Calendar for SSC CGL examination to be held during the year 2016 (January to December)

Staff Selection Commission has released SSC exam  Calendar 2016 -2017 for the recruitment exam of various posts such as CGL, MTS, Stenographer, Junior Translator, SI/Constable, CHSL and so on. All those candidates who are preparing for the upcoming SSC exams must download the PDF file from this page to check the exam dates, timings and other official information.

Recruitment of various posts:

Name of the Examination	Date of Advt	Closing Date	Date of Exam
Special Recruitment Drive for MTS Examination 2015	24.10.2015	23.11.2015	10.1.2016
Rectt. of SI in CAPFs, ASI in CISF and SI in Delhi Police Examination-2016	09.01.2016	05.02.2016	23.03.2016(Paper I) 05.06.2016(Paper II)
Combined Graduate Level Examination – 2016 (Tier-I)	13.02.2016	14.03.2016	08.05.2016 22.05.2016
Jr. Hindi Translator in Subordinate Office Examination-2016	02.04.2016	30.04.2016	19.06.2016
Stenographer Grade ‘C’ & ‘D’ Examination- 2016	07.05.2016	03.06.2016	31.07.2016
Combined Graduate Level (Tier II) Examination -2016			13.08.2016 (Saturday) 14.08.2016 (Sunday)
Combined Higher Secondary (10+2) Examination 2016	02.07.2016	01.08.2016	25.09.2016 09.10.2016 16.10.2016
Junior Engineer (Civil, Electrical & Mechanical) Examination-2016	20.08.2016	16.09.2016	11.12.2016
Multi Tasking (Non-Technical) Staff Examination-2016	08.10.2016	07.11.2016	08.01.2017 22.01.2017
Recruitment for staff in Cabinet Secretariat	To be Announced Later
Recruitment for Constables (Exe.) in Delhi Police	To be Announced Later

Departmental Examination:

Name of the Examination	Date of Advt.	Closing Date	Date of Exam
Clerks Grade (For Multi Tasking Staff only) Exam 2016	16.01.2016	12.02.2016	27.03.2016
Grade ‘C’ Steno. Ltd. Depttl. Comp. Exam 2016	09.04.2016	06.05.2016	03.07.2016
Upper Div. Clerk Ltd. Depttl. Comp. Exam 2016	03.09.2016	30.09.2016	27.11.2016

How to Download:

• First of all visit the official website i.e. www.ssc.nic.in
• Now, select “Examination Calendar’’ under Candidate’s Corner located in the menu bar on the home page.
• A pdf file containing the exam schedule and notification dates will be displayed on the computer screen.
• You may take print out of the same for your reference.

Some Tips For Cracking SSC CGL Exam 2016 in a Month

1. General Awareness is crucial to this exam:Read Newspaper daily . You should be absolutely familiar and opinionated on the news in the 6 months. Collect as much general awareness as possible through online and offline medium before the test.

2. Arithmetic is the second most important thing in SSC CGL exam. Though its level is not very high, but for getting good marks, the exam demands that you have great accuracy and whizzing speed.

3. Language is the third segment of the exam. Preparing language requires time and since you have only one month, you need to give it enough time.

4. How you perform in exam is not entirely dependent on your knowledge, much of it depends on how you perform in the exam .

5. The greatest advice to prepare for SSC CGL exam in one month is to tackle as many mock tests  It will benefit you highly. You will learn to be comfortable to maintain your stress and focus for the entire duration of exam. You will also learn to maintain your speed and make choice between more yielding questions.

6. Remember, your objective in SSC CGL is to score the maximum marks you can and not prove your intelligence. Getting stuck on a tough question is a defeating approach towards this exam. Unable to solve a particular question move on to the next.

7. SSC CGL is as much the test of management as it is of the knowledge. Learn to manage your time and resources well in the month of preparation.

8. You can take important notes and develop own shortcuts and techniques to work on the problems within the time limit.

9. Keep yourself updated about SSC exams dates,pattern, and syllabus.

SSC CGL Syllabus 2016

If you are preparing for SSC CGL 2016 Exam, the you must know the Syllabus for both the Tier-1 and Tier-2 Exams.

Tier-1 Syllabus: 

In the CGL Tier-1, there will be 200 Multiple Choice Questions(MCQ's) to be asked from 4 Sections - English , Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude and General Awareness. Each section has 50 Questions and Each Question carry 1 mark.

The Total Duration of Tier-1 Exam is 2 Hours.


Negative Marks: There will be deduction of 0.25 marks for
every wrong answer.


Tier-2 Syllabus: 

Those who Pass the Tier-1 exam, can appear for Tier-2 Exam. The Tier-2 Exam will have Sections viz English and Quantitative Aptitude.

1) Quantitative Aptitude: In the Tier-2 Exam, there will be 100 Questions from the Quant section and each Question carry 2 marks. The Duration of this exam will be 2 hours.

2) English: This section is tier-2 Exam, will have 200 Questions , with each Question carrying 1 Mark. The Duration of this Exam is 2 Hours

Negative Marks: In tier-2 Exam, there will penalty of 0.50 marks for Quantitative Aptitude Sections, while there will be penalty for 0.25 marks for English Language and Comprehension.


Descriptive Paper : SSC had introduced a small pattern change in the CGL Examination, be introducing a Descriptive paper. This paper is only for those, who Qualify the SSC Tier-2 Exam

The Duration of this Paper is 1 hour only and Questions in this paper will be asked from the following sections:

1) English
2) Quantitative Aptitude
3) General Awareness