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.
Where was the 17th SAARC (2011) Conference held?
The seventeenth SAARC summit was held in November 2011 at Addu City in the Maldives, the country's second largest urban area, on Addu Atoll in the far south of the chain, and its theme was building bridges.
Read the full explanation →The book Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? records the turnaround of which company?
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? was written by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. and published in 2002.
Read the full explanation →The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time is the autobiography of:
The founder of the Essel group and of Zee, India's first privately owned Hindi satellite channel, told his story in The Z Factor, written with Pranjal Sharma.
Read the full explanation →The collection of speeches titled A Better India: A Better World was written by:
The founder of Infosys gathered his lectures and convocation addresses into A Better India: A Better World, published in 2009, on themes of fairness in business, the duties of the educated and what he called compassionate capitalism.
Read the full explanation →Made in Japan is the autobiography of a co-founder of which company?
Made in Japan was written by Akio Morita, who founded Sony with Masaru Ibuka, and it appeared in 1986.
Read the full explanation →Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead was written by:
Lean In was published in 2013 by Sheryl Sandberg, then Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and argues that women hold themselves back at work in ways that can be named and corrected, from leaving before they leave to underestimating their own readiness for a role.
Read the full explanation →Stay Hungry Stay Foolish, which profiles twenty-five entrepreneurs who studied at IIM Ahmedabad, was written by:
Stay Hungry Stay Foolish appeared in 2008 and carries twenty-five profiles of entrepreneurs who had studied at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, grouped by whether they were born to business, were self-made or were driven by a cause.
Read the full explanation →The book Hit Refresh was written by which technology chief executive?
Hit Refresh was published in 2017 by Satya Nadella, who became Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft in 2014.
Read the full explanation →Shoe Dog is the memoir of the man who created which sportswear company?
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike was written by Phil Knight and published in 2016.
Read the full explanation →The autobiography I Too Had a Dream, which tells the story of the Amul milk co-operative, was written by:
Kurien, the mechanical engineer who built the Amul co-operative at Anand in Gujarat and headed the National Dairy Development Board, told his story in I Too Had a Dream, written with Gouri Salvi and published in 2005; his earlier volume of lectures is An Unfinished Dream.
Read the full explanation →The book Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century was written by which business leader?
Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys and the first Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, published Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century in 2008; it argues that India's young population, its cities and its technology can be turned from problems into assets.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT taken into account in computing an individual's credit score?
A credit score is built only from credit behaviour reported by lenders, so income, the balance in a savings account, the deposits held with a bank, and matters such as caste or religion are not part of it; a lender looks at income separately when it assesses whether a borrower…
Read the full explanation →As directed by the Reserve Bank, how many free full credit reports must each credit information company give an individual in a calendar year?
The Reserve Bank has directed every credit information company to provide one free full credit report to an individual once in each calendar year, on request, so that a borrower can check the record and have an error corrected before applying for a loan.
Read the full explanation →A rating of 'D' assigned to a debt instrument indicates that the instrument is:
The correct answer is C, in default or expected to be in default soon.
Read the full explanation →In the long-term rating scale standardised by SEBI, which symbol denotes the highest degree of safety?
On the standardised long-term scale, AAA means the highest degree of safety for the timely servicing of interest and principal, followed by AA for high safety, A for adequate safety and BBB for moderate safety, and running down through BB, B and C to D for default.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a credit information company operating in India?
CARE is a credit rating agency registered with SEBI, which rates debt instruments and the companies that issue them; it does not keep the credit histories of individuals.
Read the full explanation →ICRA, set up in 1991, was promoted by which financial institution?
The Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India Limited was set up in 1991 with the Industrial Finance Corporation of India as its promoter, and Moody's later acquired a majority stake in it.
Read the full explanation →The CIBIL score is a three-digit number lying in which range?
TransUnion CIBIL computes its score for individual borrowers on a scale from 300 at the lowest to 900 at the highest, and a few months of credit history are needed before any score can be generated; a person who has never borrowed is shown with a no history marker rather…
Read the full explanation →Which was India's first credit rating agency, set up in 1987?
The Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited was set up in 1987 as India's first credit rating agency, promoted by ICICI and the Unit Trust of India, and the global firm S and P Global later became its majority shareholder.
Read the full explanation →Credit information companies in India are regulated under which Act?
This Act created the framework for credit bureaus, requiring them to register with the Reserve Bank of India, obliging banks and other credit institutions to become members and to furnish data, and giving borrowers the right to see and correct their own records.
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