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CTET GK Questions 2026

General knowledge is not a named section of CTET, but part of it sits inside two subjects. In Paper I, Environmental Studies has 30 questions: 15 on content and 15 on pedagogical issues. The content themes in the CTET September 2026 bulletin are Family and Friends (relationships, work and play, animals and plants), Food, Shelter, Water, Travel, and Things We Make and Do. In Paper II, Social Studies/Social Science has 60 questions: 40 on content from History, Geography and Social and Political Life, and 20 on pedagogy. Science in Paper II has 20 content questions on food, materials, the world of the living, how things work, natural phenomena and natural resources. The bulletin bases all of these on the NCERT syllabus, with difficulty up to the Secondary stage in Paper I and the Senior Secondary stage in Paper II. This page holds GK24's topic-wise GK notes marked for CTET: geography, Indian history, Indian polity, general science, and environment and ecology, in English and Hindi. Use them as guidance to revise facts after reading the NCERT chapter, not in place of it. GK24 does not cover Child Development and Pedagogy, the languages, Mathematics or the pedagogy questions, which make up most of each paper.

CTET GK Questions with Answers

Q583.Government SchemesMedium

The PRASHAST tool screens children for conditions covered under which law?

  1. A.The Right to Education Act, 2009
  2. B.The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016
  3. C.The Juvenile Justice Act, 2015
  4. D.The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017
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Correct answer: B. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016

The conditions listed in that law define the scope of the PRASHAST checklist, which is how a classroom observation becomes a formal referral for assessment.

Q585.Government SchemesMedium

PRASHAST, in the news in October 2026, is a tool used for which purpose?

  1. A.Screening school children for probable disability conditions
  2. B.Recording midday meal attendance in schools
  3. C.Grading teachers on classroom performance
  4. D.Allotting scholarships to first-generation learners
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Correct answer: A. Screening school children for probable disability conditions

PRASHAST is a school-based digital tool under the Department of School Education and Literacy that helps identify children with conditions covered by the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, and it works through a checklist in two parts, with the teacher screening on observable indicators and a special educator validating…

Q586.Indian PolityHard

Which of the following features of the Indian Constitution is NOT drawn from the United States?

  1. A.Judicial review
  2. B.Impeachment of the President
  3. C.Office of the Vice-President
  4. D.Single citizenship
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Correct answer: D. Single citizenship

The United States gives every person two citizenships, of the union and of the state of residence, while India deliberately gives one citizenship for the whole country, so that no state may treat the people of another state as outsiders.

Q587.Indian PolityEasy

The words socialist, secular and integrity were added to the Preamble of the Constitution by which amendment?

  1. A.Twenty-fourth Amendment, 1971
  2. B.Forty-second Amendment, 1976
  3. C.Forty-fourth Amendment, 1978
  4. D.Fifty-second Amendment, 1985
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Correct answer: B. Forty-second Amendment, 1976

It changed the description of the country from a sovereign democratic republic to a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic, and changed the unity of the nation to the unity and integrity of the nation.

Q589.Indian PolityMedium

A federation with a strong Centre, the vesting of residuary powers in the Centre and the appointment of Governors by the Centre were taken from

  1. A.Canada
  2. B.Australia
  3. C.Britain
  4. D.Ireland
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Correct answer: A. Canada

Canada is the federation that keeps residuary powers with the centre instead of leaving them with the units, appoints the head of each province from the centre and allows its supreme court an advisory jurisdiction, and all three features were adopted in India.

Q590.Indian PolityMedium

The provision for suspension of Fundamental Rights during an emergency is traced to the constitution of

  1. A.France
  2. B.the Weimar Republic of Germany
  3. C.Canada
  4. D.the Soviet Union
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Correct answer: B. the Weimar Republic of Germany

The Weimar constitution allowed the President to suspend civil liberties in an emergency, and the Indian provisions under which the operation of certain Fundamental Rights may be restricted during a proclamation of emergency follow that model.

Q591.Indian PolityMedium

The Concurrent List, the freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse, and the joint sitting of the two Houses of Parliament were borrowed from

  1. A.Australia
  2. B.Ireland
  3. C.the United States
  4. D.Japan
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Correct answer: A. Australia

The Australian constitution has a list of subjects on which both the federal and the state legislatures may make law, and India adopted the device as the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule, with central law prevailing in case of conflict.

Q592.Indian PolityHard

The procedure for amendment of the Constitution and the method of election of members of the Rajya Sabha were drawn from

  1. A.Britain
  2. B.Canada
  3. C.South Africa
  4. D.the Weimar Republic of Germany
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Correct answer: C. South Africa

Two features are traced to the South African constitution: the procedure for amending the Constitution, which combines a special majority with the consent of States for some provisions, and the election of members of the Rajya Sabha by the elected members of the State legislative assemblies through proportional representation by…

Q594.Indian PolityEasy

The Directive Principles of State Policy in the Indian Constitution are borrowed from the constitution of

  1. A.the United States
  2. B.Ireland
  3. C.Canada
  4. D.Australia
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Correct answer: B. Ireland

The Irish constitution of 1937 carried a chapter of directive principles of social policy, non-justiciable goals addressed to the legislature, and the Constituent Assembly adopted that device as Part IV of our Constitution, along with the nomination of members to the Rajya Sabha and the method of electing the President.

Q595.Indian PolityEasy

Which of the following is the single largest source of the Constitution of India?

  1. A.Government of India Act, 1935
  2. B.Indian Councils Act, 1909
  3. C.Constitution of the United States
  4. D.Constitution of Ireland
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Correct answer: A. Government of India Act, 1935

About two-thirds of the provisions of the Constitution follow that Act, which supplied the federal scheme with its lists of subjects, the office of the Governor, the structure and powers of the judiciary, the public service commissions, the emergency provisions and most of the administrative detail.

Q596.NationalMedium

Which of the following contemporary subjects features in the Chhattisgarh collection of the 8th PM Mementos?

  1. A.A woodcut panel on the Mahtari Vandan Yojana
  2. B.A model of the new Parliament building
  3. C.A panel on the Jal Jeevan Mission
  4. D.A replica of the Statue of Unity
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Correct answer: A. A woodcut panel on the Mahtari Vandan Yojana

The collection places this piece alongside a memento marking the silver jubilee, or Rajat Jayanti, of the State legislative assembly and models representing institutions in the new capital area, so that the State’s present sits next to its older traditions.

Q598.NationalEasy

Which traditional craft of Chhattisgarh, with a history of more than 4,000 years in India, is at the centre of the 8th PM Mementos collection?

  1. A.Bidri work
  2. B.Dhokra metal casting
  3. C.Pattachitra painting
  4. D.Bidriware inlay
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Correct answer: B. Dhokra metal casting

It is a lost-wax casting tradition whose history in the country runs back more than four thousand years, and several works in the collection show its range, among them an Elephant Head Nandi, a Standing Nandi and a bust of a Madia-Madin tribal couple.

Q599.NationalEasy

Who will inaugurate the second regional workshop of Sadhana Shrinkhla 2026 at Guwahati?

  1. A.The Governor of Assam
  2. B.Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister of Assam
  3. C.Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel
  4. D.The Chairperson of the Capacity Building Commission
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Correct answer: B. Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, Chief Minister of Assam

The correct answer is Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister of Assam, who will open the workshop in Guwahati, where stakeholders from all eight States of the North Eastern region are gathering along with heads and faculty of government training institutes, subject experts and industry partners.