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 place in India receives the highest average annual rainfall?
Mawsynram lies in the Khasi hills, and the neighbouring Cherrapunji, now called Sohra, stands close behind it.
Read the full explanation →The south-west monsoon normally reaches the coast of Kerala on about which date?
The south-west monsoon normally sets in over the Kerala coast about the first of June, and the sudden heavy downpour that marks its arrival is called the burst of the monsoon.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following pairs of type of climate and area is NOT correct? I. Semi-arid steppe climate - Punjab. II. Monsoon with dry summer - Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu.
In the Koeppen classification as applied to India, the semi-arid steppe climate marked BShw covers parts of Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh and the drier interior of the peninsula, where rainfall is low but not as low as in a true desert.
Read the full explanation →The line joining the areas having the same rainfall is called:
An isohyet is a line drawn on a map through all the places that receive the same amount of rainfall in a given period.
Read the full explanation →In India, during October-November, with the apparent movement of the sun towards the south, the ______ over the northern plains becomes weaker.
The monsoon trough is the belt of low pressure that lies across the northern plains during the rainy season and guides the depressions that bring rain.
Read the full explanation →In which state of India is the rain caused by a lightning storm called Cherry Blossom?
The pre-monsoon thundery showers of Karnataka are called cherry blossom showers or blossom showers because they help the coffee plants of the Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan belt to flower.
Read the full explanation →What causes rainfall on the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu in the beginning of winters?
As the monsoon retreats in October and November the wind direction reverses and air moves from the land towards the sea.
Read the full explanation →When white light passes through a prism, which colour is deviated the most?
White light is a mixture of colours, and the refractive index of the glass of a prism is slightly different for each of them, being greatest for violet and least for red.
Read the full explanation →Myopia, or short-sightedness, is corrected by using which type of lens?
In myopia the eyeball is too long or the lens of the eye too strongly converging, so rays from a distant object meet in front of the retina and the person cannot see far objects clearly.
Read the full explanation →Optical fibres used in communication work on the principle of:
An optical fibre is a thin thread of glass or plastic with a core of higher refractive index surrounded by a cladding of lower refractive index.
Read the full explanation →The formation of a mirage on a hot road is caused by:
On a hot day the air touching the road is heated and becomes rarer than the cooler air above it.
Read the full explanation →The power of a convex lens of focal length 50 cm is:
The power of a lens is the reciprocal of its focal length expressed in metres, that is P equals 1 divided by f. Fifty centimetres is 0.5 metre, and the reciprocal of 0.5 is 2, so the power is two dioptres.
Read the full explanation →Which type of mirror is used as a rear-view mirror in vehicles?
A convex mirror curves outward and spreads the light that falls on it, so it always forms a virtual, erect and diminished image, whatever the distance of the object.
Read the full explanation →The image formed by a plane mirror is always:
Rays reflected from a plane mirror diverge and only appear to come from a point behind the mirror, so the image cannot be caught on a screen and is virtual.
Read the full explanation →Name the scientist who first used a glass prism to obtain the spectrum of sunlight.
Newton passed a narrow beam of sunlight through a glass prism in a darkened room and obtained a band of seven colours on the wall, which he named the spectrum.
Read the full explanation →A concave lens has a focal length of 15 cm. If the object is placed at 30 cm from the lens, what is the image distance?
By the sign convention the focal length of a concave lens is negative, so f is minus 15 centimetres, and the object distance measured against the direction of the incident light is minus 30 centimetres.
Read the full explanation →A ray of light travelling from a rarer medium to a denser medium:
A denser medium has a higher refractive index, and the refractive index is the speed of light in vacuum divided by its speed in the medium, so light must travel more slowly inside it.
Read the full explanation →After Independence, ________ became India’s first Deputy Prime Minister.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was India's first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, from 1947 until his death in 1950.
Read the full explanation →Which Prime Minister is the only one to have received both India's Bharat Ratna and Pakistan's Nishan-e-Pakistan awards?
Pakistan conferred its highest civilian award, the Nishan-e-Pakistan, on Morarji Desai in 1990, and India awarded him the Bharat Ratna in 1991.
Read the full explanation →Who among the following became the acting Prime Minister of India after the death of Jawaharlal Nehru?
When Jawaharlal Nehru died on 27 May 1964, Gulzarilal Nanda, the senior-most minister, was sworn in as acting Prime Minister and held office for about two weeks until the Congress party chose Lal Bahadur Shastri.
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