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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
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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.

 

Kavita asked me, “How is your mother?”

 

 

A) Kavita asked me how was my mother. B) Kavita asked her how my mother is.
C) Kavita asked how mother was. D) Kavita asked me how my mother was
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Kavita asked me how my mother was

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

 

There is something in a train journey that (was fascinated) a lot of people and I am one of them.

 

A) has fascinated B) have fascinated
C) has fascinate D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) has fascinated

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Article 41 of the Indian Constitution "Right to work, to education and to public assistance in certain cases" deals with?

A) the Union Government B) the directive principles of state policy
C) the State Government D) the fundamental rights of the Indian Citizen
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) the directive principles of state policy

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In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

 

Reap the whirlwind

 

A) Providing that other factors or circumstance remain the same B) Suffer negative consequences as a result of one’s actions
C) An indication that something is accepted or regarded favourably D) Believing that moderation is more satisfying than excess
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Suffer negative consequences as a result of one’s actions

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In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.


We are ____ in a time of great and _____changes. The most obvious _____of the modern world is the _____development of science and technology. This has given man a deeper _____of nature.


time of great and _____changes

A) convenient B) continuing
C) coveted D) consequent
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) continuing

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In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the word similar in meaning to the word given.

Ravish

A) Repulse B) Enthrall
C) Offend D) Depress
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Enthrall

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With which sport is P.V. Sindhu associated?

A) Shooting B) Boxing
C) Swimming D) Badminton
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Badminton

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Mutiny of 1857 was described as the First Indian War of Independence by

A) Bal Gangadhar Tilak B) Subhash Chandra Bose
C) Bhagat Singh D) V. D. Savarkar
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) V. D. Savarkar

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