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SSC GD Constable Important questions 2026

Most important practice questions with answers, by subject.

Updated 22 October 2026

SSC GD important questions with answers

These SSC GD important questions cover the four CBE sections: Reasoning, Mathematics, General Knowledge and Awareness, and English/Hindi. Each one comes with its answer and a short explanation. They are based on topics that come up again and again in SSC GD papers. Solve them with a timer, then check the explanations to see where you lost time or marks.

Quick practice set

Section Question Answer
Reasoning X is the son of Y, and Y is the daughter of Z. How is X related to Z? Grandson
Reasoning Find the missing number: 2, 6, 12, __, 30 20
GK Which country hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics? France
GK Which is the longest river in India? Ganga
Maths An article sells for ₹240 at a 20% profit. Find the cost price. ₹200
Maths What is 33.5% of 500? 167.5
Maths 48 ÷ 6 × (8 + 4) = ? 96
English He is good ___ Hindi. at
English Synonym of "joyful" Happy
English Correct the sentence: "He don't like tea." He doesn't like tea.
Hindi 'मित्र' का पर्यायवाची सखा

Reasoning

  1. Analogy: Pyrophobia : Fire :: Ochlophobia : ? (1) Horses (2) Crowd (3) Light (4) Foreigners. Answer: (2) Crowd. Pyrophobia is an abnormal fear of fire, and ochlophobia is an abnormal fear of crowds.
  2. Odd group: Marble : Slate : Gneiss belong with which word? (1) Quartzite (2) Limestone (3) Coal (4) Sandstone. Answer: (1) Quartzite. All four are metamorphic rocks.
  3. Blood relation: Ashok's wife is Divya. Ashok is the father of Tanya and the grandfather of Ravi. How is Ravi related to Divya? (1) Nephew (2) Grandson (3) Son (4) None. Answer: (2) Grandson. Divya is the wife of Ravi's grandfather.
  4. Blood relation (same family): Gaurav is Divya's son. How is Gaurav's wife related to Tanya? (1) Niece (2) Sister (3) Sister-in-law (4) Data inadequate. Answer: (3) Sister-in-law. Gaurav and Tanya are siblings, so his wife is her sister-in-law.
  5. Inequality: If A + B > C + D, B + E = 2C and C + D > B + E, which must be true? (1) A + B > 2E (2) A + B > 2C (3) A > C (4) A + B > 2D. Answer: (2). Chaining the two inequalities gives A + B > B + E = 2C.
  6. Direction: Q is east of P, R is south of P and S is north of P. In which direction of Q is S? (1) North (2) South (3) North-West (4) South-East. Answer: (3) North-West.
  7. Time: Satish reached a meeting at 8:30 (20 minutes before 8:50). He was 30 minutes earlier than a man who was 40 minutes late. When was the meeting scheduled? (1) 8:20 (2) 8:10 (3) 8:05 (4) 8:00. Answer: (1) 8:20. The man arrived at 9:00, which was 40 minutes late, so the meeting was at 8:20. Satish himself was 10 minutes late.
  8. Coding: If ZIP = 198 and ZAP = 246, then VIP = ? (1) 174 (2) 222 (3) 888 (4) 990. Answer: (2) 222. Letters take reverse values (Z = 2, Y = 3 … A = 27) and the sum is multiplied by 6: (6 + 19 + 12) × 6 = 222.
  9. Syllogism: All trees are flowers. No flower is fruit. All branches are fruits. Conclusions: I. Some branches are trees. II. No fruit is tree. III. No tree is branch. Answer: both II and III follow. Trees sit inside flowers and branches sit inside fruits, and the two groups never overlap.
  10. Ranking: In a row of 40 boys, Amit is 11th from the left and Deepak is 31st from the right. Shreya is third to the right of Amit. Where is Shreya relative to Deepak? (1) 2nd (2) 3rd (3) 4th (4) 5th. Answer: (3) 4th. Deepak is 10th from the left and Shreya is 14th from the left.
  11. Dictionary order: Which word comes in the middle: Rumbustious, Rumanian, Rumour, Ruminate, Rumple? Answer: Ruminate. The order is Rumanian, Rumbustious, Ruminate, Rumour, Rumple.
  12. Dice: On a die with faces A to F, A touches B, B touches D but not C, and E touches D and F. Which face is opposite A? (1) C (2) D (3) E (4) F. Answer: (3) E.

Mathematics

  1. Ratio: What is the ratio of the mean proportional of 4.8 and 10.8 to the third proportional of 0.4 and 2.4? (1) 2:1 (2) 3:2 (3) 1:2 (4) 2:3. Answer: (3) 1:2. The mean proportional is √(4.8 × 10.8) = 7.2 and the third proportional is 2.4² ÷ 0.4 = 14.4.
  2. Average: The average of 12 numbers is 55.5. The first four average 53.4 and the next four average 54.6. The 10th number is 3 more than the 9th and is 2 and 3 less than the 11th and 12th respectively. Find the average of the 10th and 12th numbers. (1) 59.5 (2) 58 (3) 57.5 (4) 56. Answer: (1) 59.5. The last four numbers add up to 666 − 432 = 234, so 4x + 2 = 234 gives x = 58. The 12th number is 61, and (58 + 61) ÷ 2 = 59.5.
  3. Number system: A farmer gives ½ of his cows to his first son, ¼ to his second, ⅕ to his third and 7 cows to his fourth. How many cows does he have? (1) 80 (2) 100 (3) 140 (4) 180. Answer: (3) 140. The fourth son's share is 1/20 of the herd, and 1/20 × 140 = 7.
  4. Time and work: 5 men finish a job in 20 days and 10 women finish it in 15 days. 2 men and 6 women work for 5 days, then 3 women leave and 1 man joins. How many more days does the job take? (1) 16⅔ (2) 18⅓ (3) 19 (4) 14. Answer: (4) 14 days. Take a man's daily work as 3 units and a woman's as 2, so the total job is 300 units. The first 5 days complete 90 units, and the remaining 210 units at 15 units a day take 14 days.
  5. Speed: Train A is 25 km/h faster than train B. A covers 300 km in 4 hours less than B takes for 250 km. What is A's speed? (1) 60 (2) 50 (3) 65 (4) 55. Answer: (2) 50 km/h. A takes 6 hours and B (25 km/h) takes 10 hours.
  6. Simple interest: Out of ₹50,000, ₹8,000 is lent at 5½% and ₹24,000 at 6%. At what rate must the rest be lent to earn ₹3,680 a year in total? (1) 5% (2) 7% (3) 10% (4) 12%. Answer: (3) 10%. ₹440 + ₹1,440 = ₹1,880, and the remaining ₹1,800 on ₹18,000 is 10%.
  7. Discount: How far above cost must an article be marked so that, after successive discounts of 20% and 6.25%, it still makes a 20% profit? (1) 66⅔% (2) 46¼% (3) 50% (4) 60%. Answer: (4) 60%. The marked price is 1.2 ÷ (0.8 × 0.9375) = 1.6 times the cost.
  8. Geometry: In triangle ABC, AM ⊥ BC and AN bisects angle A. If ∠B = 55° and ∠C = 35°, find ∠MAN. (1) 10° (2) 12° (3) 15° (4) 5°. Answer: (1) 10°. ∠MAN = ½(∠B − ∠C).
  9. Mensuration: An equilateral triangular field has the same area as a triangle with sides 50 m, 70 m and 80 m. Its side is closest to (1) 65.5 (2) 63.2 (3) 62.4 (4) 61.8. Answer: (2) 63.2 m. Heron's formula gives an area of about 1,732 m², and (√3/4)x² = 1,732 gives x ≈ 63.2.
  10. Percentage: A is 20% less than B, C is 30% more than D, and D is 25% less than A. Which is true? (1) B = 0.39C (2) C = 0.78B (3) B = 0.78C (4) C = 0.39B. Answer: (2) C = 0.78B.
  11. Data interpretation: In a survey of 60,000 people, 11% prefer the flute. If 2,100 fewer people had chosen the flute, what would the share be? (1) 9.5% (2) 6.5% (3) 7.5% (4) 8.5%. Answer: (3) 7.5%. 6,600 − 2,100 = 4,500, which is 7.5% of 60,000.

General knowledge & awareness

  1. Which law of thermodynamics is the basis of temperature measurement? (1) First (2) Zeroth (3) Third (4) Second. Answer: (2) Zeroth law.
  2. The chemical symbol of tungsten is (1) Tu (2) M (3) Ta (4) W. Answer: (4) W, from its other name, wolfram.
  3. Which acid is used to purify gold and silver? (1) Formic (2) Acetic (3) Nitric (4) Maleic. Answer: (3) Nitric acid.
  4. Which pairing of a schedule of the Constitution with its subject is wrong? (1) Fourth: Rajya Sabha seats (2) Fifth: scheduled areas (3) Sixth: forms of oaths (4) Seventh: Union and State lists. Answer: (3). Oaths and affirmations are in the Third Schedule.
  5. What does Article 143 of the Constitution deal with? Answer: the President's power to consult the Supreme Court (advisory jurisdiction). It does not cover the enforcement of Supreme Court orders.
  6. What is the maximum strength of the Lok Sabha? (1) 530 (2) 550 (3) 535 (4) 552. Answer: (4) 552.
  7. Which Delhi Sultan was the first to order the measurement of land? (1) Qutubuddin Aibak (2) Alauddin Khilji (3) Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq (4) Sikandar Lodi. Answer: (2) Alauddin Khilji.
  8. Which was the last European power to set up a trading company in India? (1) French (2) Dutch (3) Danish (4) Portuguese. Answer: (1) French, in 1664.
  9. The Bab-el-Mandeb strait lies between (1) Mexico–Cuba (2) Italy–Sicily (3) Mozambique–Madagascar (4) Yemen–Djibouti. Answer: (4) Yemen–Djibouti.
  10. At which city do the North-South and East-West corridors meet? (1) Indore (2) Jhansi (3) Bhopal (4) Banda. Answer: (2) Jhansi.
  11. Total government expenditure minus total receipts excluding borrowings is called (1) Revenue deficit (2) Budget deficit (3) Fiscal deficit (4) Current account deficit. Answer: (3) Fiscal deficit.
  12. Which item is not part of the capital account in the balance of payments? (1) Profits, interest and dividends (2) FDI, FII (3) Government and external commercial borrowings (4) FCNR deposits. Answer: (1). These are current account items.
  13. Which Indian warship first contacted the first five Rafale jets flying in from Al Dhafra (Abu Dhabi)? (1) INS Rajput (2) INS Kolkata (3) INS Vikramaditya (4) INS Sindhukirti. Answer: (2) INS Kolkata.
  14. Memory-based questions from SSC GD 2025 shifts included: the gas known as laughing gas (nitrous oxide); the vitamin whose deficiency causes scurvy (vitamin C); the year GST began (2017); the article on freedom of religion (Article 25); the article on Fundamental Duties (Article 51A); and the founder of the Bhoodan Movement (Vinoba Bhave).

English / Hindi

  1. Filler: I must ____ my deficiency in English. (1) make out (2) make up (3) make after (4) make beyond. Answer: (2) make up, meaning "compensate for".
  2. Error spotting: "I saw him / a couple of times / since May. / No error." Answer: the error is in the first part. "Since" needs the present perfect, so it should read "I have seen him".
  3. Voice: Change "She was seen sitting in the last row" to the active voice. (1) We see her… (2) We saw her sitting in the last row. (3) We had seen her… (4) We have seen her… Answer: (2). The sentence is in the simple past.
  4. Sentence rearrangement: The opening line is "India's uniqueness lies in its unity in diversity." P: So the problems should not be viewed in isolation. Q: Because of this factor, there are problems at times. R: India is a multireligious, multicultural and multilingual country. S: But even small monolithic countries have more problems. (1) PSRQ (2) QSPR (3) SRQP (4) RQSP. Answer: (4) RQSP.
  5. विलोम: 'अधम' का विलोम: (a) उधम (b) सधम (c) उत्तम (d) अगम. उत्तर: (c) उत्तम।
  6. पर्यायवाची: 'धनुष' का पर्यायवाची कौन-सा नहीं है? (a) विशिख (b) कोदण्ड (c) चाप (d) शरासन. उत्तर: (a) विशिख, जिसका अर्थ बाण है।
  7. वर्तनी: शुद्ध वर्तनी चुनिए: (a) प्रतीक्रिया (b) अनूपस्थित (c) साहित्य (d) अनूकुल. उत्तर: (c) साहित्य।
  8. वाक्य-शुद्धि: कौन-सा वाक्य व्याकरण की दृष्टि से अशुद्ध है? (a) परशुराम की क्रोधाग्नि से सभी आंतकित थे। (b) मरीज को यथासमय दवा देनी चाहिए। (c) वह सदैव ही सत्य बोलता है। (d) मैंने गुरुजी के दर्शन किए। उत्तर: (a). इसमें शुद्ध शब्द 'आतंकित' है।

See the SSC GD syllabus for the full topic list. The SSC GD exam analysis shows which areas recent papers stressed.

Frequently asked questions

Which subjects should I practise for SSC GD important questions?

Practise all four: Reasoning, General Knowledge and Awareness, Elementary Mathematics, and English or Hindi. Each one carries 40 of the 160 marks.

Are SSC GD important questions enough for preparation?

No. They help you spot common question types, but you still need full syllabus coverage, previous year papers and timed mock tests.

Should I solve SSC GD questions with a time limit?

Yes. Once your concepts are clear, practise against the clock. The real paper gives you only 45 seconds per question on average.

How should I review a mock test?

Sort your mistakes by topic, note the questions that took too long and revise the related concepts before you take the next test.

Is current affairs important for SSC GD?

Yes. Current affairs usually account for about 8–10 questions in the GK section, so revise national and international events, schemes, sports and awards regularly.

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