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.
On which day was the National Emblem of India adopted?
The State Emblem of India was adopted on the day the Constitution came into force and the country became a Republic.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following was NOT a scientific payload of India's Mars Orbiter Mission?
That instrument belonged to Chandrayaan 1, the lunar mission of 2008, and it was the one whose data confirmed water molecules on the Moon.
Read the full explanation →On which date did India's Mars Orbiter Mission successfully enter the orbit of Mars?
After a journey of about ten months the spacecraft fired its engine and was captured by the gravity of Mars on that day.
Read the full explanation →The Mars Orbiter Mission of India, popularly called Mangalyaan, was launched by which vehicle?
The Mars Orbiter Mission lifted off on 5 November 2013 on this flight of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following did Chandrayaan 3 NOT carry?
Chandrayaan 3 was deliberately built without one, because the orbiter of Chandrayaan 2 was still healthy in lunar orbit and could relay the lander's signals to the Earth.
Read the full explanation →The landing site of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon has been named
The spot where the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 touched down on 23 August 2023, in the high latitude region near the lunar south pole, was given this name shortly after the landing.
Read the full explanation →With the success of Chandrayaan 3, India became which country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon?
The Soviet Union was the first to place a craft gently on the lunar surface, the United States followed, and China became the third.
Read the full explanation →On which date did the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 make its soft landing on the Moon?
The Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 3 touched down safely in the high latitude region near the lunar south pole on that evening, and the rover Pragyan rolled out soon afterwards.
Read the full explanation →What are the names of the lander and the rover of the Chandrayaan missions?
The lander is named Vikram after Vikram Sarabhai, the physicist who founded the Indian space programme and is called its father.
Read the full explanation →Chandrayaan 2 was launched in July 2019 on which rocket?
Chandrayaan 2 lifted off on 22 July 2019 on the heaviest Indian rocket then flying, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark Three, which has since been renamed LVM3.
Read the full explanation →The presence of water molecules on the Moon was confirmed using data from which instrument carried by Chandrayaan 1?
This imaging spectrometer, supplied by the United States space agency and flown on the Indian orbiter, measured how sunlight reflected from the lunar surface and found the absorption signature of water molecules and hydroxyl, especially towards the poles.
Read the full explanation →Which launch vehicle carried Chandrayaan 1 into orbit?
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in its extended configuration carried Chandrayaan 1 on 22 October 2008. The same family of rockets, in the C25 flight, later carried the Mars Orbiter Mission in 2013, which shows how much the Indian space programme achieved with a medium lift vehicle.
Read the full explanation →Chandrayaan 1, India's first mission to the Moon, was launched in which year?
Chandrayaan 1 was launched on 22 October 2008 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota and reached lunar orbit within a fortnight.
Read the full explanation →The tomb of Sher Shah Suri, built in the middle of a tank, is located at
Sher Shah Suri was born in this town of the Rohtas district and his octagonal tomb of red sandstone stands on a platform in the middle of an artificial lake, one of the finest works of Indo Islamic architecture of the period.
Read the full explanation →The Shahi litchi, which carries a Geographical Indication tag, is associated with which district of Bihar?
The Shahi litchi of the Muzaffarpur belt in northern Bihar is known for its thin skin, small stone and high sugar, and it received a Geographical Indication tag in recognition of the link between the fruit and the alluvial soil and climate of that tract.
Read the full explanation →The Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary is located in which district of Bihar?
The sanctuary covers a stretch of the Ganga in the Bhagalpur district and is set aside for the Gangetic dolphin, which is the national aquatic animal of India and is nearly blind, hunting by echolocation.
Read the full explanation →The Sonepur fair, described as the largest cattle fair of Asia, is held at the confluence of which two rivers?
Sonepur in Saran district stands at Harihar Kshetra, where the Gandak comes down from the north and joins the Ganga opposite Patna.
Read the full explanation →Which place in Bihar was the seat of the Licchavis of the Vajji confederacy, remembered as one of the earliest republics?
It was the capital of the Licchavi clan, the leading member of the Vajji confederacy, and its assembly of clan heads is the reason it is described as one of the earliest republics in the world.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Chief Minister of Bihar?
Known to the state as Shri Babu, he became the first Chief Minister of Bihar and held the office for many years after independence.
Read the full explanation →Mahatma Gandhi's first satyagraha in India, launched in Bihar in 1917, is known as the
Gandhi went to Champaran in northern Bihar in 1917 at the repeated request of the cultivator Raj Kumar Shukla, to look into the tinkathia system under which peasants had to grow indigo on a fixed part of their holding for European planters.
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