Spelling
🔒 Log in to trackTwo spelling items per shift, and they come from a predictable trap list: i/e flip-flops, double-letter failures, suffix endings and 90+ famous misspells. A rules layer (c-test, stress-doubling, keep-e) plus a weekly revised bank makes these near-guaranteed marks — the fastest scoring topic in Tier 1 English.
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3 exam-level questions worked step by step.
64 questions — untimed practice or a timed test with analysis.
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Questions per shift in recent SSC CGL papers.
Test difficulty mix (64 questions)
Question patterns exams keep repeating
Taken from previous-year papers. If a pattern is marked "very common", expect to see it in your exam.
Choose the correctly spelt word
very commonFour spellings of one word are given.
Find the letters that differ between options.
Apply the rule (doubles, ie/ei, endings) or recall the word.
Select the correctly spelt word: Accommodation / Accomodation / Acommodation / Accommodasion
The options differ in the double letters
The word has double c and double m
The ending is -tion
Answer: Accommodation
Find the wrongly spelt word
commonFour different words are given and one is misspelt.
Check each word for double letters, ie/ei and endings.
The one that fails is the answer.
Select the wrongly spelt word: Existance / Occasion / Believe / Truly
'Occasion', 'Believe' and 'Truly' are correct
'Existance' has the wrong ending
The noun is 'existence' (like 'existent')
Answer: Existance
Misspelt word in a sentence
occasionalA sentence is given and one of its words is misspelt.
Ignore the meaning and check each word's spelling.
British spellings (colour, organised) are correct.
Find the misspelt word: The committee could not reach a concensus on the budget.
'consensus' comes from 'consent'
It has an s in the middle, not a c
'concensus' is wrong
Answer: consensus
Plural and related forms
occasionalThe question asks for the plural of a word like 'analysis' or 'criterion', or a form of a given word.
Classical plurals: -is → -es, -on → -a, -us → -i, -um → -a.
Do not add -s to these plurals.
Select the correct plural of 'analysis'.
The word ends in -is
-is changes to -es
Like crisis → crises
Answer: analyses
ie or ei
very commonThe options differ only in the order of i and e.
Use 'i before e, except after c' when the sound is 'ee'.
Learn the exceptions: seize, weird, leisure, foreign.
Select the correct spelling: Perceive / Percieve / Perceeve / Persieve
The sound is 'ee'
The letter before it is c
After c we write 'ei'
Answer: Perceive
Doubling the last letter
commonThe options differ in whether the last consonant is doubled before -ed or -ing.
Double it only if the stress is on the last syllable of the base word (regret → regretted).
Otherwise keep it single (budget → budgeted).
Select the correct spelling: Budgeted / Budgetted / Buddgeted / Budgeeted
The word is budget
The stress is on the first syllable, 'BUD'
So the t is not doubled
Answer: Budgeted
Word endings (-ance / -ence, -able / -ible)
commonThe options differ only in the last few letters.
Learn the word family: -ance goes with -ant, -ence goes with -ent.
Drop the final e before a vowel ending.
Select the correct spelling: Perseverance / Perseverence / Perseverrance / Persevearance
The word is persevere + ance
Drop the final e of 'persevere'
There is only one r in the ending
Answer: Perseverance
Silent letters and -cede / -ceed words
commonThe word has a silent letter (Wednesday, psychology) or ends with the sound 'seed'.
Only proceed, succeed and exceed end in -ceed.
Only supersede ends in -sede; the rest end in -cede.
Select the correct spelling: Supersede / Superseed / Supersead / Superceed
Only three words end in -ceed
Only one word ends in -sede
That word is supersede
Answer: Supersede