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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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A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech.  Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

Tina said to him, “Please wait here till I return.”

A) Tina asked him to stay there. B) Tina requested him to wait there till she returned.
C) Tina request him to wait until she comes. D) Tina says he should wait there till her returned.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Tina requested him to wait there till she returned.

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In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.

 

The boxer lands an upper cut to the chin of his opponent.

A) Landing of an upper cut was done by the boxer to the chin of his opponent. B) The chin of the opponent is where the upper cut of the boxer has landed.
C) Upper cutting of the chin of his opponent has been done by the boxer. D) An upper cut was landed to the chin of his opponent by the boxer.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) An upper cut was landed to the chin of his opponent by the boxer.

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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 expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech. 

 

"What did you eat last night?" asked my mother.

A) My mother said to me what did I eat last night. B) My mother asked me what I had eaten the previous night.
C) My mother said what did you eat last night. D) My mother questioned me what I ate last night.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) My mother asked me what I had eaten the previous night.

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The later (second) formed primary xylem elements are called _____________.

A) Protoxylem B) Metaxylem
C) Xylem parenchyma D) Xylem fibres
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Metaxylem

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Why the Earth is having its own atmosphere ?

A) Winds B) Clouds
C) Gravity D) Rotation of the Earth
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Gravity

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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 expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

My mother said to my father, "I am very busy now."

A) My mother told my father that I am very busy now. B) My mother told my father that she is very busy then.
C) My mother told my father that she was very busy then. D) My mother told my father that I was very busy now.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) My mother told my father that she was very busy then.

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In each of the questions, four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and click the button corresponding to it.

She angrily broke up the letter.

A) tore up B) break in
C) teared up D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) tore up

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What was India’s rank in the Educational Attainment pillar as per the Global Gender Gap report 2017?

 

A)  139 B)  112
C)  141 D)  15
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B)  112

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