Can you suggest some good books to prepare for SSC?

I have cleared this exam without any coaching. I had even studied only from the standard books available in the market. But Before I start, it would be pertinent to tell you my qualification and my level of knowledge before preparation. So that you could appreciate this answer better. Qualification: BE (Computers). Level of Knowledge: 1. MATHS: Non-Maths background student generally stereotype Engineers that all are good at Maths. No doubt we have an edge over Arts, commerce student. We can learn it faster than them. However, the matter of fact is we all have been out of touch and even we have to work hard to score good marks in maths. 2. ENGLISH: Though I studied in English medium school, yet I was very poor in english. You can judge my knowledge of English by this " when for the first time I opened SP Bakshi for English, I have asked my friend that which is correct he dances or he dance". 3. GENERAL AWARENESS: My knowledge of GA is so good that I scored 2 marks in 2013 Tier -I exam. 4. REASONING: Before I started preparing for CGLE I have never studied Reasoning. However, after analysing previous year paper, I was confident of scoring good marks as I didn't find it too tough. First Attempt: I was not even able to clear tier I. Second attempt: This time I was damn serious. I had decided I will leave nothing for chance. BOOKS REFERRED: MATHS: M. Tyra. Though it did not have MCQ based questions, yet I find it very good book for clearing concepts. LUCENT'S HIGHER MATHEMATICS PART-2: As MTyra did not cover Geometry and Algebra section. I had to cover Geometry and Algebra from this book. I find it very good book. ENGLISH: SP Bakshi. If I found something difficult to understand in this book, I searched it online. Grammar girl and some other blogs are very helpful. VOCABULARY: I read first page, editorials and sports page from TOI newspaper. I used to mark all words which I thought I was not clear about. There are many words which we think that we know but we get confused about the real meaning when we see the similar looking options in exam. I learnt everything about the word synonyms, antonyms, usage of word and preposition used with the word. I did this activity for 60 days without actually mugging any word. Just going thoroughly the meaning and usage of words. After I had some basic understanding, I started making list of good words. I purposely limited my words list to 200.

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