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.
Which of the following is the largest tiger reserve of India by area?
The correct answer is A, Nagarjunsagar Srisailam, which spreads over the Nallamala hills in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and is the largest tiger reserve in the country by area.
Read the full explanation →The MIKE programme, in which India takes part, is concerned with
MIKE was set up under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. At selected sites, officials record every elephant carcass found and the cause of death in a standard form, so that the share of deaths due to poaching can be tracked and compared between countries and over time.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the elephant declared the National Heritage Animal of India?
The declaration followed the report of a task force on elephants and was meant to raise the status of the animal in policy and to strengthen the protection of its habitats and corridors.
Read the full explanation →Project Elephant was launched in which year?
Project Elephant was launched in February 1992 as a centrally sponsored scheme to help the states protect elephants, their habitats and their corridors, to reduce conflict between elephants and human beings and to improve the welfare of captive elephants.
Read the full explanation →The National Tiger Conservation Authority was given statutory status by amending which law?
The amending Act of 2006 inserted a new chapter into it, creating the National Tiger Conservation Authority and providing for tiger reserves with a critical tiger habitat and a buffer, as well as for the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau.
Read the full explanation →Project Tiger was launched from which national park?
It is the oldest national park of India, and the project was formally launched there on 1 April 1973.
Read the full explanation →Project Tiger was launched in which year?
Project Tiger began on 1 April 1973 as a centrally sponsored scheme with nine tiger reserves, in the same year in which the tiger replaced the lion as the national animal of India.
Read the full explanation →The last ruler of the Nanda dynasty, who was overthrown by Chandragupta Maurya, was
He was the last of the Nanda kings of Magadha and ruled when Alexander invaded the Punjab; Greek writers describe the vast army of the Gangaridai and Prasii that waited beyond the Beas.
Read the full explanation →Shravasti was the capital of which mahajanapada?
Shravasti was the capital of Kosala in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and Ayodhya and Saketa were its other important towns. Its king Prasenajit was a contemporary of the Buddha, who spent many rainy seasons at the Jetavana monastery in Shravasti, which is why the town appears so often in Buddhist literature.
Read the full explanation →The war engines rathamusala and mahashilakantaka are associated with the campaigns of which ruler?
Buddhist and Jain traditions credit him with two engines used in the long war against the Vajji confederacy: the rathamusala, a chariot fitted with a swinging mace that cut down men as it was driven through them, and the mahashilakantaka, a catapult that hurled heavy stones.
Read the full explanation →The founder of the Nanda dynasty of Magadha was
He founded the Nanda dynasty and the Puranas describe him as a ruler of humble birth who destroyed all the Kshatriya houses, calling him Ekarat, the sole sovereign.
Read the full explanation →Which mahajanapada was a gana-sangha with its centre at Vaishali?
The Vajji confederacy had its centre at Vaishali in north Bihar and was the best known gana-sangha, a state governed not by a single king but by an assembly of the heads of ruling families.
Read the full explanation →The First Buddhist Council was held at Rajgriha under the patronage of which ruler?
The First Buddhist Council met at Rajgriha soon after the death of the Buddha, with Ajatashatru of the Haryanka dynasty as its patron and Mahakassapa presiding, and it settled the Vinaya Pitaka and the Sutta Pitaka as recited by Upali and Ananda.
Read the full explanation →Bimbisara, a contemporary of the Buddha, belonged to which dynasty?
Bimbisara was the first great ruler of the Haryanka line of Magadha, traditionally dated from about 544 BCE, with his capital at Girivraja, also called Rajgriha.
Read the full explanation →Ujjain was the capital of which mahajanapada?
Avanti covered the Malwa region and had two capitals: Ujjain in its northern half and Mahishmati on the Narmada in its southern half.
Read the full explanation →Which one of the following mahajanapadas was situated south of the Vindhyas?
Of the sixteen mahajanapadas only Assaka lay in the Deccan, on the banks of the Godavari, with its capital at Potana, also written Potali.
Read the full explanation →The list of sixteen mahajanapadas of the sixth century BCE is found in which of the following texts?
It is a text of the Sutta Pitaka of the Buddhist canon and it names the sixteen great states of the age of the Buddha, from Magadha and Kosala in the east to Gandhara and Kamboja in the north-west.
Read the full explanation →Under the Minimum Reserve System followed in India since 1957, the Reserve Bank must maintain a minimum reserve of
Under the Minimum Reserve System, adopted in 1957 in place of the earlier proportional reserve system, the Reserve Bank has to hold assets worth at least two hundred crore rupees against the notes it issues, of which gold must account for one hundred and fifteen crore and the remaining eighty-five…
Read the full explanation →The Imperial Bank of India was converted into which bank in 1955?
The Imperial Bank of India had itself been created in 1921 by merging the three presidency banks, the Bank of Bengal of 1806, the Bank of Bombay of 1840 and the Bank of Madras of 1843.
Read the full explanation →The cash reserve ratio refers to the portion of a bank's deposits that must be
The cash reserve ratio is the share of a bank's net demand and time liabilities that it must maintain as cash balances with the Reserve Bank.
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