SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 22 September 2025, Shift 1 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 1 of 98

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Choose the address that is the same as the one given below. Sample Address:No. 38, Orchid Residency,Garia, Kolkata,West Bengal - 700084

(a)No. 38, Orchid Residency, Garia, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700084
(b)38, Orchid Residency, Garia, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700084
(c)No. 38, Orchid Residncy, Garia, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700084
(d)No. 38, Orchid Residency, Garia, Kolkatta, West Bengal - 700084

Answer

Why

Correct — A.
Rule: match every part of the address, one part at a time.

The sample has five parts: No. 38, Orchid Residency, Garia, Kolkata and West Bengal - 700084.

Option (a) carries all five unchanged. The sample prints no space after two of its commas, but all four options add those spaces, so spacing decides nothing → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
38, Orchid Residency, Garia, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700084 — No. is missing: the option opens at 38. Every later part matches the sample, so a reader who starts checking at the building name misses it.
(c)
No. 38, Orchid Residncy, Garia, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700084 — Residncy drops the second e of Residency. A missing letter in the middle of a long word is easy to read past, so spell it out.
(d)
No. 38, Orchid Residency, Garia, Kolkatta, West Bengal - 700084 — Kolkatta doubles the t. The sample spells the city Kolkata, with a single t before the final a.

Concept

Address matching is a proofreading task. The four options look almost identical to the sample, and each wrong one changes a single detail: a prefix dropped, a letter missed, a letter added.

Split the sample into its parts: house number, building, locality, city, state and PIN. Tick each part in each option. The copy with no changed part is the answer.

The sample runs Residency,Garia and Kolkata,West together with no space after the comma. All four options add the space, so it is not the tested difference.

Key facts

Each wrong option changes one detail: (b) drops No., (c) writes Residncy, (d) writes Kolkatta.
Comma spacing is identical in all four options, so it cannot decide the answer.

Study next

Matching a number where two digits are swapped, such as 204 and 240Address matching where one option abbreviates a word, such as Rd. for Road

Common traps

Starting the check at the building name and missing the dropped No.
Reading Residncy as Residency because the eye fills in the missing e

18 Sep 2025, 12:30, Reasoning Q.3 hides its changes the same way: its wrong copies drop the # before 301, change Towers to Tower and spell Hinoo as Hinu.

17 Sep 2025, 16:00, Reasoning Q.3 adds a digit swap, Villa No. 240 for 204.

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