Every year, the exams conducted by the Staff Selection Commission helps in selecting candidates who will go on to fill important government posts. Of these, one of the most popular exams happens to be the Combined Higher Secondary Level (CHSL) exam. Though nominally less tough, it is still a fiercely competitive exam.
Witnessing the increased competition for the SSC CHSL examination the commission has raised the intricacy level of CHSL paper, at the same pace. Candidates preparing for Combined Higher Secondary Level exam must be ready to face greater difficulties in the upcoming CHSL examination.
SSC is yet to release admit cards for a few candidates for CHSL Tier I exam. Aspirants of various exams conducted by the Staff Selection commission can go through the SSC Admit Card page for related details.Many candidates preparing for the CHSL exam dread the reasoning section and are in dilemma about how they should prepare for the Reasoning section in the syllabus of SSC CHSL examination to score more in this section.
Reasoning is definitely a bit of a tricky subject but if practiced properly, anyone can fetch good marks in this section in their exams.
To help out candidates, this article aims to collate pointers that will better acquaint them with the way they should prepare for reasoning ability and ways to encounter the reasoning section in SSC Combined Higher Secondary Level exam.
How to grab more marks from the Reasoning section of CHSL exam?
- The stumbling block in the Reasoning section during the actual exam is the paucity of time, that is why practicing topics that are time consuming plays an important role to prepare well for this section. Topics like Puzzles and Seating Arrangement must be practiced on a daily basis.
- Some questions in the reasoning section can be attempted with common sense but include lengthy calculations that eat into your time. Hence, it is important to know the shortcut tricks for such questions and practice them so that they do not seem alien during the SSC CHSL. Most important is that you should be comfortable using the shortcut tricks you learned in the exam.
- For questions on non-verbal reasoning, first try to understand the images properly and then get to the answers for such questions. Similarly, for mirror and water image questions, it is important to understand the image given as the answers to such questions are always the opposite of images in various ways.
- For questions on blood relations, it is difficult to understand gender in between the questions. Hence, make a family tree with different signs for females and males so that it is clear and concise and you may get your answer easily.
- In Analytical reasoning, ensure that answers are based on logic and information given in the questions. Try and give the best possible solution based on the given data and don’t apply your independent mind, as in such questions you are not supposed to voice your personal opinion.
- Practice is what makes anybody perfect in anything and the same goes for the Reasoning ability as well, since there is nothing called theory as such for the reasoning section. Hence, it is important to practice reasoning questions regularly without fail so that you get accustomed to the strategies to solve them quickly in the SSC exam.
- Series based questions and coding-decoding questions are also an important part of the reasoning section of SSC CHSL and require good practice on the part of the candidates to score well in the exam. Such questions need you to understand the logic behind them. With repeated practice, you will be able to try all such logic during SSC exam without much application of mind.
Reasoning Ability Section can fetch you good marks in SSC Combined Higher Secondary Level examination if you are comfortable, but you need to be smart to score well in this section. One of the best ways to practice well and gain an edge in the reasoning section is to practice mock tests regularly. Interested candidates can check SSC CHSL Mock Test on the given link to practice reasoning questions.
