SSC Previous Year GK Questions with Answers

Serchhip district of Mizoram recorded the highest literacy rate of any district in India in the Census of 2011, at almost 98 per cent.

Palm, coconut, keora and agar are the trees named for India's mangrove or tidal forests, which grow where the land meets the sea in deltas, estuaries and creeks.

Under Section 22 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, the RBI alone has the right to issue currency notes in the country, and it decides how many notes of each denomination are printed.

Raja Nand Kumar, a Brahmin revenue officer of Bengal, accused Warren Hastings of taking bribes. Soon afterwards Nand Kumar himself was charged with forgery, tried by the Supreme Court at Calcutta under Chief Justice Elijah Impey and hanged in 1775.

Laterite soil is rich in oxides of iron and aluminium, and the iron oxide gives it its red brick colour.

The Census of 2011 puts the average annual exponential growth rate of India's population for the decade 2001 to 2011 at 1.64 per cent.

The Reserve Bank of India set up this sub committee of its Central Board under Y. H. Malegam in October 2010, after complaints of very high interest rates and harsh recovery in the microfinance business.

Both slogans belong to Netaji and to the Azad Hind Fauj, the Indian National Army he led from 1943.

These are called monsoon forests because they grow where rainfall comes with the monsoon, between about 70 and 200 centimetres a year, and the trees shed their leaves for six to eight weeks in the dry season to save water.

Carotenoids are the yellow, orange and red pigments inside the chloroplast that absorb sunlight and hand the energy on to chlorophyll, so they are the only choice here that traps light for photosynthesis.

Inertia is the tendency of a body to stay at rest or keep moving in a straight line, and the measure of that tendency is mass.

Article 32 gives every person the right to move the Supreme Court directly when a fundamental right is violated, and it is itself a fundamental right.

Cashew grows best on red laterite soil, which is coarse, well drained and slightly acidic, exactly what the crop needs.

With an area of only about 32 square kilometres, Lakshadweep is the smallest Union Territory of India. It is a group of 36 coral islands in the Arabian Sea, of which only ten are inhabited, and its capital is Kavaratti.

Article 151 deals with the audit reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

Iron is a micronutrient, needed by plants only in very small amounts, and calcium is a macronutrient, needed in large amounts.

In the Census of 2011 the male literacy rate was 82.14 per cent and the female literacy rate was 65.46 per cent, so the gap between them was 16.68 percentage points.

The Gandhara School of Art, which grew in the north west around Taxila and Peshawar between the first and fifth centuries, was shaped by Greek or Hellenistic sculpture that had reached the region after Alexander's campaign and stayed on through the Indo Greek and Kushana rulers.

Arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the different parts of the body. Because the heart pushes blood into them under high pressure, arteries have thick, muscular and elastic walls and no valves, and they are placed deep in the body.

The Citizenship Act of 1955 lays down five ways of acquiring Indian citizenship: by birth, by descent, by registration, by naturalisation and by incorporation of territory.