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SSC GK Questions 2026

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.

SSC GK Questions with Answers

Q6601.Indian HistoryEasy

Which Act set apart one lakh rupees a year for the education of Indians and the revival of literature?

  1. A.Charter Act, 1793
  2. B.Charter Act, 1813
  3. C.Charter Act, 1833
  4. D.Charter Act, 1853
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Correct answer: B. Charter Act, 1813

The Act directed that a sum of not less than one lakh rupees be set apart every year for the revival and improvement of literature, the encouragement of the learned natives of India and the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences.

Q6603.Indian HistoryMedium

Which Act separated the legislative and executive functions of the Governor-General's Council for the first time?

  1. A.Charter Act, 1793
  2. B.Charter Act, 1813
  3. C.Charter Act, 1833
  4. D.Charter Act, 1853
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Correct answer: D. Charter Act, 1853

It added six new members to the Governor-General's Council for legislative purposes, so that law-making was carried on by a separate body which began to behave like a small parliament, with its own rules of business, and which is therefore regarded as the beginning of the Indian Legislative Council.

Q6605.Indian HistoryMedium

The Governor-General of Bengal was made the Governor-General of India by which Act?

  1. A.Regulating Act, 1773
  2. B.Charter Act, 1813
  3. C.Charter Act, 1833
  4. D.Charter Act, 1853
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Correct answer: C. Charter Act, 1833

This Act was the final step in centralising British administration in India: it vested all civil and military powers in the Governor-General of India, took away the legislative powers of the Bombay and Madras governments, and made the East India Company a purely administrative agency holding its territories in trust…

Q6606.Indian HistoryMedium

Which Act ended the East India Company's monopoly of trade with India, leaving it only the tea trade and the trade with China?

  1. A.Charter Act, 1793
  2. B.Charter Act, 1813
  3. C.Charter Act, 1833
  4. D.Charter Act, 1853
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Correct answer: B. Charter Act, 1813

Pressed by British manufacturers who wanted a free market in India, Parliament threw Indian trade open to all British subjects and allowed the Company to keep only the tea trade and the trade with China.

Q6607.Indian HistoryMedium

The Board of Control, which supervised the civil, military and revenue affairs of the Company's Indian territories, was set up by which Act?

  1. A.Regulating Act, 1773
  2. B.Amending Act, 1781
  3. C.Pitt's India Act, 1784
  4. D.Charter Act, 1793
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Correct answer: C. Pitt's India Act, 1784

The Act separated the commercial and the political functions of the East India Company, leaving trade to the Court of Directors and placing civil, military and revenue administration under a newly created Board of Control answerable to Parliament.

Q6608.Indian HistoryEasy

Which Act of the British Parliament created the office of the Governor-General of Bengal?

  1. A.Regulating Act, 1773
  2. B.Pitt's India Act, 1784
  3. C.Charter Act, 1813
  4. D.Charter Act, 1833
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Correct answer: A. Regulating Act, 1773

It was the first attempt by the British Parliament to regulate the affairs of the East India Company: it redesignated the Governor of Bengal as the Governor-General of Bengal, gave him a Council of four, made Bombay and Madras subordinate to him and provided for a Supreme Court at Calcutta.

Q6609.Indian HistoryAsked in: Delhi · 6 Sept 2019, shift 3Easy

Warren Hastings became the first Governor General of Bengal in ______.

  1. A.1772
  2. B.1778
  3. C.1775
  4. D.1773
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Correct answer: D. 1773

The Regulating Act of 1773 changed the designation of the Governor of Bengal to Governor-General of Bengal and created an Executive Council of four members to assist him, and Warren Hastings, who had been Governor of Bengal since 1772, became the first holder of the new office.

Q6611.Indian EconomyHard

Which section of the Income Tax Act provides a tax deduction of profits to eligible startups for three consecutive years out of the first ten years?

  1. A.Section 80-IAC
  2. B.Section 80C
  3. C.Section 54
  4. D.Section 115BAA
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Correct answer: A. Section 80-IAC

It allows an eligible startup, recognised for the purpose and incorporated within the prescribed window, a deduction of one hundred per cent of the profits and gains from its business for three consecutive assessment years out of its first ten years, subject to conditions, and it must be claimed with…

Q6612.Indian EconomyHard

The first Production Linked Incentive scheme, notified in 2020, was for which sector?

  1. A.Speciality steel
  2. B.Textile products
  3. C.Large-scale electronics manufacturing
  4. D.Food processing
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Correct answer: C. Large-scale electronics manufacturing

The first PLI scheme was notified in 2020 for large-scale electronics manufacturing, with mobile phones and specified electronic components as its targets, and it was followed by schemes for pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices in the same year.

Q6613.Indian EconomyMedium

The incentive under the Production Linked Incentive scheme is calculated on

  1. A.the capital invested in a new plant
  2. B.the incremental sales of goods manufactured in India over a base year
  3. C.the export duty paid by the manufacturer
  4. D.the number of workers employed in the factory
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Correct answer: B. the incremental sales of goods manufactured in India over a base year

This output-linked design is what distinguishes the PLI scheme from older industrial subsidies: a selected manufacturer receives an incentive, usually a percentage of the additional sales of eligible goods made in India, for a fixed number of years, so the payment follows production and sales actually achieved.

Q6614.Indian EconomyMedium

The Fund of Funds for Startups, set up with a corpus of Rs 10,000 crore, is operated by which institution?

  1. A.Reserve Bank of India
  2. B.NABARD
  3. C.Small Industries Development Bank of India
  4. D.National Housing Bank
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Correct answer: C. Small Industries Development Bank of India

The Fund of Funds for Startups was created in 2016 with a corpus of ten thousand crore rupees and is operated by SIDBI, which does not invest directly in startups but puts money into alternative investment funds registered with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, and those funds in…

Q6615.Indian EconomyHard

According to the definition used for recognition under Startup India, an entity may be treated as a startup for a period of up to

  1. A.Five years from incorporation
  2. B.Seven years from incorporation
  3. C.Ten years from incorporation
  4. D.Fifteen years from incorporation
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Correct answer: C. Ten years from incorporation

Under the definition notified for recognition by DPIIT, an entity qualifies as a startup for up to ten years from the date of its incorporation or registration, provided its turnover has not exceeded one hundred crore rupees in any financial year, it works towards innovation, development or improvement of products…

Q6616.Indian EconomyMedium

The Startup India Action Plan was launched on 16 January 2016. That date is now observed every year as

  1. A.National Entrepreneurship Day
  2. B.National Startup Day
  3. C.National MSME Day
  4. D.National Industry Day
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Correct answer: B. National Startup Day

The government declared that 16 January, the day on which the Startup India Action Plan was released in 2016, would be celebrated as National Startup Day, and the National Startup Awards are associated with the same programme.

Q6617.Indian EconomyMedium

Under the Make in India programme, the share of manufacturing in India's gross domestic product was targeted to be raised to

  1. A.15 per cent
  2. B.20 per cent
  3. C.25 per cent
  4. D.35 per cent
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Correct answer: C. 25 per cent

The target declared for Make in India was to raise the share of manufacturing in gross domestic product to twenty-five per cent along with the creation of a large number of jobs; the deadline, first set for 2022, was later extended.

Q6618.Indian EconomyMedium

Make in India and Startup India are both implemented by which department?

  1. A.Department of Economic Affairs
  2. B.Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
  3. C.Department of Revenue
  4. D.Department of Financial Services
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Correct answer: B. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

The correct answer is B, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, known as DPIIT, which works under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and is the nodal department for both programmes; it also recognises startups and maintains the national single window system.

Q6620.GeographyEasy

Which Indian state has the longest coastline?

  1. A.Tamil Nadu
  2. B.Andhra Pradesh
  3. C.Gujarat
  4. D.Maharashtra
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Correct answer: C. Gujarat

The deeply indented coast of Kutch and Saurashtra, with the Gulf of Kachchh and the Gulf of Khambhat, gives Gujarat the longest coastline of any Indian state, ahead of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

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