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.
Ornithology is the branch of science concerned with the study of
Ornithology is the study of birds, their classification, habits, migration and nesting; Salim Ali, known as the birdman of India, was the country's best known ornithologist and wrote the Book of Indian Birds.
Read the full explanation →The branch of science that deals with the study of fungi is called
Mycology is the study of fungi, the group that includes moulds, yeasts, mushrooms and the rusts and smuts that attack crops, and a specialist in it is called a mycologist.
Read the full explanation →Which amendment ended the nomination of members of the Anglo-Indian community to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies?
The reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes under Articles 330 and 332 has a time limit set by Article 334, and that limit has been extended by amendment every ten years.
Read the full explanation →Reservation of not less than one-third of the seats for women in panchayats is provided by which Article of the Constitution?
It reserves seats in every panchayat for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in proportion to their population, and reserves not less than one-third of the total number of seats, and not less than one-third of the offices of chairperson, for women, the women's share being counted within the…
Read the full explanation →Under Article 334A, the reservation of seats for women will come into effect after:
Article 334A was drafted in this way because one-third of the seats cannot be set apart until it is known which constituencies exist and how large they are, and the reserved seats are meant to rotate after each later delimitation.
Read the full explanation →How many Delimitation Commissions have been constituted in India so far?
Each was set up under a Delimitation Commission Act passed by Parliament for the purpose, and each worked on the latest available census: the commission of 2002 used the 2001 census after the 87th Amendment made that census the basis.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about the orders of a Delimitation Commission is correct?
The Delimitation Commission Act gives its published orders this finality so that a general election is not held up by litigation over constituency boundaries, and the Supreme Court has upheld the bar.
Read the full explanation →Reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the Lok Sabha is provided by which Article?
Such a seat is not a separate electorate: all voters of the constituency vote, but only a candidate of the reserved community may contest.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023 inserted which of the following Articles?
Article 330A reserves one-third of the seats in the Lok Sabha for women, Article 332A does the same for the legislative assembly of every state, and Article 334A fixes when the reservation begins and how long it lasts, tying it to the first census after the commencement of the Act…
Read the full explanation →Who heads a Delimitation Commission in India?
The correct answer is B, a serving or retired judge of the Supreme Court, who is appointed chairperson of the Commission.
Read the full explanation →Which amendment extended the freeze on the allocation of Lok Sabha seats among the states until the first census taken after the year 2026?
The 42nd Amendment had frozen the allocation on the 1971 census only until the census after 2000; as that date approached, the 84th Amendment pushed the freeze forward to the first census taken after 2026, so that states which had controlled population growth would not lose seats.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, 2023 reserves one-third of the seats for women in which of the following?
The amendment inserted Article 330A for the Lok Sabha and Article 332A for the state assemblies, and amended Article 239AA so that the reservation also covers the Delhi assembly.
Read the full explanation →Which Article of the Constitution provides for the readjustment of the allocation of Lok Sabha seats and the division of states into territorial constituencies after every census?
Article 82 says that upon the completion of each census the allocation of seats in the Lok Sabha to the states and the division of each state into territorial constituencies shall be readjusted by such authority and in such manner as Parliament may by law determine.
Read the full explanation →The recommendations of the Mandal Commission were implemented in 1990 by the government of which Prime Minister?
The Mandal Commission, formally the Second Backward Classes Commission, had been appointed in 1979 under B. P. Mandal and submitted its report in 1980, recommending twenty-seven per cent reservation of central government posts for the Other Backward Classes.
Read the full explanation →The Anti-Defection Law was added to the Constitution as the Tenth Schedule by which amendment?
It inserted the Tenth Schedule and amended Articles 101, 102, 190 and 191 so that a member of Parliament or of a state legislature who voluntarily gives up the membership of the party on whose ticket the member was elected, or votes against the party whip, may be disqualified, the…
Read the full explanation →Operation Blue Star, carried out in June 1984, was conducted at which place?
The army action of June 1984 was ordered to remove armed militants who had fortified the Harmandir Sahib complex during the militant phase of the Punjab movement.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first non-Congress Prime Minister of India?
His government passed the 44th Amendment of 1978, which undid much of the 42nd Amendment, and appointed the Mandal Commission in 1979.
Read the full explanation →Which Constitutional Amendment of the Emergency period is known as the Mini Constitution?
It added the words socialist, secular and integrity to the Preamble, inserted the Fundamental Duties as Part IVA and Article 51A, added subjects such as education, forests and weights and measures to the Concurrent List, extended the normal life of the Lok Sabha and the assemblies to six years, and…
Read the full explanation →The national Emergency of 1975 was proclaimed under Article 352 on which ground?
The proclamation of 25 June 1975 was issued under Article 352 on the ground of internal disturbance, an expression so wide that it became the main criticism of the Emergency, which lasted until 21 March 1977.
Read the full explanation →What was the code name of India's first nuclear test, conducted at Pokhran on 18 May 1974?
India carried out its first underground nuclear explosion at Pokhran in the Thar desert of Rajasthan on 18 May 1974, which happened to be Buddha Purnima, and the government described it as a peaceful nuclear explosion.
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