Download SSC CHSL GK previous year questions PDF with solutions to practice real exam-level questions. These PYQs help students identify important topics, repeated questions, and scoring areas. Best resource for revision, concept clarity, and exam confidence.
1. Which Article of the Indian Constitution empowers the President to proclaim a National Emergency on the grounds of war, external aggression or armed rebellion, and also allows the Central Government to assume greater control over the States during such emergency?
(a) Article 352
(b) Article 356
(c) Article 360
(d) Article 355
Ans: (a) Article 352
---
2. The Permanent Settlement system introduced in 1793 aimed at fixing land revenue permanently with zamindars, but it ultimately led to severe exploitation of peasants and decline of agricultural productivity. This system was introduced by:
(a) Lord Wellesley
(b) Warren Hastings
(c) Lord Cornwallis
(d) Lord Dalhousie
Ans: (c) Lord Cornwallis
---
3. The phenomenon by which long-term changes occur in temperature, rainfall, sea level and weather patterns mainly due to excessive emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane is called:
(a) Weathering
(b) Climate Change
(c) Ozone Depletion
(d) El Niño Effect
Ans: (b) Climate Change
---
4. The Reserve Bank of India controls inflation in the economy mainly through changing repo rate, reverse repo rate, CRR and SLR. These tools together are known as:
(a) Fiscal Policy
(b) Industrial Policy
(c) Monetary Policy
(d) Trade Policy
Ans: (c) Monetary Policy
---
5. The Ionosphere plays a very important role in long-distance radio communication by reflecting radio waves back to the earth’s surface, and this layer is present mainly in which part of the atmosphere?
(a) Troposphere
(b) Stratosphere
(c) Mesosphere
(d) Thermosphere
Ans: (d) Thermosphere
---
6. The Quit India Movement of 1942 was launched after the failure of the Cripps Mission and was aimed at immediate end of British rule in India. This movement was launched at which place?
(a) Lahore
(b) Bombay (Mumbai)
(c) Calcutta (Kolkata)
(d) Delhi
Ans: (b) Bombay (Mumbai)
---
7. The Tropic of Cancer is an important imaginary latitude which divides India into tropical and subtropical zones and passes through eight Indian states. Which of the following states is NOT crossed by it?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Madhya Pradesh
(c) Odisha
(d) Jharkhand
Ans: (c) Odisha
---
8. The universal donor blood group is considered safest in emergency blood transfusion because it does not contain A or B antigens on red blood cells. Which blood group is it?
(a) A positive
(b) B negative
(c) AB positive
(d) O negative
Ans: (d) O negative
---
9. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) works for global cooperation in education, science and culture, and its headquarters is situated in which country?
(a) Switzerland
(b) United States
(c) France
(d) Germany
Ans: (c) France
---
10. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched Chandrayaan-3 in 2023, which made India the first country to land near the South Pole of the Moon. What was the primary objective of this mission?
(a) To study Sun’s temperature
(b) To place a satellite in Earth’s orbit
(c) To demonstrate soft landing and rover operations on Moon
(d) To capture images of Mars
Ans: (c) To demonstrate soft landing and rover operations on Moon
SSC GK Previous Year Questions Book
