SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 16 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 2 of 100

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Choose the address that is exactly the same as the one given below. Flat 201, Sapphire Tower, Garia Station Rd., Kolkata, West Bengal – 700084

(a)Flat 201, Saphire Tower, Garia Station Rd., Kolkata, West Bengal – 700084
(b)Flat 201, Sapphire Tower, Garia Station Rd., Kolkata, West Bengal – 700084
(c)Flat 201, Sapphire Tower, Gariya Station Rd., Kolkata, West Bengal – 700084
(d)Flat 201, Sapphire Tower, Garia Station Road, Kolkata, West Bengal – 700084

Answer

Why

Correct — B.
Rule: compare field by field: flat number, building, road, city, state, PIN.

Flat 201 ✓ Sapphire Tower ✓ Garia Station Rd. ✓
Kolkata ✓ West Bengal ✓ 700084 ✓

Every field of (b) matches character for character → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Flat 201, Saphire Tower, Garia Station Rd., Kolkata, West Bengal – 700084 — Saphire drops one p from Sapphire. Every other field matches, and one missing letter is enough to make it a different address.
(c)
Flat 201, Sapphire Tower, Gariya Station Rd., Kolkata, West Bengal – 700084 — Gariya adds a y to Garia. The rest of the line is identical, so the road name is where this option gives itself away.
(d)
Flat 201, Sapphire Tower, Garia Station Road, Kolkata, West Bengal – 700084 — Road spells out Rd. The meaning is the same, but the question asks for an exact match, and Road is different text from Rd.

Concept

Address matching tests careful copying, not knowledge. Break the given address into fields and check each option field by field, reading every character.

The changes planted here are small: a dropped letter (Saphire), an added letter (Gariya) and an expanded abbreviation (Road for Rd.). One changed character is enough to make an address different.

Option (d) changes the text without changing the meaning. That is what makes it tempting, and why 'exactly the same' has to be read literally.

Key facts

Compare in a fixed order: flat number, building, road, city, state, PIN.
'Exactly the same' means character for character, so Road and Rd. differ.
The plants here are Saphire for Sapphire, Gariya for Garia and Road for Rd.

Study next

Finding which of several listed addresses are identical to each otherSpotting swapped digits in PIN codes and house numbers

Common traps

Reading Saphire as Sapphire because the eye fills in the double p
Accepting Road for Rd. because both mean the same

15 Sep 2025, 12:30, Reasoning Q.2 uses the same one-address frame and plants a misspelling in each wrong option: Medows, Banerghatta, Bangaluru.

21 Sep 2025, 16:00, Reasoning Q.2 plants a digit swap (Plot No. 91 for 19) and two abbreviations (Dadar W, Shivaji Pk).

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