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.
Which of the following rivers of Bihar rises in the southern plateau and not in Nepal or the Himalaya?
The Son rises on the Amarkantak plateau in Madhya Pradesh, flows north-east through the hard rock country of the south and joins the Ganga near Maner, west of Patna.
Read the full explanation →Which river is known as the Sorrow of Bihar?
The Kosi rises in the Himalaya, carries an enormous load of silt and deposits it on the almost flat plain of north Bihar, raising its own bed until it breaks out and takes a new course.
Read the full explanation →Which is the highest point of Bihar?
The Someshwar hills form the narrow Shivalik belt in the extreme north-west of Bihar, with flat valleys called duns lying between the ridges, and Someshwar peak, about 880 metres, is the highest point of the state.
Read the full explanation →Which river divides Bihar into the North Bihar plain and the South Bihar plain?
The Ganga enters Bihar near Chausa in Buxar district, flows from west to east for about 445 kilometres and leaves the state near Rajmahal.
Read the full explanation →Bihar shares an international boundary with which country?
Bihar has an international boundary of about 726 kilometres with Nepal along its entire northern edge, and the rivers that make north Bihar fertile and flood-prone, the Gandak, Bagmati, Kamla Balan and Kosi, all cross that boundary into the state.
Read the full explanation →What is the latitudinal extent of Bihar?
Stated exactly, Bihar lies between 24 degrees 20 minutes 10 seconds north and 27 degrees 31 minutes 15 seconds north latitude, and between 83 degrees 19 minutes 50 seconds east and 88 degrees 17 minutes 40 seconds east longitude.
Read the full explanation →What is the area of Bihar?
Bihar covers 94,163 square kilometres, which makes it the twelfth largest state of India by area, although it stands third in population after Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Read the full explanation →Which state became the first to enact and bring into force a Uniform Civil Code?
Its Uniform Civil Code was passed by the state assembly in 2024 and brought into force in January 2025, making Uttarakhand the first state to legislate a single set of rules on marriage, divorce, succession and related matters for its residents, with the exemption for the Scheduled Tribes that the…
Read the full explanation →Which state first reserved 50 per cent of panchayat seats for women?
That minimum is the key to the question: Article 243D, inserted by the 73rd Amendment, reserves not less than one-third of the seats in every panchayat and one-third of the offices of chairperson for women, and leaves the states free to give more.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first to pass a law guaranteeing the delivery of public services within a fixed time?
The correct answer is A, Madhya Pradesh, which enacted its Public Services Guarantee Act in 2010, the first law in India to make the delivery of listed services, such as a copy of a land record, a ration card or a birth certificate, a legal right within a notified number…
Read the full explanation →Who became the first woman Chief Minister of an Indian state?
She had been a freedom fighter and a member of the Constituent Assembly before entering state politics.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first to ratify the Constitutional Amendment Bill that introduced the Goods and Services Tax?
Ratification by the legislatures of at least half the states is required under Article 368(2) for amendments that touch the federal structure, and the Bill became the Constitution (One Hundred and First Amendment) Act, 2016, after which the Goods and Services Tax came into force on 1 July 2017.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first in India to achieve 100 per cent rural electrification?
The achievement is a standard static GK line about the state, and it is usually paired with a second first: Haryana was also the first state to replace sales tax with Value Added Tax, on 1 April 2003, ahead of the wider rollout of VAT from 2005.
Read the full explanation →Which state was declared the first fully literate state of India?
The campaign had first been tested in Ernakulam, which became the first fully literate district in the country in 1990, and the model was later used by the National Literacy Mission elsewhere.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian state was declared the country's first fully organic state?
The policy won Sikkim the Future Policy Gold Award given by the Food and Agriculture Organization in 2018. The same small Himalayan state holds two more firsts worth remembering: it banned plastic carry bags as early as 1998, and it was the first state declared free of open defecation.
Read the full explanation →Which state enacted India's first Right to Information law?
The correct answer is B, Tamil Nadu, which passed a state Right to Information Act in 1997, the first such law in the country and eight years ahead of the central Right to Information Act of 2005.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first to actually establish the institution of Lokayukta?
The idea came from the First Administrative Reforms Commission, which recommended a Lokpal at the Centre and a Lokayukta in the states to look into complaints of corruption and maladministration against public functionaries.
Read the full explanation →Which state was the first in India to introduce the Panchayati Raj system?
Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the Panchayati Raj system at Nagaur on 2 October 1959, putting into practice the three-tier design recommended by the Balwant Rai Mehta Committee of 1957: the gram panchayat at the village level, the panchayat samiti at the block level and the zila parishad at the district level.
Read the full explanation →Which was the first Indian state to be formed on a linguistic basis?
It was created as Andhra State on 1 October 1953 by separating the Telugu-speaking districts of the old Madras State.
Read the full explanation →Which type of electric motor is most commonly used in modern electric cars?
Because the rotor carries permanent magnets instead of windings that must be energised, the motor is compact, light and highly efficient over a wide range of speeds, and it gives the strong torque from rest that makes electric cars quick off the mark.
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