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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

Q2581.Computer AwarenessEasy

In cloud computing, what is the full form of SaaS?

  1. A.Storage as a Server
  2. B.Software as a Service
  3. C.System and Application Software
  4. D.Secure Access and Storage
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Correct answer: B. Software as a Service

In this model the provider runs finished software on its own servers and the user simply opens it in a browser, as with Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft 365 or Salesforce, paying by subscription instead of buying a licence and installing it.

Q2586.Art & CultureMedium

The architect Laurie Baker, known for low-cost and climate-responsive brick architecture, worked mainly in which Indian state?

  1. A.Gujarat
  2. B.Kerala
  3. C.Rajasthan
  4. D.West Bengal
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Correct answer: B. Kerala

Baker, born in Britain and later an Indian citizen, settled in Kerala and built houses, hospitals and institutions there using exposed local brick, filler slabs and perforated jaali walls that reduced cost and kept interiors cool without machinery.

Q2587.Art & CultureHard

The Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur and the Kanchanjunga Apartments in Mumbai were designed by which architect?

  1. A.B. V. Doshi
  2. B.Charles Correa
  3. C.Habib Rahman
  4. D.Le Corbusier
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Correct answer: B. Charles Correa

Correa built the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur on a plan drawn from the nine squares of the traditional mandala, and the Kanchanjunga Apartments in Mumbai as a tower of interlocking flats with deep terraces for shade; he also designed Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal and the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at…

Q2591.Art & CultureMedium

Who was the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize?

  1. A.Charles Correa
  2. B.Raj Rewal
  3. C.Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi
  4. D.Achyut Kanvinde
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Correct answer: C. Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi

Doshi received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018, the first Indian to do so, for a career that began as an assistant to Le Corbusier and produced CEPT University and Sangath in Ahmedabad, the campus of IIM Bangalore and the Aranya low-cost housing at Indore; he was given the Royal…

Q2592.Art & CultureEasy

The city of Chandigarh was planned by which architect?

  1. A.Edwin Lutyens
  2. B.Le Corbusier
  3. C.Louis Kahn
  4. D.Charles Correa
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Correct answer: B. Le Corbusier

The Swiss-French architect gave Chandigarh its grid of self-contained sectors and designed the Capitol Complex with the Secretariat, the High Court, the Legislative Assembly and the Open Hand monument; the first scheme had been drawn by Albert Mayer with Matthew Nowicki before the work passed to him.

Q2593.Indian PolityMedium

In which year did the Supreme Court of India strike down the electoral bond scheme as unconstitutional?

  1. A.2017
  2. B.2018
  3. C.2024
  4. D.2021
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Correct answer: C. 2024

A Constitution Bench struck down the electoral bond scheme in February 2024 in the petitions led by the Association for Democratic Reforms, holding that anonymous corporate funding of parties violates the voter's right to information under Article 19(1)(a) and that the amendments permitting unlimited company donations were arbitrary; the Court…

Q2594.Indian PolityHard

What is the security deposit payable by a general candidate contesting an election to the Lok Sabha?

  1. A.Ten thousand rupees
  2. B.Twenty-five thousand rupees
  3. C.Five thousand rupees
  4. D.Fifty thousand rupees
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Correct answer: B. Twenty-five thousand rupees

Section 34 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 fixes the security deposit for a Lok Sabha candidate at twenty-five thousand rupees, and a candidate belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe pays half of it; the deposit is forfeited if the candidate does not poll more…

Q2595.Indian PolityEasy

National Voters' Day is observed in India on which date, marking the foundation of the Election Commission of India?

  1. A.26 January
  2. B.25 January
  3. C.15 January
  4. D.1 January
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Correct answer: B. 25 January

The Election Commission of India was constituted on 25 January 1950, a day before the Constitution came into force, and the day has been observed as National Voters' Day since 2011 to enrol young citizens who turn eighteen and to hand them the elector photo identity card.

Q2596.Indian PolityMedium

Electronic voting machines were used for the first time in India in 1982 in an assembly constituency of which state?

  1. A.Kerala
  2. B.Karnataka
  3. C.Rajasthan
  4. D.Goa
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Correct answer: A. Kerala

The machine was used for the first time in 1982 at the Paravur assembly constituency in Kerala, in a by-election and only in a part of the polling stations; the experiment was challenged for want of a statutory basis, Parliament then amended the law in 1989 to permit the machine…

Q2597.Indian PolityHard

Which committee recommended partial state funding of elections in kind to recognised political parties?

  1. A.Tarkunde Committee
  2. B.Dinesh Goswami Committee
  3. C.Indrajit Gupta Committee
  4. D.Vohra Committee
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Correct answer: C. Indrajit Gupta Committee

This committee reported in 1998 on state funding of elections and recommended that funding be partial, be given in kind rather than as cash, and be confined to recognised national and state parties, with the caution that the state of public finances allowed only a limited beginning.

Q2598.Indian PolityMedium

The None of the Above (NOTA) option was provided on the ballot following the Supreme Court judgment in which case?

  1. A.Kihoto Hollohan versus Zachillhu
  2. B.People's Union for Civil Liberties versus Union of India
  3. C.Sadiq Ali versus Election Commission of India
  4. D.Lily Thomas versus Union of India
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Correct answer: B. People's Union for Civil Liberties versus Union of India

In this judgment of 2013 the Supreme Court held that the right to reject every candidate is part of the freedom of expression and of the secrecy of the ballot, and it directed the Election Commission to provide a None of the Above button; the Commission used it from the…

Q2599.Indian PolityHard

Reserved election symbols are allotted to recognised political parties under an Order of which year?

  1. A.1951
  2. B.1961
  3. C.1968
  4. D.1989
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Correct answer: C. 1968

The Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968 was issued by the Election Commission under Article 324 and the Conduct of Elections Rules, and it governs the recognition of national and state parties, the reservation of symbols for them, the list of free symbols for other candidates, and disputes between…

Q2600.Indian PolityMedium

Under which section of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 is a political party registered with the Election Commission of India?

  1. A.Section 29A
  2. B.Section 33A
  3. C.Section 123
  4. D.Section 8
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Correct answer: A. Section 29A

Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 is the provision under which an association or body of individual citizens applies to the Election Commission for registration as a political party, and the application must carry a specific undertaking of true faith and allegiance to the Constitution, to…

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