SSC CGL Tier 1 and Tier 2 Practice Test: General Awareness - 10 Free Online

Repo rate is the rate at which the central bank of a country (Reserve Bank of India in case of India) lends money to commercial banks in the event of any shortfall of funds. Repo rate is used by monetary authorities to control inflation.

After independence the Government of India (GOI) adopted planned economic development for the country (India). However, commercial banks were in the private sector those days. In 1950-51 there were 430 commercial banks. These commercial banks failed helping the government in attaining these objectives. Thus, the government decided to nationalize 14 major commercial banks on 19th July, 1969.

Lok Sabha Secretariat is headed by Lok Sabha Secretary and it comes under the direct control of Lok Sabha Speaker.

The Indian Councils Act 1909 commonly known as the Morley-Minto Reforms was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India. In the act, the right of separate electorate was given to the Muslims.

'Brihadeeswarar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva located in Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu. It is also known as Raja Rajeswara Temple Rajarajeswaram and Peruvudayar Temple.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

The ABO blood group system is widely credited to have been discovered by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who identified the O, A, and B blood types in 1900.

The magnetic meridian is an equivalent imaginary line connecting the magnetic south and north poles and can be taken as the horizontal component of magnetic force lines along the surface of the earth.

In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system to behave like another computer system (called the guest). An emulator typically enables the host system to run software or use peripheral devices designed for the guest system.

Direct-Reduced is produced from the direct reduction of iron ore to iron by a reducing gas or elementary carbon produced from natural gas or coal. Many ores are suitable for direct reduction.

Understorey comprises plant life growing beneath the forest canopy without penetrating it to any great extent, but above the forest floor. Only a small percentage of light penetrates the canopy so understory vegetation is generally shade tolerant.

In field hockey, a roll-in is a method of restarting play when the ball goes out of bounds over the sideline. The game resumes by:

• Rolling or pushing the ball back into play
• From the point where it crossed the line

Jawaharlal Nehru Port, also known as Nhava Sheva, is the largest container port in India. Located east of Mumbai in Maharashtra, the port on the Arabian Sea is accessed via Thane Creek. Its common name derives from the names of Nhava and Sheva villages that were situated here.

The 42nd Amendment changed the description of India from a "sovereign democratic republic" to a "sovereign, socialist secular democratic republic", and also changed the words "unity of the nation" to "unity and integrity of the nation".

1. This slogan was coined by the Urdu poet and Indian freedom fighter Maulana Hasrat Mohani in 1921.
2. It was popularized by Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) during the late 1920s through his speeches and writings.
3. It was also the official slogan of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

The Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland in northeastern Australia, is the largest living thing on Earth, and even visible from outer space. The 2,300km-long ecosystem comprises thousands of reefs and hundreds of islands made of over 600 types of hard and soft coral.

The occipital lobe is primarily responsible for decoding and interpreting visual information. It receives visual input from the eyes and processes it to make sense of what we see.

Here's a brief overview of the other lobes:

• Frontal lobe: Associated with higher-level cognitive functions like decision-making, planning, and personality.
• Parietal lobe: Involved in processing sensory information related to touch, temperature, and pain.
• Temporal lobe: Primarily responsible for auditory processing, memory, and emotion.

Fleming Left Hand Rule says that whenever an current carrying conductor is placed inside a magnetic field, a force acts on the conductor, in a direction perpendicular to both the directions of the current and the magnetic field.

Emulsion is a fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.

Sludge is a thick, soft, wet mud or a similar viscous mixture of liquid and solid components, especially the product of an industrial or refining process.

The New Development Bank, formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank, is a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS states. The bank is headquartered in Shanghai, China. The first regional office of the NDB will be opened in Johannesburg, South Africa

Baghdad is the capital of the Republic of Iraq. The population of Baghdad, as of 2011, is approximately 7.216.040 making it the largest city in Iraq, the second largest city in the Arab world, and the second largest city in Western Asia. It is located on Tigris River.

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Team Championships for Women, is a major international badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams. First held in 1956–1957 and contested at three year intervals, it has been contested every two years since 1984.

In Onion, the fleshy bulb stores food mainly in the form of soluble sugars (like glucose, fructose, and sucrose), not starch. That’s why onions taste sweet, especially after cooking when these sugars caramelize.

Key clarification:

• Potato → stores starch
• Onion → stores sugar