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.
Bihar shares an international boundary with which country?
Bihar has an international boundary of about 726 kilometres with Nepal along its entire northern edge, and the rivers that make north Bihar fertile and flood-prone, the Gandak, Bagmati, Kamla Balan and Kosi, all cross that boundary into the state.
Read the full explanation →What is the latitudinal extent of Bihar?
Stated exactly, Bihar lies between 24 degrees 20 minutes 10 seconds north and 27 degrees 31 minutes 15 seconds north latitude, and between 83 degrees 19 minutes 50 seconds east and 88 degrees 17 minutes 40 seconds east longitude.
Read the full explanation →What is the area of Bihar?
Bihar covers 94,163 square kilometres, which makes it the twelfth largest state of India by area, although it stands third in population after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Read the full explanation →Which state became the first to enact and bring into force a Uniform Civil Code?
Its Uniform Civil Code was passed by the state assembly in 2024 and brought into force in January 2025, making Uttarakhand the first state to legislate a single set of rules on marriage, divorce, succession and related matters for its residents, with the exemption for the Scheduled Tribes that the…
Read the full explanation →Which state first reserved 50 per cent of panchayat seats for women?
That minimum is the key to the question: Article 243D, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, reserves not less than one-third of the seats in every panchayat and one-third of the offices of chairperson for women, and leaves the states free to give more.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first to pass a law guaranteeing the delivery of public services within a fixed time?
The correct answer is A, Madhya Pradesh, which enacted its Public Services Guarantee Act in 2010, the first law in India to make the delivery of listed services, such as a copy of a land record, a ration card or a birth certificate, a legal right within a notified number…
Read the full explanation →Who became the first woman Chief Minister of an Indian state?
She had been a freedom fighter and a member of the Constituent Assembly before entering state politics.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first to ratify the Constitutional Amendment Bill that introduced the Goods and Services Tax?
Ratification by the legislatures of at least half the states is required under Article 368(2) for amendments that touch the federal structure, and the Bill became the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, after which the Goods and Services Tax came into force on 1 July 2017.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first in India to achieve 100 per cent rural electrification?
The achievement is a standard static GK line about the state, and it is usually paired with a second first: Haryana was also the first state to replace sales tax with Value Added Tax, on 1 April 2003, ahead of the wider rollout of VAT from 2005.
Read the full explanation →Which state was declared the first fully literate state of India?
The campaign had first been tested in Ernakulam, which became the first fully literate district in the country in 1990, and the model was later used by the National Literacy Mission elsewhere.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian state was declared the country's first fully organic state?
The policy won Sikkim the Future Policy Gold Award given by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2018. The same small Himalayan state holds two more firsts worth remembering: it banned plastic carry bags as early as 1998, and it was the first state declared free of open defecation.
Read the full explanation →Which state enacted India's first Right to Information law?
The correct answer is B, Tamil Nadu, which passed a state Right to Information Act in 1997, the first such law in the country and eight years ahead of the central Right to Information Act of 2005.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first to actually establish the institution of Lokayukta?
The idea came from the First Administrative Reforms Commission, which recommended a Lokpal at the Centre and a Lokayukta in the states to look into complaints of corruption and maladministration against public functionaries.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first in India to introduce the Panchayati Raj system?
Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the Panchayati Raj system at Nagaur on 2 October 1959, putting into practice the three-tier design recommended by the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee of 1957: the gram panchayat at the village level, the panchayat samiti at the block level and the zila parishad at the district level.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first Indian state to be formed on a linguistic basis?
It was created as Andhra State on 1 October 1953 by separating the Telugu-speaking districts of the old Madras State.
Read the full explanation →Which type of electric motor is most commonly used in modern electric cars?
Because the rotor carries permanent magnets instead of windings that must be energised, the motor is compact, light and highly efficient over a wide range of speeds, and it gives the strong torque from rest that makes electric cars quick off the mark.
Read the full explanation →A fuel cell electric vehicle, or FCEV, generates electricity on board from:
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device, not an engine: hydrogen fed to the anode is split into protons and electrons, the protons cross a membrane, the electrons travel through the external circuit and do work, and at the cathode they recombine with oxygen from the air to form water.
Read the full explanation →The Battery Waste Management Rules, which place extended producer responsibility on battery producers in India, were notified in which year?
The Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022 were notified under the Environment (Protection) Act and replaced the Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules of 2001.
Read the full explanation →In an electric vehicle, BMS stands for:
The BMS is the electronic brain of the pack. It measures the voltage, current and temperature of individual cells or groups of cells, balances their charge so that no cell is overworked, estimates the state of charge and state of health that the dashboard displays, and disconnects the pack when…
Read the full explanation →In February 2023 the Geological Survey of India announced an estimated lithium resource in which district?
The Geological Survey of India reported an inferred lithium resource in the Salal and Haimana area of that district, the first lithium find of real consequence in the country and a significant one because India had been importing virtually all its lithium and its cells.
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