Important Topics from General Awareness for Competitive Exams

In all the competitive exams general awareness plays a very important role. It is considered as one of the most important subject in competitive exams. It is one of the most important subjects because we can’t predict there questions that what it will come or what will not come. Every year in general awareness subjects question appear are not repeated from previous year.

In general awareness subject basically questions come from todays current affairs. Candidates have to study current affairs for get good score in general awareness section.

In this article, you will get to know about the important topics of different competitive exams.

Important Topics of General Awareness for SSC

Inall the Staff Selection Commission competitive exams general awareness plays a vital role. Students have to give more focus on the general awareness topics because there is no repetition of any questions from previous in this section. In this section most of the questions are from today’s current affairs. Some of the important topics of general awareness for SSC CGL exam are: –

• Current Affairs
• History
• Geography
• Biology

Given below are some of the questions from above mentioned topics: –

Ques1: –Arrange the following in chronological order:

1. Tughlaqs
   2. Lodis
2. Saiyids
   4. Ilbari Turks
   5. Khiljis

(a) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
(b) 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
(c) 2, 4, 5, 3, 1
(d) 4, 5, 1, 3, 2

ANS (D)

Ques 2: – Who was the founder of The Servants of India Society?

(a) G..K. Gokhale
(b) M.G. Ranade
(c) B.G. Tilak
(d) Bipin Chandra Pal

ANS (D)

Ques 3: –Mahatma Gandhi was profoundly influenced by the writings of ?

(a) Bernard Shaw
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Lenin
(d) Leo Tolstoy

ANS (D)

Ques 4: – Seismic sea waves which approach the coasts at greater force are known as

(a) Tides
(b) Tsunami
(c) Current
(d) Cyclone

ANS (B)

Ques 5: – The land of maximum biodiversity is(SSC CGL 2010)

(a) Tropical
(b) Temperate
(c) Monsoonal
(d) Equatorial

ANS (A)

Ques 6: – Indian Standard Time relates to (SSC CGL 2010)

(a) 75.5°E longitude
(b) 82.5°E longitude
(c) 90.5°E longitude
(d) 0° longitude

ANS (B)

Ques 7: –Which of the following is true?
(a) Heart purifies blood
(b) Heart separates excretory wastes from blood
(c) Heart circulates blood
(d) Heart supplies oxygen to blood
Ans.(c)

Ques 8: –BCG vaccination (Bacillus CalmetteGuerine) is injected to get immunity from—
(a) polio
(b) cholera
(c) small pox
(d) tuberculosis
Ans. (d)

Ques 9: – Which one of the following fungi is commonly known as ‘bread mould’?
(a) Aspergillus
(b) Penicillium
(c) Synchytrium
(d) Rhizopus
Ans. (d)

Ques 10: –Who has become the first girl student to win President of India Prize?

1. a) Subimal Ghosh
2. b) LipiThukral
3. c) Kavitha Gopal
4. d) Divya Agrawal

Answer: c)

Ques 11: – Who was awarded the GN Ramachandran Gold Medal by President Ram NathKovind?

1. a) Prof. AmitabhaChattopadhyay
2. b) DrAmol Prakash
3. c) DrBodhisatwaHazra
4. d) DrPrabhatRanjanPrem

Answer: a)

Important Topics of General Awareness for Banking

In all the Banking competitive exams general awareness section is one of the important and tough section as compared to others. Students have to study a lot for the general awareness section because this section is unpredictable. They have to study everything about our world’s history, geography, name of books and their author, awards, name of famous temples, etc. and most important of general awareness is current affairs. Some of the important topics for the General awareness for Banking exam are as follows: –

• Current Affairs
• Name of the Books and Author
• Awards
• Wildlife sanctuaries and National Parks

Ans: (D)

Ans: (C)

Ans: (A)

Ques 4: –Who was the first actor to get Oscar Award?   

(A) Montgomery

(B) Fairbanks

(C) Janet Gayner

(D) Charlie Chaplin

Ans: (C)

Ques 5: – Which country awards the Nobel Prize?  

(A) Ireland

(B) Sweden

(C) England

(D) America

Ans: (B)

Ques 6: –The Nobel prize for Economics was instituted in 1967, but was first awarded in  

(A) 1967

(B) 1988

(C) 1969

(D) 1970

Ans: (C)

Ques 7: –The Hemis National Park is situated in which state?

1. Assam
2. Odisha
3. Jammu & Kashmir
4. Jharkhand
5. Uttarakhand

Ans: (C)

Ques 8: –Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary is located in

1. Telangana
2. Assam
3. West Bengal
4. Haryana
5. Jharkhand

Ans: (C)

Ques 9: –Bornadi Wildlife Sanctuary is located in

1. Andhra Pradesh
2. Assam
3. Mizoram
4. Haryana
5. Meghalaya

Ans: (B)

Ans: (D)

Ans : (D)