SSC CPO Exam Pattern and Syllabus
Published on Oct 15, 2020
SSC CPO Examination is around the corner, there are a lot of students who have aspired to become a police officer one day. The application forms were filled up in 2020 and the examination will be conducted in November 2020. It is very important that the students are well aware of the Exam Pattern and Syllabus before the examination to avoid any glitches in the examination. In this article, I have brought to you the SSC CPO Exam Pattern and Syllabus to ace the examination.
Exam Pattern of SSC CPO 2020
The examination of the SSC CPO is conducted in four tiers viz Tier 1, Tier 2, and physical test. The candidates can check the exam pattern of the SSC CPO from the tables given below:
SSC CPO TIER 1
Tier 1 will be a computer-based test and will contain four subjects. The students will get 1 mark for the correct answer while there will be a negative marking of 0.25 per wrong answer. The students will have to qualify the Tier 1 examination to appear for the Tier 2 examinations.
Subjects
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Maximum Questions
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Maximum Marks
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Duration
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60 minutes
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General English
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50
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50
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Quantitative Aptitude
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50
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50
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Reasoning Ability
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50
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50
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General Awareness
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50
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50
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SSC CPO TIER 2
TIER 2 will be a computer-based test and will contain one subject. The students will get 1 mark for a correct answer while there will be a negative marking of 0.25 per wrong answer.
Subjects
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Maximum Questions
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Maximum Marks
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Duration
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General English
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200
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200
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2 hours
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Syllabus of SSC CPO
The SSC CPO Syllabus for the year 2020 is given in the table below, the candidates can check it to get an insight into the topics and chapters asked in the exam.
SSC CPO English Syllabus
- Active Passive, Sentence Rearrangement,
- Sentence Improvement, Cloze test
- Reading Comprehension
- Fill in the Blanks
- Phrases and Idioms
- Spellings
- Sentence Correction
- One-word Substitution
- Error Spotting
SSC CPO Mathematics Syllabus
- Simple Interest and Compound Interest
- Averages
- Percentage
- Problem on Ages
- Ratio and Proportion
- Speed, Distance and Time
- Circle and its chords,
- Triangle,
- Quadrilaterals,
- tangents,
- Angles subtended by chords of a circle,
- Regular Polygons,
- Circle,
- Right Prism,
- Right Circular Cone,
- Right, Circular Cylinder,
- Sphere,
- Heights and Distances,
- Hemispheres,
- Rectangular Parallelepiped,
- Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square base,
- Histogram,
- Frequency polygon,
- Data Interpretation
- Time and Work
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Trigonometry
SSC CPO Reasoning Syllabus
- Classification
- Analogy
- Coding-Decoding
- Matrix
- Word Formation
- Venn Diagram
- Direction and Distance
- Blood Relations
- Series
- Verbal reasoning
- Non-Verbal Reasoning
SSC CPO General Awareness Syllabus
- General Knowledge
- General Science
- Books and Authors
- Last 7 8 months Current Affairs based on India and world
- Important Schemes
- Sports
Books Important for SSC CPO 2020
Subjects
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Books name and resources
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English
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Word Power made easy by Normal Lewis
English Grammar by Wren and Martin
Objective English by R S Aggarwal
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Quantitative Aptitude and DI
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Objective Mathematics by R S Aggarwal
Quantam CAT by Sarvesh Verma
Online Mock tests by Livo-learn for Practicing high-level DI questions.
Previous year Papers of IBPS PO DI
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Reasoning Ability
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Verbal and Non-verbal Reasoning by R S Aggarwal
Non-Verbal Reasoning by Arihant Experts
Previous year Papers of IBPS PO Reasoning Ability
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General Awareness
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Daily Current Affairs by Livo-learn
The Hindu Daily Analysis
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