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.
Archery was dropped from the Olympic programme after 1920 and reinstated in which year?
Archery was part of the 1900 Paris Olympics and a few Games after it, but disappeared from the programme after 1920 because the rules varied from country to country.
Read the full explanation →Which federation is the international governing body of archery?
It was founded in 1931 as the Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc, known by the short form FITA, and adopted the name World Archery in 2011.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements: 1. The Constitution of India defines its basic structure in terms of federalism, secularism, fundamental rights and democracy. 2. The Constitution of India has a provision for judicial review to safeguard the citizens' liberties and to preserve the ideals on which the Constitution is based. Which of the statements given above is or are correct?
Statement 1 is wrong because the Constitution nowhere uses the expression basic structure or defines it. The doctrine is a creation of the Supreme Court in Kesavananda Bharati in 1973, and the courts have added features to it case by case, which is why no closed list exists.
Read the full explanation →Which amendment provides for the reservation of one third of the seats for women in the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies?
Passed in 2023 and called the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam, it inserted Articles 330A and 332A to reserve one third of the seats in the Lok Sabha and in the state legislative assemblies, as well as in the Delhi assembly, for women, the reservation to take effect after the delimitation…
Read the full explanation →An amendment touching the federal provisions of the Constitution must be ratified by the legislatures of:
For matters such as the election of the President, the extent of the executive power of the Union and the states, the Supreme Court and the High Courts, the Seventh Schedule, the representation of states in Parliament and Article 368 itself, the bill must first be passed by each House…
Read the full explanation →The Ninth Schedule was added to the Constitution of India by which amendment?
It inserted Articles 31A and 31B along with the Ninth Schedule, so that land reform and zamindari abolition laws placed in that schedule could not be challenged for violating the Fundamental Rights.
Read the full explanation →The voting age in India was reduced from twenty-one years to eighteen years by which amendment?
Passed in 1989, it amended Article 326 and lowered the voting age for elections to the Lok Sabha and the state legislative assemblies from twenty-one years to eighteen years, which brought a very large number of young voters on to the rolls for the general election that followed.
Read the full explanation →In the Minerva Mills case of 1980, the Supreme Court struck down which clauses of Article 368?
The Forty-second Amendment had added clause 4, saying that no amendment shall be called in question in any court, and clause 5, saying that the amending power of Parliament was unlimited.
Read the full explanation →Which amendment to the Constitution of India is popularly called the mini Constitution?
Enacted in 1976 on the recommendations of the Swaran Singh Committee, it changed so many provisions at one stroke that it is called the mini Constitution: it added the Fundamental Duties in Part IVA, inserted the words socialist, secular and integrity in the Preamble, extended the term of the Lok…
Read the full explanation →By which amendment was the President's assent to a Constitution Amendment Bill made obligatory?
It was passed in answer to the Golaknath ruling. It amended Article 13 and Article 368 to make clear that Parliament could take away or abridge a Fundamental Right by amendment, and it made the President's assent to such a bill compulsory, so an amendment bill can neither be withheld…
Read the full explanation →Which earlier judgment was overruled by the Supreme Court in the Kesavananda Bharati case?
In Golaknath in 1967 an eleven judge bench held by six to five that Parliament had no power to amend the Fundamental Rights.
Read the full explanation →The doctrine of the basic structure of the Constitution was laid down by the Supreme Court in which case?
A bench of thirteen judges, the largest ever assembled at the time, held by a majority of seven to six that Parliament may amend any part of the Constitution, including the Fundamental Rights, but may not damage or destroy its basic structure.
Read the full explanation →Article 368 of the Constitution of India falls in which Part?
Part XX of the Constitution is a very short part, headed Amendment of the Constitution, and it contains Article 368 alone.
Read the full explanation →The procedure for amending the Constitution of India is laid down in which Article?
It is titled Power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and procedure therefor, and it sets out both the special majority needed in each House and the cases in which the legislatures of the states must also ratify the change.
Read the full explanation →Which historian described the Revolt of 1857 as neither first, nor national, nor a war of independence?
He held that the rising of 1857 was not the first armed challenge to British power, that it did not cover the whole country or unite its people, and that it was not fought for a clear idea of national independence; his summing up is quoted in this exact form…
Read the full explanation →Queen Victoria's Proclamation of 1 November 1858 was read out at Allahabad by:
Canning was Governor General when the revolt broke out and became the first Viceroy of India under the Act of 1858.
Read the full explanation →The government of India was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown by which Act?
Known as the Act for the Better Government of India, it abolished the East India Company along with the Board of Directors and the Board of Control, vested the government of India in the Crown, created the office of Secretary of State for India with a Council of India of…
Read the full explanation →Which British commander defeated Rani Lakshmibai and captured Jhansi in 1858?
Sir Hugh Rose led the central India campaign, took Jhansi in April 1858 and pursued the rebels to Kalpi and Gwalior, where Rani Lakshmibai died fighting in June 1858.
Read the full explanation →After the suppression of the revolt, Bahadur Shah II was tried and exiled to:
The last Mughal emperor was captured at Delhi in September 1857, tried by the British, deprived of his title and sent to Rangoon in Burma, where he died in 1862.
Read the full explanation →The General Service Enlistment Act, which the sepoys resented as a cause of the revolt, was passed in which year?
The General Service Enlistment Act of 1856, passed while Lord Canning was Governor General, required new recruits of the Bengal Army to serve wherever they were sent, including overseas.
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