SSC CGL 2023- Tips for Blood Relation Questions

Blood Relations are often asked in SSC CGL exams. Not only these questions are easy to answer but with practice, you can answer the question quickly and with high accuracy. Well! SSC CGL Phase I exam is only 24 days away and you need to start practising from now itself if you want to clear it. Have you taken a Free Mock Test of SSC CGL 2019 Phase I yet? If not, take it now and see which areas still need improvement. In this article, we’ll be sharing some tips following which will definitely help you sail through SSC CGL Phase I exam with a good score. Let’s first have a look at the exam pattern of SSC CGL Phase I exam.

SSC CGL 2023 Tier 1 Exam Pattern

Sr.No.	Name of Test	No.of Questions	Max Marks	Duration
1	General Intelligence & Reasoning	25	50	60 mins
2	General Awareness	25	50
3	Quantitative Aptitude	25	50
4	English Comprehension	25	50
	Total	100	200

Note: There is a negative marking of 0.50 per incorrectly answered question.

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Questions on blood relations often turn up in SSC CGL exam. Information on 2 or more persons is given and based upon their relationship, questions are asked. Here are some quick tips to help you with this section:

• Don’t assume anything when answering the question. Unless something specific is given, have an open-minded approach on things like gender, no. of sons/daughters etc.
• You can start the question keeping yourself as the subject and build the relationships accordingly. This might help you answer the questions easily.
• Do a lot of practice using the above method. It will help you in answering the question quickly.
• Another approach to answering this question would be the diagram method. Use different lines for parallel relationships and different lines for generational differences (for eg. lines and dotted lines)
• Also, use different symbols for males & females (for eg. + and -).
• Do a lot of practice using diagrams which will improve your understanding and will increase your speed of solving questions on this topic.
• If the question is lengthy, you may like to break the question into small parts and start solving keeping the small parts in mind.

Apart from the above tips, we have come up with some shortcuts using which while practising will improve your speed. Remember, practice is the key for solving these questions. 

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Paternal Side Relationships

• Father’s Father – Grandfather
• Father’s Mother – Grandmother
• Father’s Sister – Aunt
• Father’s Brother – Uncle
• Children of Uncle – Cousin
• Children of Aunt – Cousin
• Wife of Uncle – Aunt
• Husband of Aunt – Uncle

Maternal Side Relationships

• Mother’s Father- Maternal Grandfather
• Mother’s Mother – Maternal Grandmother
• Mother’s Sister – Aunt
• Mother’s Brother – Uncle
• Children of Maternal Uncle – Cousin
• Children of Maternal Aunt – Cousin

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Other Relationships

• Son’s wife- Daughter-in-law
• Daughter’s Husband- Son-in-law
• Brother’s wife- Sister-in-law
• Sister’s Husband- Brother-in-law
• Husband’s Brother- Brother-in-law
• Wife’s Brother- Brother-in-law
• Brother’s Son- Nephew
• Brother’s Daughter- Niece
• Sister’s Son- Nephew
• Sister’s Daughter- Niece

Rather than memorizing the above formulas, we suggest you practice at least 100 questions on this topic. Take a Free Mock of SSC CGL Now and if you like the quality of the mock test, buy SSC CGL Package which has 70 Mocks & Sectional Tests and costs only Rs 199. This is all from us in this article. Wishing you good luck with your preparation!

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