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

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Choose the address that is the same as the one given below. 56/A, Greenwood Villa,Salt Lake City, Kolkata,West Bengal - 700091

(a)56A, Greenwood Villa, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700091
(b)56/A, Greenwood Villas, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700091
(c)56/A, Greenwood Villa, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700091
(d)65/A, Greenwood Villa, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700091

Answer

Why

Correct — C.
Rule: compare field by field: house number, building, locality, city, state, PIN.

56/A ✓ Greenwood Villa ✓ Salt Lake City ✓
Kolkata ✓ West Bengal ✓ 700091 ✓

Option (c) matches every field. The given line has no space after 'Villa,' and 'Kolkata,' but all four options do, so spacing separates nothing → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
56A, Greenwood Villa, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700091 — 56A drops the slash of 56/A, and Salt Lake drops the word City. Two fields differ, so the address is not the same.
(b)
56/A, Greenwood Villas, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700091 — Villas adds a plural s to Greenwood Villa. Every other field matches, and one added letter is still enough to make it a different address.
(d)
65/A, Greenwood Villa, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700091 — 65/A reverses the digits of 56/A. The rest of the line matches, so the house number is where this one gives itself away.

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 symbol (56A), a dropped word (Salt Lake), an added letter (Villas) and swapped digits (65/A). One changed character is enough to make an address different.

The given address has no space after 'Villa,' or 'Kolkata,'. Every option puts a space there, so the question treats spacing as formatting and not as a difference.

Key facts

Compare in a fixed order: house number, building, locality, city, state, PIN.
A single changed letter, digit or symbol makes two addresses different.
The plants here are 56A for 56/A, Salt Lake for Salt Lake City, Villas for Villa and 65/A for 56/A.

Study next

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

Common traps

Reading the familiar name Salt Lake and missing that City has gone
Checking the words but not the house number, where 65/A hides

The same one-address frame appears at 18 Sep 2025, 12:30, Reasoning Q.2, where the wrong options change only the state name (Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha for West Bengal).

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