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Railway GK Questions 2026

Static GK in railway exams starts with one shared block: Class 10 science. Every RRB exam on GK24 tests it. Group D has 25 questions on Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences of 10th CBSE level. JE has 30 in CBT-1 and another 15 on Physics and Chemistry in CBT-2. ALP tests General Science in CBT-1 and Basic Science and Engineering in CBT-2, and NTPC lists general science up to 10th inside General Awareness. Beyond science, the lists differ. NTPC names history and the freedom struggle, geography, polity, the economy, art and culture, environment, computers, abbreviations, transport systems in India, world organisations and government bodies. JE names geography, history and culture, polity, the economy and environmental issues, and adds computers and pollution control in CBT-2. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for railway exams in English and Hindi: General Science, History, Geography, Polity, Economy, Art and Culture, Environment, Computers and static GK, including Indian Railways. Each note is short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting. Begin with the science notes, since they serve every railway exam, then add the static topics your exam lists, and test each note with its quiz.

Railway GK Questions with Answers

Q7122.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2022, GATMedium

The electric field lines from an isolated positively charged conducting sphere are

  1. A.tangential to the conducting surface
  2. B.at right angles to the conducting surface and towards the centre of the sphere
  3. C.at any angle to the conducting surface
  4. D.at right angles to the conducting surface and outwards from the centre of the sphere
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Correct answer: D. at right angles to the conducting surface and outwards from the centre of the sphere

Field lines always leave a conductor normal to its surface, and for a positive charge they point away from it.

Q7124.GeographyAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2023, GATMedium

Which of the following statements is/are correct ? 1. Hypocenter is the point on the surface of the Earth, nearest to the focus. 2. Velocity of earthquake waves is higher in denser materials. 3. P waves move faster and are the first to arrive at the surface of the Earth. Select the correct answer using the code given below :

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

Statement 1 describes the epicentre, not the hypocentre; statements 2 and 3 are correct. The hypocentre, or focus, is the point inside the Earth where the energy of an earthquake is released.

Q7126.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2024, GATMedium

The human eye is like a camera that has a lens with:

  1. A.fixed focal length and fixed aperture size.
  2. B.variable focal length and fixed aperture size.
  3. C.fixed focal length and variable aperture size.
  4. D.variable focal length and variable aperture size.
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Correct answer: D. variable focal length and variable aperture size.

The eye changes the focal length of its lens to focus and changes the size of its pupil to control the light.

Q7128.Indian HistoryAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2025, GATMedium

Which one of the following statements about the Bhoodan Movement is correct ?

  1. A.The target was to get one-sixth of cultivable land in India as donation
  2. B.It was approved through a Central Government Act
  3. C.It was ensured that the donated land was free from all litigation
  4. D.The first donation of land was in Bihar
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Correct answer: A. The target was to get one-sixth of cultivable land in India as donation

Vinoba Bhave asked every landowner to treat him as a son and give him a son's share, one-sixth of the land, for the landless.

Q7129.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-II 2025, GATMedium

Which one of the following statements for the work done by gravity on a body is NOT correct ?

  1. A.Work done is independent of the path followed by the body
  2. B.Work done depends only on the vertical distance separating the initial and the final position of the body
  3. C.Work done depends on the path followed by the body
  4. D.Work done is zero if the body is displaced horizontally to the force of gravity
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Correct answer: C. Work done depends on the path followed by the body

Gravity is a conservative force, so the work it does never depends on the path. The work done by gravity on a body of mass m is mgh, where h is the vertical height between the start and the end.

Q7133.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-II 2019, GATMedium

When a ball bounces off the ground, which of the following changes suddenly? (Assume no loss of energy to the floor)

  1. A.Its speed
  2. B.Its momentum
  3. C.Its kinetic energy
  4. D.Its potential energy
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Correct answer: B. Its momentum

Momentum is a vector, and on bouncing the ball's direction of motion reverses at once, from downward to upward. Just before impact the ball moves down with velocity v, so its momentum is mv downward.

Q7134.Indian EconomyAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2020, GATMedium

The call for Garibi Hatao was incorporated in

  1. A.Fourth Five Year Plan
  2. B.Fifth Five Year Plan
  3. C.Sixth Five Year Plan
  4. D.Seventh Five Year Plan
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Correct answer: B. Fifth Five Year Plan

The Fifth Plan (1974–79) made removal of poverty, or Garibi Hatao, and self-reliance its main aims. Garibi Hatao was the slogan with which Indira Gandhi's Congress won the 1971 Lok Sabha election.

Q7135.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2021, GATEasy

The statement "friction force is a contact force while magnetic force is a non-contact force" is

  1. A.always true.
  2. B.true only at 0°C.
  3. C.a false statement.
  4. D.either true or false depending upon the temperature of the surroundings.
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Correct answer: A. always true.

Friction acts only where two surfaces touch, while a magnet can push or pull an object across a gap. Forces are grouped by whether the bodies must touch.

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