SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
  l Ecosystem represents the most complex trophic            l Vikram Patel is being awarded with Asian Award
      level.                                                    2016 as the Chivas Social entrepreneur of the
                                                                year.
                      Success Tip
The number of steps an organism is from the start of     Miscellaneous
the chain is a measure of its trophic level.                 l A main system board of a computer is mother
                                                                board.
Polity                                                       l Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh launched a
  l Six fundamental rights are mentioned in Indian              medical scheme for APL families.
      Constitution.
                                                                                Success Tip
  l Article 20 and 21 cannot be suspended even dur-
      ing emergency.                                      The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N.
                                                          Chandrababu Naidu, on 1 January 2017 launched
Economy                                                   NTR Arogya Raksha Scheme in Vijayawada.
  l Law of demand fails in the case of giffen goods.         l ‘Lavani’ is a dance form of Maharashtra.
                      Success Tip                            l The book “Azad Bachpan ki Aur” is written by
                                                                Kailash Satyarthi.
A giffen good is typically an inferior product that does
not have easily available substitutes.                                          Success Tip
  l Forms of Market and number of sellers and buy-        The 2014 Nobel Peace laureate"s (Kailash Satyarthi)
      ers                                                 first book in Hindi Azad Bachpan Ki Aur was launched
         Form of Market          Number of sellers and    on January 7, 2016.
                                 buyers                      l India by the Nile’, was a cultural festival celebrated
      a. Oligopoly               A few big sellers and a        by India and Egypt.
                                 large number of buyers      l Sheikh Hasina Wazed is the Prime Minster of
      b. Monopoly                One seller but large           Bangladesh.
                                 number of buyers
      c. Perfect Competition     Large number of sellers
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Physics
  l The minimum distance required to hear an echo
                                                         Medieval History
      is 17 meter.                                           l Babur defeated the Rajputs at Chanderi in 1528.
  l A black board appears black in colour because it                            Success Tip
      absorbs all the colours.
  l X-rays was discovered by W. C. Roentgen.              The Battle of Chanderi took place in the aftermath
                                                          of the Battle of Khanwa in which the Mughal Em-
Chemistry                                                 peror Babur had defeated a confederacy of Rajputs
  l Zinc is used for galvanization.                       and Afghans which was headed by Rana Sanga of
                                                          Mewar.
                      Success Tip
Galvanization is the process of applying a protective    Modern History
zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting.           l Chandra Shekhar Azad was a leader of the
  l Dry ice is solid carbon dioxide.                            Hindustan Socialist Republican Army founded
                                                                in 1928.
Biology
  l ‘Pace-maker’ is associated with heart.                                      Success Tip
                      Success Tip                         Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA) was a
                                                          revolutionary organisation established in 30th Oc-
Pacemaker uses electrical pulses to prompt the heart      tober 1928 at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi by
to beat at a normal rate.                                 Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar
  l Hemoglobin is an important component of red           and others.
      blood cells.
  l Anaemia is caused because of deficiency of iron.     Geography and Environment
                                                             l Land covers about 30% of the earth"s surface.
Sports
                                                             l The uppermost layer over the earth"s surface is
  l 7 players are there in a water polo team.                   called the crust.
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