Static GK decides most of the General Awareness score in SSC exams. The CGL, CHSL and CPO notices describe it in almost the same words: questions on India and its neighbouring countries in History, Culture, Geography, the Economic Scene, General Policy and Scientific Research, and on everyday observation in its scientific aspect. The GD notice adds Sports, General Polity and the Indian Constitution, and the MTS notice lists Social Studies, General Science and Environmental Studies up to the 10th Standard. This page brings together GK24's GK notes and practice questions tagged for all five SSC exams. The notes follow a subject-wise syllabus, one topic per note in English and Hindi: Indian Polity, Indian History, Geography, Indian Economy, General Science, Environment and Ecology, Art and Culture, Computer, Sports, Awards and Honours, Books and Authors, Days and Dates, and Static GK. Each note is written as short facts and tables so that a topic can be revised in one sitting, and each ends with multiple-choice questions and explanations. The level is what changes between exams: read MTS and GD topics at Class 10 depth, CHSL at Class 12 depth, and CGL and CPO at graduate depth, where questions ask for the article number or the year rather than the broad idea. Start with Polity, History and Geography, which fill the most questions in past papers in GK24's reading, then move to the Economy and Science. After each note, solve its questions here and your exam's previous-year questions on its own page.
The normal systolic pressure in human beings is :
Blood pressure is written as two numbers, and normal adult blood pressure is about 120/80 mm of mercury.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements with regard to the UN Peacekeeping Operation :
1. The power to authorize a Peacekeeping Operation is exclusively vested with the General Assembly.
2. UN Peacekeeping Operations are deployed with the consent of the main parties to the conflict.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
UN peacekeeping missions are set up by resolutions of the Security Council, the organ that the UN Charter makes primarily responsible for international peace and security, so the power does not rest exclusively with the General Assembly and statement 1 is wrong.
Read the full explanation →'Study of human societies and cultures from the oldest times to the present' is the work of
Anthropology, from the Greek 'anthropos' (human) and 'logos' (study), is the science of human beings: how societies and cultures began, how they changed and how people live today.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following pairs of lakes is connected by Soo Canal?
The Soo Locks, or Sault Ste. Marie canals, carry ships around the rapids of the St. Marys River, which drains Lake Superior into Lake Huron.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements about the Sayyid brothers during the period of Later Mughals is not true?
Jahandar Shah won the throne in 1712 with the help of Zulfiqar Khan, and the Sayyid brothers, Abdullah Khan and Husain Ali Khan, helped his nephew Farrukhsiyar defeat and kill him in 1713.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following places does not fall on leeward slope?
Mangaluru lies on the Karnataka coast, on the western, windward side of the Western Ghats. The south-west monsoon winds coming off the Arabian Sea strike the Ghats there, rise and shed heavy rain, so the coastal belt gets well over 3,000 mm a year.
Read the full explanation →Who were Alvars ?
The Alvars were twelve Tamil poet-saints, active roughly between the 6th and 9th centuries, whose name means 'those who are immersed' in devotion to Vishnu.
Read the full explanation →'Naropa' is an annual festival of
Naropa is a Buddhist festival held at Hemis Monastery in Ladakh in honour of Naropa, the 11th-century Indian scholar-yogi of Nalanda and Vikramashila whose teachings shaped the Drukpa Kagyu order that runs Hemis.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following statements with regard to the appointment of the Members of the Parliamentary Committees is correct?
This is part of the very definition of a parliamentary committee: it is appointed or elected by the House or nominated by the presiding officer, works under the presiding officer's direction, reports to the House, and has a secretariat provided by the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha secretariat.
Read the full explanation →Four persons are travelling to different States of India. To whom will you advise to protect oneself from blizzards ?
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm with strong winds, blowing snow and very low visibility, so it occurs only where there is heavy snowfall in winter.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following pairs of Newspaper and Editor is not correctly matched ?
Newspaper — Editor
The Voice of India was an English journal started in Bombay in 1883 by Dadabhai Naoroji, who later merged it with the Indian Spectator; Gokhale was not its editor.
Read the full explanation →The theme of India's G20 Presidency 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' or 'One Earth-One Family-One Future' is drawn from the
The phrase 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam', meaning 'the whole world is one family', comes from a verse of the Maha Upanishad (chapter 6, verse 72).
Read the full explanation →Which of the following catalytic systems is used for the reduction of unsaturated hydrocarbon to saturated hydrocarbon?
Adding hydrogen across the double or triple bond of an alkene or alkyne turns it into a saturated alkane; this reaction is called hydrogenation and it needs a catalyst.
Read the full explanation →Which one among the following is not a plant hormone ?
Thyroxine is an animal hormone, made by the thyroid gland in the neck, and it controls the rate of metabolism in the human body.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following statements about 'Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana' (SAGY) is/are correct?
1. It comes under the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of India.
2. It was launched in 2014 on the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan.
3. Mahatma Gandhi's vision of Gram Swaraj is the inspiration behind this scheme.
Select the answer using the codes given below :
SAGY is run by the Ministry of Rural Development, not the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, so statement 1 is wrong.
Read the full explanation →A chemical that donates a proton (hydrogen ion) is called
In the Brønsted–Lowry theory an acid is any substance that gives away a proton, that is a hydrogen ion (H⁺), to another substance.
Read the full explanation →How many Hong Kong Convention-compliant ship recycling facilities does the Alang-Sosiya yard have, as stated at the roundtable?
Setting out the groundwork India has laid, the Minister said the Alang-Sosiya yard has 115 ship recycling facilities that comply with the Hong Kong Convention within the framework of the International Maritime Organisation.
Read the full explanation →The Korea Marine Equipment Association (KOMEA) is opening its first India office in which city?
KOMEA, the Korea Marine Equipment Association, will open its first office in India in Mumbai on 30 October, a step the Indian and Korean governments welcomed in April under VOYAGES, their framework for cooperation in shipbuilding, shipping and maritime logistics.
Read the full explanation →Who is the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) who shared the World Maritime Day roundtable platform with Sarbananda Sonowal?
He was on the roundtable platform with the Indian Minister, who called IMO conventions an operational lighthouse for shipping at a time of geopolitical instability, piracy and disruption in the Red Sea, protecting seafarers, trade and supply chains.
Read the full explanation →In which city did Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal attend the ministerial roundtable held on World Maritime Day?
The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways took part in the high-level government roundtable on World Maritime Day in Busan, South Korea, and used the same visit to meet the Korean marine equipment industry.
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