CDS Previous Year GK Questions

PFMS is run by the office of the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) in the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance.

The lower the pH, the stronger the acid, and pH 0 lies at the most acidic end of the common scale.

Collateral is an asset that the borrower pledges to the lender as security until the loan is repaid. When a bank lends money it wants protection against default.

In household wiring the wire with green insulation is the earth wire, not the live wire, so this statement is not correct.

In an isotonic solution the concentration outside the cell equals that inside, so there is no net movement of water.

All three symbols come from the Latin names of these metals: aurum, stannum and plumbum. Many metals known since ancient times take their symbols from Latin rather than English.

The movement was a non-violent withdrawal of cooperation, not an attempt to seize the government's machinery. The Non-Cooperation Movement was approved at the Calcutta special session in September 1920 and confirmed at the Nagpur session in December 1920.

Xerophytes live where water is scarce, so they have few stomata to cut down water loss. Xerophytes are plants of deserts and dry habitats, such as cacti, Opuntia, Calotropis and Acacia.

Gondi, spoken by the Gond tribal community of central India, has not been included in the Eighth Schedule. The Eighth Schedule lists the languages recognised by the Constitution, and Articles 344 and 351 link it to the development of Hindi.

Many white blood cells destroy germs by swallowing them, and that digestion needs a large number of lysosomes. Lysosomes are small membrane-bound sacs packed with hydrolytic enzymes that break down proteins, fats, carbohydrates and nucleic acids.

The Latin phrase habeas corpus literally means 'you may have the body', and the writ protects personal liberty. Under Article 32 the Supreme Court, and under Article 226 the High Courts, can issue five writs.

The New Development Bank was founded by the five BRICS countries, and Canada is not one of them. The founding members are Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

Copper is less reactive than lead, so it cannot push lead out of its compound. In a displacement reaction, a more reactive metal takes the place of a less reactive metal in its salt solution.

When the jobs on offer need skills, or are in places, that do not match the workers available, people stay jobless even though vacancies exist.

Graphite has free electrons that can move through it, so it conducts electricity; diamond and fullerene do not conduct well.

In a short circuit the live and neutral wires touch, the resistance of the path falls almost to zero, and the current shoots up.

The route runs from the dry west to the wet east coast, so the vegetation changes as rainfall rises. Bikaner lies in the Thar Desert of western Rajasthan, where rainfall is below about 25 cm and only desert plants such as khejri and cactus grow.

A leaf from a sunny day is full of starch made by photosynthesis, and iodine turns starch blue-black. This is the standard school test for starch in a leaf.

A body moving faster than sound outruns its own sound waves, which pile up into a shock wave heard on the ground as a sonic boom.

The Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan is a campaign to make places, transport and information accessible; it is run by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities and has no pension component.