SSC MTS Exam Analysis 2025: Paper 1 Analysis & Review

The Staff Selection Commission will conduct the SSC MTS exam 2025 in multiple shifts. The candidates will get here the difficulty level and good attempts after the exam will conclude. The candidates will get the SSC MTS exam analysis in the following format.

Section	Difficulty Level	Good Attempts
Numerical and Mathematical Ability	To Be Updated	To Be Updated
Reasoning Ability and Problem-Solving	To Be Updated	To Be Updated
General Awareness	To Be Updated	To Be Updated
English Language and Comprehension	To Be Updated	To Be Updated
Overall	-	-

The candidates can see here the SSC MTS 2024 Exam Analysis Video:

 

The Staff Selection Commission revised the SSC MTS exam syllabus in its official notification. The candidates need to prepare all the topics given in the official notification. The Commission does not mention the weightage for the topics. The Commission can ask any number of questions from any section. There is no such restriction on the Commission. The candidates need to prepare, practice and increase the speed of calculations so that they can score better than their competitors.

The candidates can see here the SSC MTS syllabus as notified in the official syllabus.

The SSC MTS exam pattern was changed last year, and the Commission divided the paper in two sections. One section, having Numerical and Mathematical Ability and Reasoning Ability and Problem-Solving section will have no negative marking. The other section will have English and General Awareness questions. There will be a negative marking of one by three in the English and General Awareness section. 

The candidates can see the SSC MTS exam pattern as summarised below:

SSC MTS Paper-I Subjects	Number of Questions/Maximum Marks	Time Duration
Session 1 (No-Negative Marking)
Numerical and Mathematical Ability	20/60	45 Minutes (60 Minutes for candidates eligible for scribes as per para 8)
Reasoning Ability and Problem-Solving	20/60
Session 2 (Negative Marking)
General Awareness	25/75	45 Minutes (60 Minutes for candidates eligible for scribes as per para 8)
English Language and Comprehension	25/75
Total	90/270	1.5 hours

Sectional Time-limit in SSC MTS exam

The Commission has changed the exam duration in the official notification. The SSC MTS exam duration has been increased from one hour to one and half hours. Moreover, the Commission also introduced the section time limit. The candidates will be required to solve the section in 45 minutes. The Maths and Reasoning section will have 40 questions and the General Awareness and English section will have 50 questions. The maximum marks assigned to both sections will also be different.

Negative Marking in SSC MTS Exam

The candidates should note that there is a negative marking in half of the paper. The Commission has changed the marking pattern and consequently, the negative marking was also changed. The candidates can see below the quantum of negative marking in SSC MTS exam. 

Marking Scheme in SSC MTS Paper-I
Marks allotted for a correct answer	3 marks
Marks deducted for incorrect answer	1 mark

The candidates should abstain from doing the guesswork in the SSC MTS exam.

The candidates can see here the SSC MTS Exam Analysis of previous years.

SSC MTS Exam Analysis 2023

The Staff Selection Commission is conducting the SSC MTS 2023 Tier 1 exam to recruit candidates for certain notified posts. The Commission conducts the SSC MTS Tier 1 exam online as a Computer-Based Exam (CBE). The candidates can check the questions asked in the exam.

Overall Difficulty level

The candidates who appeared in the exam shared that the overall difficulty level of the question paper was Easy to Moderate Level. The Commission did not ask difficult questions except in General Awareness section. The Commission asked the questions from the following topics today:

• Where was the 2011 Cricket World Cup played - Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
• 'Playing it My Way' is a biography of - Sachin Tendulkar
• To which Musical Gharana, Pandit Jasraj is associated - Mewati Gharana
• Article 129 
• Article 54
• Article 30 - Minority Rights to establish and admnister their educational Institutions
• All the weather activities generate in which layer of atmosphere - Troposphere
• Yamini Krishnamurthy is associated with - Bharat Natyam

The candidates who appeared in the SSC MTS 2022 Exam shared the questions asked in the paper, the difficulty level of the questions, and the expected cutoff. The candidates should note that the SSC MTS cutoff is released for each of the states separately. It would be difficult to ascertain the cutoff for all the states. The candidates can see here the SSC MTS Previous Year Cutoff.

Questions Asked in SSC MTS 2022

Some of the questions asked in the paper were as follows:

Question - Twin Sister of planet Earth

Answer - Mercury

Question - Who was the spiritual leader of Swami Vivekanand?

Answer - Ramkrishna Paramhans

Question - Sitara Devi was associated with which dance school?

Answer - Kathak - Lucknow Gharna

Question - When was the Pradhan Mantri Gram Uday Yojana started?

Answer - In the year 2000.

Question - What is the chemical name of Marble?

Answer - Calcium Carbonate - CaCO₃

Question - Diarchy in India was introduced through which Act?

Answer - In India, dual hierarchy was introduced in India through the Government of India Act 1919. It was also called as Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (Mont-Ford)

Read here the SSC MTS 2023 exam analysis in detail - SSC MTS 2023 Exam Analysis

General Awareness Questions

General Awareness is the most difficult section of the exam. The candidates find it difficult to prepare GA because of the enormity of the syllabus.

History Questions

The Commission asked very few questions from the History Section. Even in the History section, the questions from the Ancient History and Medieval History were few. The candidates can see here some of the questions asked in the paper

Who built the Hawa Mahal in Jaipur?

One question related to Lord Rippon

Books Question 

Who wrote India at Risk?

General Science

Doppler effect

Geography Topic/Question

Mt. Kanchenjunga

Which state has the lowest poverty level in India?

Current Affairs Questions

One question related to the Deepak Majumdar

Static General Knowledge Questions

With which musical instrument, Annapurna Devi is associated?

How many players are there in Basket Ball Team?

With which state Khajuraho dance is associated?

English Section Questions

The questions asked in English were easy. The candidates suggested that the previous year's question papers 

The candidates can see here some of the English Questions:

• Antonym of Culpable
• Preposition
• Spelling Error Detection
• Close Test (easy)
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• "Bear" related idiom

Maths Section Questions

• The candidates said that the Maths questions were easy and doable. The candidates with average preparation can do most of the questions. Some of the topics are
• Percentage
• Profit and Loss
• Simplification - 2  (Symbol Change)
• Ratio and Proportion
• Speed Distance and Time
• Simple Interest -  3 easy questions
• Area of a Half Circle
• Advance Maths - 1
• Reasoning Arrangement 
• Series 
• Assertion and Reasoning
• 2 Bar Graph and Circle

The candidates should practice with the previous year question papers to get the real feel of the paper and easily tackle the same topic questions. 

Indian Geography Questions

• Which of the river does not fall in the Bay of Bengal?
• Answer options - Godavari, Krishna, Yamuna, 
• Particles formed in the above atmosphere
• When did the First census conduct?

Indian Polity Questions

• From which country we have taken the Single Citizenship in the Constitution
• President can nominate how many members

History Questions

• Mughal ruler sent to kurma
• Ashoka how many political centres Capital

Static General Knowledge Questions

• Dance forms and the deity associated with questions 

Current Affairs Questions

• When will 28th Youth Games will be organised?
• How many Kisan Samities were organised by Narendar Modi till October 2022?
• Who wrote the book 'The White Tiger'?
• Which Temple is located in Assam?

English Section Question

• Error detection 
• Sentence improvement
• Close test - 5 questions
• Active and passive
• Direct and indirect 
• Antonym of Lethargic
• Synonym gust of wind
• Idioms - Pinch of salt

Mathematics Question 

• Advance Maths
• Percentage
• Profit and loss
• Distance, speed and time
• Simplification - BODMAS based
• HCF and LCM

Reasoning Questions

• Seating arrangement -2 questions Circular seating arrangement
• Syllogism - 2 questions
• Non-verbal - Image-based question

The candidates can see here the SSC MTS 2022 exam analysis video below showing the first-hand experience of the candidates.

The candidates shared the exam details and questions as asked in the exam. The candidates can see below the overall difficulty level of the question paper.