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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

Q148.Indian EconomyMedium

The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor is aligned along the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, which runs from Dadri to which port?

  1. A.Kandla Port
  2. B.Jawaharlal Nehru Port
  3. C.Mormugao Port
  4. D.Mundra Port
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Correct answer: B. Jawaharlal Nehru Port

The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, the spine of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, runs about fifteen hundred kilometres from Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Navi Mumbai, which is India's largest container handling port.

Q149.Indian EconomyMedium

Trading in equity derivatives began in India in which year, following the recommendations of the L. C. Gupta Committee?

  1. A.1992
  2. B.1996
  3. C.2000
  4. D.2003
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Correct answer: C. 2000

The L. C. Gupta Committee appointed by SEBI recommended the introduction of exchange traded derivatives, the law was amended to include derivatives in the definition of securities, and trading in index futures began on the Indian stock exchanges in June 2000; index options, stock options and stock futures followed in…

Q150.Indian EconomyHard

A market is said to be in contango when:

  1. A.The futures price is higher than the spot price
  2. B.The futures price is lower than the spot price
  3. C.The spot price and the futures price are equal
  4. D.Trading in the futures contract is suspended
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Correct answer: A. The futures price is higher than the spot price

Contango is the normal condition of a commodity market, because anyone holding goods until a future date must pay for storage, insurance and interest on the money locked up, and those carrying costs are added to the spot price to arrive at the futures price.

Q151.Indian EconomyMedium

Negotiable warehouse receipts in India are regulated by:

  1. A.Food Corporation of India
  2. B.Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority
  3. C.Central Warehousing Corporation
  4. D.National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
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Correct answer: B. Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority

The Authority was created under the Warehousing (Development and Regulation) Act, 2007 to register warehouses and to regulate negotiable warehouse receipts, which allow a farmer to deposit produce in a registered warehouse, receive a receipt, raise a loan against it from a bank and sell the goods later instead of…

Q152.Indian EconomyHard

Which is regarded as the first organised futures market in India?

  1. A.Bombay Cotton Trade Association, 1875
  2. B.Multi Commodity Exchange, 2003
  3. C.Calcutta Hessian Exchange, 1919
  4. D.Bombay Stock Exchange, 1875
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Correct answer: A. Bombay Cotton Trade Association, 1875

Organised futures trading in India began with cotton at Bombay in 1875, and the association formed in that year is treated as the first organised futures market of the country; oilseeds, jute and bullion followed in the decades after.

Q153.Indian EconomyMedium

The National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) deals mainly in which group of commodities?

  1. A.Bullion and precious metals
  2. B.Crude oil and natural gas
  3. C.Agricultural commodities
  4. D.Base metals such as copper and zinc
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Correct answer: C. Agricultural commodities

NCDEX, which began operations in 2003, is the exchange on which farm contracts such as guar seed, chana, castor seed, soybean, mustard, cotton and jeera are traded, and it is the reference point for agricultural futures prices in India.

Q154.Indian EconomyHard

The Forward Markets Commission, the former regulator of commodity futures in India, was set up under which law?

  1. A.Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956
  2. B.Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952
  3. C.Essential Commodities Act, 1955
  4. D.SEBI Act, 1992
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Correct answer: B. Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952

The Forward Markets Commission was set up in 1953 under that Act, with its office at Mumbai, and it regulated commodity futures trading until its merger with SEBI in 2015, after which the Act itself was repealed.

Q155.Indian EconomyMedium

Commodity derivatives in India are regulated by which authority?

  1. A.Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.Forward Markets Commission
  3. C.Securities and Exchange Board of India
  4. D.Ministry of Consumer Affairs
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Correct answer: C. Securities and Exchange Board of India

The Forward Markets Commission was merged with SEBI on 28 September 2015, the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act of 1952 was repealed by the Finance Act of 2015, and commodity derivatives were brought within the definition of securities under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956, so SEBI now regulates them.

Q156.Indian EconomyMedium

Which of the following is a feature of a futures contract but not of a forward contract?

  1. A.It is a contract for a future date
  2. B.It is traded on a recognised exchange with standard terms
  3. C.It can be used to hedge price risk
  4. D.It has an underlying asset
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Correct answer: B. It is traded on a recognised exchange with standard terms

A future is a standardised contract in which the exchange fixes the quantity, quality, delivery date and delivery centre, both parties deposit margin, positions are marked to market daily and a clearing corporation becomes the counterparty to both sides, so the risk of default is removed.

Q157.Indian EconomyMedium

A call option gives its holder the right to:

  1. A.Buy the underlying asset at the strike price
  2. B.Sell the underlying asset at the strike price
  3. C.Borrow the underlying asset free of interest
  4. D.Cancel the contract without paying a premium
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Correct answer: A. Buy the underlying asset at the strike price

A call is the right to call the asset away from the seller, that is to buy it, and a buyer purchases a call when he expects the price of the underlying to rise above the strike price.

Q159.Indian EconomyEasy

A derivative is a financial instrument whose value is:

  1. A.Fixed by the government
  2. B.Derived from an underlying asset
  3. C.Equal to the face value of a share
  4. D.Determined by the Reserve Bank of India
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Correct answer: B. Derived from an underlying asset

A derivative has no independent value of its own; it is a contract whose worth is drawn from the price of something else, which may be a commodity such as gold or crude oil, a share, a stock index, a currency or an interest rate.

Q160.Computer AwarenessAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · CSE Prelims 2026, GS Paper IEasy

Which one of the following best describes the key objective of India's 'Open Network for Digital Commerce' (ONDC) initiative ?

  1. A.To allow government control over all digital commerce transactions
  2. B.To replace private e-commerce players
  3. C.To break the dominance of large e-commerce platforms by enabling interoperability across networks
  4. D.To mandate UPI-based payments for all online transactions
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Correct answer: C. To break the dominance of large e-commerce platforms by enabling interoperability across networks

ONDC lets a buyer on one app buy from a seller listed on any other app on the network.