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.
Who designed the Indian rupee sign that was approved by the Union Cabinet in 2010?
His design won a public competition and the Union Cabinet approved it on 15 July 2010.
Read the full explanation →The National Calendar of India is based on the Saka era. Which is its first month?
The Saka calendar was adopted as the National Calendar with effect from 22 March 1957, which was the first of Chaitra in the Saka year 1879.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the National Aquatic Animal of India?
Platanista gangetica, the South Asian river dolphin of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna systems, was notified as the National Aquatic Animal in 2009.
Read the full explanation →Vande Mataram, the National Song of India, first appeared in which novel?
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composed Vande Mataram in Sanskritised Bengali and later placed it in his novel Anandamath, published in 1882, where the ascetic rebels sing it.
Read the full explanation →Jana Gana Mana, the National Anthem of India, was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the session of the Indian National Congress held at
Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali song was sung for the first time at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December 1911.
Read the full explanation →The motto Satyameva Jayate inscribed below the State Emblem of India is taken from which text?
Satyameva Jayate, meaning truth alone triumphs, comes from a verse of the Mundaka Upanishad, which belongs to the Atharva Veda.
Read the full explanation →What is the ratio of the width to the length of the National Flag of India?
The Flag Code of India fixes the shape of the National Flag as a rectangle whose width stands to its length as two to three, so a flag six hundred millimetres in length is four hundred millimetres in height.
Read the full explanation →The National Flag of India in its present form was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on
The Constituent Assembly adopted the tricolour on that day, a few weeks before independence, after a committee under Dr Rajendra Prasad settled the design.
Read the full explanation →Which is the national heritage animal of India?
The Indian elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, was declared the National Heritage Animal in 2010 on the recommendation of the Elephant Task Force, so that its protection could be given the same weight as that of the tiger.
Read the full explanation →On which day was the National Emblem of India adopted?
The State Emblem of India was adopted on the day the Constitution came into force and the country became a Republic.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was NOT a scientific payload of India's Mars Orbiter Mission?
That instrument belonged to Chandrayaan 1, the lunar mission of 2008, and it was the one whose data confirmed water molecules on the Moon.
Read the full explanation →On which date did India's Mars Orbiter Mission successfully enter the orbit of Mars?
After a journey of about ten months the spacecraft fired its engine and was captured by the gravity of Mars on that day.
Read the full explanation →The Mars Orbiter Mission of India, popularly called Mangalyaan, was launched by which vehicle?
The Mars Orbiter Mission lifted off on 5 November 2013 on this flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following did Chandrayaan 3 NOT carry?
Chandrayaan 3 was deliberately built without one, because the orbiter of Chandrayaan 2 was still healthy in lunar orbit and could relay the lander's signals to the Earth.
Read the full explanation →The landing site of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon has been named
The spot where the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 touched down on 23 August 2023, in the high latitude region near the lunar south pole, was given this name shortly after the landing.
Read the full explanation →With the success of Chandrayaan 3, India became which country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon?
The Soviet Union was the first to place a craft gently on the lunar surface, the United States followed, and China became the third.
Read the full explanation →On which date did the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 make its soft landing on the Moon?
The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 touched down safely in the high latitude region near the lunar south pole on that evening, and the rover Pragyan rolled out soon afterwards.
Read the full explanation →What are the names of the lander and the rover of the Chandrayaan missions?
The lander is named Vikram after Vikram Sarabhai, the physicist who founded the Indian space programme and is called its father.
Read the full explanation →Chandrayaan 2 was launched in July 2019 on which rocket?
Chandrayaan 2 lifted off on 22 July 2019 on the heaviest Indian rocket then flying, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark Three, which has since been renamed LVM3.
Read the full explanation →The presence of water molecules on the Moon was confirmed using data from which instrument carried by Chandrayaan 1?
This imaging spectrometer, supplied by the United States space agency and flown on the Indian orbiter, measured how sunlight reflected from the lunar surface and found the absorption signature of water molecules and hydroxyl, especially towards the poles.
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