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.
The Reserve Bank of India was nationalised in which year?
The Reserve Bank began in 1935 as a shareholders' bank with privately held capital.
Read the full explanation →In India, the one rupee note is issued by
The one rupee note and all coins are issued by the Government of India through the Ministry of Finance, and the one rupee note carries the signature of the Finance Secretary rather than that of the Governor of the Reserve Bank.
Read the full explanation →How many commercial banks were nationalised in India in the first round of bank nationalisation in July 1969?
On 19 July 1969 the government nationalised fourteen of the largest commercial banks in the country, the aim being to take banking to rural areas, direct credit to agriculture and small industry, and end the concentration of bank funds in a few business houses.
Read the full explanation →The repo rate is the rate of interest at which
In a repurchase or repo transaction a bank sells government paper to the Reserve Bank and agrees to buy it back shortly afterwards at a slightly higher price; the difference works out as interest at the repo rate.
Read the full explanation →In the measurement of money supply in India, which aggregate is known as broad money?
M3 is M1 plus time deposits with banks, and it is called broad money or the aggregate monetary resource. It is the measure the Reserve Bank follows most closely because it captures both spendable balances and funds held for a fixed term.
Read the full explanation →The Reserve Bank of India began its operations on which date?
The Reserve Bank of India was constituted under the Reserve Bank of India Act of 1934, on the recommendation of the Hilton Young Commission, and started functioning on 1 April 1935 with its central office at Calcutta, which was shifted permanently to Bombay in 1937.
Read the full explanation →Volcanoes with broad bases and gentle slopes, built up by thin basic lava, are known as
Basic lava is poor in silica, very hot and thin, so it travels a long way from the vent before it solidifies.
Read the full explanation →The Ring of Fire, which has the largest concentration of active volcanoes in the world, surrounds which ocean?
The circum-Pacific belt, popularly called the Ring of Fire, runs from the Andes of South America up through Mexico, the western coast of North America and the Aleutians, then down through Kamchatka, Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia to New Zealand.
Read the full explanation →Which type of seismic wave is recorded first on a seismograph?
P waves are longitudinal, moving the particles of the medium back and forth along the direction of travel by compression and rarefaction.
Read the full explanation →Which volcano is popularly known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean?
Stromboli is a small island volcano in the Lipari or Aeolian group north of Sicily, and it has been in almost continuous mild eruption for centuries.
Read the full explanation →Mount Vesuvius, the volcano whose eruption buried the city of Pompeii, is located in which country?
Mount Vesuvius stands near the Bay of Naples in southern Italy and its eruption in 79 CE buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash, preserving them so well that they became an archaeological record of Roman daily life.
Read the full explanation →The instrument used to record the waves produced by an earthquake is called a
A seismograph carries a mass that stays nearly still while the ground and the frame move under it, and the relative motion is traced as a wavy line.
Read the full explanation →Barren Island, the only active volcano in India, is located in which of the following?
Barren Island lies in the Andaman Sea, to the east of the main Andaman group, and is the only active volcano in India and in South Asia.
Read the full explanation →The Richter scale is used to measure which of the following?
The Richter scale, devised by Charles F. Richter in 1935, expresses the energy released at the source of the shock.
Read the full explanation →The point inside the earth where an earthquake originates is known as the
The focus, also called the hypocentre, is the point below the surface at which the strained rock ruptures and releases its stored elastic energy as seismic waves.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following seismic waves cannot travel through liquids?
Secondary or S waves are transverse, so the particles of the medium move at right angles to the direction of travel.
Read the full explanation →An astronaut inside a spacecraft orbiting the earth feels weightless because
In orbit the gravitational pull of the earth is the very force that keeps the craft curving around the planet, and the craft, the astronaut and everything inside accelerate towards the earth at the same rate.
Read the full explanation →The pressure exerted by a liquid at a point inside it does not depend upon
The pressure at a point inside a liquid equals the depth multiplied by the density of the liquid and by the acceleration due to gravity.
Read the full explanation →The universal gravitational constant G was first measured experimentally by
In 1798 Cavendish used a delicate torsion balance to measure the extremely small attraction between lead spheres in a laboratory and from it obtained a value of G, about 6.674 times ten to the power minus eleven newton metre squared per kilogram squared.
Read the full explanation →A barometer is used to measure which of the following?
A mercury barometer balances the pressure of the atmosphere against a column of mercury, which stands about 76 centimetres high at sea level.
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