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RRB Group D GK Questions 2026

Static GK is not a separate section in RRB Group D, but it decides most of the paper's recall marks. General Science is 25 questions of Physics, Chemistry and Life Sciences at 10th standard (CBSE) level as per CEN 09/2025, and the 20 General Awareness questions lean on the standing facts behind the news: the sport, the award, the institution, the state, the river or the scientist an event touches. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for RRB Group D. The General Science notes go topic by topic through motion and force, work, energy and power, gravitation, heat, light, sound, electricity and magnetism, atomic structure and the periodic table, chemical reactions, acids, bases and salts, metals and non-metals, and carbon compounds, and the Life Sciences notes cover cells, the human body, nutrition, diseases, plants and genetics. The static GK notes cover Indian Railways zones and facts, national symbols, first and largest in India and the world, awards and honours, important days, books and authors, sports GK, art and culture, and the basics of Indian Polity, Geography, History and the Economy. Each note is short facts and tables that can be revised in one sitting. Read a note, then solve its quiz and the previous-year questions on this site to check what stayed.

RRB Group D GK Questions with Answers

Q181.General ScienceMedium

The acceleration of a body executing simple harmonic motion is maximum at

  1. A.The mean position
  2. B.The extreme positions
  3. C.One fourth of the amplitude
  4. D.It is constant throughout
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Correct answer: B. The extreme positions

In simple harmonic motion the acceleration equals minus omega squared times the displacement, so it grows with displacement and is greatest at the ends of the path, where its value is A omega squared and it points back towards the centre.

Q182.General ScienceMedium

In simple harmonic motion, the potential energy of the oscillating body is maximum at

  1. A.The mean position
  2. B.The extreme positions
  3. C.A point midway between the mean and extreme positions
  4. D.Every point of the path
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Correct answer: B. The extreme positions

Potential energy is proportional to the square of the displacement, so it is greatest where the displacement is greatest, that is at the two ends of the path, where the body is momentarily at rest and its kinetic energy is zero.

Q183.General ScienceMedium

If a pendulum clock is taken from the earth to the moon, where the acceleration due to gravity is about one sixth, its time period will

  1. A.Decrease
  2. B.Increase
  3. C.Remain the same
  4. D.Become zero
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Correct answer: B. Increase

The time period varies inversely as the square root of g, so if g falls to one sixth, the period is multiplied by the square root of six, about 2.45 times; the pendulum swings more slowly and a pendulum clock taken to the moon would lose time badly.

Q186.General ScienceEasy

The time period of a simple pendulum does not depend on which of the following?

  1. A.The length of the pendulum
  2. B.The mass of the bob
  3. C.The acceleration due to gravity
  4. D.All of these
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Correct answer: B. The mass of the bob

The time period of a simple pendulum is two pi times the square root of the length divided by g, in which the mass of the bob does not appear at all; a heavy bob and a light bob of the same length keep the same time, which is the…

Q190.General ScienceAsked in: CDS · CDS-I 2025, GKEasy

Lactose is made up of :

  1. A.Glucose only
  2. B.Glucose and Fructose
  3. C.Glucose and Sucrose
  4. D.Glucose and Galactose
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Correct answer: D. Glucose and Galactose

Lactose, the sugar of milk, is a disaccharide formed when one molecule of glucose joins one molecule of galactose. Disaccharides are sugars made of two simple sugar units, or monosaccharides, linked by a glycosidic bond.

Q191.General ScienceAsked in: CDS · CDS-II 2016, GKEasy

In total internal reflection, the light travels from

  1. A.rarer to denser medium and it occurs with no loss of intensity
  2. B.denser to rarer medium and it occurs with no loss of intensity
  3. C.rarer to denser medium and it occurs with loss of intensity
  4. D.denser to rarer medium and it occurs with loss of intensity
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Correct answer: B. denser to rarer medium and it occurs with no loss of intensity

Total internal reflection happens only when light inside a denser medium meets the boundary with a rarer one at an angle larger than the critical angle, and all of the light is reflected back.

Q192.General ScienceAsked in: CDS · CDS-II 2019, GKEasy

In graphite, each carbon atom is bonded to three other carbon atoms

  1. A.forming a three-dimensional structure
  2. B.in the same plane giving a hexagonal array
  3. C.in the same plane giving a square array
  4. D.in the same plane giving a pentagonal array
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Correct answer: B. in the same plane giving a hexagonal array

In graphite each carbon atom is joined to three others in a flat layer of hexagonal rings, like a honeycomb.

Q193.General ScienceAsked in: CDS · CDS-I 2022, GKMedium

Consider the following pairs of vaccine and category/type : 1. Covaxin : Inactivated pathogen-based vaccine 2. Covishield : mRNA vaccine 3. Sputnik V : Viral vector-based vaccine Which of the pairs given above is/are correctly matched ?

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

Covaxin is an inactivated virus vaccine and Sputnik V is a viral vector vaccine, but Covishield is a viral vector vaccine, not an mRNA vaccine.

Q196.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-II 2021, GATMedium

Imagine a current-carrying straight conductor with magnetic field of lines in anti-clockwise direction. Then the direction of current is determined by

  1. A.the Right-Hand Thumb rule and it would be in the downward direction.
  2. B.the Left-Hand Thumb rule and it would be in the downward direction.
  3. C.the Right-Hand Thumb rule and it would be in the upward direction.
  4. D.the Left-Hand Thumb rule and it would be in the upward direction.
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Correct answer: C. the Right-Hand Thumb rule and it would be in the upward direction.

For a straight wire, the right-hand thumb rule links the current to the circular field lines around it. Hold the wire in the right hand with the thumb along the current; the curled fingers then show the direction of the magnetic field lines, which form concentric circles around the wire.

Q197.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-II 2023, GATEasy

Which one of the following statements is true for sound waves propagating in air?

  1. A.Sound is an electromagnetic wave and transverse in nature
  2. B.Sound is a mechanical wave and longitudinal in nature
  3. C.Sound is a mechanical wave and transverse in nature
  4. D.Sound is an electromagnetic wave and longitudinal in nature
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Correct answer: B. Sound is a mechanical wave and longitudinal in nature

Sound needs a material medium to travel, and in air its particles vibrate back and forth along the direction the wave moves.

Q199.General ScienceAsked in: NDA · NDA-I 2017, GATHard

Which one of the following statements is correct about the magnification of an optical microscope?

  1. A.Magnification increases with the increase in focal length of eyepiece
  2. B.Magnification increases with the increase in focal length of objective
  3. C.Magnification does not depend upon the focal length of eyepiece
  4. D.Magnification decreases with the increase in focal length of eyepiece
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Correct answer: D. Magnification decreases with the increase in focal length of eyepiece

A compound microscope magnifies more when both its lenses have short focal lengths. In a compound microscope the objective forms a real, enlarged image, and the eyepiece magnifies it further like a simple magnifier.

Q200.NationalMedium

According to the West Bengal Chief Minister, what is the state's railway budget allocation for 2026-27?

  1. A.Rs 4,380 crore
  2. B.Rs 7,500 crore
  3. C.Rs 14,205 crore
  4. D.Rs 75,000 crore
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Correct answer: C. Rs 14,205 crore

Chief Minister Shri Suvendu Adhikari, speaking at the flagging-off ceremony, said the annual average railway allocation for West Bengal during the years from 2009 to 2014 was Rs 4,380 crore, and that it has risen to the figure in option C for the current year.