Static GK carries most of the General Knowledge marks in the defence exams, and science carries the largest share of it. In NDA & NA, Physics, Chemistry and General Science are about half of the 400 marks of Part B, and History, the freedom movement and Geography are about 20% each, as per the notice. In the CDS (II) 2026 General Knowledge paper, GK24 counted about 37 science questions, about 20 each on Polity and History, about 15 on Geography and environment and about 10 on the Economy; this count is guidance, not an official break-up. The Army's Agniveer CEE gives 15 of its 50 General Duty questions to General Knowledge and 15 to General Science, which covers cells, the human body, plants and animals and common epidemics. Its GK list names history, culture and geography of India and its neighbours, the Constitution, inventions and discoveries, books and authors, and the Indian Armed Forces. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes and GK questions tagged for NDA, CDS and Agniveer, in English and Hindi: General Science, Indian History, Art and Culture, Indian Polity, Geography, Indian Economy and Static GK. Read one topic at a sitting, then solve its questions and the previous-year questions of your exam to see what stayed with you.
A long narrow stretch of sand and/or shingle with one end attached to the mainland is called
A spit is a ridge of sand or shingle joined to the land at one end, with the other end running out into open water.
Read the full explanation →Madhyamika Karika, the basic text of Madhyamika School, was composed by
Nagarjuna, the Mahayana philosopher of about the second century CE, founded the Madhyamika school and wrote its root text, the Mulamadhyamakakarika.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following processes is/are part of the Rock Cycle ? 1. Lithification 2. Metamorphism 3. Solidification Select the answer using the code given below :
Lithification, metamorphism and solidification are each a step in the rock cycle, the endless change of rocks from one type into another.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following ancient towns is known for the evidence of a ploughed field from its early Harappan levels, with two sets of furrows at right angles to each other, suggesting two different crops grown together?
Excavators found a ploughed field below the Harappan town at Kalibangan, in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan, on the dry bed of the Ghaggar.
Read the full explanation →Akshay Kumar was chosen for the best actor award for the 64th National Film Awards (2017) for his role in the Hindi film
Akshay Kumar won the Best Actor award at the 64th National Film Awards, announced in April 2017, for playing a naval officer in Rustom.
Read the full explanation →Gwadar port is located in
Gwadar is a deep-sea port on the Arabian Sea coast of Pakistan's Balochistan province. Gwadar lies on the Makran coast, not far from the border with Iran and close to the mouth of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
Read the full explanation →Natural Population Change is calculated by
Natural change counts only births and deaths, so it is the birth rate minus the death rate. Both rates are usually given per thousand people per year.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following classical poets is the author of the book Kiratarjuniyam ?
Bharavi, a Sanskrit poet of the sixth century CE, wrote the Kiratarjuniyam. The Kiratarjuniyam is a mahakavya in eighteen cantos.
Read the full explanation →What was the Dutt-Bradley thesis?
The Dutt-Bradley thesis was a communist document which held that the Indian National Congress could play a great and foremost part in building an anti-imperialist people's front.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the correct sequence of events during sexual reproduction in plants?
Pollen first reaches the stigma, then the gametes fuse, the zygote divides to form an embryo, and the embryo inside the seed grows into a seedling.
Read the full explanation →In which one of the following places was the Ahmadiyya Movement started by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad?
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1889 at Qadian, a town in the Gurdaspur district of Punjab. The Ahmadiyya Movement was one of the Muslim reform movements of the late nineteenth century.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana are correct?
1. It is part of Government of India's poverty reduction strategy.
2. It is a centrally sponsored scheme for rural development.
3. It provides connectivity in rural areas.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
PMGSY is a centrally sponsored rural development scheme, launched as part of the poverty reduction strategy, to give all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages.
Read the full explanation →Refraction of light, as it enters from one transparent medium to another, is due to
Light travels at different speeds in different media, and this change in speed at the boundary makes it bend. Light is fastest in vacuum, about 3 × 10⁸ m/s, and slower in water and glass.
Read the full explanation →Plants prepare glucose in the process of:
Green plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to make glucose, giving out oxygen as a by-product. Photosynthesis takes place mainly in the chloroplasts of leaf cells, where chlorophyll traps light energy.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following pairs of enzymes do not work at acidic pH?
Both work in neutral to alkaline conditions, in the mouth and the small intestine, and stop working in the acid of the stomach.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following clues about a State of India:
1. It is known as 'land of red river and blue hills'.
2. It contains three of the six physiographic divisions of India.
3. It covers about 2.39 percent of total areas of the country.
Identify the State on the basis of the given clues.
Assam is called the land of the red river and blue hills, the red river being the silt-laden Brahmaputra and the blue hills those that ring its valley.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is not correct about the Indian Independence Act, 1947?
The Indian Independence Act ended British rule but did not lay down the framework of the Constitution; that framework came largely from the Government of India Act, 1935.
Read the full explanation →Which one among the following statements for the gases mentioned below is not correct?
Filament bulbs are commonly filled with argon, often mixed with nitrogen, not helium. An inert gas in a filament bulb slows the evaporation of the hot tungsten filament.
Read the full explanation →What is the correct sequence of the following mountain ranges as one moves from North towards South?
1. Karakoram
2. Kunlun
3. Ladakh
4. Zaskar
Select the answer using the code given below:
Going south from Central Asia one crosses the Kunlun, then the Karakoram, then the Ladakh Range and then the Zaskar Range.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is not a property of 'graphene'?
Graphene is not a wide band-gap semiconductor; it has practically zero band gap and behaves like a semimetal.
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