SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Three equal resistors R in parallel have a combined resistance of R/3, and at the same voltage the power, V²/R, becomes three times as large.

Article 15(2) says no citizen can be denied access to, or the use of, wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places of public resort maintained wholly or partly out of State funds, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.

Digestion begins in the mouth, where saliva adds salivary amylase to the food as it is chewed. Salivary amylase, also called ptyalin, starts breaking starch into maltose while food is still in the mouth.

Formed in April 1918 by B. P. Wadia among the textile workers of Madras, it is regarded as India's first trade union in the modern, organised sense.

All three features, richness in lime, iron, magnesia and alumina, a deep clayey and impermeable texture, and a spread over Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, describe the black or regur soil.

The stinging hairs on nettle leaves inject methanoic acid, also called formic acid, into the skin, which causes the burning pain.

Starlight bends as it passes through air layers of changing density, and because these layers keep moving, the star seems to flicker.

Momentum is mass times velocity, 10 × 10 = 100 N.s, and kinetic energy is half the mass times the square of the speed, ½ × 10 × 10 × 10 = 500 J. Linear momentum, p = mv, measures the quantity of motion and is a vector; its unit…

The Census defines a literate as a person aged seven or above who can both read and write with understanding in any language, so someone who can only read does not qualify.

Free legal aid is a Directive Principle under Article 39A, and the Supreme Court has made it the duty of the police to inform the nearest Legal Aid Committee as soon as a person is arrested.

X-rays can pass through solid materials and their wavelength is close to the spacing of atoms, so they serve both purposes.

Statement 2 is the only incorrect one, because a compound always has a fixed composition, not a variable one. An element is the simplest form of matter and cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical reactions, so statement 1 is correct.

It is the Finance Ministry's nodal department for economic policy, at home and abroad, including the management of foreign exchange.

The laws passed between 1948 and the middle of the nineteen fifties ended zamindari, jagirdari and similar tenures across the country and brought about twenty million cultivators into direct relation with the state, and the First Amendment of 1951 secured those laws, so the class of rent collecting intermediaries disappeared.

Passed in 1978, it deleted the right to property from Part III and re-enacted it as Article 300A, under which no person may be deprived of property except by authority of law, so the protection is now a legal right enforceable through the ordinary courts rather than a fundamental right.

A benami transfer records land in the name of a relative, a servant or a fictitious person while the real owner keeps control, and it was the commonest device used to stay within the family ceiling on paper while holding far more land in fact, which is one reason so…

These states made consolidation compulsory and completed it over most of their cultivated area, exchanging a farmer's scattered strips for one compact block, which made tube wells, tractors and field channels worth installing and so fed into the green revolution.

Land, rights in and over land, land tenures, the relation of landlord and tenant, and the collection of rent are entries of List II of the Seventh Schedule, which is why zamindari abolition, tenancy law and ceilings were enacted state by state and why their record varies so much.

Walking through the villages of the Telangana region in 1951 he asked landowners to treat the landless as their own kin and to gift a share of their land, and the first such gift at Pochampally began the Bhoodan or land gift movement, later extended as Gramdan, the gift of…

From 1978 the state government ran a campaign to enter the names of sharecroppers, known there as bargadars, in official records, which gave them a permanent and heritable right to cultivate and a legally fixed share of the crop, and it is quoted as the most effective tenancy reform in…