Preparation is definitely the key to success. If you are aiming to get into the Sub Inspector post in the Central Police Department of the Indian government then SSC CPO examination has to be considered very earnestly. Moreover, Entri provides beneficial platform for candidates to take mock tests in a very effective manner. SSC CPO examinations aims at recruiting candidates to the post of Sub Inspector in Delhi Police, Sub Inspector in (Central Armed Police Forces) CAPFs, Assistant Sub Inspector in (Central Industrial Security Force) CISF, Inspector posts and Sub Inspector posts. In this article you will be able to get information on the best Books for SSC CPO Preparation
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Best Books for SSC CPO 2024 Preparation
There are few important details you need to know as you begin your preparation by selecting the books for reference. Following are the few sections that will be discussed in this article.
- List of books for reference.
- Keep yourself acquainted with the exam pattern as it will ease you to segregate the topics based on weightage.
- Know your syllabus very well as it will help with selecting the study contents from the books
- Check for the previous year papers as it will help you to prioritise the contents of the book based on its importance
- How Entri will help you in the process of preparing for the examination
SSC CPO Books for Reference
Let us check the books that will help the candidates with preparation for the SSC CPO examination
SSC CPO Books for General Intelligence and Reasoning
| Name of the Book | Author/Publisher |
| A New Approach to Reasoning Verbal, Non-Verbal & Analytical | B.S. Sijwali, Indu Sijwali |
| Analytical Reasoning | M.K. Pandey |
| Verbal and Nonverbal Reasoning | R S Aggarwal |
| Reasoning For General Competition | KD Campus |
SSC CPO Books for General Knowledge and General Awareness
Candidate has to keep self-updated with both static GK and Current affairs throughout the preparation process. Current affair and static GK is better answered if we are up to date with the happenings around rather than referring it only at the last moment. Read newspaper regularly to stay updated.
| Name of the book | Author/publisher |
| GS Set For General Competition | KD Campus |
| Lucent’s General Knowledge | Lucent Publication |
| Manorama Yearbook | Mammen Mathew |
SSC CPO Books for Quantitative Aptitude
This section of the exam requires rigorous practice. Solve previous year papers and appear for mock tests to secure a better score in this section
| Name of the book | Author/publisher |
| Arihant’s Fast Track Objective Arithmetic | Arihant Publication |
| Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations | R.S. Aggarwal |
| Arithmetics For General Competition Vol 1 & 2 | Neetu Singh |
SSC CPO Books for English Comprehension
| Name of the book | Author/publisher |
| Quick Learning Objective General English | R.S. Aggarwal & Vikas Aggarwal |
| Objective General English | S.P. Bakshi |
| High School English Grammar and Composition | Wren & Martin |
SSC CPO Books for Paper 2
| Name of the book | Author/publisher |
| Word Power Made Easy | Norman Lewis |
| Objective General English | S.P. Bakshi |
| Objective General English | R.S. Aggarwal |
| One Word Substitution | Kiran |
| A mirror of Common Error | Kiran |
Subjects included in the SSC CPO exam
As we select the books to prepare for the exam it is also very important to be well acquainted with the examination pattern to make the best usage of the resource books. If the topics and the question pattern is known in advance it will help the candidate in segregating the topics based on its importance.
Any book can be utilised better if you know what content of that book has to be referred.
The SSC CPO examination comprises of the following phases.
- Paper-1
- Physical Standard Test (PST)/ Physical Endurance Test (PET)
- Paper-2
- Detailed Medical Examination (DME)
SSC CPO Paper 1 Exam Pattern
| Paper 1 | Subject | Mode | Time Duration | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks |
| Part A | General Intelligence and Reasoning | Computer based-Objective type | 2 hours | 50 | 50 |
| Part B | General Knowledge and General Awareness | 50 | 50 | ||
| Part C | Quantitative Aptitude | 50 | 50 | ||
| Part D | English Comprehension | 50 | 50 | ||
| Total Marks :200 | |||||
SSC CPO Paper 2 Exam Pattern
| Subject | Mode | Time Duration | Number of Questions | Maximum Marks |
| English language & Comprehension | Objective | 2 hours | 200 | 200 |
Note:
- Questions asked will be bilingual,e. in both Hindi and English.
- Each wrong answer will be penalized with 1/3rd of the marks prescribed for the question.
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Topics included in the exam- SSC CPO Exam Syllabus
Once you are thorough with the exam pattern you have to keep yourself updated with the syllabus of each topic include for the exam. Only then we can plan a study schedule based on the topics included in the exam.
| General Intelligence & Reasoning | General Knowledge & Awareness
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Quantitative Aptitude
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English Comprehension |
| Analogy | History | Mixture Problems | Idioms |
| Coding Decoding | Geography | Ratio Proportions | Error detection |
| Classifications | Politics | Number Systems | Vocabulary |
| Series | Science & Technology | Simplification | Cloze test |
| Order Ranking | Books and Authors | Algebra | Reading comprehensions |
| Direction & Distances | Economy | Profit and Loss | Grammar sections |
| Missing numbers | National & international Affairs | Percentage &Average | |
| Alphabet or word test | International Organisations | Data Interpretations | |
| Venn diagram | Current events | Time and work | |
| Puzzles | Speed, Time and Distance | ||
| Data sufficiency | Mensuration | ||
| Non- verbal reasoning | Simple Interest | ||
| Trigonometry | |||
| Geometry |
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SSC CPO Previous Year Question Papers
Check previous year question papers and practice the papers appropriately. Practice from previous year papers will definitely help in boosting your preparations for the exam.
Click here to check question weightage and level of difficult of paper 1 of SSC CPO Examination
The SSC CPO SI Paper 2 consists of only one paper on English. The best way to improve your English is to immerse yourself in the language. By that, we mean read newspapers, online articles, books, magazines. The following the various areas included in the paper 2 of the exam.
Question weightage for each topic of paper 2
| Topic | Number of questions | Level of difficulty |
| Spotting the Errors | 20 | Moderate |
| (Synonyms/Antonyms) | 7 | Easy |
| Spellings | 3 | Easy |
| Idioms phrases | 12 | Easy |
| Para Jumbles | 22 | Easy |
| One word substitution | 8 | Easy |
| Active and passive voice | 28 | Easy |
| Sentence improvement | 22 | Moderate |
| Direct indirect speech | 27 | Easy |
| Cloze test | 25 | Moderate |
| Reading comprehension | 25 | Moderate |
| Fill in the blanks | 5 | Moderate |
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