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.
Which Hindustani classical Raag is sung as an invitation to rain?
Malhar is the raga of the monsoon, sung to welcome and call the rains. Hindustani music links many ragas with a season or a time of day.
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Light that enters a cut diamond is reflected again and again inside it before it escapes, which makes the stone sparkle.
Read the full explanation →In order to find out the absolute location of a place on the map, which of the following will be required?
The exact, absolute position of any point on Earth is fixed only where its line of latitude crosses its line of longitude.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is the busiest sea route and links two industrially developed regions of the world ?
It joins north-eastern North America with Western Europe, two of the most industrialised regions on Earth, and carries the heaviest traffic of any ocean route.
Read the full explanation →Which one among the following statements about the Department of Defence (DoD) is not correct?
Restructuring military commands for the best use of resources, including joint and theatre commands, is a task of the Department of Military Affairs, not of the Department of Defence.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following dynasties ruled under the suzerainty of Kingdom of Vijayanagar ?
These four dynasties ruled the Vijayanagara empire one after another. Harihara I and Bukka I of the Sangama dynasty founded Vijayanagara in 1336 on the banks of the Tungabhadra.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is NOT an electromagnetic wave ?
Sound is a mechanical wave that needs a medium to travel, while the other three are electromagnetic waves. Sound travels as a longitudinal wave of compressions and rarefactions in air, water or solids, which is why it cannot pass through a vacuum.
Read the full explanation →What is the depression at the top of a volcano following a volcanic eruption called?
A crater is the bowl-shaped depression at the top of a volcano, around the opening through which lava, gas and ash come out.
Read the full explanation →Which one among the following statements about 'Drumlin' is correct ?
A drumlin is a smooth, oval hill shaped by a moving glacier out of glacial till, so it is a landform of glacial deposition.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following does not find mention in the works of the astronomers of ancient India?
Uranus cannot normally be picked out by the naked eye and was discovered only in 1781, so ancient Indian astronomers never wrote about it.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the English Education Act of 1835 is NOT correct ?
The 1835 resolution did the opposite: it stopped fresh stipends to students of Oriental institutions and stopped spending on printing Oriental texts.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is NOT true for an electromagnetic wave ?
Electromagnetic waves are transverse, not longitudinal, so this statement is false. In an electromagnetic wave the electric field and the magnetic field oscillate at right angles to each other and both at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following is a pull factor for migration?
A pull factor is something attractive at the destination that draws people towards it, and better pay is the classic example.
Read the full explanation →The greatest diversity of animal and plant species is found in :
Tropical rainforests hold more plant and animal species than any other land ecosystem. These forests cover only about six to seven per cent of the Earth's land, yet they are thought to hold more than half of all known land species.
Read the full explanation →Where does podsolization take place ?
Podsolization is the soil process of cool, moist climates under coniferous forest, which lie in the high middle latitudes. In the cold, wet taiga belt, needle litter from pines and firs decays slowly and forms acidic humus.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements : 1. WTO was set up as the successor to GATT. 2. IAEA teams inspect nuclear facilities all over the world. 3. Amnesty International is an NGO. How many of the statements given above are correct?
All three statements are correct: the WTO replaced GATT, the IAEA inspects nuclear sites worldwide, and Amnesty International is a non-governmental organisation.
Read the full explanation →How many AI prototype submissions came out of the Build-a-thon 5.0 preparation phase?
The Build-a-thon opened in early July with more than 25 registered teams, each with about four members, and in the preparation phase experts from the International Telecommunication Union and the Department of Telecommunications held five online mentoring sessions.
Read the full explanation →Which team won the first prize at the AI for Good Build-a-thon 5.0?
The correct answer is Team Netaxis of RVCE Bangalore, which won for an entry on context aware agentic orchestration of quality of service and adaptive security in resource constrained 5G. Option A is wrong because Team SNR took the second prize, for work on knowledge-grounded retrieval, deterministic constraint validation and…
Read the full explanation →What was the theme of the AI for Good Build-a-thon 5.0 held at India Mobile Congress 2026?
The Build-a-thon was organised by the Department of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Communications along with the International Telecommunication Union, and was held on the closing day of India Mobile Congress 2026 at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi.
Read the full explanation →Where will the next meeting of the India-Brunei Darussalam Joint Trade Committee be held?
At the close of the third meeting both sides agreed that the next round of the Joint Trade Committee would be convened there, and that the nodal agencies and working groups concerned would remain in regular communication in the meantime to monitor follow-up action and advance the trade and investment…
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