Subject-wise general knowledge questions with answers and explanations.
The right to form associations and unions is a right
The right to form associations or unions is part of Article 19, and Article 19 rights belong only to citizens of India.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements with regard to the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes is not correct?
It is not correct, because the President causes the Commission's reports to be laid before each House of Parliament, not only before the Lok Sabha.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements with regard to the conduct of elections in India is/are not correct? 1. The responsibility for the preparation of the electoral rolls is vested in the Election Commission of India. 2. The Model Code of Conduct comes into existence as soon as the date of the election is announced. 3. The laws relating to delimitation of constituencies are made by the Election Commission of India. 4. No election shall be called in question except by an election petition. Select the correct answer using the code given below.
Statement 3 is the only incorrect one, because laws on the delimitation of constituencies are made by Parliament, not by the Election Commission.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is not included in the National Air Quality Index?
Methane is not one of the pollutants used to calculate India's National Air Quality Index. The National Air Quality Index was launched in 2014 under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and is run by the Central Pollution Control Board.
Read the full explanation →According to the law of diminishing marginal utility, as the amount of a good consumed increases, the marginal utility of that good tends to
Each extra unit of a good gives a consumer less additional satisfaction than the unit before it, so marginal utility falls as consumption rises.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements with regard to the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution of India is not correct?
It is not correct, because Article 31B says the opposite: an Act placed in the Ninth Schedule shall not become void merely because it is inconsistent with a fundamental right in Part III.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements about impact of tax : 1. A tax is shifted forward to consumers if the demand is inelastic relative to supply. 2. A tax is shifted backward to producers if the supply is relatively more inelastic than demand. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
The burden of a tax falls more heavily on whichever side of the market is less elastic, the side that cannot easily walk away.
Read the full explanation →The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India pertains to the administration of tribal areas in which of the following States?
The Sixth Schedule covers the administration of tribal areas in exactly these four north-eastern states.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is not true about the powers of the Supreme Court?
The power to issue writs for fundamental rights is not exclusive to the Supreme Court, because High Courts also issue writs under Article 226.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the Elephanta Island is correct?
The Elephanta caves are Shaiva rock-cut shrines, and their imagery is linked by scholars to the Pashupata order of Shiva worshippers.
Read the full explanation →This is the GK question bank on GK24, sorted by subject, so you can finish one area before you start the next. Pick Polity, History, Geography, Science, Economy, Computer or any other subject, and you get multiple-choice questions of the kind SSC, Banking, Railway, UPSC and state exams ask. The newest questions added to the bank also appear on this page, so there is always something fresh to practise.
Every question page shows the correct answer and an explanation, in English and Hindi. Do not skip the explanation, even when you got the answer right. A good explanation tells you why the answer is correct and adds the facts around it, and those facts often answer a different question in the next paper.
Questions that have appeared in a real exam are marked with the exam name and year. These previous-year questions (PYQs) show you which topics exams come back to, and there are separate PYQ pages for each subject and each exam. Try every question before you look at the answer. The effort of recalling is what makes a fact stay. Keep a short list of the facts you missed and read it again before the exam.
Yes. Every question has the correct answer and an explanation, in English and Hindi. Read the explanation even when you answer correctly, because it often adds a related fact that can come up as a different question in the exam.
Questions that appeared in a real exam are marked with the exam name and year. There are separate PYQ pages for each subject and for each exam, so you can practise only Polity PYQs, for example, or only the questions from one exam.
Yes. The question bank is sorted into the same subjects as the GK notes, including Indian Polity, History, Geography, Economy, General Science, Computer Awareness, Banking Awareness and Sports GK. Open a subject to see all its questions.
Yes. They are multiple-choice questions of the kind asked in SSC, Banking, Railway, UPSC and state exams. Questions from past papers carry the exam name and year, so you can see which topics each exam has asked before.
Read the topic note first, then attempt the questions on that topic before you look at the answers. Check each answer and explanation, mark the ones you got wrong, and try them again after a few days. Finish with the PYQs of that subject.
