SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 24 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. D-14, New Friends Colony,South Delhi,Delhi - 110065

(a)D-14, New Friends Colony, South Delhi, Punjab - 110065
(b)D-14, New Friends Colony, South Delhi, Uttar Pradesh - 110065
(c)D-14, New Friends Colony, South Delhi, Delhi - 110065
(d)D-14, New Friends Colony, South Delhi, Haryana - 110065

Answer

Why

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

House number, colony, district and PIN are the same in all four options: D-14, New Friends Colony, South Delhi, 110065.

The options differ in the state alone. The given address ends Delhi - 110065, the reading in option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
D-14, New Friends Colony, South Delhi, Punjab - 110065 — Punjab replaces Delhi. The house number, colony, district and PIN all match, so a scan that stops at South Delhi passes it.
(b)
D-14, New Friends Colony, South Delhi, Uttar Pradesh - 110065 — Uttar Pradesh replaces Delhi. Everything before the state matches, and a PIN starting 11 belongs to Delhi, not Uttar Pradesh.
(d)
D-14, New Friends Colony, South Delhi, Haryana - 110065 — Haryana replaces Delhi. Coming straight after South Delhi, the state is easy to skim past. Read it as its own field.

Concept

Address matching tests careful comparison, not knowledge. Break the given address into its fields, house number, locality, district, state and PIN, and check each option field by field rather than reading it as a whole.

Here the field that changes is the state, placed after three fields that match. The PIN is a cross-check: PIN codes beginning 11 belong to Delhi.

The printed address has no space after two of its commas: Colony,South Delhi,Delhi. All four options add those spaces, so none matches it character for character.

Spacing does not separate the options, the state does, and the key reads it that way.

Key facts

Compare an address field by field: number, locality, district, state, PIN.
PIN codes beginning 11 belong to Delhi.
In this item the four options differ in the state name alone.

Study next

Address matching where one letter of a word changesFinding the identical pair among four numbered addressesThe regions covered by the first digits of India's PIN codes

Common traps

Stopping the comparison at South Delhi and taking the first option
Hunting for spacing differences that all four options share

Here SSC gives an address and four copies that differ in the state.

The same format appears at 17 Sep 2025, 16:00, Reasoning Q.2 (Lucknow, keyed Uttar Pradesh) and 19 Sep 2025, 09:00, Reasoning Q.2 (Jaipur, keyed Rajasthan).

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