About SSC CGL – Overview

Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level is the full form of SSC CGL. SSC CGL government recruitment exam is a nationwide exam for graduates to recruit them for various posts in Ministries and the Department of Indian Government and its Subordinate offices. Staff Selection Commission conducted this exam for selecting the staff for different Group B and Group C posts. In 1975, the Staff Selection Commission was set up as a motive for conducting the SSC CGL examination to recruit eligible staff for government offices.

SSC CGL Exam 2022

For students who are looking forward to a position in the reputed offices under the central government, SSC CGL 2022 will be a great opportunity for them. In government departments, every year thousands of vacancies are filled by SSC. It is believed that a government job helps to build a stable career. The Combined Graduate Level (CGL) Exam that is conducted by Staff Selection Commission (SSC) for recruitment to various subordinates like:

1. Inspectors of Central Excise & Customs.
2. Preventive Officers in Customs
3. Assistants in Departments/Ministries
4. Inspectors of Income Tax
5.  Sub-Inspectors in Central Bureau of Narcotics & CBI
6. Divisional Accountant, Jr. Accountant, Auditor & UDCs in various offices of Govt. of India
7. Examiner in Customs
8. Assistant Enforcement Officer in Directorate of Enforcement, Department of Revenue
9. Tax Assistant in CBDT and CBEC
10. Auditor Offices under CAG, CGDA, CGA & others
11. Compiler in Registrar General of India

SSC CGL Notification

By the Staff Selection Commission of India, the official SSC CGL Notification 2021-22 has been released on 23rd December 2021 to recruit suitable candidates in various departments of Govt. of India. From 23rd December 2021 to 23rd January 2022, the online application window for the SSC CGL application has been open for one month. The official SSC CGL PDF link has been listed below. Click on the below link and go through the details.

Click Here : https://www.resultsalertac.in/2021/ssc-cgl-notification-pdf.pdf

CGL Exam Important Dates

On 23rd December 2021, the online exam date for the SSC CGL 2022 Tier I exam has been released by the SSC along with its official notification and annual exam calendar. In April 2022, the online Tier 1 exam for SSC CGL 2022 will be conducted. SSC CGL exam date 2022 schedule is mentioned below. 

SSC CGL upcoming exam 2022	SSC CGL 2022 Dates
Notification Release Date	23rd December 2021
SSC CGL online form 2022 registration date	23rd December 20221
SSC CGL last date to apply	23rd January 2022
Last date for online payment	25th January 2022
Last date for the generation of offline Challan	26th January 2022
Last date of fees through challan	27th January 2022
The window of the Application form correction	28th January to 1st February 2022
SSC CGL Tier 1 Admit Card Download	March-April 2022
SSC CGL Tier 1 exam	April 2022
Result Announcement of SSC CGL Tier 1	July-August 2022 (Expected)
SSC CGL Tier 2 exam	Yet to be announced

SSC CGL Vacancies

For Grade A, Grade B, and Grade C level posts, it is expected that SSC will conduct the CGL examination to fill up more than 6500 vacancies. The SSC CGL vacancy 2022 will be announced in no short time.

SSC CGL Eligibility 

Candidates must check the eligibility criteria before applying for the SSC CGL Exam 2022. The details about the SSC CGL Eligibility criteria are mentioned below. The candidates must fulfill the age criteria and have the required educational qualifications to apply for the SSC CGL Examination. 

• SSC CGL Age Limit 2022

The candidates must check the detailed SSC CGL eligibility criteria before they fill the application forms as the age limit for different SSC CGL posts are different. For most of the posts, the minimum required age is 18 years and the maximum required age may vary from 27-32 years according to the job profile.

• Educational Qualification

The candidates are required to have a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized College or University. If you are an applicant then you must have opted for Mathematics/ Economics/ Statistics either as compulsory or as an elective subject. 

CGL Application Form 2022

On the official website of the Staff Service Commission, the application forms for SSC CGL 2022 are available online. By visiting the official website of the Staff Service Commission applicants can fill and submit the form online in a very easy manner.

• How to Apply

For applying SSC CGL examination form online, the steps are mentioned below. To avoid mistakes, the applicants must follow these steps.

• For filling online application, visit the official website of the Staff Selection Commission i.e, www.SSC.nic.in
•  Click on the link that is referred to as ‘Apply Online.
• Before moving on to the application form, read all the guidelines there carefully.
• Upload your latest scanned colorful photograph with your signature, after entering the required information in the form. 
• Pay the application fees and submit the form after filling in all the details in the application form.
• For future reference, a printout of the filled-in SSC CGL application form must be kept by you.

Application Fees

To complete the application process, candidates must have to pay the SSC CGL exam fee. The modes of application fees must be SBI as challan, SBI Net Banking, or through Credit/Debit Card of any other bank. 

For various categories, the SSC CGL exam fee is mentioned below.

Category	SSC CGL exam fee
General/OBC/EWS Male	INR 100
SC/ST/PWD/Ex-Serviceman candidate	No Fes
Female Candidates	No Fees

CGL Admit Card

On the official website, SSC CGL Admit Card for every successfully enrolled applicant will be available. Without the admit card, candidates will not be allowed to enter the examination hall. You can download your admit card by navigating via the official website of the Staff Selection Commission.

• Steps to Download

To download the admit card for SSC CGL 2022 exam, candidates can follow the below-listed steps. 

• Visit the official website of the Staff Selection Commission i.e. www.ssc.nic.in
• Click on the tab that is named ‘Admit Card”
• Then click on the regional/sub-local site.
• After then you have to click on the link to the admit card.
• On the login page, enter the required details
• In the kast step, download your SSC CGL Admit Card and take a printout of it.

Details Mentioned

Here are the below-mentioned details that are highlighted in your admit card.

• Name of the Candidate
• Hall Ticket 
• Candidate’s roll no.
• Date of Examination
• Duration of Examination
• Candidate’s Signature
• Candidate’s Photograph
• Time of Examination
• Centre of the Examination

CGL Exam Pattern

For various posts, the SSC conducts the CGL exam in four levels every year. The exam will be conducted in four tiers as mentioned below in the table.

Exam Tier	Exam Type	Exam Mode
Tier 1	Objective Multiple Choice	Computer-based (online exam)
Tier 2	Objective Multiple Choice	Computer-based (Online exam)
Tier 3	Descriptive Paper in Hindi/English	Pen-Paper mode
Tier 4	Skill test/Computer Proficiency Test	Wherever Necessary

SSC CGL Syllabus

General Awareness, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning, and English Language are the major parts asked in SSC CGL Examination 2022. The syllabus for SSC CGL Tier 1 is listed below.

• Tier 1

General Intelligence and Reasoning	General Awareness	Quantitative Aptitude	English Comprehension
Classification	Static General Knowledge (Indian History, Culture, etc.)	Simplification	Reading Comprehension
Analogy	Science	Interest	Fill in the Blanks
Coding-Decoding	Current Affairs	Averages	Spellings
Series	Indian Geography	Mensuration	Cloze Test
Non-Verbal	Current CM & Governors	DI	Synonyms & Antonyms
Word Formation	Sports	Percentage	Phrases and Idioms
Matrix	Books and Authors	Ratio and Proportion	One word Substitution
	Important Schemes	Problem on Ages	Sentence Correction

• Tier 2

 It will be necessary to gear up for the Tier 2 examination of the SSC CGL 2022 after the preliminary exam has been conducted. It is an objective multiple choice question exam conducted online. For the candidates, the Tier 2 and Tier 3 exam of 2022 will be conducted on the same day this year. English Language and Comprehension, General Studies (Economics and Finance), Statistics, Quantitative Aptitude are the major subjects in the SSC CGL Tier 2 exam. 

CGL Exam Centers

Look through this below-mentioned chart of SSC CGL Exam Centers in India, where the Tier 1 and Tier 2 exams will be taken. Candidates can refer to the zone-wise SSC CGL examination centers in order to know the location of the test in their respective states. 

Agra	Chandigarh	Guntur	Amritsar	Allahabad	Agartala
Vishakhapatnam	Tirupati	Lucknow	Kanpur	Bareily	Churachandpur
Chennai	Coimbatore	Varanasi	Meerut	Bhagalpur	Muzaffarpur
Keonjhargarh	Rajkot	Surat	Barasat	Ranchi	Cuttack
Berhampur	Chinsurah	Kutch	Bhavnagar	Amravati	Aurangabad
Guna	Gwalior	Almora	Thrissur	Siliguri	Bhubaneshwar
Kolhapur	Mumbai	Midnapur	Malda	Bangalore	Dharwar
Akola	Chandrapur	Mysore	Kochi	Panaji	Jalgaon
Sagar	Satna	Khandwa	Ratlam	Haridwar	Srinagar(Uttarakhand)
Ajmer	Delhi	Alwar	Bikaner	Bilaspur	Ambikapur
Itanagar	Udaipur	Aizwal	Dibrugarh	Rajouri	Leh
Jammu	Baramulla	Dodda	Hamirpur	Kohima	Silchar

Patiala	Hyderabad	Imphal	Bhatinda
Jalandhar	Kurnool	Rajahmundry	Gorakhpur
Tiruchirapalli	Madurai	Ahemdabad	Vadodra
Tirunelveli	Puducherry	Gangtok	Patna
Kolkata	Jalpaiguri	Sambalpur	Portblai
Nanded	Nagpur	Nashik	Pune
Bhandar	Thane	Gulbarga	Mangalore
Kozhikode	Thiruvanantpuram	Chindwara	Bhopal
Dehradun	Haldwani	Jabalpur	Indore
Jagdalpur	Raipur	Jodhpur	Jaipur
Durg	Anantnag	Sriganganagar	Kota
Guwahati	Jorhat	Kargi;	Srinagar

On the official website of the Staff Service Commission, SSC CGL Results 2022 will be declared. For Tier 1, 2, 3, & 4 exams the results will be separately declared in PDF format.

SSC CGL Results

The guidelines for candidates to download results for all the tier exams are listed below.

• Steps to Download

Below mentioned are the steps to download the SSC CGL Results.

1. First, you have to open the official website of SSC.
2. In the second step, find and click on the link for the respective result displayed on the home page of SSC.
3. In the next step, a new window will open when you click on the link then enter your roll no. to see the result.
4. In PDF Format, the result of SSC CGL will appear on the screen in front of you.
5. In the last stage, you have to download the SSC CGL result.

Selection Process

The selection process of SSC CGL will be totally based on the Written Test (CBT) performance which will be followed by Computer Proficiency Test (CPT), Descriptive Test, and the Skill Test. The final merit list of the candidates will be declared by considering candidates’ performance in all four Tiers.

• For appearing in Tier 2 and Tier 3, candidates must have to qualify for Tier 1.
• For appearing in Tier 4, those candidates are eligible who qualified Tier 1, 2, and 3.
• On the basis of the cumulative marks of Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3, the final merit list of SSC CGL depends.
• Tier 4 is compulsory and of qualifying nature for CSS/ MEA/ Tax Assistant Posts

SSC CGL Cut-off

For every Tier, the SSC CGL cut off will be declared separately as well as for every post. To appear for the next tier exam, the candidates must get marks exceeding the cutoff marks declared by the commission. The final cutoff for the SSC CGL examination will likewise be declared by the commission upon which the final selection rests.

The below-mentioned factors play a vital role in the cutoff of every tier level.

• The total average of candidates appearing for the examination.
• The cutoff also depends on the total number of vacancies under the SSC CGL.
• It also depends on the performance level of the candidate in the examination.
• Cut off also depends on the no. of candidates required for the different posts.

Previous Year Cutoff

For all the posts, the cut-off for the Tier 1 exam of SSC CGL is mentioned below.

Categories	Cutoff for Finance and Accounts	Cutoff for Statistics	Cutoff for other posts
UR	167.459	153.082	132.372
EWS	164.000	146.010	109.211
OBC	161.367	147.632	119.232
SC	145.289	124.618	100.930
ST	140.976	122.405	93.755
PwD-OH	135.765	120.172	85.990
PwD-HH	109.043	108.730	40.000
PwD-others	95.126		40.000
ESM			74.874
PwD-Vh			95.759

Salary & Benefits

On the level of the post, the SSC CGL salary depends. The expected SSC CGL salary bar is mentioned below. 

SSC CGL Posts	SSC CGL Salary (INR)
Level IV	INR 25,500- 81,100
Leve V	INR 29,200- 92,300
Level VI	INR 35,000- 1,12,400
Level VII	INR 44,900- 1,42,400
Level VIII	INR 47,600- 1,51,100

• Benefits

Benefits of the SSC CGL jobs are listed below:

• Job Security
• You became a part of the government system
• You became respected in the society
• The WOrk environment is good
• You’ll get a good amount of salary and perks
• You’ll get a good pension after retirement

For the youngsters, SSC CGL becomes a good overall opportunity to achieve the career they always wanted.

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SSC CGL FAQs

1. Can final year students apply for SSC CGL?

No, you are not eligible for the SSC CGL exam if you are in the final year. You must have a Bachelor’s degree for the SSC CGL exam.

1. What is the minimum age limit to apply for the SSC CGL exam?

The minimum age limit to apply for the SSC CGL exam is 18 years.

1. Could a candidate apply for more than one post for the SSC CGL Exam?

As long as the candidate fulfills the eligibility criteria, they can apply for more than one post for the SSC CGL Exam.

1. If there is any age relaxation for female candidates for the SSC CGL exam?

No, there is no such extra age benefit for the females who are applying for the SSC CGL Exam.

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