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The main result of this paper states that a hypersurface \(M\) of dimension \(\geq 4\) in a semi-Riemannian space of constant curvature is pseudosymmetric if and only if for every point \(x\in M\) we have: the shape operator \({\mathcal A}\) of \(M\) is of rank 2 at \(x\) or the operator \({\mathcal A}^2\) is linear combination of \({\mathcal A}\) and the identity transformation at \(x\). In Section 1, we present curvature conditions of pseudosymmetry type on semi-Riemannian manifolds. In Section 2, we give some result on 2-quasi-umbilical hypersurfaces. Section 3 contains a survey of results on pseudosymmetric hypersurfaces. In Section 4, we give preliminary results. Finally, in the last section, we present our main results.