SSC CGL TIER II 2017 – Paper II questions (English)
Last Updated: Dec 31, 2025
The much-awaited SSC CGL Tier 2 examination was finally conducted successfully across multiple shifts from February 17th to 22nd, 2018, after facing two significant delays that had kept thousands of aspirants in anticipation.
With the exams now concluded, a comprehensive collection of actual questions asked during Tier II has been gathered directly from participating students who generously forwarded their memory-based recollections and notes.
These authentic questions will prove invaluable for all future SSC CGL 2018 aspirants, offering deep insights into the exact exam pattern, difficulty levels, frequently tested topics, and question types across subjects like Quantitative Abilities, English Language, Statistics, and General Studies, thereby enabling more targeted preparation strategies.
Some of the questions asked in SSC CGL TIER II are as follows:
DAY 1- 17th February 2018
Some Questions from exam:-
Synonyms:-
- Gazzle
- Tempestous
- Guzzle
- Embargo
- Hound
Antonym:
- Vista
- Swindle
Idioms phrases
- Give it a wirl
- weather the storm
- green willow
- Study of snakes
- Reap the whirlwind
- Wild and woolly
- Whoop it up
- with the vengeance
- Spin your wheels
- Up against the wall
One word Substitution
- Military takes over a country
- Dog lover
- Too bully too furry
- Lack of Civic mindedness or of patriotism
- Preferring or attracted to Sunlight
- Mutual Discourse
- Study of snakes
- Killer of prophet
- A person who preserves the skin of animals
- Obsession of wine
- Killing of Birds
- One who eats mud
DAY 2- 18th February 2018
Idiom/phrases
- Catch 22
- Foot the bill
- Breadth of hair
- Jog one’s memories
- Carry the can
- Get cracking
- Paper on cracks
- To be red
Antonyms/ Synonyms
- Acerbic
- nuisent
- combustible___inflammable
- scurrilous
- Esoteric
- Ribald
- Acerbic
One word Substitution-
- One who deserts principle
- A girl having brown hairs
- Study of culture and tribes
- Bank of river
- Old weak lady
- Phobia to disease
- One who climbs mountain
- Church prayer
- Causing vomit
- medicine to induce vomiting
Passages based on
- Rohit Sharma three double hundred
- Gandhian principal
- Storm names in south asia
DAY 3- 19th February 2018
1) Antonyms/Synonyms of the words:
→ Profligate
→ Protract
→ Oracular
→ Sneer
2) One Word Substitution:
→ Recluse
→ Abattoir
→ Chauffer
→ Elysium
→ Plebscite
3) Idioms & Phrases:
→ In the teeth
→ Mealy mouthed
→ Pay lip Service
→ In a flutter
→ Out of Sorts
→ Rip up old sores
DAY 4- 20th February 2018
1) Antonyms/Synonyms of the words:
→ Abnegation.
→ Exigent
2) One Word Substitution:
→ Member of a band of robber
3) Idioms & Phrases:
→ Alphabet Soup
→ Bring home the bacon
→ One who has money
→ Banana Oil
→ Up in the air
→ Give oneself airs
DAY 5- 21st February 2018
1) Antonyms/Synonyms of the words:
→ Abettor
→ Jaded
2) One Word Substitution:
→ One who studies election trend by means of opinion polls
→ One who removed from the electoral league
→ Fear of pain
3) Idioms & Phrases:
→ To gird up the lions.
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