SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
l Rearranging and allocating space in memory to General Geography
provide for multiple computing tasks is called
l Arsenic, Fluoride and Uranium can be found
Memory Management
as pollutants in the drinking water in some parts
SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) of India
l Siva Samudram in Karnataka was the first hy-
Tier-I Exam Held on: 09.08.2015 del power project in India
(Second Sitting) l The Environment (Protection) Bill was passed
Ancient History by the Parliament of India in 1986
l Srigupta is considered founder of the Gupta Success Tip
Empire An Act to provide for the protection and improvement
Success Tip of environment and for matters connected there with
The Poona copper inscription of Prabhavati Gupta, Polity and Constitution
a daughter of Chandragupta II, describes “Maharaja l The Women’s Reservation Bill seeks 33% reser-
Sri-Gupta” as the founder of the Gupta dynasty
vation for women in the State assemblies and
Medieval History Lok Sabha
l The Battle of Plessey was fought in year 1757 l the fascist view of state is nation state is un-
questionably sovereign
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l An ordinary Law is laws made and enforced by
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the
the Government
British East India Company over the Nawab of
Bengal and his French[1]allies on 23 June 1757. The l Liberalism stands for freedom in social, politi-
battle consolidated the Company’s presence cal and economic aspects
in Bengal, which later expanded to cover much l Fascism believes in the application of the prin-
of India over the next hundred years ciple of Totalitarianism
l Autocracy means absolute rule by one
Modern History
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l Mahatma Gandhi began his political activities
in India first from Champaran An autocracy is a system of government in which
supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one
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person, whose decisions are subject to neither
The first Satyagraha movements inspired by external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms
Mahatma Gandhi occurred in Champaran district of popular control
of Bihar and the Kheda district of Gujarat on 1917
to 1918 l The name of the upper house of the Indian Par-
liament is Rajya Sabha
Physical Geography l G E F, an international aid giving agency has
l In the grass lands, trees do not replace the grass- the full form Global Environment Fund
es as a part of an ecological succession because
of water limits and fire
Economy
l The Mediterranean region are characterized by l State Bank of India was previously known as
heavy rain in winter Imperial Bank of India
l Earthquakes are caused by Tectonism l On 2nd June 2015 a Conference on Make in In-
dia Indigenisation of currency was organised by
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the department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of
Tectonism is a geological term used to describe major Finance, Govt. of India, Finance Minister in-
structural features and the processes that create
augurated the Conference
them, including compres-sional or tensional
movements on a planetary surface that produce l The business in Stock Markets and other secu-
faults, mountains, ridges, or scarps. rities markets is regulated by Securities and
Exchange Board of India
l The earth completes one rotation on its axis in
23 hrs. 56 min. 4.9 sec l The Liquidity Preference Theory of Interest was
propounded by J.M. Keynes]
l Spring tides occur on full moon day as well as
on new moon day l Variable Cost is related to marginal cost
l Correct sequence of ecosystem in the order of Physics
decreasing productivity is Mangroves, grassl-
l The Dynamo converts Mechanical Energy into
ands, lakes, oceans
Electrical Energy
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