How this site checks its facts
Every fact here traces to a government document, and each guide records the date its sources were last opened and read. Facts that cannot be verified are cut rather than hedged. Official links go direct to the commission, never to a re-hosted copy.
Every factual claim on this site comes from a government document, and every page tells you which one. This page explains how that works, so you can judge whether to trust any of it.
Where the facts come from
One rule decides everything else here: a fact is only allowed on this site if it can be traced back to the body that made the rule.
That means the notification PDF on ssc.gov.in, the Office Memorandum on dopt.gov.in, the Gazette notification, or the commission’s own notice board. Not another website. Not a coaching blog. Not a YouTube video. Not what a fact “usually” is.
Where a rule comes from an Office Memorandum, the guide names the OM and its date, so you can search for it yourself. Where a figure comes from a notification, the guide says which notification and, where the document allows it, which paragraph.
What the Sources block at the bottom of each guide means
Every guide ends with a numbered list of the documents it was built from, and a date.
That date is not the publish date and not the last-edited date. It is the day each of those documents was actually opened and read. If a page says a source was checked on a particular day, someone opened that PDF on that day and looked.
This matters because rules in this niche change on a cycle. Income ceilings move. Age reference dates shift with each notification. A page that was correct in March can be wrong by August, and a site that will not tell you when it last looked is asking you to trust a number of unknown age.
What happens when a fact cannot be verified
It does not go on the page.
Not hedged, not softened with “generally” or “in most cases”, not padded out to fill a section. Cut. A guide here will sometimes tell you that a specific thing could not be confirmed, and point you at who can confirm it. That is a worse-looking page and a more useful one.
The same rule applies to numbers that would be easy to guess. Cut-off marks, vacancy counts and exam dates are exactly the figures readers most want and most often get wrong from other sites, because guessing them is free and being wrong has no consequence for the guesser.
Why this site links to the government instead of hosting its own copy
Open a notification page on any of the large exam sites and look at where the “Download Notification” link actually goes. On several of them it does not go to the commission at all — it goes to a copy of the government’s own PDF, re-hosted on their servers.
There is a reason for that. Sending you to ssc.gov.in ends their session and their advertising impression. Keeping you on a re-hosted PDF does not.
The cost to you is real. A re-hosted copy does not update when the commission issues a corrigendum. You can be reading a PDF that was superseded weeks ago with nothing on the page to tell you.
So every official link here goes straight to the source, marked as leaving the site. If a link on this page goes anywhere other than where it says it goes, that is a bug and it should be reported.
Who writes this, and what he is not qualified to say
The site is written by Sunny Kumar, in Delhi. He has spent more than ten years working in search and publishing.
He has not cleared SSC CGL. He does not work for a recruitment board, an examination authority or a coaching institute. He is not a lawyer and not a doctor.
What that background is good for is reading a long official document carefully and writing down what it says in plain words. It is not good for telling you what your chances are, what a tribunal would decide in your case, or whether a particular medical condition will clear a board. Where a question needs a qualified professional, the guide says so instead of guessing.
That is a narrower claim than most sites in this niche make. It is also the honest one.
What this site will not do
- No invented numbers. No expected cut-offs, no predicted exam dates, no “vacancy likely to be” figures.
- No fake urgency. No countdown on a date the commission has not announced.
- No coaching money. This site takes no payment from any institute, recruiter or agent, and carries no sponsored placements. If that ever changes it will be disclosed on the page, not in a footer line.
- No forms asking for your documents. Nothing here will ever ask for your Aadhaar number, date of birth, roll number, certificate scans or payment. No legitimate guide needs any of that, and anything that asks you for it should be treated as hostile.
- No pretending to be official. No seals, no agency logos, no .gov styling, and never the word “official” about this site.
How mistakes get fixed
They get fixed and then logged in public, on the corrections page, with what was wrong, what it says now, and when it changed.
Not one of the large sites in this niche publishes a corrections log. Several have no corrections policy page at all — the URL simply returns an error. That is a choice, and it is worth noticing which way each site made it.
A site that never admits it was wrong is also a site that will never tell you the fact you acted on last month has since changed.