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 Supreme Court of India upheld the abrogation of Article 370 in a judgment delivered in:
A Constitution Bench of five judges headed by Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud decided In Re: Article 370 of the Constitution on 11 December 2023.
Read the full explanation →The Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir, whose final order of 2022 fixed ninety assembly seats, was headed by:
A retired judge of the Supreme Court, she chaired the Delimitation Commission set up in March 2020 for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which gave its final order in May 2022.
Read the full explanation →Which provisions of the Constitution of India applied to the State of Jammu and Kashmir directly, without the concurrence of the State government, while Article 370 was in force?
Article 370(1)(c) said that Article 1, which declares India a Union of States and lists its territory in the First Schedule, and Article 370 itself applied to the State; everything else could reach it only through a presidential order made with the concurrence of the State government.
Read the full explanation →Under Article 370(3), the President could declare that the article shall cease to be operative only on the recommendation of:
The proviso to Article 370(3) said that the President could issue a public notification ending the article only on the recommendation of the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, framed by the State own Constituent Assembly, came into force on:
The Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir adopted the State Constitution on 17 November 1956 and it came into force on 26 January 1957, the day the Assembly dissolved itself.
Read the full explanation →Of the two Union Territories created by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which one was given no legislative assembly?
The Act created the Union Territory of Ladakh without a legislature, administered by a Lieutenant Governor, and carved it out with the two districts of Leh and Kargil; its first Lieutenant Governor was Radha Krishna Mathur.
Read the full explanation →The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 came into effect on its appointed day, which was:
The Act named an appointed day on which the State of Jammu and Kashmir would cease to exist and the two Union Territories would come into being, and the Union notified that day as 31 October 2019, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, which is observed as National Unity…
Read the full explanation →Which article, inserted by a presidential order of 1954, empowered the Jammu and Kashmir legislature to define the permanent residents of the State and give them special rights?
The Constitution (Application to Jammu and Kashmir) Order, 1954, issued by the President under Article 370(1)(d), added Article 35A at the end of Part III.
Read the full explanation →The Instrument of Accession of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir was signed by Maharaja Hari Singh on:
Tribal raiders backed by Pakistan entered the Kashmir valley in the third week of October 1947, and Maharaja Hari Singh of the Dogra dynasty signed the Instrument of Accession on 26 October 1947; Governor-General Lord Mountbatten accepted it the next day, after which Indian troops were airlifted to Srinagar.
Read the full explanation →Article 370 of the Constitution of India was placed in which Part of the Constitution?
Article 370 was one of the articles of Part XXI of the Constitution, which is titled Temporary, Transitional and Special Provisions, and its marginal heading read Temporary provisions with respect to the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Read the full explanation →Rani Abbakka Chowta of Ullal, on the coast of present Karnataka, is remembered for her long resistance to which European power?
Rani Abbakka Chowta ruled Ullal near Mangaluru in the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese were trying to control the pepper and spice trade of the Malabar and Tulunadu coast, and she fought them for decades, which is why she is often called the first woman freedom fighter of the Indian…
Read the full explanation →Tarabai, who led the Maratha resistance to Aurangzeb after 1700 in the name of her son Shivaji II, was the widow of which ruler?
Tarabai was the wife of Rajaram, the younger son of Shivaji, and the daughter of the Maratha commander Hambirrao Mohite.
Read the full explanation →Rani Chennamma, who took up arms against the East India Company in 1824 over the refusal to accept her adopted heir, ruled which state?
Kittur Chennamma ruled the small state of Kittur in present Karnataka; when her son died, the Company refused to recognise her adopted son Shivalingappa as heir, and she resisted in arms in 1824, defeating the first British force before being overcome, so she is counted among the earliest rulers to…
Read the full explanation →Begum Hazrat Mahal led the revolt of 1857 at Lucknow and proclaimed which of her relations the ruler of Awadh?
Begum Hazrat Mahal was a wife of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, who had been deposed and sent to Calcutta in 1856.
Read the full explanation →Under which policy of Lord Dalhousie was Jhansi annexed in 1854, after the refusal to recognise the adopted son of Gangadhar Rao?
Under this policy of Lord Dalhousie, a dependent princely state whose ruler died without a natural heir lapsed to the Company, and adoption was not accepted; Satara, Jaitpur, Sambalpur, Nagpur and Jhansi were taken over in this way, and Jhansi was annexed in 1854 after the death of Gangadhar Rao.
Read the full explanation →What was the childhood name of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi?
Lakshmibai was born at Varanasi in 1828 in a Marathi Brahmin family and was named Manikarnika, called Manu at home; she took the name Lakshmibai on her marriage to Gangadhar Rao, the ruler of Jhansi.
Read the full explanation →Who led the defence of the Ahmadnagar fort against the Mughal siege of 1595?
Chand Bibi, also called Chand Sultana, was the daughter of Hussain Nizam Shah of Ahmadnagar and the wife of Ali Adil Shah of Bijapur, and she acted as regent in both kingdoms.
Read the full explanation →Ahilyabai Holkar, the ruler of the Holkar state of Indore, made which town on the Narmada her capital?
Ahilyabai Holkar ruled from 1767 to 1795 and shifted her seat to Maheshwar on the north bank of the Narmada, which became a centre of administration, temple building and handloom weaving; the Maheshwari sari is still named after it.
Read the full explanation →Rani Durgavati, who died fighting the Mughal commander Asaf Khan in 1564, ruled which kingdom?
Rani Durgavati ruled the Gond kingdom of Garha-Katanga, in the region of present Madhya Pradesh called Gondwana, and governed as regent for her young son after her husband death.
Read the full explanation →Rani Rudramadevi, who ruled from Warangal in the thirteenth century, belonged to which dynasty?
Rudramadevi was the daughter of the Kakatiya ruler Ganapatideva and ruled the Kakatiya kingdom of Warangal, in present Telangana, in the second half of the thirteenth century; she is one of the very few women to have governed a southern kingdom in her own name, and her grandson Prataparudra II…
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