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.
Who became India's first chess Grandmaster?
Anand earned the Grandmaster title in 1988, the first Indian to do so, went on to become the world champion in 2000 and held the undisputed title from 2007 to 2013.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Indian to win the All England Open badminton championship?
Padukone won the All England Open in 1980, the oldest and at that time the most prestigious badminton tournament in the world, and he was also the first Indian to be ranked world number one in the men's game.
Read the full explanation →Dhyan Chand, whose birthday is observed as National Sports Day in India, is associated with which sport?
Dhyan Chand played in the Indian hockey teams that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, captaining the side in Berlin, and his control of the ball earned him the title of the wizard or the magician of hockey.
Read the full explanation →Karnam Malleswari, the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal, competed in which sport?
Malleswari won a bronze medal in the 69 kilogram weight class at Sydney in 2000 and so became the first Indian woman to win any Olympic medal, which is why she is remembered as the Iron Lady of Indian sport.
Read the full explanation →Who became the first Indian to win an individual gold medal at the Olympic Games?
Bindra won the men's 10 metre air rifle shooting event at Beijing in 2008, and it remains India's first individual Olympic gold medal; he had already become a world champion in the same event in 2006.
Read the full explanation →In which edition of the Olympic Games did India win its first gold medal, in men's hockey?
India sent a hockey team to the Olympic Games for the first time in 1928 and won the gold medal without conceding a single goal in the tournament, beginning a run of six successive hockey golds that ran through 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952 and 1956.
Read the full explanation →Who won India's first Olympic medals, taking two silver medals at the Paris Games of 1900?
Pritchard was the only competitor representing India at the Paris Games of 1900 and he finished second in both the 200 metres sprint and the 200 metres hurdles, so India's first two Olympic medals were silver and came in athletics.
Read the full explanation →The Earth is at its farthest point from the Sun, called aphelion, at about which time of the year?
The Earth's orbit is a slight ellipse, and it reaches aphelion, its greatest distance of about 152 million kilometres, in early July, while perihelion, its least distance of about 147 million kilometres, comes in early January.
Read the full explanation →What is the mean length of the year in the Gregorian calendar?
The Gregorian cycle of 400 years contains 97 leap years, so it holds 146,097 days, and dividing that by 400 gives exactly 365.2425 days for the mean year.
Read the full explanation →India adopted the Saka calendar as its national calendar in which year, on the recommendation of the Calendar Reform Committee?
The Calendar Reform Committee, set up under the chairmanship of the physicist Meghnad Saha, recommended a unified national calendar, and the Saka calendar was adopted with effect from 22 March 1957, which was the first day of Chaitra in the Saka year 1879.
Read the full explanation →An equinox occurs when the Sun is vertically overhead at which latitude?
Twice a year, about 21 March and about 23 September, the Sun's vertical rays fall on the Equator, the circle of illumination passes through both poles, and day and night are of equal length over the whole Earth, which is what the Latin root of the word equinox, meaning equal…
Read the full explanation →On which date is the Sun vertically overhead at the Tropic of Cancer, giving the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere?
On this date, the June solstice, the Sun's rays fall vertically on the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees north, so the Northern Hemisphere receives its longest day and shortest night while the Southern Hemisphere has its shortest day.
Read the full explanation →If 14 January 2022 was Friday, then what will be the day of the week on 28 February 2025?
Move forward one year at a time, adding one odd day for an ordinary span and two when a 29 February falls inside it.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following calendars will be the same as the calendar for the year 2003?
A year repeats another year's calendar when the odd days between them add up to a multiple of seven and both years are of the same kind, ordinary or leap.
Read the full explanation →The Gregorian calendar was introduced to correct the errors of which earlier calendar?
The Julian calendar, in use from 46 BC, assumed a year of exactly 365.25 days, which is about eleven minutes longer than the true tropical year of roughly 365.2422 days, so it gained a day about every 128 years and the equinox slid out of place.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT a leap year?
Under the Gregorian rule a year divisible by four is a leap year, but a century year is a leap year only if it is also divisible by 400.
Read the full explanation →How many days were omitted from the calendar when the Gregorian reform came into force in October 1582?
Thursday, 4 October 1582 was followed immediately by Friday, 15 October 1582, so ten dates vanished while the sequence of weekdays continued unbroken; the correction was needed because the Julian year of 365.25 days was about eleven minutes too long and had pushed the spring equinox ten days out of…
Read the full explanation →Who introduced the Gregorian calendar, which is in civil use across most of the world today?
He issued the bull Inter gravissimas in February 1582 and the new calendar took effect that October, correcting the drift that had built up in the older system and tightening the rule for leap years.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following uses lossless compression, so that the original data is restored exactly?
Portable Network Graphics applies the deflate algorithm, which rearranges and encodes the pixel data without discarding any of it, so the decompressed image is identical to the original, pixel for pixel; it also supports an alpha channel for partial transparency.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following software is used mainly for 3D modelling, rendering and animation and is free and open source?
Blender is a free and open-source suite in which an artist builds three dimensional models, applies materials and lighting, animates them along a timeline and then renders the frames into a finished image or film; it also carries sculpting, simulation and video editing tools.
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