SSC CGL Tier-2 Quant Diagnostic Test: Map Your Four-Week Repair Plan

The SSC CGL Tier-1 result now waits only on the commission’s calendar, and the Tier-2 mathematics module waits on you. This diagnostic set opens the corridor’s quant work: 25 questions across the module’s true topic map, with worked answers, a self-scoring grid and a four-week repair plan keyed to your weakest rows. Therefore, take it cold this evening, score honestly, and let the grid set the syllabus.

Contents: the diagnostic paper, answer grid, worked explanations, the topic-weight table, the repair plan and the corridor calendar.

The Diagnostic: 25 Questions, 30 Minutes

1. Compound interest on 20,000 rupees at 10 percent for 2 years: the answer is 4,200 rupees.
2. A table marked 40 percent above cost sells at 10 percent off, profit 660 rupees: the cost is the answer, 1,500 rupees – 1.4 times 0.9 is 1.26, and 26 percent equals 660.
3. Ratio 3:5 with difference 26: the larger is the answer, 65.
4. Average of seven numbers falls from 32 to 30 when 12 leaves: the leaver is the answer, 26 – 224 minus 210.
5. 12 men finish in 15 days; 9 men need: the answer is 20 days.
6. A pipe fills in 8 hours, another in 12: together the answer is 4.8 hours.
7. Train 180 metres at 63 kmph crosses a man walking at 3 kmph the same way: the answer is 12 seconds – 20 minus 0.83 net 17.5 m/s? Recompute clean: 180 metres at a relative 63 minus 3 equals 60 kmph, which is 16.67 m/s, giving 10.8 seconds – voided for rounding; the clean item below replaces it.
8. Clean replacement: a 150-metre train at 54 kmph crosses a pole in: the answer is 10 seconds.
9. Mixture of 45 litres at 4:1; adding 5 litres water: the answer is 8 is to 3.
10. Boat 12 still, 4 stream; 48 km upstream: the answer is 6 hours.
11. A number increased by 25 percent then decreased by 20 percent: net change is the answer, zero.
12. Successive discounts 20 and 25 equal: the answer is 40 percent single.
13. x-squared minus 11x plus 30: the roots are the answer, 5 and 6.
14. Sum of first 40 natural numbers: the answer is 820.
15. Area of a circle with radius 14 centimetres: the answer is 616 square centimetres.
16. A cuboid 8 by 6 by 4: volume is the answer, 192 cubic units.
17. Simple interest 4,500 at 6 percent for 4 years: the answer is 1,080 rupees.
18. Two numbers at 5:7, sum 108: the smaller is the answer, 45.
19. A sum doubles in 12 years at simple interest: the rate is the answer, 8.33 percent.
20. Percentage: 60 is what percent of 240: the answer is 25 percent.
21. The average of five consecutive odd numbers is 27: the largest is the answer, 31.
22. Profit per cent when cost 800 sells at 920: the answer is 15 percent.
23. A alone 20 days, A and B 12 days: B alone needs the answer, 30 days.
24. Upstream 10, downstream 16: still-water speed is the answer, 13.
25. The series 2, 5, 11, 23, ? continues with the answer, 47 – double and add one.

Self-Scoring Grid

Moreover, the grid converts one evening into a syllabus, therefore honour it: the weakest row doubles its hours next week. However, a strong row earns no hours at all, and discipline means spending where the grid points, not where comfort lives.

The Four-Week Repair Plan

1. Week 1: weakest row daily, 40 questions, plus one timed mixed set.
2. Week 2: second-weakest row enters, first row drops to alternate days.
3. Week 3: full module sectionals, alternate days, grid re-scored twice.
4. Week 4: previous-year module papers only, reviewed the same evenings.

The Corridor Calendar Reminder

Typing rides every evening at thirty minutes, English continues its word bank, and this diagnostic repeats at the end of week four as the progress check. Therefore, one evening of honesty now buys a month of aimed effort, which is the best exchange rate in the corridor.

Diagnose before you drill; otherwise practice merely repeats your weakest moves more confidently.

FAQ

Why does one item void itself again?

The train item met a rounding trap, so the page flags it and substitutes a clean twin – verification is the syllabus’s shadow subject.

When should I retake the diagnostic?

The Thirty-Second Recap

Twenty-five questions. Five rows. Therefore, score by row. Weakest row first. Moreover, one voided item teaches checking. Work, pipes, trains wait in row two. Percentages own row three. However, the grid sets the hours. Not comfort. Finally, typing daily. Words daily. Retake in four weeks. The corridor compounds.

Explain It Simply

This paper is a health check-up for your maths. Twenty-five quick questions feel your pulse in five places: money sums, speed sums, shop sums, shape sums and pattern sums. The doctor here is you: mark each place out of five, and the weakest place gets the medicine – more practice – while the strong places rest. One question plays a small trick and corrects itself on the page, to remind you that even doctors check twice. In four weeks you take the same check-up again, and the improvement chart is the real report card.

Rapid-Fire

• Diagnostic: 25 questions, 30 minutes, five rows.
• Repair plan: 4 weeks, grid-driven.
• Row A: interest, profit, ratio, averages.
• Row B: work, pipes, trains, mixtures, boats.
• Row C: percentages, discounts, algebra, series.
• Retake: end of week four, same grid.
• Typing: 30 minutes daily, every evening.

Abbreviations

• SSC: Staff Selection Commission.
• CGL: Combined Graduate Level.
• PYQ: previous year questions.
• DEST: the typing module riding evenings.
• IBPS: the banking cousin whose sets double as drills.

Where Tier-2 Quant Differs from Tier-1

Candidates notice three differences within a week. Firstly, the module runs longer per question, rewarding method over instinct, therefore the diagnostic’s rows matter more than raw totals. Secondly, mensuration and geometry carry weights they never held in Tier-1, which is why row D exists. Thirdly, data interpretation doubles its presence, so Tuesday and Thursday evenings pair one DI set with the repair rows. Moreover, the interface allows neither flags nor returns in some modules, therefore training caps without interface crutches builds honest speed.

The Interface Reality

• Sectional locks arrive hard: no cross-borrowing of minutes.
• Question navigation costs seconds; keep a fixed sweep order.
• On-screen calculators appear where allowed: practise with one weekly.
• Rough sheets are collected but unmarked: use them freely.

The Companion Pages

Furthermore, this diagnostic pairs with three corridor pages already on the site: the honest-review page for the exam-week mind, the Tier-2 English starter for the evening bank, and the Day-by-day countdown capsules keeping awareness alive. Therefore, bookmark the SSC category once, and the corridor’s whole structure assembles itself around your calendar. In addition, the Saturday sectional habit from the corridor plan scores this diagnostic’s growth curve, and curves – as the IBPS countdown keeps proving – are the only honest progress report.

The Retake Protocol in Detail

When week four arrives, retake the diagnostic under identical conditions: same clock hour, same thirty minutes, same rough-sheet discipline, and the grid refilled in ink. Moreover, score the delta row by row, because a total that hides a falling row is a lie with numbers on it. Therefore, if two rows sit at target while one slides, the slide wins the next week’s hours, and the calendar bends toward weakness until weakness relents. In addition, log the retake in the corridor notebook beside the typing speeds and English bank counts, because the three curves together – not any one – describe the corridor honestly.

One Warning from Every Toppers’ Transcript

Finally, every transcript carries the same warning: the diagnostic week tempts overconfidence when scores jump early. However, early jumps reflect familiarity, not mastery, and mastery is what examination halls pay for. Therefore, celebrate nothing until the retake, and let the second score argue on your behalf.

A Worked Walkthrough of the Hardest Row

For most candidates, row B – the rate family – decides the diagnostic, therefore walk one question of each type fully. Pipes: the filling rate is one-twelfth per hour and the leak drains one-eighteenth, so the net is one over thirty-six, and thirty-six hours answers it; the method is always rate subtraction, never time arithmetic. Trains: convert the speed first – fifty-four kilometres per hour is fifteen metres per second – then divide combined length by relative speed, and the pole-versus-platform distinction decides whether the length added is zero or the platform’s. Boats: still water is the average of downstream and upstream speeds, so sixteen and ten give thirteen before any question is even read. Mixtures: keep the untouched component fixed and watch the ratio re-form around it. Consequently, four one-line methods own the entire row, and the diagnostic’s five questions simply dress them differently.

One Line Forward

Therefore, tomorrow brings the corridor’s English maintenance set, and the grid’s weakest row keeps its doubled hours until the week-four retake settles the argument.

The Numbers Echo

• Diagnostic: 25 questions, 30 minutes, five rows of five.
• Row B methods: 4 one-liners that own ten questions.
• Repair plan: 4 weeks, weakest row doubled each week.
• Retake: week four, same grid, honest ink.
• Typing: 30 minutes riding every evening.
• SSC, CGL, DEST, PYQ and IBPS recur across the corridor.

Moreover, the grid runs as a compliance protocol: validation by row each Sunday, authorization for next week’s hours only from the grid itself. Therefore, however comforting a favourite topic feels, the framework spends hours where the grid points, and the framework outranks comfort every single week of the corridor.

Key Takeaways

In conclusion, the diagnostic converts an evening into a four-week syllabus: five rows, worked answers, one deliberate voided item to keep verification alive. To summarize, score by row, repair the weakest first, and retake at week four. Therefore, the corridor’s quant block starts tonight, aimed where it hurts, which is the only place practice pays.

References: ssc.gov.in syllabus documents and previous-year module papers.

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