Static GK in IBPS exams means banking awareness first. The awareness tests of PO, Clerk and RRB Mains name banking, economy, financial and digital awareness, and the questions that return every year are about the RBI and its functions, the monetary policy tools (repo, SDF, MSF, CRR, SLR), types of banks and accounts, NPAs, Basel norms, priority sector lending, payment systems such as UPI, NEFT, RTGS and IMPS, deposit insurance, financial inclusion schemes, and the regulators SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA and institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI. Headquarters and taglines of banks, capitals and currencies, national parks, dams and important days appear too, though with a smaller share than in SSC. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for banking exams, written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, with the terms and abbreviations that IBPS papers use. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained, and come back to the notes for the facts you missed.
The depth of the ocean is measured with which instrument?
A fathometer, also called an echo sounder, sends a pulse of sound from the hull of a ship to the sea floor and times the returning echo; since the speed of sound in sea water is known, the time gives the depth.
Read the full explanation →The purity of milk is determined with the help of which instrument?
A lactometer is a floating instrument that measures the relative density of milk. Pure milk has a density slightly greater than that of water, so adding water lowers the reading and the float sinks deeper, which is how dilution is detected.
Read the full explanation →Which instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure?
A barometer measures the pressure of the atmosphere, and the mercury barometer invented by Evangelista Torricelli in 1643 does so by balancing the weight of the air against a column of mercury about 76 centimetres high at sea level.
Read the full explanation →What is the meaning of the Greek origin word, 'Elektron'?
Elektron is the Greek name for amber, the fossilised tree resin which the ancient Greeks found would attract straw, feathers and bits of dust after being rubbed with fur.
Read the full explanation →The discovery and understanding of electromagnetic induction is based on a long series of experiments carried out by ______.
Working independently in the 1830s, Michael Faraday in England and Joseph Henry in the United States showed that a changing magnetic flux through a circuit sets up an electromotive force in it, and that the effect depends on the rate of change of flux rather than on the flux itself.
Read the full explanation →Who discovered neutron, one of the constituent particles of nucleus of an atom?
In 1932 Chadwick bombarded beryllium with alpha particles and showed that the highly penetrating radiation given off consisted of neutral particles with almost the same mass as a proton.
Read the full explanation →Who discovered the presence of electron in an atom?
In 1897 Thomson passed an electric discharge through a gas at very low pressure and showed that the cathode rays produced were a stream of identical negatively charged particles, far lighter than any atom and the same whatever gas or electrode was used.
Read the full explanation →Which version of Microsoft Office first replaced the traditional menus and toolbars with the Ribbon interface?
Office 2007 introduced the Ribbon, a band of tabs such as Home, Insert and Page Layout, each divided into groups of related commands, in place of the drop-down menus and floating toolbars of earlier releases.
Read the full explanation →In MS Access, which object gives a user-friendly screen for entering and viewing one record at a time?
A form is the object designed for data entry and viewing: it presents the fields of a single record in a neat layout with labels, boxes, drop-down lists and buttons, so the person entering data never has to work directly in the raw grid of a table.
Read the full explanation →MS Visio is used mainly for which of the following?
Visio supplies ready-made shape sets, called stencils, for flowcharts, organisation charts, network diagrams, floor plans, electrical schematics and entity relationship diagrams, and connectors that stay attached to a shape when it is moved, which is what distinguishes a diagramming program from a drawing program.
Read the full explanation →Which Office program is used to prepare a project schedule and draw a Gantt chart?
Project is the project management program of the Microsoft family. The user enters tasks with their durations and the dependencies between them, assigns people and costs, and the program draws the Gantt chart, a bar chart of time against task, and works out the critical path and the resource loading.
Read the full explanation →Which Microsoft Office program is meant for desktop publishing work such as brochures, cards and newsletters?
Publisher is built around page layout rather than around text flow: the user places text boxes, images and shapes exactly where they are wanted on the page, which suits brochures, greeting cards, certificates, labels and newsletters, and its files carry the extension.pub.
Read the full explanation →Which protocol is used to send an outgoing email message?
SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is the protocol that carries a message out of the sender's program and between mail servers until it reaches the recipient's mailbox.
Read the full explanation →MS Outlook keeps its mail, calendar and contacts on the local computer in a file with which extension?
The letters stand for personal storage table, and this single file holds the messages, calendar entries, contacts, tasks and notes of an Outlook account on the computer, which is why backing up the.pst file backs up the whole mailbox.
Read the full explanation →In MS Outlook, which field is used to send a copy of a message without the other recipients seeing that address?
Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. Everyone listed in Bcc receives the message, but their addresses are hidden from the people in the To and Cc fields and from one another, which is why it is used for circulars sent to a long list.
Read the full explanation →In MS Access, the field that uniquely identifies each record in a table is called the ______.
A primary key is a field, or a combination of fields, whose value is different in every record and never left empty, so it can be used to pick out one record with certainty; an AutoNumber field is the usual choice because Access fills it in by itself.
Read the full explanation →What is the file extension of a database created in MS Access 2007 and later versions?
From Access 2007 onwards, the default database format changed and files are saved with the extension.accdb, which stands for Access database and supports features such as multivalued fields and attachment data types.
Read the full explanation →Which program of the Microsoft Office suite is a relational database management system?
Access stores data in separate tables that are joined to one another through keys, which is what makes it relational, and it provides tables, queries, forms, reports, macros and modules to work with that data.
Read the full explanation →The Lokpal at the Union level was established under which Act?
The Act created the Lokpal, an anti-corruption ombudsman for the Union, consisting of a Chairperson and members of whom not more than half are judicial members, and it required the States to establish a Lokayukta.
Read the full explanation →Which article of the Constitution provides for a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities?
The article, inserted by the 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956, requires the President to appoint a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities, usually called the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards provided for linguistic minorities and to report to the President, who places the report…
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