Speed is the real syllabus
With four sections squeezed into a short paper, you cannot afford long calculations. SSC-style questions reward familiarity: knowing common percentages as fractions, using ratios instead of equations and recalling standard geometry results without derivation.
High-yield topics
- Arithmetic: percentages, profit and loss, simple and compound interest, ratio, time and work, time-speed-distance
- Algebra and number system, including simplification
- Geometry and mensuration, which have many direct-formula questions
- Data interpretation and trigonometry basics
How to practise
Drill topics with our topic-wise sets such as percentage questions and time and work questions, then step up to full sectional tests. In each test, circle every question that took more than 90 seconds; those are candidates to skip in the real paper. The wider approach, including how Quant fits with other sections, is in the SSC CGL strategy guide.
Other sections: Reasoning, English and General Awareness.