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Banking GK Questions 2026

The static part of banking awareness is mostly banking and the economy; history and geography get a smaller share than in SSC exams. The test names say so: General/Economy/Banking Awareness including RBI circulars in IBPS PO, General Awareness/ Economy/ Banking Knowledge in SBI PO, and General/Financial Awareness in the clerk exams. Questions keep returning to the RBI and its functions, monetary policy tools such as the repo rate, CRR and SLR, types of banks and accounts, NPAs, KYC, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT and RTGS, regulators such as SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA, development institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI, the Budget and the Economic Survey. RBI Grade B and NABARD Grade A go further, with full papers on Economic and Social Issues, and NABARD on Agriculture and Rural Development: agronomy, irrigation, animal husbandry, climate change and rural development schemes. Some static GK still appears: headquarters and heads of banks, currencies and capitals, and important days. This page gathers GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, in English and Hindi, in short facts and tables. Read one topic at a sitting, then take its topic quiz to see what you remember.

Banking GK Questions with Answers

Q2101.Indian HistoryMedium

Which commission recommended the establishment of a central bank for India, a recommendation that took shape as the Reserve Bank of India?

  1. A.Fowler Commission
  2. B.Chamberlain Commission
  3. C.Hilton Young Commission
  4. D.Babington Smith Committee
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Correct answer: C. Hilton Young Commission

The Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance of 1926, named after its chairman Edward Hilton Young, recommended that the functions of currency and credit be taken away from the Government and handed to a central bank; the recommendation was carried out by the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934…

Q2102.Indian HistoryAsked in: SSC GD Constable · 18 Feb 2019, Shift 3Easy

The Simon Commission which was sent by the British Government was boycotted because:

  1. A.The Commission curbed financial independence of India.
  2. B.The Commission did not have any Indian member.
  3. C.There were differences amongst the members.
  4. D.It gave special powers to the Princely states.
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Correct answer: B. The Commission did not have any Indian member.

All seven members of the Indian Statutory Commission were British members of Parliament, among them Clement Attlee, and Indians of every party read this as a declaration that they were unfit to decide their own constitution; hence the boycott and the slogan 'Simon, go back'.

Q2103.Indian HistoryAsked in: Delhi · 9 Oct 2021, Shift 1Medium

A resolution boycotting the Simon Commission was passed at the 1927 ____ Congress session.

  1. A.Kanpur
  2. B.Lucknow
  3. C.Lahore
  4. D.Madras
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Correct answer: D. Madras

The annual session of the Indian National Congress held at Madras in December 1927, presided over by Dr M. A. Ansari, resolved to boycott the Simon Commission at every stage and in every form, and the same session passed a resolution on complete independence.

Q2104.Indian HistoryAsked in: Haryana · 12 April 2018, Shift 1Easy

When was Simon Commission sent to India?

  1. A.1937
  2. B.1927
  3. C.1917
  4. D.1958
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Correct answer: B. 1927

The British Government announced the Indian Statutory Commission in November 1927 under Sir John Simon to review the working of the Government of India Act, 1919; the commission itself reached Bombay on 3 February 1928 and submitted its report in 1930.

Q2105.Indian EconomyHard

The indifference curve for two goods that are perfect substitutes for each other is:

  1. A.A straight line sloping downward
  2. B.L-shaped
  3. C.Convex to the origin
  4. D.A vertical straight line
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Correct answer: A. A straight line sloping downward

If two goods are perfect substitutes, such as two brands of identical salt, the consumer is willing to exchange them at a fixed rate whatever quantity he already holds, so the marginal rate of substitution is constant and a constant slope means a straight line.

Q2106.Indian EconomyHard

The law of equi-marginal utility is also known as the:

  1. A.Law of demand
  2. B.Law of substitution
  3. C.Law of supply
  4. D.Law of diminishing returns
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Correct answer: B. Law of substitution

The law of equi-marginal utility, called Gossen's second law and also the law of maximum satisfaction, says that a consumer distributes his income among goods so that the last rupee spent on each gives him the same marginal utility; he reaches that position by substituting the good with the higher…

Q2107.Indian EconomyMedium

The ordinal utility approach to the theory of consumer behaviour was developed by:

  1. A.Adam Smith and David Ricardo
  2. B.J. R. Hicks and R. G. D. Allen
  3. C.Alfred Marshall and A. C. Pigou
  4. D.J. M. Keynes and Joan Robinson
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Correct answer: B. J. R. Hicks and R. G. D. Allen

In their joint work of 1934, and later in Hicks's Value and Capital, they replaced the measurement of utility with the ranking of preferences and rebuilt the theory of demand on indifference curves, the marginal rate of substitution and the budget line.

Q2108.Indian EconomyMedium

In the indifference curve approach, a consumer is in equilibrium when:

  1. A.The marginal rate of substitution equals the ratio of the prices
  2. B.The marginal utility of the good is zero
  3. C.The budget line cuts the indifference curve at two points
  4. D.Total utility is equal for both goods
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Correct answer: A. The marginal rate of substitution equals the ratio of the prices

Equilibrium is the point at which the budget line is tangent to the highest indifference curve the consumer can reach, and at a point of tangency the slopes of the two are equal, which means MRS of X for Y equals Px divided by Py; a second condition is that…

Q2109.Indian EconomyMedium

The slope of the budget line of a consumer buying two goods X and Y is given by:

  1. A.Price of X ÷ price of Y
  2. B.Price of Y ÷ price of X
  3. C.Income ÷ price of X
  4. D.MU of X ÷ MU of Y
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Correct answer: A. Price of X ÷ price of Y

The budget line is the equation Px·X + Py·Y = M, which on rearranging gives Y = M ÷ Py minus (Px ÷ Py)·X, so the intercept is income divided by the price of Y and the slope is the ratio of the price of the good on the horizontal…

Q2110.Indian EconomyMedium

Which of the following is NOT a property of an indifference curve?

  1. A.It slopes downward from left to right
  2. B.It is convex to the origin
  3. C.Two indifference curves can intersect each other
  4. D.A higher indifference curve shows a higher level of satisfaction
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Correct answer: C. Two indifference curves can intersect each other

If two curves crossed, the combination at the crossing point would belong to both and would therefore give two different levels of satisfaction at the same time, a logical contradiction; for the same reason they cannot even be tangent.

Q2111.Indian EconomyMedium

An indifference curve is convex to the origin because of:

  1. A.Increasing marginal rate of substitution
  2. B.Diminishing marginal rate of substitution
  3. C.Constant marginal rate of substitution
  4. D.Diminishing returns to scale
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Correct answer: B. Diminishing marginal rate of substitution

As a consumer moves down an indifference curve he holds more and more of the first good and less of the second, so each extra unit of the first is worth fewer units of the second to him; the slope therefore becomes flatter from left to right and the curve…

Q2112.Indian EconomyMedium

The slope of an indifference curve at any point is called the:

  1. A.Marginal rate of substitution
  2. B.Price ratio
  3. C.Marginal propensity to consume
  4. D.Elasticity of substitution
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Correct answer: A. Marginal rate of substitution

The marginal rate of substitution of X for Y is the number of units of Y a consumer is willing to give up to get one more unit of X while remaining on the same indifference curve, and it equals the ratio of the marginal utility of X to the…

Q2113.Indian EconomyEasy

Total utility is maximum when marginal utility is:

  1. A.Maximum
  2. B.Zero
  3. C.Negative
  4. D.Equal to average utility
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Correct answer: B. Zero

Marginal utility is the addition made to total utility by one more unit, so as long as it is positive total utility keeps rising; the moment it becomes zero nothing more is being added and total utility stands at its highest point, called the point of satiety.

Q2114.Indian EconomyEasy

The cardinal utility approach to consumer behaviour, which measures utility in units called utils, is associated with:

  1. A.Alfred Marshall
  2. B.J. R. Hicks
  3. C.Paul Samuelson
  4. D.Vilfredo Pareto
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Correct answer: A. Alfred Marshall

Marshall, in his Principles of Economics, built the theory of demand on the assumption that utility is measurable in imaginary units, so that a consumer can compare the ten utils of a cup of tea with the six utils of a samosa; from this assumption he derived the law of…

Q2116.Indian PolityAsked in: Uttar Pradesh · UPPSC Civil Services General Studies OffMedium

What can be the minimum strength of the Council of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, in a State?

  1. A.10
  2. B.12
  3. C.13
  4. D.14
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Correct answer: B. 12

Article 164(1A), inserted by the Ninety-first Amendment Act of 2003, provides that the total number of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, in the Council of Ministers of a State shall not exceed fifteen per cent of the total number of members of the Legislative Assembly, and that the number shall…

Q2117.Indian PolityMedium

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India can be removed from office in the same manner as

  1. A.a Governor of a State
  2. B.a judge of the Supreme Court
  3. C.the Attorney General of India
  4. D.a member of the Union Council of Ministers
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Correct answer: B. a judge of the Supreme Court

Article 148(1) provides that the Comptroller and Auditor General shall be removed from office only in like manner and on the like grounds as a judge of the Supreme Court, which means an address by each House supported by the special majority of Article 124(4), on the ground of proved…

Q2118.Indian PolityHard

An address to the President for the removal of a judge of the Supreme Court must be supported in each House by

  1. A.a simple majority of the members present and voting
  2. B.a majority of the total membership of the House and two-thirds of the members present and voting
  3. C.two-thirds of the total membership of the House
  4. D.three-fourths of the members present and voting
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Correct answer: B. a majority of the total membership of the House and two-thirds of the members present and voting

Article 124(4) provides that a judge of the Supreme Court may be removed by an order of the President only after an address by each House of Parliament, supported by a majority of the total membership of that House and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the…

Q2119.Indian PolityMedium

A resolution for the removal of the Vice-President of India can be moved only in which House, and with what notice?

  1. A.Lok Sabha, with 14 days' notice
  2. B.Rajya Sabha, with 14 days' notice
  3. C.Either House, with 7 days' notice
  4. D.A joint sitting of both Houses, with 30 days' notice
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Correct answer: B. Rajya Sabha, with 14 days' notice

Under Article 67(b), the Vice-President may be removed by a resolution of the Rajya Sabha passed by a majority of all the then members of that House and agreed to by the Lok Sabha, and no such resolution may be moved unless at least fourteen days' notice has been given.

Q2120.Indian PolityMedium

Under which Article of the Constitution is the procedure for the impeachment of the President of India laid down?

  1. A.Article 56
  2. B.Article 61
  3. C.Article 62
  4. D.Article 71
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Correct answer: B. Article 61

Article 61 lays down the procedure for impeaching the President for violation of the Constitution: the charge must be preferred by either House after at least fourteen days' notice signed by not less than one-fourth of the members of that House, and must be passed by not less than two-thirds…

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