Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Combined Graduate level (CGl) 2013 examination was held in the State after being postponed twice in last one month. SSC CGl was scheduled to be held on April 14, this year but in the wake of Bhimrao Ambedkar’s birth anniversary the examination was postponed and was rescheduled for April 28.
later, SSC Madhya Pradesh Region (MPR) rescheduled the examination for May 19 as on April 28 SBI PO examination was also scheduled and many new candidates complaint about it.
CGl 2013 examination was held in two shifts- morning and afternoon in which more than nine thousands candidates from State capital and nearby districts appeared in the 20 examination centres of State capital.
Sabdhani Coaching Institute Director Anand Sabdhani said, the major change in the CGl 2013 examination is that negative marking has been introduced in the examination pattern for the very first time. Though, the negative marking in similar recruitment process of banks had been introduced some years ago SSC introduced negative marking this year only.
Sabdhani further said that the rest of the examination was same just the students faced confusion regarding the examination centre as SSC changed the examination centres after rescheduling the examination.
He further said that the paper carried 200 questions for one marks each and two hours time was provided to solve it.
The question paper was divided into two sections each carrying 50 marks – Reasoning, General Awareness, Mathematics and English. Sabdhani said that question papers were of moderate standard, mathematics and reasoning section were comparatively easier.
Candidates found the General Awareness section of the paper was tough. The cutoff marks will be near 110 marks excluding 50 marks of English which is only for qualifying. Those who will qualify in Sunday’s examination will have to appear in tier-II of the examination, added Sabdhani.