SSC Combined Higher Secondary(10+2) Exam Syllabus Detailed

The written exams are scheduled to be conducted on 10 & 17 November 2013. SSC conducts this exam to check the candidates’ level of General Intelligence (Reasoning), Numerical ability, General Awareness, and knowledge of English language.

We, the team of Jagranjosh.com, have compiled below the detailed syllabus of the written exam for SSC - Combined Higher Secondary Level Exam 2013. Aspiring candidates are advised to go through it and prepare for the exam accordingly.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Syllabus for General Intelligence:

1.	Semantic Analogy	14.	Symbolic operations
2.	Symbolic/Number Analogy	15.	Trends
3.	Figural Analogy	16.	Space Orientation
4.	Semantic Classification	17.	Venn Diagrams
5.	Symbolic/Number Classification	18.	Drawing inferences
6.	Figural Classification	19.	Punched hole/pattern-folding & unfolding
7.	Semantic Series	20.	Figural Pattern – folding and completion
8.	Number Series	21.	Embedded figures
9.	Figural Series	22.	Critical Thinking
10.	Problem Solving	23.	Emotional Intelligence
11.	Word Building	24	Social Intelligence
12.	Coding and de-coding	25.	Other sub-topics, if any
13.	Numerical operations

Syllabus for English Language

1.	Spot the Error
2.	Fill in the Blanks
3.	Synonyms/Homonyms
4.	Antonyms
5.	Spellings/Detecting Mis-spelt words
6.	Idioms & Phrases
7.	One word substitution
8.	Improvement of Sentences
9.	Active/Passive Voice of Verbs
10.	Conversion into Direct/Indirect narration
11.	Shuffling of Sentence parts
12.	Shuffling of Sentences in a passage
13.	Cloze Passage
14.	Comprehension Passage

Syllabus for Quantitative Aptitude:

ARITHMETIC: Number Systems (Computation of Whole Number, Decimal and Fractions, Relationship between numbers) and Fundamental arithmetical operations (Percentages, Ratio and Proportion, Square roots, Averages, Interest --Simple and Compound, Profit and Loss, Discount, Partnership Business, Mixture and Alligation, Time and distance,Time and work).

ALGEBRA: Basic algebraic identities of School Algebra (and their simple applications), Elementary surds (simple problems), and Graphs of Linear Equations.

GEOMETRY: Triangle and its various kinds of centres viz. Centroid, In-centre, Orthocenter, Circumcentre; Congruence and similarity of triangles; Circle and its chords, tangents, angles subtended by chords of a circle, common tangents to two or more circles, etc.

MENSURATION: Triangle, Quadrilaterals, Regular Polygons (sum of the internal angles of a polygon), Circle, Right Prism, Right Circular Cone, Right Circular Cylinder, Sphere, Hemispheres, Rectangular Parallelepiped, Regular Right Pyramid with triangular or square Base.

TRIGONOMETRY: Trigonometry (for acute angles 0 with 0≤0≤90), Trigonometric ratios, Degree and Radian Measures, Standard Identities like sin²0 + Cos²0 = 1 etc., and Complementary Angles, Heights and Distances (simple problems only).

STATISTICAL CHARTS: Use of Tables and Graphs, Histogram, Frequency polygon, Bar-diagram and Pie-chart.

Syllabus for General Awareness:

Questions are designed to test the candidates’ general awareness of the environment around them and its application to society. Questions are also designed to test knowledge of current events and of such matters of everyday observation and experience in their scientific aspect as may be expected of an educated person. The test will also include questions relating to India and its neighboring countries especially pertaining to History, Culture Geography, Economic Scene, General policy and scientific research.