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.
In which city is the Mohun Bagan Athletic club situated?
Mohun Bagan Athletic Club was founded in 1889 in Kolkata and is among the oldest football clubs of the country.
Read the full explanation →In which city was the first golf club of India situated?
The Royal Calcutta Golf Club was founded in 1829 in the city that was then the capital of British India, and it is counted as the first golf club established anywhere outside Britain.
Read the full explanation →Project Elephant, launched by the Government of India for the protection of elephants and their corridors, was started in which year?
Project Elephant was launched in 1992 to protect elephants, their habitat and the corridors along which herds move between forests, and it also deals with human elephant conflict and the welfare of captive elephants.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following has been declared the National Aquatic Animal of India?
This nearly blind freshwater dolphin of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna systems finds its prey by echolocation and was declared the National Aquatic Animal of India in 2009, a step meant to draw attention to the pollution and damming of its rivers.
Read the full explanation →The hangul or Kashmir stag is protected mainly in which national park?
The hangul, also called the Kashmir stag, is the only surviving Asiatic subspecies of the red deer in India and its last viable population lives in Dachigam, a park in the hills above Srinagar whose name means ten villages.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following pairs: (a) Himalayan Region and wild goat and snow leopards, (b) Andaman and Nicobar Islands and mahogany and rosewood trees, (c) Gir forest and Asiatic lions. Which of the pairs given above is or are correctly matched?
The Himalayan region is home to wild goats such as the ibex and the tahr and to the snow leopard, which hunts them above the tree line, so pair (a) is right.
Read the full explanation →The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as CITES, came into force in which year?
CITES was drafted and signed at Washington in 1973, but a treaty begins to bind its members only after enough countries ratify it, and that stage was reached in 1975.
Read the full explanation →Silent valley national park is located in
Silent Valley National Park lies in the Palakkad district of Kerala, in the Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats, and protects one of the last stretches of undisturbed tropical evergreen forest in the country.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the cheetah officially declared extinct in India?
The Asiatic cheetah once hunted across the open grassland and scrub of central and peninsular India, was trained by rulers for coursing blackbuck, and was wiped out by shooting and by the ploughing of its grassland.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is declared as a Wild Ass Sanctuary?
The Wild Ass Sanctuary lies in the Little Rann of Kachchh in Gujarat and is the last home of the Indian wild ass, locally called the khur, a Schedule I animal that grazes on the raised patches of grass known as bets in the salt desert.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following IUCN Red List categories indicates a lower level of extinction risk than Endangered?
The Red List arranges risk in a ladder, and the three threatened grades in falling order of severity are Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable.
Read the full explanation →The greater one-horned rhino is listed under the Schedule ______ of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
The greater one-horned rhinoceros, the animal of Kaziranga and Manas in Assam, is placed in Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, the schedule that carries the highest protection and the strictest punishment for hunting or trade.
Read the full explanation →The International Union for Conservation of Nature, which publishes the Red List of Threatened Species, has its headquarters in which country?
The International Union for Conservation of Nature was founded in 1948 and works from Gland, a town in Switzerland near Geneva, where several environmental bodies have their offices.
Read the full explanation →After Wildlife Protection Act in 1972, the name of India's first wildlife conservation project was
Project Tiger was launched in 1973, the year after the Wildlife (Protection) Act came into force, and it was the first species recovery project of its kind in India.
Read the full explanation →Infantry Day, observed on 27 October, commemorates which event of 1947?
On 27 October 1947, a day after the Instrument of Accession was signed by the ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, the first infantry company was flown into Srinagar to meet the tribal invasion, and the day is kept by the infantry as its own.
Read the full explanation →Engineers' Day is celebrated in India on 15 September on the birth anniversary of
Born on 15 September 1861, he was the engineer behind the Krishna Raja Sagara dam and the flood protection works at Hyderabad, served as the Diwan of Mysore and received the Bharat Ratna, and the day honours the profession through his name.
Read the full explanation →Vijay Diwas, observed on 16 December, marks the victory of India in which war?
On 16 December 1971 the Pakistani forces surrendered at Dhaka, the largest surrender since the Second World War, and the war ended with the creation of Bangladesh.
Read the full explanation →National Fire Service Day on 14 April is observed in memory of the firemen who died in which incident?
A ship carrying explosives caught fire at the docks and blew up, and dozens of firemen died fighting the blaze; 14 April is kept in their memory and the week that follows is observed as fire service week to spread awareness of fire safety.
Read the full explanation →National Doctors' Day is observed in India on 1 July in memory of which person?
The physician and Chief Minister of West Bengal was born on 1 July and died on the same date, and the day was fixed in his memory to honour the work of doctors.
Read the full explanation →Civil Services Day is observed in India on which date?
On this day in 1947 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressed the first batch of probationers of the administrative service at Metcalfe House in Delhi and described the services as the steel frame that would hold the country together, and the day is now marked with awards for excellence in public administration.
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