SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 12 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 11 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.

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Which of the following is/are identical to the address given: Meenal Gupta 102, Silver Oaks, Sector 12, Noida, 201301 1. Meenal Gupta 102, Silver Oaks, Sector 12, Noida, 201301 2. Meenal Gupta 102, Silver Oaks, Sector-12, Noida, 201301 3. Meenal Gupta 102, Silver Oaks, Sector 12, Noida 201301 4. Meenal Gupta 102, Silver Oaks, Sector 12, Noida, 201302

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

Answer

Why

Correct — A.
Rule: match every character against the given address, punctuation included.

Address 1 matches in full: Meenal Gupta 102, Silver Oaks, Sector 12, Noida, 201301.

Address 2 writes Sector-12, address 3 drops the comma after Noida, and address 4 ends 201302 → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
3 — Option (b) is address 3, which drops the comma after Noida: it reads 'Noida 201301' where the given address has 'Noida, 201301'. Punctuation counts.
(c)
2 — Option (c) is address 2, which writes Sector-12 with a hyphen where the given address has 'Sector 12' with a space. That one mark makes it different.
(d)
4 — Option (d) is address 4, which ends with PIN 201302. The given address ends 201301, and one wrong digit is a mismatch.

Concept

Matching copies against a given original is a character-by-character check. Compare each copy with the original one field at a time: name, house number, society, sector, city, PIN.

The differences here are single marks: a hyphen, a missing comma, one digit. Reading for meaning lets the hyphen and the comma through. Reading character by character catches all three.

Address 3 differs from the original by one missing comma and nothing else, which is easy to overlook at speed.

Key facts

Sector-12 and Sector 12 are different strings.
A missing comma makes an address non-identical.
201301 and 201302 differ in the last digit.

Study next

Comparing four addresses with one anotherSpotting differences in names, codes and numbers

Common traps

Ignoring punctuation such as the comma after Noida
Treating a hyphen and a space as the same

Here one original is given and each copy is checked against it.

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