SSC CHSL Syllabus 2025-2026

Staff Selection Commission has released an updated SSC CHSL Exam Pattern and Syllabus along with SSC CHSL 2025-2026 Notification. The candidates must have an overview of the latest SSC CHSL Syllabus 2025-2026 released by SSC.

Pay Scale

Lower Division Clerk (LDC)/ Junior Secretariat Assistant (JSA): Pay Level-2 (Rs.19,900-63,200).

Data Entry Operator (DEO): Pay Level-4(Rs. 25,500-81,100) and Level-5(Rs.29,200-92,300)

Data Entry Operator, Grade ‘A’: Pay Level-4(Rs. 25,500-81,100).

Age Limit

Age limit for the posts is 18-27 years i.e. Candidates born not before 02-08-1996 and not later than 01-08-2005 are eligible to apply.

Permissible relaxation in upper age limit for different categories in accordance with extant Rules/ guidelines of Government of India are as under:

Essential Educational Qualifications

NOTE-1. ( For Data Entry Operator (DEO)/ DEO Grade ‘A’ in the Office of Comptroller and Auditor General of India (C&AG), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and Ministry of Culture: 12th Standard pass in Science stream with Mathematics as a subject from a recognized Board or equivalent.)

NOTE-2. (For LDC/ JSA and DEO/ DEO Grade ‘A’ Candidates must have passed 12th Standard or equivalent examination from a recognized Board or University.)

SSC CHSL 2025-2026 exam has two different phases that candidates need to clear to get selected for various posts in Government Offices. SSC CHSL Tier I is an Objective Multiple Choice Question paper and Tier II will include the following three sections having two modules each.

SSC CHSL 2025-2026 Selection Process (Revised)

SSC CHSL 2025-2026 exam has two different phases that candidates need to clear to get selected for various posts in Government Offices. SSC CHSL Tier I is an Objective Multiple Choice Question paper and Tier II will include the following three sections having two modules each.

SSC CHSL Minimum Qualifying Marks

Minimum qualifying marks in Tier-I, Section-I, Section-II & Module-I of Section-III of Tier-II Examination are as follows.

UR: 30%

OBC/ EWS: 25%

All other categories: 20%

SSC CHSL Tier-I Exam Pattern

The SSC CHSL Tier I exam is a computer-based online test (CBT) exam conducted online

Candidates are given a total of 60 minutes to solve the SSC CHSL Tier-I paper comprising 100 questions that count to a total of 200 marks (2 marks for each question).

For each wrong attempt, candidates are penalised with 1/2 marks in the Tier-1 exam.

SSC CHSL Tier-1 Cut Off 2023

SSC CHSL Tier-1 Cut Off

SSC CHSL Previous Year Cut Off – 2018 (Tier 1)

Following are the details of the SSC CHSL Cut off scores of the 2018-19 Tier 1 exam of all these posts

SSC CHSL Syllabus for Tier-I Exam

SSC CHSL is conducted in three different levels the syllabus of all three levels is different. All candidates must be well-informed about the latest changes (if introduced any) in the SSC CHSL Syllabus and exam pattern to prepare for SSC CHSL 2025-2026.

There are 4 sections in Tier I of the SSC CHSL exam which are given below:

1. Reasoning Ability
2. Quantitative Aptitude
3. English Language
4. General Awareness

SSC CHSL Tier-I Syllabus

SSC CHSL Tier-I Syllabus comprises 4 subjects which are: Quantitative Aptitude, General Intelligence, English Language & General Awareness. The subject-wise topics for SSC CHSL 2025-2026 Tier-I exam is given below.

Quantitative Aptitude

There are a lot of topics from basic and advanced mathematics that are covered in the Quantitative aptitude section of the SSC CHSL syllabus.

General Intelligence and Reasoning

SSC CHSL Reasoning syllabus includes both verbal and non-verbal reasoning. In this section, there are a total of 25 questions carrying 50 marks in total

English Language

The SSC CHSL syllabus of Tier 1 English will contain 25 questions carrying 50 marks in total. Out of all the sections in the Tier 1 exam, this section is only going to be in English only.

General Awareness

The syllabus of SSC CHSL General Awareness is not something that can be mastered in a day but from an exam point of view, if consistently spend time, candidate can perform well in relatively less time than Quantitative aptitude.

SSC CHSL Syllabus: Tier II (Revised)

SSC has revised SSC CHSL Tier 2 Exam Pattern and released new syllabus which has been detailed below

Tier-II will include following three sections having two modules each:

Section-1: Module-I: Mathematical Abilities and Module-II: Reasoning and General Intelligence.Section-2: Module-I: English Language and Comprehension and Module-II: General Awareness

Section-3: Module-I: Computer Knowledge Test and Module-II: Skill Test/ Typing Test

Tier-2 will be conducted in two sessions - Session- 1 & Session-2, on same day. Session-I will include conducting of Section-1, Section-2 and Module-1 of Section-3. Session-2 will include conducting of Module-2 of Section-3.

Tier-2 will consist of Objective Type, Multiple choice questions, except for Module-2 of Section 3. The questions will be set in English and Hindi except for Module-2 (i.e. English Language and Comprehension module) in Section 2.

There will be negative marking of 1 mark for each wrong answer in Section-1, Section-2 and ModuleI of Section-3.

Skill test for the post of Data Entry Operator:

In this test, a candidate should have a data entry speed of 8,000 (eight thousand) Key Depressions per hour.

The duration of the Test is 15 minutes and an English document having about 2000-2200 strokes/key-depressions is given to type.

The duration of the Test is 15 minutes and an English document having about 2000-2200 strokes/key-depressions is given to type.

The speed of 15000 key depressions per hour will be adjudged on the basis of the correct entry of words/key depressions as per the given passage.

The duration of the test will be for 15 minutes and printed matter in English containing about 3700-4000 key-depressions would be given to each candidate who would enter the same in the test computer.

Skill test for the post of Lower Division Clerk/ Junior Secretariat Assistant (LDS/JSA) and Postal Assistants/ Sorting Assistants (PA/SA):

The speed of 10500 key depressions per hour will be adjudged on the basis of the correct entry of words/key depressions as per the given passage.

The duration of the test will be for 15 minutes and printed matter in English containing about 9000 key-depressions/hour would be given to each candidate who would enter the same in the test computer.