SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 23 September 2025, Shift 3 · General Intelligence and Reasoning · Question 2 of 100

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Choose the address that is the same as the one given below. Villa No. 5, Green Meadows,Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru,Karnataka - 560076

(a)Villa No. 5, Green Meadows, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, Andhra Pradesh - 560076
(b)Villa No. 5, Green Meadows, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, Tamil Nadu - 560076
(c)Villa No. 5, Green Meadows, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka - 560076
(d)Villa No. 5, Green Meadows, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, Kerala - 560076

Answer

Why

Correct — C.
Rule: compare field by field and stop at the first difference.

All four options repeat Villa No. 5, Green Meadows, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru and the PIN 560076.
They differ in one field alone: the state.

The given address ends Karnataka - 560076, and Karnataka appears in just one option → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Villa No. 5, Green Meadows, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, Andhra Pradesh - 560076 — Andhra Pradesh replaces Karnataka. Every other field matches, so the state name is the whole difference.
(b)
Villa No. 5, Green Meadows, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, Tamil Nadu - 560076 — Tamil Nadu replaces Karnataka. The villa, road, city and PIN all match, which makes a one-word swap easy to miss.
(d)
Villa No. 5, Green Meadows, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, Kerala - 560076 — Kerala replaces Karnataka. With every other field identical, the last word before the PIN is what gives it away.

Concept

Address matching tests attention, not knowledge. Read the given address and each option one field at a time — number, building, road, city, state, PIN — and reject an option at its first mismatch.

Here every option shares everything except the state, so the task collapses to one word. Knowing that Bengaluru is in Karnataka confirms it, but the matching alone is enough.

The given address has no space after the commas in 'Green Meadows,Bannerghatta' and 'Bengaluru,Karnataka', while all four options do. Every option shares that difference, so it cannot separate them.

Key facts

Bengaluru is the capital of Karnataka.
Street, city and PIN 560076 are identical in all four options.
Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala all share a border with Karnataka.

Study next

Address matching where a spelling or a digit changesSpotting transposed digits in PIN codes and house numbersName-and-address comparison across several lines

Common traps

Rejecting every option because the spacing after the commas differs from the given address
Reading only the street and city, which all four options share

Here the one field that changes is the state.

17 Sep 2025, 16:00, Reasoning Q.2 and 19 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.2 swap the state the same way. 15 Sep 2025, 12:30, Reasoning Q.2 keeps Bannerghatta Road but alters spellings instead: Medows, Banerghatta, Bangaluru.

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