SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
  l The new Director of Film and Television Insti-       l  Sour taste of lemon is due to the presence of
    tute of India (FTII) is Bhupendra Kainthola             citric acid
  l Han Kang is the recipient of Man Booker Inter-       l  Alzheimer’s Disease is a Autosomal Disorder
    national Prize 2016 for the novel ‘The Vegetari-     l  The transplantation of graft between genetically
    an’                                                     identical individuals is isograft
 SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL)                     Miscellaneous
                                                         l  Macro-operation is the operation executed on
  Tier-1 Exam Held on: 08.09.2016                           data stored in resisters
                (Second Shift)                           l  ‘Lona’ is related to Kabaddi
                                                         l  Ten thaats or scales, belongs to Hindustani Mu-
Modern History                                              sic System
  l Raja Ravi Verma was a great painter from the         l  Yogeshwar Dutt is associated with wrestling
    state of Kerala
  l The founder of the Theosophical Society of India    SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL)
    was Annie Besant                                                     (Tier-1) Exam
  l The first Indian to be selected as the leader of
    the Communist International was M.N. Roy
                                                           Held on: 09.09.2016 (2nd Shift)
Physical Geography                                     Ancient History
  l The movement in the earth’s crust is studied by      l  Harsha moved his capital from Thanesar to
    Seismology                                              Kanauj
General Geography                                      Modern History
  l The Chipko slogan ‘Ecology is Permanent Econ-        l  The ‘Cabinet Mission’ of 1946 was led by Lord
    omy’ was coined by Sunderlal Bahuguna                   Mountbatten
  l State which has the longest coast line is Gujar-     l  Gandhiji meant by ‘Sarvodaya’ is the birth of a
    at                                                      new society based on ethical values
  l Chandigarh is not located in the Golden Quad-      Physical Geography
    rilateral Road Network                               l  Solar eclipse takes place when the moon is be-
  l First Indian state to go wholly organic is Sikkim       tween the sun and earth
  l The source of natural energy of the hot spring at
    Manikaran in Himachal Pradesh is Geothermal
                                                       General Geography
    Energy                                               l  Mount Abu is a hill station located in Aravalli
                                                            ranges
Polity and Constitution
                                                         l  The only perennial river in Peninsular India is
  l The Schedule contains special provisions for the        Kaveri
    administration of tribal areas in the four north-    l  Strait of Gibraltar connects Atlantic Ocean and
    eastern states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and           Mediterranean Sea
    Mizoram is Sixth Schedule
                                                         l  The largest solar power plant in India is located
  l Members of the State Public Service Commission          at Madhapur
    are appointed by Governor
                                                       Polity and Constitution
Economy                                                  l  Type of democracy we follow in India is represen-
  l Saving is that portion of money income that is          tative
    not spent on consumption                             l  The Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the
  l  Amartya Sen win the Nobel Prize in the field of        Constituent Assembly of India was Dr. B.R.
    Welfare Economics                                       Ambedkar
  l The role of ‘Ombudsman’ in a bank is to provide    Economy
    quality and speedy redressal of grievances of cus-   l  A ‘Market Economy’ is one which is free from the
    tomers                                                  Government control
Physics                                                  l  Regional Rural Banks are sponsored by Nation-
  l Transformer cannot be developed within an ‘in-          alised Commercial Bank
    tegrated circuit’                                    l  The Chief Economic Advisor to the Government
                                                            of India is Arvind Subramanian
Chemistry                                                l  Portfolio investment is considered as unsafe
  l Chemical properties of isotopes must be same
                                                       Physics
  l Glycol is used to manufacture terylene
                                                         l  A particle is thrown vertically upward. When it
Biology                                                     reaches the highest point, it has a downward ac-
  l Palaeontology is the study of fossils                   celeration
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