SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 12 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 10 of 100

Text as printed on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; answer per SSC's tentative key as marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 11 September 2026.

Where this paper and its answers come from

SSC does not publish CGL question papers or a public answer key. From 2025 the candidate response sheet prints every question and option as a picture, so the text here is transcribed from those pictures for this shift and checked against them independently; where the layout carries meaning, the picture is shown as well. Each answer is the key SSC colour-marked on that sheet. SSC released a tentative key for challenge and later its final one, both only to candidates behind a login, and the sheet does not say which of the two it carries. The solutions are written by UnlockIAS.

Which of the following addresses are identical to each other: 1. Arjun Mehta A-101, Emerald Towers, Surat, 395001 2. Arjun Mehta A-101, Emerald Tower, Surat , 395001 3. Arjun M. A-101, Emerald Tower, Surat , 395001 4. Arjun Mehta A-101, Emerald Tower, Surat , 395001

(a)1 and 2
(b)1 and 3
(c)2 and 4
(d)3 and 4

Answer

Why

Correct — C.
Rule: compare field by field — name, flat, building, city, PIN — and treat any change as a difference.

Addresses 2 and 4 match in every field: name Arjun Mehta, flat A-101, building Emerald Tower, city Surat, PIN 395001.

Address 1 writes Emerald Towers, and address 3 cuts the name to Arjun M., so neither joins the pair → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
1 and 2 — 1 and 2 differ in the building: address 1 says Emerald Towers, address 2 says Emerald Tower. One letter is enough to make two addresses different.
(b)
1 and 3 — 1 and 3 differ twice: address 3 shortens the name to Arjun M., and address 1 has Emerald Towers where address 3 has Emerald Tower.
(d)
3 and 4 — 3 and 4 share the building and PIN but not the name. Address 3 writes Arjun M. and address 4 writes Arjun Mehta, so they are not identical.

Concept

Address comparison is a clerical-accuracy test. The four addresses here differ only by a letter or an abbreviation, so reading for meaning fails: Arjun M. and Arjun Mehta may be the same person, but they are different strings.

Compare one field at a time across all four — name, flat, building, city, PIN — and strike out every address that differs anywhere. The pair left standing is the answer.

Two addresses can point to the same place and still not be identical. The question asks about the text, so an abbreviation or a plural counts as a difference.

Key facts

An abbreviated name, Arjun M. for Arjun Mehta, is a difference.
A single letter, as in Towers against Tower, is a difference.
Comparing field by field is faster and safer than reading each address whole.

Study next

Matching copies against one given original addressSpotting differences in names, codes and numbersComparing strings of mixed letters and digits

Common traps

Reading Towers and Tower as the same building
Accepting Arjun M. as a match for Arjun Mehta

This item compares four addresses with one another.

12 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.11 sets the related task of matching four copies against a single given address, where a hyphen, a missing comma and one PIN digit are the differences.

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