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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
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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

 

On the one hand, life seems transient like a dewdrop (1)/ and on the other hand, it is permanent (2)/ with the potential for eternal continuity. (3)/ No error (4)

 

A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 4

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Which of the following IAF man has been posthumously awarded Ashoka Chakra, the country’s highest peace time gallantry medal?

 

A) Rajinder Kumar B) Jyoti Prakash Nirala
C) Harshvardhan Negi D) Anant Thakur
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Jyoti Prakash Nirala

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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.

 

Great minds think alike

 

A) When an evil plan is hatched criminals agree. B) Said to those people who don’t like each other to make them agree.
C) Said when two people have the same opinion or make the same choice. D) Intelligent people will think of plans to which everybody will say yes.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Said when two people have the same opinion or make the same choice.

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Researchers from Columbia University Medical Centre in United States of America have converted which of the following into the world’s smallest data recorder?

A) Natural bacterial immune system B) Magnetic tape
C) Viral snippet copies D) No option is correct.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Natural bacterial immune system

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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.

Birds of a feather flock together

 

A) even a small similarity is enough to become friends and stay together B) there is always more safety in a crowd
C) people with the same tastes and interests will be found together D) people with bad intentions always form a gang
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) people with the same tastes and interests will be found together

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Deficiency of which vitamin causes night blindness?

A) Vitamin K B) Vitamin C
C) Vitamin B1 D) Vitamin A
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Vitamin A

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In the following question, a sentence / a part of sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. In case no improvement is required, choose "No Improvement" option.

 

She was completely nonplussed by the erratic behaviour of her father.

A) completely plussed B) completely no-nonplussed
C) entirely not nonplussed D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) No improvement

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one, which best express the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

 

Sara answered, "The photographs are under the drawer”.

A) Sarah answered the photographs are under the drawer. B) Sarah answered that, that the photographs are under the drawer.
C) Sarah answered the photographs were under the drawer. D) Sarah answered that the photographs were under the drawer.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Sarah answered that the photographs were under the drawer.

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