SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
General Geography SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL)
l Rann Of Kutch of India is famous for tidal and Tier-1 (CBE) EXAM
flats
l Azolla increases soil fertility for rice cultivation Held on: 29.08.2016 (2nd Sitting)
Great Barrier Reef is located in the Pacific Ocean
l
Medieval History
Polity and Constitution l The foreign traveller who visited India during the
l Damodar Valley Corporation is a Statutory body reign of Shahjahan was Manucci
l Meera Kumar was the first women speaker of l The ‘Blue Water Policy’ was introduced by the
Lok Sabha Portugese leader Franscisco-de-Almeida
l Planning Commission is not provided in the con-
stitution Modern History
Economy l Raja Rammohan Roy is generally considered to
l Commercial banks lend to priority sectors like be the father of the Indian Renaissance
agriculture and Small scale industries Physical Geography
l The accounting year of the Reserve Bank of In-
dia is July-June l Western disturbances causes rainfall during win-
ters in the north-western part of India
Physics
l The phenomenon which established the trans- General Geography
verse nature of light is Polarisation l Kerala has the lowest birth rate in India among
l Rectifier is used to convert alternating current Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar and West Bengal
into direct current
l The outermost range of Himalays is called Shi-
l Ice covered in sawdust not melt quickly because
waliks
sawdust is a bad conductor of heat
l The longest river of peninsular India is Godavari
Chemistry
l The correct description of the term sex-ratio as
l The biogas used for cooking is a mixture of meth- used in the context of the census of population
ane & carbon dioxide is number of females per 1000 males
Biology l The atomic power station in Rajasthan is situ-
l Magnesium is contained in Chlorophyll ated at Rawatbhata
l Carbon Monoxide is a pollutant because it re- Polity and Constitution
acts with haemoglobin
l Right to Privacy comes under Article 21
Miscellaneous
Economy
l Memory buffer used to accommodate a speed
differential is Cache l The GST (Goods and Services Tax), recently
l Epigraphy is the study of Inscriptions passed by Government will be levied on Tobacco
l Serena Williams won the Women’s Singles Wim- among Petroleum Crude, Tobacco, Natural Gas
bledon Championship 2016 and Aviation Turbine Fuel
l B.C. Roy Award given in the field of Medicine l The second Green Revolution aims at increasing
l Param Vir Chakra is the highest gallantry agricultural output to promote Inclusive growth
Award in India
l Bidhya Devi Bhandari recently appointed as the Physics
first woman president of Nepal l The washing machine works on the principle of
l Pulitzer Prize awarded for outstanding work in
Centrifugation
the field of Literature and Journalism
Chemistry
l Carbon gives hardness to stainless steel
l Zinc sulphate, Potassium sulphate and Sodium
sulphate are soluble in water
l Activated Charcoal is used to remove colouring
matter from pure substances by Adsorption
l Chernobyl disaster is the result of pollution by
: radioactive waste
l Thorium caused radioactive pollution along the
coast of Kerala
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