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Best Books For SSC CGL exam – A Complete List

Hello Readers,

In this post we will discuss the best books for SSC Exams in detail.

 

Time is money! Don’t waste it. Buy a few good books. And instead of referring a large number of books for only one time, you should practice limited number of books repeatedly. The only way you can beat your competitors is by solving and practicing questions repeatedly.

As there are 4 main sections of SSC Exams:

1.QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE

2.ENGLISH COMPREHENSION

3.GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND REASONING

4.GENERAL AWARENESS

Let us proceed now and look at the section wise books.

Books for SSC CGL Quantitative Aptitude section

We have compiled this table giving complete details about each and every resource to be referred for a particular chapter or topic of Quantitative Aptitude section.

Chapters Topics Books To Refer
  1. Number System
  2. Algebra
  3. Time and Distance
  4. Time and Work
  • Number System
  • Divisibility
  • LCM and HCF
  • Fractions & Decimal fractions
  • Surds and indices
  • Square & Cube Root
  • Polynomial
  • Basic algebraic identities
  • Time, speed & distance
  • Problems on trains
  • Boat & streams
  • Time, Work and Wages
  • Pipes and Cisterns
  • R S Aggarwal Quantitative Aptitude
  • Rakesh Yadav Class Notes
  • SSC Mathematics Previous Year Chapter Wise Questions 7300+ by Rakesh Yadav
  1. Percentage
  2. Profit and Loss
  3. Average
  4. Mixture and Alligation
  5. Ratio and Proportion
  • Percentage
  • Profit and Loss
  • Discount
  • Average
  • Mixture and Alligation
  • Ratio and Proportion
  • Partnership
  • Simple Interest & Compound Interest
  • R S Aggarwal Quantitative Aptitude
  • Rakesh Yadav Class Notes
  • SSC Mathematics Previous Year Chapter Wise Questions 7300+ by Rakesh Yadav
  1. Geometry
  2. Mensuration
  3. Trigonometry
  • Lines and angles
  • Triangle and its Centre
  • Congruency and Similarity of triangles
  • Circle and its chords
  • Tangents & angles subtended by chords of a circle
  • Common tangents to two or more circles
  • Mensuration 2D and 3D (Area and Volume)
  • Trigonometric ratios, Degree and Radian Measures, Standard Identities, Complementary angles, Heights and Distances.
  • Advance Maths by Rakesh Yadav
  • Lucents SSC Higher Mathematics by Rishikesh Kumar
  • SSC Mathematics Previous Year Chapter Wise Questions 7300+ by Rakesh Yadav

 

 

We have mentioned only 4 Books for Quantitative aptitude section. Follow below mentioned steps to excel this section:

  1. Complete all the topics from Rakesh Yadav Class Notes
  2. Solve Questions from R S aggarwal and Advance Maths by Rakesh Yadav
  3. Finally Solve Previous Year Chapter Wise Questions 7300+ by Rakesh Yadav.

Believe me you will get decent score in this section after following these resources.

BBooks For SSC CGL English Section

Now we come to another most important section that plays a vital role in your selection.

We have compiled this table giving complete details about each and every resource to be referred for a particular chapter or topic of English section.

Subjects Books Name Author Details
English Objective General English S.P.Bakshi Elementary Books – Choose any one and go through it once

 

 

A Plinth to Paramount Neetu Singh
A mirror of Common Errors A. K. Singh
Corrective English A.K Singh Detailed study of English and will improve your Score
Word power Made Easy Normen Lewis Both are necessary to boost up your Vocabulary. Study daily
Idiom & Phrases Arihant Publication
Previous Year Papers MB Publication Practice Daily one paper

Here we have listed mainly 4 books to follow and 1 book for Practise. Only these collection of books will lead you to excel this section.

Books For SSC CGL General Intelligence & Reasoning Section

Reasoning is the easiest and most scoring part in SSC CGL exam. Here in this section also, Practice makes a lot of difference. Hence it is advisable to attempt countless quizzes online on regular basis and try to save or note down the important concepts.

M K Pandey is the highest selling book. It is a good choice if you need explanations, I suggest you go with this book and for Pracitise , I suggest you go with SSC Reasoning Chapterwise by Kiran Publication.

Practice, as you will learn, is very important. Your brain’s capacity to solve reasoning questions increases exponentially when you try to solve different types of questions.

M K Pandey For getting best and well explained methods for solving each question
SSC Reasoning by Kiran Publication For Practising Previous Year Questions asked in SSC Exams

Books For SSC CGL General Awareness Section

General awareness (more commonly called as General Knowledge or GK) is not something you can expect to master in a day. But from an exam point of view, if you spend time consistently, you will reach a good level in a month or so.

But it is very important that you refer the most relevant and precise books.

Lucent G.K. Dr. Binay Karna and Manwendra Mukul This book alone is more than sufficient for SSC-CGL GK section.
SSC General Awareness Chapterwise Solved Papers
Kiran Publication This book makes you familiar with questions asked in SSC CGL

Only these 2 books will lead you to excel in this section.

I have tried to compile the best collection of books , by following only these books a large number of aspirants achieved excellence in SSC CGL exam. Hope you will use this to prepare well for the exam.

Best of Luck.