IBPS GK Questions 2026

Maharatna, Navratna and Miniratna are status tags that the Government of India gives to central public sector enterprises on the basis of their size, profits and performance.

The Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) is the share of a bank's deposits that it must keep with the Reserve Bank of India in cash, and the bank earns no interest on this money.

Globalisation means the growing integration of countries through trade, investment, technology and the movement of people, and it works by lowering barriers to trade, not by raising them.

The 2's complement of a binary number is found in two steps: flip every bit to get the 1's complement, then add 1.

A firewall stands between a trusted private network and an untrusted one such as the internet, and checks the data going in and out.

Static RAM stores each bit in a flip-flop circuit made of several transistors, usually six, so the bit stays put as long as the power is on and never needs refreshing.

A hard disk is a secondary storage device that keeps programs and files permanently, even when the power is off, and it sits outside the processor.

In Microsoft PowerPoint, pressing F5 starts the slide show from the first slide, whichever slide you are working on at that moment.

Sensex, short for ‘Sensitive Index’, tracks 30 large, well-established and actively traded companies listed on the BSE, chosen from different sectors of the economy.

Money from National Savings Certificates belongs to the savers, not the government, so under Article 266(2) it is credited to the Public Account.

Fiscal policy is the government's use of taxation and public spending, so taxes are its main tool. In India, fiscal policy is run by the Union Government through the Ministry of Finance, and the Union Budget is its yearly statement.

A unicorn is a startup that is not listed on the stock market and is valued at more than one billion US dollars.

The name of a rowing event tells you both the size of the crew and the way the oars are held: sculling means each rower works a pair of oars, and double means the boat carries two of them.

What the Prime Minister called noteworthy was not the single silver alone but the run behind it: medals at three Asian Games one after another, a record of turning up at the top of the sport over many years rather than in one good season.

Sanda is the full-contact fighting format of wushu and its bouts are decided in weight categories, which is why the weight appears in the name of the event itself.

The money came from the disposal of files, obsolete material and scrap during the month-long drive held from 2 to 31 October 2025.

The campaign is run in two clearly separated stages, and a question of this kind usually turns on telling them apart.

It runs the special campaign across the Government, lays down the parameters against which each office identifies its pending matters, issues the guidelines that offices follow, and takes the reporting of achievements on the campaign portal.

This is the feature that sets the platform apart from a conventional news agency, because a small newspaper can run a national or international story under its own masthead without attributing it to the broadcaster.

Free access has been stretched in steps rather than granted once and for all, which is exactly what makes this a favourite question.