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SSC CHSL GK Questions 2026

Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC CHSL. Of the 25 questions in Tier-I and the 20 in Tier-II, most come from Indian Polity, History, Geography, the Economy and General Science, the areas the CHSL 2026 notice lists as History, Culture, Geography, Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research relating to India and its neighbouring countries. The level is that of Class 12, so the questions are direct: which article, which river, which ruler, which year. Polity asks about parts and schedules of the Constitution, fundamental rights, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and constitutional bodies. History covers the Indus Valley, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Sultanate and Mughal periods, 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 with everyday applications, and Culture covers dances, festivals, monuments and books. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC CHSL, 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 CHSL GK Questions with Answers

Q6341.Indian PolityEasy

The words socialist, secular and integrity were added to the Preamble of the Constitution by which amendment?

  1. A.Twenty-fourth Amendment, 1971
  2. B.Forty-second Amendment, 1976
  3. C.Forty-fourth Amendment, 1978
  4. D.Fifty-second Amendment, 1985
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Correct answer: B. Forty-second Amendment, 1976

It changed the description of the country from a sovereign democratic republic to a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic, and changed the unity of the nation to the unity and integrity of the nation.

Q6343.Indian PolityMedium

A federation with a strong Centre, the vesting of residuary powers in the Centre and the appointment of Governors by the Centre were taken from

  1. A.Canada
  2. B.Australia
  3. C.Britain
  4. D.Ireland
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Correct answer: A. Canada

Canada is the federation that keeps residuary powers with the centre instead of leaving them with the units, appoints the head of each province from the centre and allows its supreme court an advisory jurisdiction, and all three features were adopted in India.

Q6344.Indian PolityMedium

The provision for suspension of Fundamental Rights during an emergency is traced to the constitution of

  1. A.France
  2. B.the Weimar Republic of Germany
  3. C.Canada
  4. D.the Soviet Union
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Correct answer: B. the Weimar Republic of Germany

The Weimar constitution allowed the President to suspend civil liberties in an emergency, and the Indian provisions under which the operation of certain Fundamental Rights may be restricted during a proclamation of emergency follow that model.

Q6345.Indian PolityMedium

The Concurrent List, the freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse, and the joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament were borrowed from

  1. A.Australia
  2. B.Ireland
  3. C.the United States
  4. D.Japan
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Correct answer: A. Australia

The Australian constitution has a list of subjects on which both the federal and the state legislatures may make law, and India adopted the device as the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule, with central law prevailing in case of conflict.

Q6346.Indian PolityHard

The procedure for amendment of the Constitution and the method of election of members of the Rajya Sabha were drawn from

  1. A.Britain
  2. B.Canada
  3. C.South Africa
  4. D.the Weimar Republic of Germany
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Correct answer: C. South Africa

Two features are traced to the South African constitution: the procedure for amending the Constitution, which combines a special majority with the consent of States for some provisions, and the election of members of the Rajya Sabha by the elected members of the State legislative assemblies through proportional representation by…

Q6348.Indian PolityEasy

The Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution are borrowed from the constitution of

  1. A.the United States
  2. B.Ireland
  3. C.Canada
  4. D.Australia
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Correct answer: B. Ireland

The Irish constitution of 1937 carried a chapter of directive principles of social policy, non-justiciable goals addressed to the legislature, and the Constituent Assembly adopted that device as Part IV of our Constitution, along with the nomination of members to the Rajya Sabha and the method of electing the President.

Q6349.Indian PolityEasy

Which of the following is the single largest source of the Constitution of India?

  1. A.Government of India Act, 1935
  2. B.Indian Councils Act, 1909
  3. C.Constitution of the United States
  4. D.Constitution of Ireland
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Correct answer: A. Government of India Act, 1935

About two-thirds of the provisions of the Constitution follow that Act, which supplied the federal scheme with its lists of subjects, the office of the Governor, the structure and powers of the judiciary, the public service commissions, the emergency provisions and most of the administrative detail.

Q6351.Indian HistoryHard

In the Mughal land system, khalisa referred to

  1. A.land whose revenue was reserved for the imperial treasury
  2. B.land granted to religious institutions free of revenue
  3. C.the hereditary homeland of a zamindar in Mughal service
  4. D.land on which no revenue could be assessed because it was barren
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Correct answer: A. land whose revenue was reserved for the imperial treasury

The territory of the empire was divided between khalisa and jagir: the revenue of khalisa land was collected by imperial officers and credited to the central treasury, while the revenue of jagir land was assigned to mansabdars in place of a cash salary.

Q6352.Indian HistoryEasy

Arrange the Mughal administrative units from the largest to the smallest.

  1. A.Sarkar, suba, pargana, mauza
  2. B.Suba, sarkar, pargana, mauza
  3. C.Pargana, suba, mauza, sarkar
  4. D.Suba, pargana, sarkar, mauza
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Correct answer: B. Suba, sarkar, pargana, mauza

The suba was the province, headed by a subedar with his own diwan, bakhshi, sadr and qazi; the sarkar was the district, where the faujdar held charge of law and order and the amalguzar of revenue; the pargana was a group of villages with its shiqdar, amil and qanungo; and…

Q6355.Indian HistoryMedium

What were dagh and chehra in the Mughal military system?

  1. A.Two kinds of jagir assigned to nobles
  2. B.The branding of horses and the descriptive roll of soldiers
  3. C.Two ranks in the provincial revenue service
  4. D.Two forms of land measurement
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Correct answer: B. The branding of horses and the descriptive roll of soldiers

Mansabdars were paid for the troopers they maintained, and the standing temptation was to hire horses and men for the day of inspection and send them away afterwards.

Q6356.Indian HistoryEasy

The dahsala or zabti system of revenue settlement, completed in 1580, is associated with

  1. A.Raja Todar Mal
  2. B.Raja Man Singh
  3. C.Abul Fazl
  4. D.Shah Mansur
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Correct answer: A. Raja Todar Mal

Under his settlement the average produce and the average price of the previous ten years were calculated for every crop in every locality, the demand was fixed at about one-third of that average produce and stated in cash per bigha, and land was measured with the bamboo jarib and the…

Q6357.Indian HistoryMedium

In the mansabdari system, the two numbers attached to a mansab, zat and sawar, stood respectively for

  1. A.personal pay and rank, and the number of horsemen to be maintained
  2. B.the area of the jagir, and the revenue assessed on it
  3. C.the years of service, and the number of elephants kept
  4. D.the amount of cash salary, and the rate of land revenue
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Correct answer: A. personal pay and rank, and the number of horsemen to be maintained

The zat number fixed the salary of the holder and his place in the order of precedence at court, while the sawar number fixed the contingent of cavalry he had to keep ready for the emperor.

Q6358.Indian HistoryAsked in: CTET · 24th Dec 2021Medium

Consider the following statements about the Ain-i-Akbari and choose the correct option. (A) It was written by Abul Fazl. (B) It has rich statistical details about crops, prices, revenues and wages. (C) It deals with the details of the ancestors of Akbar.

  1. A.(A) and (B) are true
  2. B.(B) and (C) are true
  3. C.(A) and (C) are true
  4. D.(A), (B) and (C) are true
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Correct answer: A. (A) and (B) are true

The Ain-i-Akbari was written by Abul Fazl, the courtier and friend of Akbar, and it forms the third volume of the Akbarnama; it is an administrative gazetteer, listing departments and officers, the subas with their sarkars and parganas, measured areas, revenue rates, prices and wages, which is why historians use…

Q6359.Indian HistoryAsked in: Delhi · 8 April 2022, Shift 2Easy

In the Mughal administration, which of the following departments was known as Mir Bakhshi?

  1. A.Factory department
  2. B.Revenue department
  3. C.Justice department
  4. D.Army department
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Correct answer: D. Army department

The Mir Bakhshi was the head of the military establishment: he kept the muster rolls of the mansabdars, verified the horses and men at inspection, recommended candidates for rank and countersigned their pay orders, and the news writers and intelligence reporters of the provinces also sent their reports through his…

Q6360.Environment & EcologyHard

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which prepares the assessment reports used at the conferences, was established in 1988 by

  1. A.the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme
  2. B.the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC
  3. C.the United Nations Security Council
  4. D.the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
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Correct answer: A. the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme

The panel was created in 1988, four years before the climate convention existed, which is why B is wrong: the IPCC is not an organ of the convention, although its reports set the agenda for every conference and the first assessment report of 1990 led directly to the negotiation of…