builds a seven-day plan from your last mock rather than a generic syllabus schedule, which is the right unit of time for this stage - long enough to move a weak topic, short enough to rewrite when your admit card tells you your real date. Free accounts get one AI analysis per week, which is deliberately about the cadence a revision plan should change at anyway. Re-plan after a mock, not after a bad hour.
There is usually one thing - a trigonometric identity, an SI/CI shortcut, an article rule - that quietly makes you skip an entire topic. The AI subject tutors answer in Hindi and English, with eight messages a day on the free tier, which is enough to clear that single blocker without the chapter-length detour of watching a two-hour lecture. In the final fortnight, unblocking beats re-teaching.
A workable ratio at this stage is roughly one full mock every second day, with the day in between spent entirely on that mock's errors and on your revision checklist. The mock is diagnosis; the day after is treatment. Candidates who take a mock daily and never review them usually end the fortnight with a folder of scores and no change in their score. If your exam date turns out to be late in the window, keep the same rhythm rather than adding more mocks - add depth to the review instead.
No. Writing new notes in the final fortnight feels productive because it is effortful, but it is mostly copying, and copying is the weakest form of revision there is. Work from the notes you already have, and add only one thing to them: a single running page of errors you have actually made, in your own words. That one page is the most valuable revision document you will own on exam morning, because it is the only one built from your mistakes rather than someone else's syllabus.
Plan as if you are in the first week of the window, because that plan is safe in both cases. Get your revision checklist and your mock rhythm to a state where you could sit the exam on 30 September without regret, and then, when the admit card gives you a later date, treat the extra weeks as repetition of the same cycle rather than as space to start new material. The reverse mistake - planning for a late date and then receiving an early one - is the one that cannot be recovered.
It depends on how much of the paper it is worth and how self-contained it is. A small, rule-based topic that reliably shows up in one or two questions - mensuration formulas, idioms, mirror images - is worth two focused sessions even now, because the return is immediate. A large, layered topic you have genuinely never touched is usually not worth starting in the last fortnight, because the hours it consumes come out of topics where you are already at seventy per cent and could be at ninety. Be ruthless about that trade, and write down the decision so you stop re-litigating it every day.
Revise it by retrieval, not by reading. Reading a static GK list a fourth time produces the comfortable feeling of familiarity without producing recall; answering fifty past GA questions cold produces a list of exactly what you do not know. Use previous-year GA questions as the revision method itself, keep a short list of the facts you missed, and revisit that list rather than the full compendium. In the last three or four days, GA is the section where an hour of retrieval practice can still move your score.
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