SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 7 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 11 September 2026.

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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.

Identify the similar address: Shruti Bansal E-55, Palm Greens, Faridabad , 121002

(a)Shruti Bansal E-55, Palm Green, Faridabad , 121002
(b)Shruti Bansal E-55, Palm Greens, Faridabad , 121002
(c)Shruti Bansal E-55, Palm Greens, Faridabad , 121200
(d)Shruti Bansel E-55, Palm Greens, Faridabad , 121002

Answer

Why

Correct — B.
Rule: check each field in turn: name, house number, locality, city, PIN code.

Given: Shruti Bansal, E-55, Palm Greens, Faridabad, 121002.

All five fields of the given address reappear in option (b), letter for letter and digit for digit → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Shruti Bansal E-55, Palm Green, Faridabad , 121002 — Palm Green has lost the final s of Greens. Every other field matches, which is what makes it easy to pass over.
(c)
Shruti Bansal E-55, Palm Greens, Faridabad , 121200 — 121200 is the PIN code with its last three digits reordered. The given PIN is 121002.
(d)
Shruti Bansel E-55, Palm Greens, Faridabad , 121002 — Bansel changes one vowel in the surname. The given name is Bansal, with an a.

Concept

An address-matching item hides small changes in the wrong options: a dropped letter, a swapped vowel, a reordered number. Reading the whole line at once lets the eye autocorrect them.

Split the address into fields and compare one field at a time across all four options. In this item each wrong option changes a single field: the locality in (a), the PIN in (c), the surname in (d).

Key facts

Option (a) changes Palm Greens to Palm Green.
Option (c) changes the PIN 121002 to 121200.
Option (d) changes Bansal to Bansel.

Study next

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Common traps

Reading Palm Green as Palm Greens because the eye fills in the missing s
Checking the first digits of the PIN and missing a change at its end

12 Sep 2025, 16:00, Reasoning Q.8 uses the same 'Identify the similar address' wording on a Chennai address, keyed (b).

15 Sep 2025, 12:30, Reasoning Q.2 hides one-letter misspellings the same way: Medows, Banerghatta and Bangaluru in a Bengaluru address.

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