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 type of read-only memory can have its contents erased by exposure to ultraviolet light?
A chip of this kind has a small quartz window, and shining ultraviolet light through it clears the stored contents so the chip can be programmed again.
Read the full explanation →The concept of the stored program, on which the architecture of modern computers is based, is credited to whom?
He set out the idea that a computer should keep its instructions in the same memory as its data, so that a program could be loaded and changed like any other information instead of being wired into the machine.
Read the full explanation →PARAM 8000, India's first indigenously developed supercomputer, was built by which organisation?
PARAM 8000 was unveiled in 1991 under the leadership of Vijay Bhatkar, and it made India one of the small group of countries building their own supercomputers.
Read the full explanation →Integrated circuits were the defining electronic component of which generation of computers?
The integrated circuit packs many transistors and other components onto a single silicon chip, and computers built on it were far smaller, cheaper and more reliable than their predecessors.
Read the full explanation →Which unit of the CPU decodes instructions and directs the working of the other units without performing any calculation itself?
It fetches each instruction from memory, decodes it, and then issues signals that tell the other parts of the system what to do and when.
Read the full explanation →How many bits make one nibble?
A bit is the smallest unit of data, holding a single binary 0 or 1. Four bits together form a nibble, which is exactly half a byte, and a nibble is convenient because it maps neatly to one hexadecimal digit.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is a volatile memory?
Random access memory holds the programs and data the processor is working on at that moment, and it is volatile: the instant the power supply is cut, everything stored in it disappears.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor, introduced?
The Intel 4004 placed an entire processing unit on a single chip for the first time in a commercial product, and that step marks the beginning of the fourth generation of computers, built on very large scale integration.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is regarded as the first commercially available electronic computer?
It was the first electronic computer built to be sold to customers rather than used only in a laboratory, and it was famously put to work on census and business data processing.
Read the full explanation →The transistor, which defined second-generation computers, was invented at which laboratory?
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley demonstrated the transistor there in 1947, and the three shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for it.
Read the full explanation →Vacuum tubes were used as the main electronic component in which generation of computers?
Machines such as ENIAC, EDVAC and UNIVAC-I ran on thousands of vacuum tubes, which made them enormous, power-hungry and dependent on constant cooling.
Read the full explanation →Who is known as the Father of the Computer?
He designed the Difference Engine and then the Analytical Engine, and the Analytical Engine contained the logical parts of a modern computer: a store for holding numbers, a mill for calculating, punched-card input and a printed output.
Read the full explanation →The Bhagavad Gita forms a part of which larger work?
The Bhagavad Gita is a section of the Bhishma Parva of the epic, in which Krishna counsels Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.
Read the full explanation →Ashvaghosha, the author of Buddhacharita, is associated with the court of which ruler?
Ashvaghosha wrote the Buddhacharita, a life of the Buddha in Sanskrit verse, and also Saundarananda, and tradition places him at Kanishka's court along with the physician Charaka and the Buddhist scholar Vasumitra.
Read the full explanation →The Panchatantra, a collection of animal fables composed to instruct princes, is ascribed to whom?
The Panchatantra, meaning the five treatises, uses talking animals to teach practical wisdom and statecraft, and the frame story explains that it was composed to educate princes who had no taste for formal learning.
Read the full explanation →Who wrote the Tamil classic Thirukkural?
The Thirukkural is a work of short couplets arranged under three heads, virtue, wealth and love, and it is written so plainly that it is quoted as a guide to conduct rather than read only as literature.
Read the full explanation →The Buddhist Pali canon known as the Tripitaka consists of which three parts?
Pitaka means basket, so the canon is called the three baskets. The Vinaya Pitaka contains the rules of discipline for monks and nuns, the Sutta Pitaka holds the discourses of the Buddha, and the Abhidhamma Pitaka deals with philosophy and the analysis of mind and matter.
Read the full explanation →The play Mudrarakshasa, which deals with the political manoeuvres of Chanakya, was written by whom?
Mudrarakshasa, meaning the signet ring of Rakshasa, is a political drama in which Chanakya outwits the minister Rakshasa and secures the throne for Chandragupta Maurya.
Read the full explanation →Who is known as the Adi Kavi, the first poet, in Sanskrit literature?
The Ramayana is accordingly called the Adi Kavya, the first poem.
Read the full explanation →The Sanskrit grammar Ashtadhyayi was composed by whom?
The Ashtadhyayi, meaning the work in eight chapters, fixed the rules of Sanskrit in a set of short formulas and is admired as the earliest scientific grammar of any language, since it describes the whole language through a compact system of rules.
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