SSC Scientific Assistant
Syllabus
General Intelligence &Reasoning:
It also includes questions designed to test the candidate’s abilities to deal with abstract ideas and symbols and their relationships, arithmetical computations and other analytical functions.
Questions of both verbal and non-verbal type.
Analogies, similarities, differences
space visualization, problem solving
analysis, judgement, decision making
visual memory, discrimination
observation, relationship concepts
arithmetical reasoning, verbal and figure classification,
arithmetical number series etc.
Quantitative Aptitude:
whole numbers, decimals, fractions
relationships between numbers
Percentage, Ratio & Proportion
Square roots, Averages, interest
Profit and Loss, Discount
Partnership Business, Mixture and Alligation
Time and Distance, Time & Work
Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra & Elementary Surds
Graphs of Linear Equations
Triangle and its various Kinds of centers
Congruence and similarity of triangles
Circle and its chords, tangents
angles subtended by chords of a circle
common tangents to two or more circles
Triangle, Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons
Circle, Right Prism, Right Circular Cone
Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere
Hemispheres, Rectangular Parallelepiped,
Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square base
Trigonometric ratio, Degree and Radian Measures
Standard Identities, Complementary angle
Heights and Distances, Histogram
Frequency polygon, Bar diagram & Pie chart
English Language & Comprehension:
English grammar, Vocabulary, Spellings
Synonyms and Antonyms, Comprehension
Correct and incorrect usages, etc.
General Awareness:
General, physical
geographical, topographical
Economic and climatic features of India.
Current events:
Matters of everyday observation and experience on scientific aspects and reasoning
Basic topics of mathematics
Chemistry and Physics
History of India, its cultural heritage
freedom movement, salient feature of the Constitution of India
Economic and social aspect of the country and its people
