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 city of India is known as ’The Athens of the East’?
Madurai in Tamil Nadu is called the Athens of the East because, like ancient Athens, it was a seat of learning, poetry and debate for centuries.
Read the full explanation →Ugadi is celebrated in which of the following states?
Ugadi is the new year festival of Andhra Pradesh, and it is also kept in Telangana and Karnataka. The name comes from yuga and adi, meaning the beginning of an age, and it falls on the first day of the month of Chaitra, in March or April.
Read the full explanation →The story of Maynamati and Gopichandra is a part of which of the following literary works?
The tale of queen Maynamati and her son Gopichandra belongs to the Nath literature of eastern India, the body of songs and ballads around the Nathpanthi yogis.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the closest wild relative of domestic cattle protected in some of the famous national parks of India like Nagarhole and Bandipur?
The gaur, also called the Indian bison, is the wild bovine closest to domestic cattle and is protected in the Nagarhole and Bandipur national parks of Karnataka.
Read the full explanation →The Constitution of India is a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic with a _________ system of government.
India follows the parliamentary system, taken from Britain, in which the real executive is responsible to the legislature.
Read the full explanation →The Directive Principles of State Policy in the Constitution of India were borrowed from the _________ Constitution.
The Directive Principles of State Policy, in Part IV of the Constitution from Articles 36 to 51, were taken from the Constitution of Ireland, which had in turn drawn the idea from Spain.
Read the full explanation →In which of the following years was the Planning Commission of India set up?
The Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 by a resolution of the Union Cabinet, so it was neither a constitutional nor a statutory body.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following commissions recommended that the appointment of Governor should be non-partisan?
The Sarkaria Commission said the Governor should be a detached figure chosen without regard to party, and ideally someone who has not taken an active part in politics in the recent past or belonged to the ruling party at the centre.
Read the full explanation →The Industrial Policy Resolution 1956, classified industries into how many categories?
The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 divided industries into three schedules. Schedule A listed seventeen industries to be the exclusive responsibility of the state, such as arms, atomic energy, railways and heavy industry.
Read the full explanation →The consumption of fixed capital is also known as _________.
Consumption of fixed capital is the national income term for depreciation, the fall in the value of machines, buildings and other fixed assets as they are used up or become obsolete over the year.
Read the full explanation →The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana is for Indian citizens in the age group of ______.
The Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana can be joined by anyone between 18 and 50 years of age who holds a savings bank account.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is an example of private sector industry in India?
TISCO, now Tata Steel, is owned and run by private shareholders, which is what makes an enterprise part of the private sector.
Read the full explanation →Which law was studied in the year 1787, in which it was said that the volume of a gas increases with its absolute temperature and if its absolute temperature decreases, then its volume will decrease?
Charles’s law says that at constant pressure the volume of a fixed mass of gas is directly proportional to its absolute temperature, so V by T stays constant.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following laws deduces the expression for the force between two stationary point charges in vacuum or free space?
Coulomb’s law gives the force between two point charges at rest. It states that the force is directly proportional to the product of the two charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, and acts along the line joining them.
Read the full explanation →In terms of SI prefixes 10-15 is called:
In the SI system the prefix femto, written f, stands for 10 raised to minus 15. The name comes from the Danish and Norwegian word femten, meaning fifteen.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was the first to conclude that in vacuum all objects fall with the same acceleration g and reach the ground at the same time?
Galileo was the first to argue that, with air resistance removed, every body falls with the same acceleration regardless of its mass.
Read the full explanation →Which city is called the ’Manchester of India’?
Ahmedabad in Gujarat is called the Manchester of India because of the cotton textile mills that grew there, just as Manchester in England was the centre of the cotton industry.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following river rises in the Indian Himalayan?
The Yamuna rises from the Yamunotri glacier on the Bandarpunch range in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, so its source lies inside the Indian Himalayas.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following hill stations do NOT experience snowfall in winters?
Ooty, or Udhagamandalam, sits in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu at about 2,240 metres, but it lies close to the equator at roughly 11 degrees north, so its winter temperatures stay above freezing and it gets no snowfall.
Read the full explanation →In which of the following states is the Kolleru Lake located?
Kolleru Lake lies in Andhra Pradesh, between the deltas of the Krishna and the Godavari, spread across the Eluru and West Godavari districts.
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