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SBI GK Questions 2026

The static part of the awareness test in SBI exams is banking and economy knowledge, which is why the PO Mains test is named General Awareness/ Economy/ Banking Knowledge and the Clerk Mains test General/ Financial Awareness. The sample questions in the Bank's booklet ask which institution introduced Know Your Customer norms, which sector drives State incomes, who led Operation Flood and what monetary policy is concerned with, and the real papers follow that line. The topics that recur are the RBI and its functions, monetary policy tools such as the repo rate, CRR and SLR, types of banks and accounts, NPAs, priority sector lending, KYC and anti-money-laundering rules, payment systems like UPI, NEFT and RTGS, banking terms and abbreviations, financial regulators such as SEBI, IRDAI and PFRDA, development institutions such as NABARD and SIDBI, the Union Budget and the Economic Survey, GDP, inflation and national income, and government schemes for financial inclusion, insurance and pensions. A few questions ask plain static GK: headquarters and heads, currencies and capitals, and dates in banking history. 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. Read a topic, then solve its quiz and the SBI previous-year questions on this site to see what you retained.

SBI GK Questions with Answers

Q481.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Code on Wages, 2019, the floor wage is fixed by

  1. A.Each State Government for its own territory
  2. B.The Central Government
  3. C.The Reserve Bank of India
  4. D.The Fifteenth Finance Commission
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Correct answer: B. The Central Government

It fixes a floor wage after taking into account the minimum living standards of a worker, and may set different floor wages for different geographical areas; no state may then fix a minimum wage below that floor.

Q482.Indian EconomyEasy

A gig worker, a platform worker and an aggregator have been defined in central law for the first time by which code?

  1. A.The Code on Social Security, 2020
  2. B.The Code on Wages, 2019
  3. C.The Industrial Relations Code, 2020
  4. D.The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
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Correct answer: A. The Code on Social Security, 2020

It defines a gig worker as one who works outside a traditional employer-employee relationship, a platform worker as one who gets work through an online platform, and an aggregator as the digital intermediary that connects buyer and seller, and it provides a social security fund for such workers.

Q483.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Industrial Relations Code, 2020, an employer must take the prior permission of the appropriate government for lay-off, retrenchment or closure if the establishment employs at least

  1. A.Fifty workers
  2. B.One hundred workers
  3. C.Two hundred workers
  4. D.Three hundred workers
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Correct answer: D. Three hundred workers

The code raises the threshold from the earlier figure and also makes three hundred the point at which certified standing orders become compulsory, so one number serves two provisions.

Q484.Indian EconomyMedium

The Trade Unions Act, 1926, the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946 and the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 have been subsumed into which code?

  1. A.The Code on Wages, 2019
  2. B.The Industrial Relations Code, 2020
  3. C.The Code on Social Security, 2020
  4. D.The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020
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Correct answer: B. The Industrial Relations Code, 2020

These three Acts dealt with the registration of unions, the conditions of service to be published as standing orders, and the machinery for disputes, lay-off, retrenchment and closure, and all three subjects are now in one code.

Q486.Indian EconomyAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2019, GS Paper IEasy

The Global Competitiveness Report is published by the

  1. A.International Monetary Fund
  2. B.United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  3. C.World Economic Forum
  4. D.World Bank
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Correct answer: C. World Economic Forum

The Global Competitiveness Report is the World Economic Forum's assessment of how well countries' institutions, policies and markets support productivity and growth.

Q487.Banking & Financial AwarenessAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2021, GS Paper IHard

With reference to 'Urban Cooperative Banks' in India, consider the following statements :

1. They are supervised and regulated by local boards set up by the State Governments.

2. They can issue equity shares and preference shares.

3. They were brought under the purview of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 through an Amendment in 1966.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. A.1 only
  2. B.2 and 3 only
  3. C.1 and 3 only
  4. D.1, 2 and 3
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Correct answer: B. 2 and 3 only

Urban Cooperative Banks are regulated by the RBI, not by local boards, and they may raise capital through equity and preference shares.

Q488.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Under which scheme can a bank customer approach the Reserve Bank of India free of cost if the bank does not resolve a complaint within thirty days?

  1. A.The Banking Codes and Standards Scheme
  2. B.The Reserve Bank Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, 2021
  3. C.The Deposit Insurance Scheme
  4. D.The Consumer Welfare Fund Scheme
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Correct answer: B. The Reserve Bank Integrated Ombudsman Scheme, 2021

The scheme merged the separate ombudsman schemes for banks, for non-banking financial companies and for digital transactions into a single one nation one ombudsman arrangement, with a centralised centre to receive and process complaints in any language.

Q489.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

The Positive Pay System introduced by the Reserve Bank of India applies to cheques of what value and above?

  1. A.Rupees 10,000
  2. B.Rupees 50,000
  3. C.Rupees 2 lakh
  4. D.Rupees 5 lakh
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Correct answer: B. Rupees 50,000

Under the Positive Pay System the issuer of a high value cheque sends the bank the key details, such as date, beneficiary name and amount, through a channel like the mobile app or internet banking, and the paying bank matches those details before honouring the cheque.

Q494.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

If a customer loses money because he shared his one-time password with a caller, how is the loss shared?

  1. A.The bank bears the entire loss
  2. B.The customer bears the entire loss, before and after reporting
  3. C.The customer bears the loss till reporting; the bank bears the loss after reporting
  4. D.The loss is shared equally in all cases
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Correct answer: C. The customer bears the loss till reporting; the bank bears the loss after reporting

Sharing a PIN, password or one-time password is treated as customer negligence, and in that case the circular makes the customer bear the whole loss up to the time the fraud is reported.

Q496.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

A bank must resolve a complaint of an unauthorised electronic transaction and determine the customer's liability within a maximum of:

  1. A.30 days from the complaint
  2. B.60 days from the complaint
  3. C.90 days from the complaint
  4. D.180 days from the complaint
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Correct answer: C. 90 days from the complaint

The circular requires every bank to have a board-approved policy fixing its own resolution period, and caps that period at ninety days from the date the complaint is received.

Q497.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Within how many working days of a customer's notification must a bank make a shadow reversal of the disputed amount?

  1. A.Three working days
  2. B.Seven working days
  3. C.Ten working days
  4. D.Thirty working days
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Correct answer: C. Ten working days

A shadow reversal is a provisional credit of the disputed amount into the customer's account. The circular requires the bank to make it within ten working days of the customer's notification, and specifically says the bank may not wait for any insurance claim of its own to be settled first.

Q498.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

For a Basic Savings Bank Deposit account, what is the maximum liability of a customer who reports a third-party breach between four and seven working days?

  1. A.Rupees 5,000
  2. B.Rupees 10,000
  3. C.Rupees 25,000
  4. D.Nil in all cases
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Correct answer: A. Rupees 5,000

The Reserve Bank's liability table sets the lowest ceiling for Basic Savings Bank Deposit accounts, which are the no-frills accounts opened for financial inclusion, because their holders are the least able to absorb a loss.

Q499.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

In a case of third-party breach, within how many working days must a customer report an unauthorised electronic banking transaction to have zero liability?

  1. A.One working day
  2. B.Three working days
  3. C.Seven working days
  4. D.Fifteen working days
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Correct answer: B. Three working days

Under the Reserve Bank's circular of 6 July 2017, where the fault lies neither with the bank nor with the customer but somewhere else in the system, the customer's liability is nil if the unauthorised transaction is reported within three working days of receiving the bank's communication about it.

Q500.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

Under the Central Repository of Information on Large Credits, banks report borrower-wise data on aggregate exposures of at least:

  1. A.Rupees one crore
  2. B.Rupees five crore
  3. C.Rupees ten crore
  4. D.Rupees fifty crore
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Correct answer: B. Rupees five crore

The Central Repository of Information on Large Credits, usually shortened to CRILC, is a database maintained by the Reserve Bank in which banks report details of every borrower whose aggregate exposure, funded and non-funded together, is five crore rupees or more.