CHSL looks easier than CGL, and in raw difficulty it is. The maths is 12th-standard level, the English is manageable, the reasoning is straightforward.
What makes CHSL hard is that everyone else finds it manageable too. Cutoffs are high because the paper is easy, which means the exam is decided by accuracy on questions you already know how to do, and by the skill test most people ignore until it is too late.
Plan for both.
How the planner builds your CHSL plan
You tell it:
- The exam you're preparing for
- Your exam date
- How many hours a day you can study, and when you usually study
The AI builds a daily routine of timed sessions across Quant, Reasoning, English and General Awareness, weighted towards the topics that appear most in previous papers. Add typing practice as a session of your own.
A typical CHSL study day
- Quant block — one topic: percentages, averages, ratios, mensuration, simple DI.
- Reasoning block — series, analogy, classification, or a non-verbal topic.
- English — grammar, error spotting, cloze test, vocabulary in short frequent sessions.
- General Awareness — 20–30 minutes, static plus current affairs; topics you study come back on a spaced schedule.
- Typing practice — 10–15 minutes, every day, timed like any other session.
- Timed set — a fixed number of questions against a clock, once or twice a week.
Why accuracy matters more than difficulty here
In an exam where most candidates can solve most questions, marks are lost to careless errors and to time spent second-guessing, not to hard problems.
Give timed practice a session of its own, and sit full-length mock tests on the Tier 1 pattern. Each ends with your score and accuracy after negative marking, so you can see across weeks whether your accuracy under pressure is improving. That number moves cutoffs far more than covering another topic does.
The typing test decides more selections than people expect
Every year candidates clear Tier 1 and Tier 2 and then lose the post on the skill test, because typing was something they were going to start "after results".
Ten minutes a day from the beginning removes most of that risk. Add typing as a real session with real time attached, and the timer records it like any other study.
Spaced revision for General Awareness
General Awareness is recall, and recall fades. A fact learned in month two is gone by month six unless it comes back.
Lighthouse Prep brings every topic you study back after 1, 3, 7, 14, 30 and 60 days, with a harder question each time, so the early work still counts on exam day.
Features for CHSL prep
- Typing in your routine — add it as a session of its own; the timer records it like any other study.
- Tier 1 mock tests — full-length, on the real pattern with negative marking. Your first test is free.
- A plan from the CHSL pattern — sessions weighted towards the topics that appear most in previous papers.
- CGL alongside CHSL — add both as separate exams, each with its own date and plan.
- Spaced revision — automatic, most valuable for GA.
- Focus timer — measures real study time, not desk time.
- Wastage report — shows, session by session, how much of your planned time you actually studied.
- Lumi, your AI mentor — remembers your exam and weak subjects, and checks in when you've gone quiet.
Who this is for
- School leavers starting CHSL preparation with a long runway
- Candidates preparing for CHSL and CGL together
- Repeat candidates who cleared the written stage but lost on the skill test
- Anyone who studies steadily but has never timed themselves
Build your SSC CHSL plan today
Open the app, set your exam date, and start with today's first session.