SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 11 of 95

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 is/are identical to the address given: Priya Yadav B-22, Rosewood Heights, Sector 15, Gurgaon, 122002 1. Priya Yadav B-22, Rosewood Heights, Sector 15, Gurgaon, 122002 2. Priya Yadav B-22, Rosewood Heights, Sector 15, Gurugram, 122002 3. Priya Yadav B-22, Rosewood Heights, Sector 15, Gurgaon, 122003 4. Priya Yadav B-22, Rosewood Heights, Sector 15, Gurgaon, 122001

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

Answer

Why

Correct — B.
Rule: identical means every character matches: name, house number, building, sector, city and PIN.

Line 1 matches the given address in every part → identical.
Line 2 prints Gurugram for Gurgaon.
Line 3 ends 122003 and line 4 ends 122001, where the original has 122002.

Line 1 alone is identical → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
2 Only — 2 Only accepts Gurugram. It is the same city's newer official name, but the comparison is of text, and Gurugram is not Gurgaon letter for letter.
(c)
4 Only — 4 Only picks the line whose PIN ends 122001. The given address ends 122002, so the last digit differs.
(d)
3 Only — 3 Only picks the line whose PIN ends 122003. One digit off from 122002 is still a mismatch.

Concept

Address-matching items test clerical accuracy, not knowledge. Compare each line with the original field by field: name, house number, building, sector, city, PIN.

Stop at the first difference. Here the changes sit in the last two fields, the city name and the final digit of the PIN, so checking the ends of each line first is the quickest route.

Gurugram is the city's current official name, which makes line 2 tempting. The question asks what is identical, not what points to the same place.

Key facts

Given PIN: 122002. Line 3 has 122003 and line 4 has 122001.
Gurgaon was officially renamed Gurugram, so the two names mean one city but are different text.
Identical means an exact match in every character, including spelling and digits.

Study next

Address and name matching with hyphens, spacing and missing commasNumber-string comparison: spotting a single changed or transposed digit

Common traps

Treating Gurugram as identical because it is the same city
Checking the name and building and skipping the PIN

15 Sep 2025, 16:00, Reasoning Q.10 uses the same Gurgaon-versus-Gurugram swap and a changed PIN, and its key also rejects the Gurugram line.

12 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.11 tests smaller differences: a hyphen in 'Sector-12', a missing comma, and a PIN ending 201302.

Related PYQs

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