Static GK decides the General Awareness score in SSC MTS. The 2025 notice keeps the syllabus at the 10th Standard: History, Geography, Art and Culture, Civics and Economics under Social Studies, General Science and Environmental Studies. Most of the 25 questions in Session-II come from these areas. History asks the Harappan sites, the Mauryas and Guptas, the Sultanate and Mughal rulers and the freedom movement. Geography asks rivers, soils, crops, minerals, national parks, States, capitals and neighbours. Civics asks the Constitution's Parts, Schedules and Articles, Fundamental Rights and Duties, the President, Parliament, the Supreme Court and local government. Economics asks basic terms, the RBI, taxes and schemes. General Science covers Class 6 to 10 Physics, Chemistry and Biology, and Environmental Studies asks ecosystems, pollution and conservation. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes for SSC MTS, written as short facts and tables at exactly that level so a topic can be finished in one sitting and revised in ten minutes. Read a topic, then solve its previous-year questions and quiz on this site to see what stayed with you, and keep the notes for the last-week revision before the CBE.
Which city is known as the Blue City of India?
Jodhpur in Rajasthan is called the Blue City because the old town below the Mehrangarh fort is painted in indigo washed blue, a habit that began with the houses of Brahmin families and spread through the lanes.
Read the full explanation →The Nilgiri tahr is the state animal of which state?
The Nilgiri tahr, a stocky wild goat of the high grasslands and cliffs of the Western Ghats, is the state animal of Tamil Nadu.
Read the full explanation →The Great Indian Bustard, locally called godawan, is the state bird of:
The Great Indian Bustard, known in Rajasthan as the godawan, is one of the heaviest flying birds in the world and one of the most threatened.
Read the full explanation →The sangai, a brow-antlered deer, is the state animal of which state?
The sangai or Manipur brow-antlered deer is found only on the floating phumdi vegetation of Keibul Lamjao National Park in the southern part of Loktak Lake, the only floating national park in the world.
Read the full explanation →The hangul, a threatened deer, is the state animal of:
The hangul or Kashmir stag is the only Asiatic subspecies of the red deer found in India, and it survives mainly in the Dachigam National Park near Srinagar.
Read the full explanation →The chinkara is the state animal of which state?
The chinkara, also called the Indian gazelle, is the state animal of Rajasthan. It is a small antelope of dry scrub and desert that can survive long spells without drinking, which suits the Thar, and the Bishnoi community of western Rajasthan has protected it for centuries.
Read the full explanation →Which element of the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath was left out when the State Emblem of India was adapted from it?
The original capital at Sarnath rests on an inverted lotus shaped like a bell, and that part was deliberately omitted from the State Emblem, which begins at the abacus.
Read the full explanation →The National Flag of India was based on the design proposed by
He was a freedom fighter from the Machilipatnam region of present day Andhra Pradesh who studied flags for years and presented a design to Mahatma Gandhi at Vijayawada in 1921.
Read the full explanation →Who designed the Indian rupee sign that was approved by the Union Cabinet in 2010?
His design won a public competition and the Union Cabinet approved it on 15 July 2010.
Read the full explanation →The National Calendar of India is based on the Saka era. Which is its first month?
The Saka calendar was adopted as the National Calendar with effect from 22 March 1957, which was the first of Chaitra in the Saka year 1879.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the National Aquatic Animal of India?
Platanista gangetica, the South Asian river dolphin of the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna systems, was notified as the National Aquatic Animal in 2009.
Read the full explanation →Vande Mataram, the National Song of India, first appeared in which novel?
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee composed Vande Mataram in Sanskritised Bengali and later placed it in his novel Anandamath, published in 1882, where the ascetic rebels sing it.
Read the full explanation →Jana Gana Mana, the National Anthem of India, was first sung on 27 December 1911 at the session of the Indian National Congress held at
Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali song was sung for the first time at the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December 1911.
Read the full explanation →The motto Satyameva Jayate inscribed below the State Emblem of India is taken from which text?
Satyameva Jayate, meaning truth alone triumphs, comes from a verse of the Mundaka Upanishad, which belongs to the Atharva Veda.
Read the full explanation →What is the ratio of the width to the length of the National Flag of India?
The Flag Code of India fixes the shape of the National Flag as a rectangle whose width stands to its length as two to three, so a flag six hundred millimetres in length is four hundred millimetres in height.
Read the full explanation →The National Flag of India in its present form was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on
The Constituent Assembly adopted the tricolour on that day, a few weeks before independence, after a committee under Dr Rajendra Prasad settled the design.
Read the full explanation →Which is the national heritage animal of India?
The Indian elephant, Elephas maximus indicus, was declared the National Heritage Animal in 2010 on the recommendation of the Elephant Task Force, so that its protection could be given the same weight as that of the tiger.
Read the full explanation →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.
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