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 of the following file extensions indicates an executable program file?
A file ending in.exe is an executable, which means it contains instructions the processor can run, so double clicking it starts a program.
Read the full explanation →Which key combination opens the Task Manager directly in Windows?
This combination opens Task Manager at once, the window that lists running programs and background processes and allows a program that has stopped responding to be ended.
Read the full explanation →In a file name, the file name and its extension are separated by which symbol?
The part of the name after the last dot is the extension, so in the name result.docx the extension is docx and the operating system uses it to decide which program will open the file and which icon will be shown.
Read the full explanation →In MS Word, which shortcut moves the cursor to the beginning of the document?
Holding Ctrl while pressing Home carries the cursor right to the top of the document, no matter how many pages have been typed, and Ctrl + End does the same to the bottom.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following extensions belongs to a compressed or archive file?
A file with the extension.rar is an archive in which one or more files have been packed and compressed so that they take less space and can be sent as a single unit;.zip,.7z and.tar do the same work.
Read the full explanation →Which key combination is used to close the active window or program in Windows?
This combination closes the window or program that is active at the moment, and when it is pressed on the desktop with no program open it brings up the box that shuts down or restarts the computer.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the file extension of a presentation made in MS PowerPoint 2007 and later versions?
From the 2007 version onwards, MS Office moved to an XML based format in which every main program received an extension ending in the letter x, and a PowerPoint presentation became.pptx, the older format being.ppt.
Read the full explanation →Which function key is used to rename a selected file or folder in Windows?
Selecting a file or folder in Windows and pressing F2 makes its name editable at once, without going through the right click menu.
Read the full explanation →Which keyboard shortcut is used to undo the last action in most Windows programs?
This combination reverses the last action, whether it was typing, deleting, formatting or moving, and pressing it again walks further back through the list of recent actions.
Read the full explanation →Identify whether the following statements are true or false with reference to MS-Word 2010. (i) A template can be selected while creating a new document. (ii) The keyboard shortcut for going to the end of a document is Shift + End.
When a new document is created in MS Word, the program offers a blank document as well as a gallery of templates for letters, resumes and reports, so statement one is correct.
Read the full explanation →What is the shortcut key for a manual line break in MS-Word?
A manual line break, also called a soft return, moves the text to the next line while keeping it inside the same paragraph, so the spacing before and after the paragraph and the list numbering are not disturbed.
Read the full explanation →What is the file extension for batch files?
A batch file is a plain text file containing a series of commands that the operating system carries out one after another without any further instruction from the user, and it is saved with the extension.bat.
Read the full explanation →The first conference of the Progressive Writers' Association was held in 1936 at Lucknow under the presidency of which writer?
The Progressive Writers' Association held its first conference at Lucknow in 1936 and Premchand, who had begun his career writing in Urdu under the name Nawab Rai before turning to Hindi, presided over it and delivered its opening address.
Read the full explanation →The poem Tarana-e-Hindi, popularly known by its opening line Sare Jahan se Achha, was written by whom?
He wrote the poem in Urdu early in the twentieth century as a song in praise of the land, and it was later set to music and became one of the best loved patriotic songs of the country.
Read the full explanation →Who is regarded as the first poet to have left a complete collection of verse in the Dakhani form of Urdu?
The ruler of Golconda who founded the city of Hyderabad wrote verse in Dakhani, the southern form of the language, and the collection that survives under his name is counted as the first complete diwan in it, which is why the earliest chapter of Urdu literature belongs to the Deccan…
Read the full explanation →Under Akbar, the Mahabharata was translated into Persian under which name?
Akbar set up a translation department in which Sanskrit works were rendered into Persian, and the Mahabharata was translated there as the Razmnama, a name that means the book of war.
Read the full explanation →The Tarikh-i-Firozshahi and the Fatwa-i-Jahandari were written by which historian of the Delhi Sultanate?
Barani lived at the court of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and wrote in the reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq.
Read the full explanation →The Ain-i-Akbari, an account of the administration of Akbar's empire, was written by whom?
He was a minister and a close friend of Akbar and wrote the Akbarnama, of which the Ain-i-Akbari forms the third volume, setting out the departments of state, the revenue of the provinces, the ranks of the nobility, the coins, the crops and the customs of the country.
Read the full explanation →Khazain-ul-Futuh, a Persian work on the campaigns of Alauddin Khalji, was written by whom?
Khusrau served a line of Sultans at Delhi, was a disciple of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, and was given the title Tuti-e-Hind, the parrot of India.
Read the full explanation →Under whose reign was the maximum number of books in Persian on classical Indian music written?
This is one of the striking facts of Mughal cultural history: the emperor who withdrew court patronage from musical performance presided over a reign in which the largest number of Persian treatises on Indian classical music was written, as scholars turned from the court to the book.
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