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.
Siam is the former name of which country?
The kingdom was called Siam until 1939, when it took the name Thailand, understood as the land of the free, a name that fits the fact that it is the one country of South-East Asia never ruled by a European power.
Read the full explanation →Erythropoietin, better known as EPO, is prohibited in sport because it
Erythropoietin is a hormone that signals the bone marrow to make red blood cells; when it is injected, the blood carries more oxygen to the muscles and endurance rises, which is why it has been the drug of choice in cycling and distance events and why it is banned at…
Read the full explanation →Which sprinter was stripped of the 100 metres gold medal of the 1988 Seoul Olympics after testing positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol?
The case is treated as the moment doping became a public issue and is the usual example in questions on the subject.
Read the full explanation →What is the slogan of the World Anti-Doping Agency?
The phrase has been WADA's slogan since its early years and appears on its campaigns, its outreach programmes at major Games and its education material for athletes.
Read the full explanation →The National Dope Testing Laboratory of India is located at
The National Dope Testing Laboratory, which analyses the samples that NADA collects, functions at New Delhi under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, and its standing as a testing laboratory rests on accreditation by WADA.
Read the full explanation →In anti-doping rules, what is a Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE)?
An athlete who genuinely needs a medicine that appears on the Prohibited List, such as an inhaler for asthma or insulin for diabetes, applies in advance to a panel of doctors, which may grant a Therapeutic Use Exemption limited to that substance, dose and period.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following classes of substances is prohibited only in competition?
The Prohibited List divides substances into those banned at all times, those banned only in competition and those banned only in particular sports.
Read the full explanation →The International Convention against Doping in Sport, the treaty by which governments bind themselves to the World Anti-Doping Code, was adopted in 2005 under the auspices of
Because WADA is a private foundation, governments needed an instrument of international law through which they could commit themselves to the Code, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization provided it by adopting the International Convention against Doping in Sport in 2005.
Read the full explanation →The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has its seat in which city?
CAS was established in 1984 at the initiative of the International Olympic Committee, whose own headquarters is in the same city, and it also keeps branch offices at Sydney and New York besides sitting in ad hoc divisions at the Olympic Games.
Read the full explanation →India's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) works under which ministry?
NADA was set up on 24 November 2005 as a registered society under that ministry, and it plans and carries out sample collection, manages results and runs education programmes so that sport in India is practised without doping.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the World Anti-Doping Agency established?
WADA was created on 10 November 1999, a year after the Festina affair of the 1998 Tour de France, in which a team car carrying banned drugs exposed how organised doping had become and pushed the Olympic movement and governments to build a joint agency.
Read the full explanation →Where is the headquarters of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)?
WADA began work in 1999 from Lausanne and then moved its headquarters to Montreal, where the agency has remained; Lausanne continues as its European office.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about MS-DOS and Linux is correct?
Linux treats upper and lower case as different, so a file named Report is not the same as report, and it is built as a multi-user, multitasking system in which several accounts can work at once with separate permissions and a login.
Read the full explanation →In the Linux shell, which symbol adds the output of a command to the end of an existing file without erasing its contents?
Writing a command followed by two greater-than signs and a file name appends the output to the end of that file and keeps whatever was already in it, which is how log files are built up.
Read the full explanation →Which Linux command removes a directory only when it is empty?
The command rmdir deletes a directory only if nothing is left inside it and prints an error such as directory not empty otherwise, which makes it a safe way to clear away empty folders.
Read the full explanation →The MS-DOS rule that a file name may have up to eight characters with an extension of up to three is called
The name is read as eight dot three: up to eight characters for the name, a dot, and up to three for the extension, as in LETTER.TXT or AUTOEXEC.BAT, with spaces and certain punctuation marks not allowed.
Read the full explanation →Which Linux command is used to list the processes running on the system?
The command ps, short for process status, prints a list of processes with their process identification numbers, the terminal they belong to, the processor time used and the command that started each one.
Read the full explanation →In MS-DOS, which wildcard character stands for exactly one character in a file name?
A question mark in a file specification matches any single character in that position, so the command DIR FILE?.TXT lists FILE1.TXT and FILEA.TXT but not FILE12.TXT.
Read the full explanation →In Linux, the command chmod 777 on a file gives which set of permissions?
In the numeric form of chmod each of the three digits stands for one set of users, in the order owner, group and others, and each digit is the sum of read as 4, write as 2 and execute as 1.
Read the full explanation →Who developed the first Linux kernel, and in which year was it released?
Torvalds, then a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland, wrote a free kernel for personal computers and released it in 1991 under the GNU General Public Licence, which allowed anyone to study, change and redistribute it.
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