The English Language section of SSC CHSL Tier-1 is 25 questions for 50 marks, and the paper gives you 60 minutes for all four sections with no sectional lock — divide it evenly and English gets about 15 minutes. That is the real constraint: time, not vocabulary. This free SSC CHSL English mock test uses the new single-section mode — pick English, answer 25 questions in 15 minutes, with the same +2 for a correct answer and -0.5 for a wrong one. If you would rather see English in context, sit the full 100-question paper instead; that one runs without an account.
SSC CHSL Tier-1 is 100 questions for 200 marks in 60 minutes: four sections of 25 questions and 50 marks each, +2 for every correct answer and -0.5 for every wrong one. It is structurally identical to CGL Tier-1, which is why the same paper serves both; CHSL is a 10+2 level exam, so it generally runs shallower. One difference worth knowing before you sit our mock: SSC runs a single 60-minute clock across all four sections, while SSCIntel splits the hour at 15 minutes a section and locks each section when its time is up. That is stricter than the real paper, deliberately — it stops one section quietly eating the hour.
The single-section mode lets you pick English and sit just that: 25 questions, 15 minutes, +2 for a correct answer and -0.5 for a wrong one. It is the same clock the full mock puts on the section, and roughly what English can cost you before it starts eating the other three sections. Useful when you have a short window free and one section you keep losing marks in.
SSC's English Language section — CHSL and CGL alike — keeps to a narrow set of heads: error spotting, fill in the blanks, synonyms and antonyms, idioms and phrases, one-word substitution, spelling correction, sentence improvement, active and passive voice, direct and indirect speech, a cloze test and, in most papers, a short comprehension passage. With 25 questions to cover all of that, anything outside the list is not where you should start.
Vocabulary — synonyms, antonyms, one-word substitution, idioms, spelling — is pure recall. You either know the word or you do not, and either way the question is finished in seconds. Cloze tests and comprehension need reading, so they cost the most minutes per mark. In a 15-minute section, taking the recall questions first and leaving the passages for the end is usually the cheaper order.
Each correct answer is +2 and each wrong one is -0.5, so four wrong answers cancel one correct one. That penalty is mild: eliminate even one option and a guess is plainly in your favour, and on arithmetic alone a blind four-way pick is not quite a loser either. What it punishes is bulk guessing to pad your attempt count, since accuracy is what moves the score. The mock reports your net, not raw correct answers.
The 100-question CHSL-pattern paper runs with no sign-up and no card. You get your score and the section-wise breakdown, English included, at the end. What needs a free account is the AI analysis of your mistakes: the free plan allows one mock analysis a week and eight AI tutor messages a day, in Hindi or English. Paid plans start at Rs 499 a month, bought as a one-time order with no auto-renewal.
The bank holds roughly 30,700 questions, of which about 28,100 are genuine previous-year SSC questions carrying the Commission's own answer keys, drawn from CGL, CHSL, MTS and other SSC papers. Those questions are not tagged by exam, so this is not a CHSL-only English set and we will not describe it as one. The English section's question types are shared across SSC papers, which is why the practice carries over.
The 100-question paper runs without an account at all — no sign-up, no card — and your score and the section-wise split appear the moment you submit. The paywall, such as it is, sits after that: the AI analysis of your mistakes needs a free account, and the free plan gives one analysis a week plus eight tutor messages a day. Beyond that, plans begin at Rs 499 a month, paid once, never on a mandate.
Twenty-five questions for 50 marks. The full Tier-1 paper is 100 questions and 200 marks in 60 minutes across four sections of 25, so English is a quarter of the paper by both count and marks. SSC does not time the sections separately — the hour is one clock — but if you divide it evenly English gets 15 minutes, which is what both the mock's sectional timer and the single-section mode give it.
Honest answer: we cannot promise CHSL-only. Our questions are not tagged by exam — there is no CHSL filter here — so what you get is SSC English drawn from CGL, CHSL, MTS and other papers, the bulk of it genuine previous-year material with the Commission's own answer keys. Since CHSL and CGL Tier-1 run the same English section, the question types you meet are the ones CHSL asks. Anyone selling you a verified CHSL-only English bank should be asked how they tagged it.
Yes. Use the single-section mode, choose English Language, and you get 25 questions in 15 minutes with the same +2 and -0.5 marking as the full paper. It exists for exactly this case — a short window and one weak section. You get the section score at the end, so you are watching one section move instead of reading a whole-paper total.
The structure is identical: 25 questions, 50 marks, the same question types, the same marking. CHSL is a 10+2 level exam and CGL is a graduate level one, so CHSL generally runs shallower. That is largely a difference of depth rather than syllabus, which is why one paper can serve both and why practice on SSC English questions from either exam transfers.
We do not hold CHSL cut-off data in the product — the only cut-off series here is SSC CGL Tier-1 — so any English-section figure we quoted would be invented, and we are not going to do that. Measure yourself instead. With +2 and -0.5, unsure attempts cost you, so track accuracy alongside score across mocks and raise your attempt count only while accuracy holds.
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