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Best Books

I will elaborate which books, and why, are necessary for each section of SSC exams.
QUANTITATIVE ABILITY: SSC Quant has 2 portions: 1. Arithmetic ability and 2. Advance math.
For Arithmetic ability, your conceptual understanding must be strong. For understanding concepts clearly you must study from a good teacher or you can watch videos on our YouTube channel "e1 coaching center". For practicing questions from arithmetic ability portion, download e1’s Arithmetic Ability book by visiting STUDY Material page on this website.
Questions asked from Advance math are repetitive. So you must first understand all the concepts from our videos (on our YouTube channel), practice questions given under STUDY Material page and then buy Previous Year Questions Chapter wise (by Kiran Parkashan) and practise from there.
Also  after completing e1’s book for Arithmetic, you can practise arithmetic questions from this book, but e1's book is also sufficient.
ENGLISH: English, like any language, can be divided into three parts:
  1. GRAMMAR (set of rules)
  2. UNDERSTANDING (strengthens by usage)
  3. VOCABULARY (meaning of words)
Books to strengthen each portion are given below:
  1. GRAMMAR: You can read High school grammar by Wren & Martin or Plinth to paramount by Neetu or both.
  2. UNDERSTANDING: You must practice 2 Reading Comprehensions daily from Previous Year Questions Chapter-wise (PYQCW) by kiran parkashan. And develop reading habit. Read at least 3–4 articles daily from any newspaper.
  3. VOCABULARY: Some portion of vocab like one word substitutions and Idioms and Phrases can be memorized from PYQCW. And portions like Antonyms and Synonyms (in my opinion) should not be memorized but developed over a long period by consistently writing difficult words and their meanings in a separate notebook. And you must revise that notebook daily. Word power made easy is also a must read (at least 1/3rd of starting) book to understand how root words are used to form different words.
I told you 4 books for English:
  1. High School grammar by Wren and Martin
  2. Plinth to Paramount by Neetu
  3. Previous Year questions of SSC by Kiran Parkashan
  4. Word Power made easy by Norman Lewis
REASONING: This portion of SSC Exams is very-very easy. For this, if you are taking coaching, just practise questions given by your coaching center. If you are preparing by Self-study, then just buy Previous Year Questions Chapter wise.
G.K: Syllabus for this section of SSC Exams is very vast. So, i would recommend to cover some important topics only like: Polity, History, Geography, Biology and Environment Science. These topics can be covered from Arihant G.K book by Manohar Pandey.
I hope it helps you. All the best for your exam and keep learning.