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.
Forest Conservation Act was enacted in which year?
The Forest (Conservation) Act was passed in 1980 to stop the steady loss of forest land to mining, roads, dams and townships.
Read the full explanation →Which version of Microsoft Office first replaced the traditional menus and toolbars with the Ribbon interface?
Office 2007 introduced the Ribbon, a band of tabs such as Home, Insert and Page Layout, each divided into groups of related commands, in place of the drop-down menus and floating toolbars of earlier releases.
Read the full explanation →In MS Access, which object gives a user-friendly screen for entering and viewing one record at a time?
A form is the object designed for data entry and viewing: it presents the fields of a single record in a neat layout with labels, boxes, drop-down lists and buttons, so the person entering data never has to work directly in the raw grid of a table.
Read the full explanation →MS Visio is used mainly for which of the following?
Visio supplies ready-made shape sets, called stencils, for flowcharts, organisation charts, network diagrams, floor plans, electrical schematics and entity relationship diagrams, and connectors that stay attached to a shape when it is moved, which is what distinguishes a diagramming program from a drawing program.
Read the full explanation →Which Office program is used to prepare a project schedule and draw a Gantt chart?
Project is the project management program of the Microsoft family. The user enters tasks with their durations and the dependencies between them, assigns people and costs, and the program draws the Gantt chart, a bar chart of time against task, and works out the critical path and the resource loading.
Read the full explanation →Which Microsoft Office program is meant for desktop publishing work such as brochures, cards and newsletters?
Publisher is built around page layout rather than around text flow: the user places text boxes, images and shapes exactly where they are wanted on the page, which suits brochures, greeting cards, certificates, labels and newsletters, and its files carry the extension.pub.
Read the full explanation →Which protocol is used to send an outgoing email message?
SMTP, the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, is the protocol that carries a message out of the sender's program and between mail servers until it reaches the recipient's mailbox.
Read the full explanation →MS Outlook keeps its mail, calendar and contacts on the local computer in a file with which extension?
The letters stand for personal storage table, and this single file holds the messages, calendar entries, contacts, tasks and notes of an Outlook account on the computer, which is why backing up the.pst file backs up the whole mailbox.
Read the full explanation →In MS Outlook, which field is used to send a copy of a message without the other recipients seeing that address?
Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. Everyone listed in Bcc receives the message, but their addresses are hidden from the people in the To and Cc fields and from one another, which is why it is used for circulars sent to a long list.
Read the full explanation →In MS Access, the field that uniquely identifies each record in a table is called the ______.
A primary key is a field, or a combination of fields, whose value is different in every record and never left empty, so it can be used to pick out one record with certainty; an AutoNumber field is the usual choice because Access fills it in by itself.
Read the full explanation →What is the file extension of a database created in MS Access 2007 and later versions?
From Access 2007 onwards, the default database format changed and files are saved with the extension.accdb, which stands for Access database and supports features such as multivalued fields and attachment data types.
Read the full explanation →Which program of the Microsoft Office suite is a relational database management system?
Access stores data in separate tables that are joined to one another through keys, which is what makes it relational, and it provides tables, queries, forms, reports, macros and modules to work with that data.
Read the full explanation →The Lokpal at the Union level was established under which Act?
The Act created the Lokpal, an anti-corruption ombudsman for the Union, consisting of a Chairperson and members of whom not more than half are judicial members, and it required the States to establish a Lokayukta.
Read the full explanation →Which article of the Constitution provides for a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities?
The article, inserted by the 7th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1956, requires the President to appoint a Special Officer for Linguistic Minorities, usually called the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, to investigate all matters relating to the safeguards provided for linguistic minorities and to report to the President, who places the report…
Read the full explanation →Match the body with the Act that created it and choose the pair that is correctly matched.
The Central Information Commission was created by the Right to Information Act, 2005, and hears second appeals from the orders of public information officers and first appellate authorities of the Union.
Read the full explanation →A member of the Union Public Service Commission can be removed by the President only after an inquiry held by the Supreme Court. This procedure is laid down in which article?
It provides that the Chairman or any other member of a Public Service Commission shall be removed from office by order of the President on the ground of misbehaviour only after the Supreme Court, on a reference made by the President, has held an inquiry and reported that the member…
Read the full explanation →The Attorney General of India is appointed under which article of the Constitution?
The article requires the President to appoint a person qualified to be a judge of the Supreme Court as Attorney General for India, the highest law officer of the Union, who advises the Government on legal matters and appears for it in the Supreme Court.
Read the full explanation →Which statement about NITI Aayog is correct?
NITI Aayog, the National Institution for Transforming India, was created by a resolution of the Union Cabinet dated 1 January 2015, and it therefore has neither constitutional nor statutory standing.
Read the full explanation →The Central Vigilance Commission was given statutory status by which Act?
The Commission was first set up in 1964 by a resolution of the Government of India on the recommendation of the Santhanam Committee on Prevention of Corruption, and for nearly four decades it worked as an executive body.
Read the full explanation →The Goods and Services Tax Council is a constitutional body established under which article?
The article was inserted by the 101st Constitutional Amendment Act, 2016, the amendment that introduced the goods and services tax, and it requires the President to constitute a Council of the Union Finance Minister, the Union Minister of State in charge of revenue or finance, and the Minister in charge…
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