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 was the Mughal Emperor at the time of Battle of Plassey?
The Battle of Plassey was fought in 1757 between Robert Clive of the East India Company and Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following options have the correct sequence of the Mughal emperors chronologically?
The Mughal throne passed from Babur, who ruled from 1526 to 1530, to his son Humayun from 1530 to 1540 and again from 1555 to 1556, then to Akbar from 1556 to 1605, to Jahangir from 1605 to 1627, to Shah Jahan from 1628 to 1658 and to Aurangzeb from…
Read the full explanation →Special Drawing Rights, which form part of a country's foreign exchange reserves, are issued by
Special drawing rights are an international reserve asset created by the IMF and allotted to member countries in proportion to their quotas; a member can exchange them with other members for usable currencies.
Read the full explanation →The Tarapore Committee is associated with which of the following?
The committee headed by S. S. Tarapore reported in 1997 and again in 2006 and set out a phased road map for making the rupee convertible on the capital account, together with the preconditions to be met first, such as fiscal discipline, low and stable inflation and a strong banking…
Read the full explanation →A depreciation of the Indian rupee against the US dollar is likely to
When the rupee depreciates, each dollar buys more rupees, so an Indian good priced in rupees costs a foreign buyer fewer dollars and exports become more competitive, while every imported item costs more rupees than before.
Read the full explanation →The exchange rate system followed by India at present is best described as
Since the unification of the exchange rate in March 1993 the value of the rupee has been determined by demand and supply in the foreign exchange market, while the Reserve Bank intervenes by buying or selling dollars to curb sharp volatility rather than to defend any particular level.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is not a component of India's foreign exchange reserves?
Small savings such as deposits in post office schemes are domestic rupee liabilities of the government and have nothing to do with the country's external assets.
Read the full explanation →In which year did India accept the obligations of Article VIII of the IMF, making the rupee fully convertible on the current account?
India accepted the obligations of Article VIII of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund in August 1994, which means the rupee can be exchanged freely for trade in goods and services, travel, education, remittances and interest payments.
Read the full explanation →The Foreign Exchange Management Act, FEMA, replaced which of the following laws?
FERA treated foreign exchange as a scarce resource, forbade most dealings unless permitted and made breaches criminal offences.
Read the full explanation →What challenge does foreign investment often face in India?
Foreign investors bring in foreign exchange and look for predictable rules, and the difficulty most often listed for India is regulatory uncertainty: changing rules, clearances spread across departments and states, and disputes that take long to settle.
Read the full explanation →Consider the following statements: 1. Tight monetary policy of US Federal Reserve could lead to capital flight. 2. Capital flight may increase the interest cost of firms with existing External Commercial Borrowings (ECBs). 3. Devaluation of domestic currency decreases the currency risk associated with ECBs. Which of the statements given above are correct?
Statement 1 is right because when the United States Federal Reserve tightens, returns there become attractive and portfolio money flows out of emerging markets, which is capital flight.
Read the full explanation →With reference to the Indian economy, consider the following statements: 1. An increase in the Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) indicates the appreciation of rupee. 2. An increase in the Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER) indicates an improvement in trade competitiveness. 3. An increasing trend in domestic inflation relative to inflation in other countries is likely to cause an increasing divergence between NEER and REER. Which of the above statements are correct?
Statement 1 is right because the NEER is a trade weighted index of the rupee against a basket of partner currencies, so a rise in the index means the rupee has appreciated in nominal terms.
Read the full explanation →Under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960, which group of rivers was allotted to India for unrestricted use?
The Indus Waters Treaty, signed in 1960 with the World Bank as a party to the arrangement, gave India the unrestricted use of the three eastern rivers, the Ravi, the Beas and the Sutlej, and gave the three western rivers to Pakistan, with India allowed limited uses such as run…
Read the full explanation →At which place do the Bhagirathi and the Alaknanda meet to form the Ganga?
At Devprayag in Uttarakhand the Bhagirathi, which comes down from the Gangotri glacier, meets the Alaknanda, and the united stream is called the Ganga from that point.
Read the full explanation →The Hirakud dam is built on which river?
Hirakud dam stands on the Mahanadi in the Sambalpur district of Odisha and is among the longest earthen dams in the world, built for flood control, irrigation and power in a basin that used to flood badly.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following rivers flows through a rift valley and forms an estuary instead of a delta?
The Narmada flows west from the Amarkantak plateau through the rift valley between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat through an estuary, because the steep, narrow valley lets it carry its silt straight out to sea instead of spreading it.
Read the full explanation →The Godavari river originates from which of the following places?
The Godavari rises in the Western Ghats at Trimbakeshwar in the Nashik district of Maharashtra and flows east across the peninsula to the Bay of Bengal, draining the second largest basin in India after the Ganga.
Read the full explanation →Which is the longest river flowing entirely within the territory of India?
The Godavari is about 1,465 kilometres long, rises at Trimbakeshwar near Nashik in Maharashtra, crosses Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh and falls into the Bay of Bengal, all within India, which makes it the longest river flowing wholly inside the country.
Read the full explanation →Musi river is a tributary of which of the following rivers?
The Musi rises in the Anantagiri hills of Telangana, flows through Hyderabad, and joins the Krishna in Nalgonda district, which is why the city's water supply and floods are tied to it.
Read the full explanation →What is the Vedic name of the Ravi river?
In the Rigveda the Ravi appears as the Parushni, and it is on this river that the Battle of the Ten Kings, the Dasarajna, is placed.
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