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SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CGL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 25 in Tier-II Paper-I, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CGL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. Polity questions ask about articles, parts and schedules of the Constitution, amendments, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Delhi Sultanate and Mughals, and the freedom struggle from 1857 to 1947. Geography asks about rivers, soils, climate, national parks, minerals and world physical features. The Economy part asks about budget terms, the RBI, banking and basic concepts. General Science is school-level Physics, Chemistry and Biology. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CGL, written as short facts and tables so a topic can be revised in one sitting. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to check what you retained.

SSC CGL GK Questions with Answers

Q7501.Indian PolityMedium

The right to property was removed from the list of Fundamental Rights by which amendment?

  1. A.The 24th Amendment Act, 1971
  2. B.The 25th Amendment Act, 1971
  3. C.The 42nd Amendment Act, 1976
  4. D.The 44th Amendment Act, 1978
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Correct answer: D. The 44th Amendment Act, 1978

It repealed Article 19(1)(f) and Article 31 and put the right to property in a new Article 300A in Part XII, so that no person may be deprived of his property except by authority of law.

Q7502.Indian PolityMedium

The Goods and Services Tax was introduced in India by which Constitution Amendment Act?

  1. A.The 100th Amendment Act, 2015
  2. B.The 101st Amendment Act, 2016
  3. C.The 102nd Amendment Act, 2018
  4. D.The 103rd Amendment Act, 2019
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Correct answer: B. The 101st Amendment Act, 2016

It inserted Article 246A, which gives both Parliament and the State legislatures the power to make laws on goods and services tax, Article 269A for the levy and collection of integrated GST on inter-State supply, and Article 279A, under which the President constituted the GST Council with the Union Finance…

Q7503.Indian PolityMedium

Article 21A, which makes free and compulsory education a fundamental right, was inserted by which amendment?

  1. A.The 85th Amendment Act
  2. B.The 86th Amendment Act
  3. C.The 93rd Amendment Act
  4. D.The 101st Amendment Act
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Correct answer: B. The 86th Amendment Act

It inserted Article 21A, which gives every child of the age of six to fourteen years the right to free and compulsory education in such manner as the State may determine by law; the law that followed was the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.

Q7505.Indian PolityEasy

The anti-defection law was added to the Constitution as the Tenth Schedule by which amendment?

  1. A.The 44th Amendment Act, 1978
  2. B.The 52nd Amendment Act, 1985
  3. C.The 61st Amendment Act, 1989
  4. D.The 91st Amendment Act, 2003
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Correct answer: B. The 52nd Amendment Act, 1985

It inserted the Tenth Schedule, which disqualifies a member of Parliament or of a State legislature who voluntarily gives up the membership of the party on whose ticket he was elected, or who votes against the party whip.

Q7508.Indian HistoryHard

Which Viceroy had the longest term in office and faced the Quit India Movement?

  1. A.Lord Willingdon
  2. B.Lord Linlithgow
  3. C.Lord Wavell
  4. D.Lord Reading
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Correct answer: B. Lord Linlithgow

During it the provincial elections of 1937 were held under the Government of India Act of 1935, India was taken into the Second World War without consulting the legislatures and the Congress ministries resigned in 1939, the Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution of 1940, the August Offer was made…

Q7509.Indian HistoryHard

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact of 1931 was signed at the end of which movement?

  1. A.The Non-Cooperation Movement
  2. B.The Civil Disobedience Movement
  3. C.The Khilafat Movement
  4. D.The Quit India Movement
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Correct answer: B. The Civil Disobedience Movement

The movement began with the Dandi March of March 1930 against the salt law, and after the first Round Table Conference the Viceroy Lord Irwin negotiated a pact with Mahatma Gandhi on 5 March 1931: political prisoners were to be released, the making of salt for domestic use on the…

Q7510.Indian HistoryMedium

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 took place during the term of which Viceroy?

  1. A.Lord Hardinge II
  2. B.Lord Chelmsford
  3. C.Lord Reading
  4. D.Lord Irwin
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Correct answer: B. Lord Chelmsford

The Rowlatt Act was passed in March 1919 under him, and on 13 April 1919 General Dyer ordered troops to fire on an unarmed gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar; the Hunter Committee was appointed to inquire into it and Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in protest.

Q7512.Indian HistoryMedium

The partition of Bengal of 1905 was carried out by which Viceroy?

  1. A.Lord Curzon
  2. B.Lord Minto II
  3. C.Lord Hardinge II
  4. D.Lord Lansdowne
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Correct answer: A. Lord Curzon

He announced the partition of the Bengal Presidency in July 1905 and it came into force on 16 October 1905, creating the province of Eastern Bengal and Assam; the official reason was administrative convenience, but the real purpose was to divide the Hindu and Muslim population and weaken the nationalist…

Q7513.Indian HistoryMedium

Who is called the father of local self-government in India?

  1. A.Lord Canning
  2. B.Lord Mayo
  3. C.Lord Ripon
  4. D.Lord Minto
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Correct answer: C. Lord Ripon

His Resolution on Local Self-Government of 1882 proposed boards for rural and urban areas with a majority of elected non-official members and a non-official chairman, and asked that they be given control over local funds, which is why he is remembered as the father of local self-government in India.

Q7516.Indian HistoryEasy

Who was the first Viceroy of India after the Government of India Act of 1858?

  1. A.Lord Dalhousie
  2. B.Lord Canning
  3. C.Lord Mayo
  4. D.Lord Lytton
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Correct answer: B. Lord Canning

The Government of India Act of 1858 transferred the administration of India from the East India Company to the Crown and renamed the Governor-General of India as the Viceroy; Canning, who was already Governor-General when the Revolt of 1857 broke out, became the first Viceroy in 1858 and held the…

Q7517.Indian EconomyHard

The Wholesale Price Index in India is released by the Office of the Economic Adviser, which works under

  1. A.The Ministry of Finance
  2. B.The Ministry of Commerce and Industry
  3. C.The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
  4. D.The Ministry of Labour and Employment
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Correct answer: B. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry

The Office of the Economic Adviser in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, which is a department of that ministry, compiles and releases the Wholesale Price Index every month, along with the index of eight core industries; the wholesale index covers primary articles, fuel and power and…

Q7518.Indian EconomyHard

The Index of Industrial Production in India is compiled and released by

  1. A.The Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.The National Statistical Office
  3. C.The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
  4. D.The Labour Bureau
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Correct answer: B. The National Statistical Office

The index measures the short term change in the volume of production of the industrial sector and is published every month, with mining, manufacturing and electricity as its three sectors and a use-based classification into primary goods, capital goods, intermediate goods, infrastructure and construction goods, consumer durables and consumer non-durables.

Q7519.Indian EconomyHard

Which Act provides the legal framework for the collection of official statistics in India?

  1. A.The Census Act, 1948
  2. B.The Collection of Statistics Act, 2008
  3. C.The Right to Information Act, 2005
  4. D.The Indian Statistical Institute Act, 1959
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Correct answer: B. The Collection of Statistics Act, 2008

It empowers the Union, the State and local governments to collect statistics on economic, demographic, social, scientific and environmental matters, obliges the informant to furnish the information asked for, and bars the disclosure of the information of an individual informant for any purpose other than statistics; it was amended in…

Q7520.Indian EconomyMedium

The National Statistical Commission was set up in 2005 on the recommendation of which commission?

  1. A.The Rangarajan Commission on statistics
  2. B.The Tendulkar Committee
  3. C.The Kelkar Task Force
  4. D.The Narasimham Committee
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Correct answer: A. The Rangarajan Commission on statistics

The commission headed by C. Rangarajan reviewed the Indian statistical system and recommended a permanent and autonomous body to lay down standards, so the National Statistical Commission was constituted in 2005 as an advisory body with a part-time chairperson, members and the chief executive officer as its secretary; the chief…