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.
Which is the deepest lake in the world?
Baikal lies in southern Siberia in Russia, fills a deep rift in the earth's crust and is the deepest lake in the world.
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Greenland lies between the Arctic and the Atlantic, is covered almost entirely by an ice sheet and is an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Read the full explanation →Angel Falls, the highest waterfall in the world, is located in which country?
Angel Falls drops 979 metres from the edge of a flat-topped table mountain called Auyan Tepui in the Guiana highlands of Venezuela, and is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest hot desert in the world?
The Sahara stretches across northern Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea and is the largest hot desert in the world.
Read the full explanation →Which river is conventionally regarded as the longest river in the world?
The Nile flows north through north-eastern Africa for about 6,650 kilometres to the Mediterranean and is the river taken as the longest in the world in almost every textbook and examination.
Read the full explanation →The deepest known point of the earth's surface, the Challenger Deep, lies in which trench?
The Mariana Trench lies in the western Pacific, east of the Mariana Islands, and its deepest part, the Challenger Deep, is close to eleven kilometres below sea level.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest and deepest ocean in the world?
The Pacific covers a greater area than all the land on earth put together and is also the deepest ocean, holding the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on the planet.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest mosque in India?
The Jama Masjid was built under Shah Jahan in the seventeenth century in red sandstone and white marble, opposite the Red Fort in Shahjahanabad, and its vast courtyard makes it the largest mosque in India.
Read the full explanation →Which is the longest national highway of India, running from Srinagar to Kanyakumari?
NH 44 runs roughly north to south from Srinagar to Kanyakumari, about 3,745 kilometres, and is the longest national highway in India.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest national park in India by area?
Hemis lies in eastern Ladakh, in high cold desert country, and is the largest national park in India by area.
Read the full explanation →The Sundarbans, the largest delta in the world, is formed by which river system?
These three rivers meet near the head of the Bay of Bengal and drop an enormous load of silt, building the Sundarbans, the largest delta in the world, shared between India and Bangladesh.
Read the full explanation →The Tehri dam, the highest dam in India, is built on which river?
The Tehri dam stands on the Bhagirathi in the Tehri Garhwal region of Uttarakhand and rises to about 260 metres, which makes it the highest dam in India.
Read the full explanation →Majuli, the largest river island in India, lies on which river?
Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam and is the largest river island in India. It is inhabited, it has been made a district of Assam, and it is famous for the satras, the Vaishnava monasteries founded in the tradition of Srimanta Sankardeva.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest freshwater lake in India?
Wular Lake lies in the Kashmir valley in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, is fed by the Jhelum and is the largest freshwater lake in India.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest state of India by area?
Rajasthan is the largest state of India by area, holding the Thar desert in its west and the Aravalli range running across it from the south-west to the north-east.
Read the full explanation →Anamudi, the highest peak of peninsular India, is located in which state?
Anamudi stands 2,695 metres high in the Idukki district of Kerala, in the Anaimalai hills of the Western Ghats, close to Eravikulam National Park, which protects the Nilgiri tahr.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest mountain peak located in India?
Kangchenjunga rises to 8,586 metres on the border of Sikkim with Nepal and is the third highest mountain in the world after Mount Everest and K2.
Read the full explanation →How many players does a football team have on the field, including the goalkeeper?
A football side takes the field with eleven players, one of whom is the goalkeeper, the only member of the team permitted to handle the ball, and that only within his own penalty area.
Read the full explanation →In which years was the FIFA World Cup not held because of the Second World War?
The World Cup is played every four years, so after the 1938 tournament in France the next editions would have fallen in 1942 and 1946.
Read the full explanation →The Santosh Trophy in Indian football is contested between which of the following?
The Santosh Trophy, started in 1941 and named after the Maharaja of Santosh in undivided Bengal, is the national football championship of India, played between teams representing the state associations and certain institutional units such as the services and the railways.
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