SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 13 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 10 of 100

We transcribed this text from the pictures on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; the answer is the key SSC colour-marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 13 September 2026.

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Which of the following addresses are identical to each other: 1. S. Iyer 17-D, Coral Residency, Thiruvananthapuram , 695014 2. S. Iyer 17-D, Coral Residency, Thiruvananthapuram , 695014 3. S. Iyer 17-D Coral Residency, Thiruvananthapuram , 695014 4. S. Iyer 17-D Coral Residency, Thiruvananthapuram , 695013

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

Answer

Why

Correct — A.
Rule: identical means every character matches, commas and digits included.

1 and 2 match exactly, including the comma after 17-D.
3 drops that comma.
4 drops it too and ends 695013.

So 1 and 2 are the identical pair → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
1 and 3 — Address 3 has no comma after 17-D, where 1 has one. The words and the PIN match, which is exactly what makes the pair tempting.
(c)
2 and 4 — Address 4 differs from 2 in two places: no comma after 17-D, and a PIN ending 695013 instead of 695014.
(d)
3 and 4 — 3 and 4 share the missing comma, but their PIN codes differ: 695014 against 695013.

Concept

Address matching tests attention, not reasoning. Compare the addresses mark by mark: name, flat number, punctuation, locality, city and every digit of the PIN.

Here the name, the words and the city are the same in all four. The differences hide in the comma after 17-D, which 3 and 4 drop, and in the last PIN digit, which 4 changes from 4 to 3.

All four lines carry a space before the comma after Thiruvananthapuram. It is the same in each, so it separates nothing.

Key facts

Two addresses are identical only if every character matches, punctuation included.
Addresses 3 and 4 both omit the comma after 17-D.
Address 4 ends 695013, while 1, 2 and 3 end 695014.

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Common traps

Reading 17-D Coral Residency as 17-D, Coral Residency because the words match
Pairing 3 and 4 because they share the missing comma, without checking the PIN

14 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.10 also hides its differences in punctuation, a missing full stop after S and Block B without its hyphen, keyed 2 and 3.

12 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.10 separates the lines with Towers against Tower and Arjun M. against Arjun Mehta, keyed 2 and 4.

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Topic: Address matching — all 35 SSC CGL questions on it, every solved shift.