SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
Physics                                                  l The other name of Sahyadri Range is Western
                                                            Ghats.
  l The bending of light when it passes around a
     corner or a slit is due to diffraction.             l The Forest Research Institute of India located in
                                                            Dehradun.
Chemistry                                                l India has longest international border with
  l The weakest bond in nature is hydrogen bond.            Bangladesh.
  l Acid + Base ® Salt + Water.                        Polity
Biology                                                  l The constituents of Indian Parliament are the
  l Cattle quickly swallow grass and store it in their      President, the Council of States (Rajya Sabha)
     rumen.                                                 and the House of the People (Lok Sabha).
  l Red blood cells carry oxygen to various parts of     l The executive head of state in India is the Presi-
     human body.                                            dent.
  l Function performed by the kidneys in the hu-
     man body is excretion.                            Economy
Sports                                                   l A market or an industry is dominated by a single
                                                            seller in monopoly market form.
  l Six (6) players are there in a team of Volleyball.   l Disguised unemployment is also known as un-
Miscellaneous                                               deremployment.
  l The monistic theory of sovereignty was given by                          Success Tip
     Austin.                                           Disguised unemployment exists where part of the
  l FORTRAN is not used for drawing pictures and       labor force is either left without work or is working
     carrying out mathematics computations.            in a redundant manner where worker productivity is
                     Success Tip                       essentially zero.
FORTRAN is a general-purpose, imperative program-      Physics
ming language that is especially suited to numeric
computation and scientific computing.                    l It is difficult to fix a nail on a freely suspended
  l Bishnoi movement was started against cutting            wooden frame. This statement supports Newton’s
     of trees.                                              third law.
  l The major aim of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana                           Success Tip
     is to provide LPG connections.                    Newton’s third law is: For every action, there is an
                     Success Tip                       equal and opposite reaction.
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was launched        l The property of electromagnetic waves are:
by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 May 2016 at
                                                            a. Oscillating electric field and magnetic field
Ballia, Uttar Pradesh.
                                                               are perpendicular to each other.
  l Television was discovered by John Baird.
  l ‘Indian of the year’ award has been awarded to          b. Electromagnetic waves are transverse waves.
     Preety Shenoy.                                         c. Electromagnetic waves do not show interfer-
  l The author of the book titled ‘Selection Day’ is           ence and diffraction.
     Aravind Adiga.
  l India has Kalapani territorial dispute is associ-  Chemistry
     ated with its neighboring country Nepal.            l A radio-active substance has a half life of six
             SSC CGL Tier-I Exam                            months. Three-fourth of the substance will de-
                                                            cay in twelve months.
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                                                       Biology
Medieval History                                         l Bacteria were discovered by Antonie Ven
  l Konark’s Sun Temple was built by Narsimhadeva           Leeuwenhoek.
     I.                                                  l The name of a group of similar cells performing a
Geography and Environment                                   specific function is tissue.
                                                         l Plant tissues are three (3) types.
  l Amazon River flows through Brazil.
                                                                             Success Tip
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                                                       These are the epidermis, the ground tissue and the
The Amazon River is the largest river by discharge
volume of water in the world and according to most     vascular tissue.
authorities, the second longest in length.               l pH of the human blood is slightly basic.
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