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.
Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment at which place in present day Bihar?
The Buddha attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree on the bank of the Falgu at Bodh Gaya in the Gaya district.
Read the full explanation →Which is the only national park of Bihar?
It lies in the West Champaran district on the border with Nepal, in the basin of the Gandak, and forms the core of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve, the only tiger reserve of the state.
Read the full explanation →Which river is known as the Sorrow of Bihar?
The Kosi rises in Nepal, carries an enormous load of Himalayan silt and keeps raising its own bed, so it spills over and abandons its channel again and again.
Read the full explanation →The state of Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar in which year?
Jharkhand was created on 15 November 2000, the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda, out of the southern plateau districts of Bihar.
Read the full explanation →Bihar Diwas is celebrated every year on which date?
On 22 March 1912 the province of Bihar and Orissa was carved out of the Bengal Presidency, which gave Bihar a separate administrative identity for the first time.
Read the full explanation →The central office of the Reserve Bank of India was shifted from Calcutta to Bombay in which year?
The Reserve Bank opened at Calcutta in 1935 and moved its central office permanently to Bombay two years later, which is where the Governor sits and where policy is announced.
Read the full explanation →The authority of the Reserve Bank of India to regulate and supervise payment systems in India flows from which law?
It makes the Reserve Bank the designated authority for the regulation and supervision of payment systems in India, so that no person may operate a payment system without its authorisation.
Read the full explanation →Under the Minimum Reserve System followed since 1957, the Reserve Bank of India must hold assets of at least
Since 1957 India has followed the Minimum Reserve System of note issue, under which the Reserve Bank must keep assets worth at least two hundred crore rupees against the notes in circulation, of which gold must be worth at least one hundred and fifteen crore rupees and the remainder may…
Read the full explanation →When the Reserve Bank of India lends to a sound bank that cannot raise funds elsewhere, it is performing the function of
It is the classic central bank function: when a bank is solvent but short of cash and neither the market nor other banks will lend to it, the Reserve Bank lends against eligible securities so that a local shortage does not turn into a general panic and a run on…
Read the full explanation →How many members does the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India have?
The Committee was created by the amendment of the Reserve Bank of India Act in 2016.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is NOT issued by the Reserve Bank of India?
The one rupee note is issued by the Government of India through the Ministry of Finance and carries the signature of the Finance Secretary, not of the Governor.
Read the full explanation →Who was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank of India?
He was the first Governor of the Reserve Bank, taking charge when the Bank opened in 1935, and he had earlier been a managing governor of the Imperial Bank of India.
Read the full explanation →The establishment of the Reserve Bank of India was recommended by which commission?
Formally the Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance, it reported in 1926 and recommended that the currency and credit functions then divided between the Government and the Imperial Bank be placed in a single central bank.
Read the full explanation →The Reserve Bank of India commenced its operations on
The Reserve Bank of India Act was passed in 1934 and the Bank began work on the first day of April in the following year, with its central office at Calcutta.
Read the full explanation →Which of these institutions fixes the Repo Rate and the Reverse Repo Rate in India?
Policy rates are announced by the Reserve Bank, and since 2016 the decision is taken by its Monetary Policy Committee of six members under the chairmanship of the Governor.
Read the full explanation →The legal provisions governing the management of foreign exchange reserves are laid down in the Reserve Bank of India Act, ______.
The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 is the statute that created the Bank and it carries the provisions on the custody and deployment of the country's foreign exchange reserves, which the Bank holds and invests.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the RBI nationalised?
The Reserve Bank of India began as a shareholders' bank and was taken into public ownership on 1 January 1949 under the Reserve Bank (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following was a founder member of the Progressive Artists Group formed at Bombay in 1947?
Francis Newton Souza founded the Progressive Artists Group at Bombay in 1947 along with S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, K. H. Ara, S. K. Bakre and H. A. Gade.
Read the full explanation →Kalamkari, the art of drawing and printing on cloth with a bamboo pen and vegetable dyes, is chiefly associated with which state?
Kalamkari takes its name from kalam, a pen, and kari, work. Its two centres are Srikalahasti, where the design is drawn freehand with a bamboo pen and the subjects come from temple mythology, and Machilipatnam, where carved wooden blocks print repeated floral and Persian derived patterns.
Read the full explanation →The illustrated manuscript Hamzanama was produced in the reign of which ruler?
The Hamzanama, the romance of the adventures of Amir Hamza, was the first great project of Akbar's imperial atelier and took about fifteen years, its large folios painted on cloth by a team under Mir Sayyid Ali and Abdus Samad.
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