SSC CHSL Tier-1 is 100 questions in 60 minutes: 25 each from English Language, General Intelligence, Quantitative Aptitude and General Awareness, two marks for a correct answer and half a mark off for a wrong one. This page sets out the marking, the pacing and an attempt strategy that survives a real shift, and gives you an SSC CHSL Tier 1 mock test built to the same pattern, with a 15-minute timer on each section. You can sit the full paper here without an account and get your score and the section-wise breakdown.
SSC CHSL Tier-1 is 100 questions and 200 marks in 60 minutes: four sections of 25 questions and 50 marks each, with no section weighted above another. Every question carries two marks, every wrong answer costs 0.5, and a blank costs nothing. There is no sectional time limit in the real paper — the hour covers all four sections and you divide it yourself.
Our full mock is the same shape as the real Tier-1: 100 questions, 200 marks, 60 minutes, with a 15-minute timer on each of the four sections. Nothing is padded out and no section is weighted differently from the Commission's paper. Because CGL Tier-1 runs on an identical structure, the same paper serves both; CHSL is a 10+2 level exam, so it sits shallower.
Plus two for a correct answer, minus 0.5 for a wrong one, nothing for a blank. Four wrong answers wipe out one right one. Work the arithmetic and a guess narrowed to two options is clearly worth taking; a blind one-in-four guess averages about an eighth of a mark, close enough to nothing that the seconds are better spent elsewhere. The mock scores you the same way.
Sixty minutes across 100 questions is 36 seconds a question, and that average only hurts if you spend it evenly. General Awareness should take well under 15 minutes because you either know it or you do not, which leaves room for Quantitative Aptitude. In the mock each section runs on its own 15-minute clock, so you find out which section you cannot finish in time here rather than in the hall.
Accuracy matters more than volume under this marking scheme. Work each section in two passes: answer what you can read and solve straight away, mark the rest, return with whatever seconds remain. Spend the last minutes on questions you can narrow down rather than ones you cannot, since a blind guess buys almost nothing and costs time. The section-wise breakdown afterwards shows where your marks actually went.
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. They are drawn from CGL, CHSL, MTS and other SSC papers and are not tagged by exam, so we will not pretend this is a CHSL-only set. The four Tier-1 subjects recur across those papers, and CGL Tier-1 is the identical pattern, which is why the same mock serves.
You can sit the full paper without signing up — no account, no card. Your score and the section-wise breakdown come back free; the AI analysis of your mistakes needs a free account, which allows one mock analysis a week and eight AI tutor messages a day. The whole mock runs in Hindi or English. And if you do not have a clear hour, take one section: 25 questions, 15 minutes, same marking.
Yes. Two marks for a correct answer, half a mark deducted for a wrong one, nothing for a question left blank, so four wrong answers cancel one correct answer. A guess narrowed to two options pays; a blind one-in-four guess averages roughly an eighth of a mark and eats time you need elsewhere. The mock applies the same plus two and minus 0.5, so you can see in marks what your guessing habit costs.
There is no number we can hand you honestly — it depends on your accuracy, and the qualifying mark moves every cycle and by category. The useful way round is to sit a full mock, read the section-wise split, and count how many marks your wrong answers took off. If negative marking is eating a meaningful chunk, attempt fewer questions more carefully rather than more questions faster.
Because the common way to lose Tier-1 is to spend 25 minutes on Quantitative Aptitude and then read General Awareness at a sprint. The Commission hands you the hour to divide as you like; our timer divides it for you so the habit is already formed by exam day. Fifteen minutes a section is the average you have to hit anyway.
They are genuine previous-year SSC questions with the Commission's own answer keys — about 28,100 of roughly 30,700 in the bank — but they come from CGL, CHSL, MTS and other SSC papers and are not tagged by exam. We cannot filter a CHSL-only paper for you and will not claim otherwise. The same four Tier-1 subjects run through those papers and CGL Tier-1 is the identical pattern, so the practice carries.
Yes. Open the mock, sit the 100 questions, and at the end you get your score and the section-wise breakdown — no sign-up, no card. What needs a free account is the AI analysis of your mistakes, and the free plan covers one such analysis a week plus eight AI tutor messages a day, in Hindi or English.
SSC conducts Tier-1 in multiple shifts and normalises scores across them, so the marks on your result are not simply the raw marks you scored. No mock can predict that, and ours reports raw marks only. On cut-offs: the only cut-off series we hold is SSC CGL Tier-1. We do not have CHSL cut-off data, so we will not put a number in front of you.
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