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.
Whom did Babur defeat in the First Battle of Panipat in 1526?
At the First Battle of Panipat in 1526 Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last sultan of the Lodi dynasty of Delhi, who was killed on the field.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Mughal emperor during the Third Battle of Panipat?
The Third Battle of Panipat was fought in 1761 between Ahmad Shah Abdali of Afghanistan and the Marathas, who were defeated.
Read the full explanation →Which Mughal emperor is known by the name of Rangila?
Muhammad Shah, who ruled from 1719 to 1748, was nicknamed Rangila for his love of music, painting and pleasure while the empire fell apart around him.
Read the full explanation →Which Mughal emperor built the city called Maksudabad, later popularly known as Murshidabad?
The town on the Bhagirathi that later became Murshidabad was founded as Maksudabad in the reign of Akbar, and it kept that name until the Bengal governor Murshid Quli Khan shifted his seat there in the early eighteenth century and renamed it after himself.
Read the full explanation →Who was the Mughal Emperor at the time of Battle of Plassey?
The Battle of Plassey was fought in 1757 between Robert Clive of the East India Company and Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following options have the correct sequence of the Mughal emperors chronologically?
The Mughal throne passed from Babur, who ruled from 1526 to 1530, to his son Humayun from 1530 to 1540 and again from 1555 to 1556, then to Akbar from 1556 to 1605, to Jahangir from 1605 to 1627, to Shah Jahan from 1628 to 1658 and to Aurangzeb from…
Read the full explanation →Under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which group of rivers was allotted to India for unrestricted use?
The Indus Waters Treaty, signed in 1960 with the World Bank as a party to the arrangement, gave India the unrestricted use of the three eastern rivers, the Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlej, and gave the three western rivers to Pakistan, with India allowed limited uses such as run…
Read the full explanation →At which place do the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda meet to form the Ganga?
At Devprayag in Uttarakhand the Bhagirathi, which comes down from the Gangotri glacier, meets the Alaknanda, and the united stream is called the Ganga from that point.
Read the full explanation →The Hirakud dam is built on which river?
Hirakud dam stands on the Mahanadi in the Sambalpur district of Odisha and is among the longest earthen dams in the world, built for flood control, irrigation and power in a basin that used to flood badly.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following rivers flows through a rift valley and forms an estuary instead of a delta?
The Narmada flows west from the Amarkantak plateau through the rift valley between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat through an estuary, because the steep, narrow valley lets it carry its silt straight out to sea instead of spreading it.
Read the full explanation →The Godavari river originates from which of the following places?
The Godavari rises in the Western Ghats at Trimbakeshwar in the Nashik district of Maharashtra and flows east across the peninsula to the Bay of Bengal, draining the second largest basin in India after the Ganga.
Read the full explanation →Which is the longest river flowing entirely within the territory of India?
The Godavari is about 1,465 kilometres long, rises at Trimbakeshwar near Nashik in Maharashtra, crosses Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh and falls into the Bay of Bengal, all within India, which makes it the longest river flowing wholly inside the country.
Read the full explanation →Musi river is a tributary of which of the following rivers?
The Musi rises in the Anantagiri hills of Telangana, flows through Hyderabad, and joins the Krishna in Nalgonda district, which is why the city's water supply and floods are tied to it.
Read the full explanation →What is the Vedic name of the Ravi river?
In the Rigveda the Ravi appears as the Parushni, and it is on this river that the Battle of the Ten Kings, the Dasarajna, is placed.
Read the full explanation →River Sutlej enters India through which pass?
The Sutlej rises from the Rakas lake near Mansarovar in Tibet, where it is called the Langchen Khambab, and enters India through the Shipki La pass in Himachal Pradesh before flowing on to join the Beas at Harike.
Read the full explanation →Which among the following is not a tributary of the Brahmaputra river?
The Tons is a tributary of the Yamuna in the Ganga system, rising in the Garhwal Himalaya, and has nothing to do with the Brahmaputra basin.
Read the full explanation →Bleaching powder is prepared by passing chlorine over
Bleaching powder, calcium oxychloride, is made in industry by passing chlorine gas over dry slaked lime, that is calcium hydroxide.
Read the full explanation →Tooth decay begins when the pH of the mouth falls below about
Tooth enamel is made of calcium phosphate, the hardest substance in the body, and it begins to corrode when the pH in the mouth drops below about 5.5.
Read the full explanation →An aqueous solution of ammonium chloride, the salt of a strong acid and a weak base, will be
A salt takes its character from the strength of the acid and the base that formed it. Ammonium chloride comes from hydrochloric acid, a strong acid, and ammonium hydroxide, a weak base, so the strong partner dominates and the solution has a pH below seven.
Read the full explanation →Which acid is present in the gastric juice of the human stomach?
The stomach wall secretes hydrochloric acid, which makes the gastric juice strongly acidic, helps the enzyme pepsin digest proteins and kills many germs swallowed with food.
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