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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

Q12061.Indian PolityAsked in: UPSC Civil Services · 2020Hard

Consider the following statements: 1. The Constitution of India defines its basic structure in terms of federalism, secularism, fundamental rights and democracy. 2. The Constitution of India has a provision for judicial review to safeguard the citizens' liberties and to preserve the ideals on which the Constitution is based. Which of the statements given above is or are correct?

  1. A.1 only
  2. B.2 only
  3. C.Both 1 and 2
  4. D.Neither 1 nor 2
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Correct answer: D. Neither 1 nor 2

Statement 1 is wrong because the Constitution nowhere uses the expression basic structure or defines it. The doctrine is a creation of the Supreme Court in Kesavananda Bharati in 1973, and the courts have added features to it case by case, which is why no closed list exists.

Q12062.Indian PolityMedium

Which amendment provides for the reservation of one third of the seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies?

  1. A.One hundred and first Amendment
  2. B.One hundred and third Amendment
  3. C.One hundred and fourth Amendment
  4. D.One hundred and sixth Amendment
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Correct answer: D. One hundred and sixth Amendment

Passed in 2023 and called the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, it inserted Articles 330A and 332A to reserve one third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and in the state legislative assemblies, as well as in the Delhi assembly, for women, the reservation to take effect after the delimitation…

Q12063.Indian PolityEasy

An amendment touching the federal provisions of the Constitution must be ratified by the legislatures of:

  1. A.Not less than one half of the states
  2. B.Not less than two thirds of the states
  3. C.Not less than three fourths of the states
  4. D.All the states
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Correct answer: A. Not less than one half of the states

For matters such as the election of the President, the extent of the executive power of the Union and the states, the Supreme Court and the High Courts, the Seventh Schedule, the representation of states in Parliament and Article 368 itself, the bill must first be passed by each House…

Q12065.Indian PolityMedium

The voting age in India was reduced from twenty-one years to eighteen years by which amendment?

  1. A.Fifty-second Amendment
  2. B.Sixty-first Amendment
  3. C.Seventy-fourth Amendment
  4. D.Eighty-sixth Amendment
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Correct answer: B. Sixty-first Amendment

Passed in 1989, it amended Article 326 and lowered the voting age for elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies from twenty-one years to eighteen years, which brought a very large number of young voters on to the rolls for the general election that followed.

Q12067.Indian PolityEasy

Which amendment to the Constitution of India is popularly called the mini Constitution?

  1. A.Forty-second Amendment
  2. B.Forty-fourth Amendment
  3. C.Fifty-second Amendment
  4. D.Seventy-third Amendment
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Correct answer: A. Forty-second Amendment

Enacted in 1976 on the recommendations of the Swaran Singh Committee, it changed so many provisions at one stroke that it is called the mini Constitution: it added the Fundamental Duties in Part IVA, inserted the words socialist, secular and integrity in the Preamble, extended the term of the Lok…

Q12068.Indian PolityHard

By which amendment was the President's assent to a Constitution Amendment Bill made obligatory?

  1. A.Twenty-fourth Amendment, 1971
  2. B.Twenty-fifth Amendment, 1971
  3. C.Forty-second Amendment, 1976
  4. D.Forty-fourth Amendment, 1978
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Correct answer: A. Twenty-fourth Amendment, 1971

It was passed in answer to the Golaknath ruling. It amended Article 13 and Article 368 to make clear that Parliament could take away or abridge a Fundamental Right by amendment, and it made the President's assent to such a bill compulsory, so an amendment bill can neither be withheld…

Q12070.Indian PolityEasy

The doctrine of the basic structure of the Constitution was laid down by the Supreme Court in which case?

  1. A.Shankari Prasad case, 1951
  2. B.Golaknath case, 1967
  3. C.Kesavananda Bharati case, 1973
  4. D.Minerva Mills case, 1980
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Correct answer: C. Kesavananda Bharati case, 1973

A bench of thirteen judges, the largest ever assembled at the time, held by a majority of seven to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution, including the Fundamental Rights, but may not damage or destroy its basic structure.

Q12073.Indian HistoryHard

Which historian described the Revolt of 1857 as neither first, nor national, nor a war of independence?

  1. A.V. D. Savarkar
  2. B.S. N. Sen
  3. C.R. C. Majumdar
  4. D.Benjamin Disraeli
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Correct answer: C. R. C. Majumdar

He held that the rising of 1857 was not the first armed challenge to British power, that it did not cover the whole country or unite its people, and that it was not fought for a clear idea of national independence; his summing up is quoted in this exact form…

Q12075.Indian HistoryMedium

The government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown by which Act?

  1. A.Charter Act of 1853
  2. B.Government of India Act of 1858
  3. C.Indian Councils Act of 1861
  4. D.Government of India Act of 1919
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Correct answer: B. Government of India Act of 1858

Known as the Act for the Better Government of India, it abolished the East India Company along with the Board of Directors and the Board of Control, vested the government of India in the Crown, created the office of Secretary of State for India with a Council of India of…

Q12079.Indian HistoryEasy

What was the immediate cause of the Revolt of 1857?

  1. A.Annexation of Awadh
  2. B.The greased cartridges of the Enfield rifle
  3. C.The Doctrine of Lapse
  4. D.The Vernacular Press Act
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Correct answer: B. The greased cartridges of the Enfield rifle

The new rifle needed a cartridge whose end had to be bitten open, and the sepoys believed the paper was greased with the fat of cows and pigs, which offended Hindus and Muslims alike.

Q12080.Indian HistoryMedium

Kunwar Singh, a leader of the Revolt of 1857, belonged to which region?

  1. A.Jagdishpur in Bihar
  2. B.Rohilkhand in present day Uttar Pradesh
  3. C.Bundelkhand in central India
  4. D.Malwa in present day Madhya Pradesh
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Correct answer: A. Jagdishpur in Bihar

Kunwar Singh, a zamindar of Jagdishpur in the Shahabad region, was about eighty years old when he took up arms, fought the British at Arrah with his brother Amar Singh and carried the revolt into central India before returning to Bihar, where he died in 1858.

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