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What is General Knowledge?

The public knowledge communicated by a range of non-specialist masses encompassing a wide subject range. General erudition: knowledge of many things.


What does General Knowledge talk about?

Knowledge about anything, anyone, anyplace in the universe. General acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation. General knowledge is also moderately associated with verbal ability, though only weakly or not at all with numerical and spatial ability.


Why is General Knowledge Needed?

There are studies that found General Knowledge can predict exam results. The study examined personality predictors &cognitive ability in student's exam performance which found General knowledge was positively related with overall exam results.


Where we need General Knowledge?

  • Bank Exams
  • Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
  • LIC / GIC Examinations
  • Railway Examinations
  • Defense Examinations
  • UPSC Examinations
  • COMPETITIVE EXAMS FOR PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
  • Category of Competitive Exams
  • All India Services:
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  • Group 'B' Services:
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In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

Seventeen students were needed for a ___________ in order to discuss the topics during the Student Council meeting.

A) decorum B) quota
C) quorum D) quote
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) quorum

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Which of the following is India's highest civilian award?

A) Padma Bhushan B) Param Vir Chakra
C) Padma Vibhushan D) Bharat Ratna
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Bharat Ratna

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Ratio of real to nominal GNP

A) State Bank of India B) Reserve Bank of India
C) Grameen Bank of India D) None of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Reserve Bank of India

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Which of the following planet is also known as 'Earth's twin'?

A) Mercury B) Venus
C) Jupiter D) Saturn
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Venus

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.


Come to terms with something

 

A) To become friends with your opponents. B) Accept that you are a loser even though you have potential.
C)  Become unnecessarily depressed. D) To gradually accept a sad situation.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) To gradually accept a sad situation.

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

 

Be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to an idea, quality, or feeling

 

 

A) Spectre B) Revenan
C) Embody D) Apparition
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Embody

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The economic way of thinking stresses that

A) incentives matter--individuals respond in predictable ways to changes in personal costs and benefits. B) changes in personal costs and benefits generally fail to exert much impact on behavior.
C) if a good is provided by the government, its production will not consume valuable scarce resources. D) if one individual gains from an economic activity, then someone else must lose and in the same proportion.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) incentives matter--individuals respond in predictable ways to changes in personal costs and benefits.

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Find the kinetic energy (in J) possessed by a body of mass 10 kg moving with a velocity of 5 m/s.

A) 25 B) 125
C) 62.5 D) 50
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 125

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