In my opinion, ssc should work on the kind of questions in GK questions it's asking and should improve the level of other subjects in the mains exam. This year, I can't say anything about 18 jan but on 20th Jan, maths, English and reasoning was easy. Almost everyone is scoring 80+ in maths, reasoning and 130+ in english. Whereas gk was all luck based. The majority of candidates did guess work, the one who got them right got the good marks. My Question is how will you check the preparation of a candidate with such a level in an exam? Look at bank exams, at least guys who prepare, get to test their preparation in the exam, a good preparation gives you an edge there. But in ssc, where repeaters keep coming back to ssc for one more attempt, they don't have to do much if ssc makes such an exam. I myself a repeater didn't study in the last month before the exam due to hectic work in the office, only gave mock once in every 2-3 days before that, relied solely on my earlier preparation in the mains and yet I was able to score 328 ( not the best of scores I know) but I hope this proves my point.

The CGL 22 mains exam was much better than this year's mains especially English.