SSC GK Questions 2026

Nyaya is the school of logic and holds that liberation follows from correct reasoning, so it pairs with logical thinking.

The eightfold path or ashtangika marga is the fourth of the noble truths preached by the Buddha in his first sermon at Sarnath, and it names the middle way between indulgence and mortification: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration.

Purva Mimamsa is the school founded by Jaimini, which treats the karma kanda or ritual portion of the Vedas as authoritative and holds that liberation follows from the correct performance of Vedic duty.

Ramanuja taught Vishishtadvaita or qualified non dualism, in which souls and matter are real but exist as attributes of Brahman.

The English physician William Harvey showed by experiment and measurement that blood is not made afresh and used up in the tissues, as was then believed, but moves in a closed circuit, driven by the heart acting as a pump, and he published this in 1628 in his book on…

The opening between the left atrium and the left ventricle is guarded by a valve with two flaps or cusps, which is why it is called the bicuspid valve; it is also known as the mitral valve because its shape resembles a bishop's mitre.

Antidiuretic hormone, also called vasopressin, is released by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland and makes the distal tubule and the collecting duct of the nephron pull water back into the blood.

Filtration at the glomerulus is blind: it pushes out useful glucose and amino acids along with the waste.

When the body breaks down more protein than it needs, the amino acids are stripped of their amino group and the ammonia so released is highly poisonous.

A red blood cell lives about one hundred and twenty days. As it ages its membrane grows stiff, and the narrow winding channels of the spleen trap such cells so that the macrophages lining them can break the cells down and salvage the iron of their haemoglobin.

The heartbeat is not started by a nerve from the brain; the heart generates its own rhythm, and the patch of specialised tissue that does so fastest sets the pace for the rest.

In the ABO system the antigens sit on the surface of the red blood cell and the antibodies float in the plasma.

An artery is defined by direction, not by the kind of blood it holds: it carries blood away from the heart.

The nephron is the structural and functional unit of the kidney, and each human kidney holds about one million of them.

A reef building coral polyp lives in a close partnership with single celled algae called zooxanthellae that live inside its own tissue.

In the tundra only a thin upper layer of the ground thaws in the brief summer; below it the soil stays frozen through the year, and this permanently frozen subsoil is called permafrost.

Succession is a directional process: each community changes the place a little, making it fit for the next, until a community arrives that is in balance with the climate of the region and can replace itself generation after generation without being replaced by another.

Primary succession starts on a surface that has never held life, a cooled lava flow, a bare rock or a fresh sand dune, and the slowest part of the whole process there is the making of soil: rock has to be weathered grain by grain and organic matter has to…

A bare rock offers no soil, almost no water and no shelter, and only an organism that can survive long spells of drying and can hold on to bare stone can settle there.

The temperate grassland is the same biome the world over, short nutritious grass with almost no tree, but each continent gives it a local name, and the pairs are asked directly in examinations.