SSC | SSC CHSL
SSC CHSL sets 55 General Intelligence & Reasoning questions for 140 marks across 2 stages, so it is worth planning your preparation around the topics below.
The non-verbal and analytical reasoning that SSC and railway papers lean on: series, analogy, classification, coding and the figure-based questions. It rewards pattern recognition built through volume, so the return on drilling a lot of questions is unusually high here.
How much General Intelligence & Reasoning is worth in each SSC CHSL stage, from the official pattern.
| Stage | Questions | Marks | Time | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier I (Computer Based Examination) | 25 | 50 | — | 25% |
| Tier II, Paper I (Computer Based Examination) | 30 | 90 | — | 22% |
Every topic in the official syllabus. The linked ones open a set of solved questions you can practise straight away.
Written to the SSC CHSL pattern, with the answer key and the method behind it — a look at how the section is actually set before you drill the full topic sets.
Analogy · solved example
Book is to Author as Painting is to ____.
Solution
A book is created by an author, so a painting is created by an artist. Canvas, museum and colour are materials or places, not the creator, so they break the relationship.
Odd one out · solved example
Which number does not belong with the others: 8, 27, 64, 100, 125?
Solution
8, 27, 64 and 125 are the perfect cubes of 2, 3, 4 and 5. 100 is a perfect square but not a perfect cube, so it is the odd one out.
Coding and decoding · solved example
If each letter is coded by its position in the alphabet (A = 1, B = 2, and so on), and CAB is written as 3-1-2, how is BAD written?
Solution
Replace each letter by its alphabet position: B = 2, A = 1, D = 4, giving 2-1-4.
Ranking · solved example
In a class of 43 students, a boy ranks 12th from the top. What is his rank from the bottom?
Solution
Rank from bottom = total − rank from top + 1 = 43 − 12 + 1 = 32.
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General Intelligence & Reasoning shows up in every SSC CHSL mock test, in the same interface, with sectional locking and negative marking.
SSC CHSL 2026 cycle sets 55 General Intelligence & Reasoning questions for 140 marks, split across 25 in the Tier I (Computer Based Examination) and 30 in the Tier II, Paper I (Computer Based Examination).
Yes. SSC CHSL deducts one fourth of a mark for each wrong answer, General Intelligence & Reasoning included, so unsure guesses cost you. 0.50 marks (a quarter of the two marks a question carries) are deducted for each wrong answer. Unanswered questions carry no penalty.
The SSC CHSL syllabus lists Analogies and classification, Coding and decoding, Number, figure and word series, Blood relations and directions, Syllogism and Venn diagrams, Non-verbal reasoning: mirror images, embedded and paper-folding figures and more. Weight your revision towards the ones you are weakest on and confirm the emphasis against the paper analysis for recent cycles.
Every General Intelligence & Reasoning question on this site is free and written to the exam pattern. Use the topic drills for instant-feedback practice, the daily quiz to keep the section warm, and the SSC CHSL mock tests to sit it under a real clock with negative marking.