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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

Q14301.Banking & Financial AwarenessHard

The nationalisation of fourteen major commercial banks announced in July 1969 was given lasting legal effect by which Act?

  1. A.The State Bank of India Act, 1955
  2. B.The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970
  3. C.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.The Regional Rural Banks Act, 1976
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Correct answer: B. The Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970

Fourteen banks were nationalised on 19 July 1969 by an ordinance; after the Supreme Court struck down the ordinance and the Act that followed it, Parliament enacted the Act of 1970, and a similar Act of 1980 covered the six banks nationalised on 15 April 1980.

Q14302.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Debt Recovery Tribunals in India were established under an Act of which year?

  1. A.1949
  2. B.1985
  3. C.1993
  4. D.2002
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Correct answer: C. 1993

The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993, passed after the Tiwari Committee recommended a special forum for bank dues, created the Debt Recovery Tribunals and the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals to decide applications by banks and financial institutions above a prescribed amount and to issue…

Q14303.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

Which Act enables a bank to take possession of the security for a loan without the intervention of a court?

  1. A.The Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993
  2. B.The SARFAESI Act, 2002
  3. C.The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016
  4. D.The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002
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Correct answer: B. The SARFAESI Act, 2002

Its full name is the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, and Section 13 lets a secured creditor issue a demand notice under sub-section (2) giving the borrower sixty days to pay and, on default, take possession of the secured asset under sub-section (4)…

Q14304.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Dishonour of a cheque for insufficiency of funds in the account is an offence under which section of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881?

  1. A.Section 31
  2. B.Section 118
  3. C.Section 138
  4. D.Section 148
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Correct answer: C. Section 138

Inserted into the Negotiable Instruments Act by the amendment of 1988, it makes the drawer of a cheque that is returned unpaid for insufficiency of funds, or because it exceeds the arrangement, punishable with imprisonment or fine, provided the payee gives notice of demand within the prescribed time and the…

Q14305.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Statutory Liquidity Ratio is prescribed under which provision?

  1. A.Section 42(1) of the RBI Act, 1934
  2. B.Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  3. C.Section 17 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  4. D.Section 45-IA of the RBI Act, 1934
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Correct answer: B. Section 24 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949

It requires every banking company to maintain in India, in cash, gold or unencumbered approved securities, assets of a value not less than the prescribed percentage of its demand and time liabilities, and that percentage is the Statutory Liquidity Ratio.

Q14307.Banking & Financial AwarenessMedium

The Banking Companies Act, 1949 was renamed the Banking Regulation Act with effect from:

  1. A.1 April 1935
  2. B.1 January 1949
  3. C.1 March 1966
  4. D.19 July 1969
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Correct answer: C. 1 March 1966

The Act was passed in 1949 as the Banking Companies Act and came into force on 16 March 1949; when its scope was extended to cooperative banks, it was renamed the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 with effect from 1 March 1966, the year being retained in the title.

Q14308.Banking & Financial AwarenessEasy

Which Act gives the Reserve Bank of India the sole right to issue bank notes in India?

  1. A.The Banking Regulation Act, 1949
  2. B.The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
  3. C.The Coinage Act, 2011
  4. D.The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
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Correct answer: B. The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934

Section 22 of that Act gives the Reserve Bank the sole right to issue bank notes in India, and the Bank has done so since it began operations on 1 April 1935.