SSC CGL General Awareness Questions with Official Answers

The Staff Selection Commission will conduct the SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) 2025 from August 13 at the designated exam centres across the nation. The most difficult section of the SSC CGL Tier 1 exam acts as a filter for the candidates. The SSC CGL General Awareness Questions are the most unpredictable entity in the CGL question paper. The candidates can get here the SSC CGL questions with answers (official) as mentioned by the Commission in the answer key.

General Awareness Questions for SSC CGL 2025: The Staff Selection Commission will conduct the SSC CGL Tier 1 exam from August 13, 2025. The Commission will conduct the exam online as a Computer-Based Exam (CBE). The Commission mentioned the General Awareness syllabus in the official notification but it did not mention the details of the SSC CGL General Awareness syllabus in the official notification. The candidates are required to read and analyse the previous year SSC CGL question papers to get the real demand of the question paper. The candidates find it very difficult to mark the boundaries of General Awareness because it is very vast and comprehensive. The Commission does not mention the weightage of the topics. 

SSC CGL General Awareness questions will help the candidates to tackle the questions from the same topic and the repeated questions asked in the SSC CGL 2025. The candidates must see the official answers to know that all the other three options were not a right match and they can identify them in the exam. General awareness has acquired new importance after its introduction in the Tier 2 exam because now it has more weightage in the overall selection process. Besides this, the other sections can be prepared by maximising the practice from the previous year's question papers and mock tests but for general awareness, this does not stand fully true. The candidates need to read, learn and prepare almost all the topics of general awareness to score good marks in this section. This makes the preparation of general awareness very tough. Before dwelling on the details of SSC general awareness questions, let us see the revised exam pattern of SSC CGL exam. 

SSC CGL Exam Pattern

The Commission changed the exam pattern of the Tier 2 exam by introducing the general awareness section in the Tier 2 exam and combining the skill test in Tier 2 itself. Let us see the SSC CGL exam pattern in detail

SSC CGL Tier 1 exam pattern

SSC CGL Tier 1 exam pattern has the following four sections

SSC CGL Tier-I Sections & Subjects	Number of Questions	Marks
A: General Intelligence Reasoning	25	50
B: General Awareness	25	50
C: Quantitative Aptitude	25	50
D: English Comprehension	25	50
Total	100	200

The candidates can see here more details about SSC CGL Exam Pattern.

SSC CGL Tier 2 Exam Pattern

The candidates can see here the SSC CGL Tier 2 exam pattern in detail

SSC CGL Tier 2	Sections	SSC CGL Subjects
Paper I: Session I 2 Hours & 15 Minutes	Section I: Module-I: Mathematical Abilities Module-II: Reasoning and General Intelligence Section II: Module-I: English Language and Comprehension Module-II: General Awareness Section III: Module-I: Computer Knowledge	Mathematical Abilities Reasoning and General Intelligence English Language and Comprehension General Awareness Computer Knowledge
Paper I: Session II 15 minutes	Section III: Module-II: Data Entry Speed Test Module	Data Entry Skills (Qualifying Only)
Paper II	Statistics	Statistics
Paper III	General Studies-Finance and Economics	General Studies-Finance and Economics

General Awareness has the larger say in the SSC CGL exam now.

SSC CGL General Awareness Topics

The candidates should prepare all the topics which can be chalked out after the expansion of the syllabus given in the SSC CGL syllabus. The candidates can check here the detail about the name of topics which can be prepared under the general awareness section of SSC CGL syllabus.

SSC CGL General Awareness Questions

The candidates find the general awareness section hard to prepare because of the reasons enumerated above. The SSC CGL general awareness previous year questions can provide insight on the most important topics for the SSC CGL exam. 

Let us see the general awareness questions asked in the CGL Tier 1 exam.

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SSC CGL General Awareness Syllabus

SSC CGL General Awareness Questions

SSC CGL exam 2025 will be conducted from August 13 to 31. The candidates can get help from the SSC CGL Tier 1 General Awareness questions given below:

Q. Who among the following won P4 gold at the Al Ain 2021 Para Shooting World Cup in March 2021?

1. Manish Narwal
2. Singhraj Adhana
3. Rahul Jakhar
4. Deepender Singh

Answer - Manish Narwal

Q. Acidic nature of soil is shown by high concentration of ...............     . 

1. hydrogen
2. phosphorous
3. nitrogen
4. oxygen

Answer - hydrogen

Q. Who among the following is the Director of The Nehru Centre in London as of April 2021?

1. Amish Tripathi
2. Chetan Bhagat
3. Vikram Seth
4. Amitav Ghosh

Answer - Amish Tripathi

Q. In which of the following places is the difference between the day and night temperatures likely to be the highest?

1. Chilika Lake
2. Mount Everest
3. Thar Desert
4. Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Answer - Thar Desert

Q. The Minimum Support Price (MSP) for which of the following Rabi crops was increased by ₹50 per quintal over the previous year, in the marketing season 2021-22?

1. Barley
2. Gram
3. Safflower
4. Wheat

Answer - Wheat

Q. The rooftop of Guru Hemkund Sahib is in the shape of an upturned .    

1. lotus
2. sunflower
3. rose
4. Marigold

Answer - lotus

Q. Which of the following Indian Acts was passed in the year 2005?    

1. The Biological Diversity Act
2. The Prevention of Money-Laundering Act
3. The Competition Act
4. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act

Answer - The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act

Q. The radiation belts are giant swaths of magnetically trapped highly energetic charged particles that surround Earth.

1. Van Allen
2. Aurora
3. Kuiper
4. Chinook

Answer - Van Allen

Q. Madagascar is located in the Ocean.    

1. Pacific
2. Arctic
3. Indian

4. Atlantic

Answer - Indian

Q.                   received the 'Global Goalkeeper' Award by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, on 24 September 2019.

1. Ramnath Kovind
2. Narendra Modi
3. Pranab Mukherjee
4. Manmohan Singh

Answer - Narendra Modi

Q. Where in India is the ‘slash and burn’ agriculture known as ‘Kuruwa’?    

1. Western Ghats
2. Himalayan Belt
3. State of Odisha

4. State of Jharkhand

Answer - State of Jharkhand

Q. With a donation of ₹7,904 crore, was declared the most generous philanthropist in India by the ‘EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020’.

1. Azim Premji
2. Kumar Mangalam Birla
3. Mukesh Ambani
4. Shiv Nadar

Answer - Azim Premji

Q. Which of the following events occurred first during the Indian National Movement?    

1. Arrival of Simon Commission
2. Partition of Bengal
3. Kheda Satyagraha
4. Dandi March

Answer - Partition of Bengal

Q. The Amendment of the Constitution of India envisages the Gram Sabha as the foundation of the Panchayat Raj System to perform functions and powers entrusted to it by the State Legislatures.

1. 71st
2. 72nd
3. 73rd
4. 74th

Answer - 73^rd

Q.       is a vocal form of music from the state of Punjab.    

1. Qawwali
2. Ghazal
3. Tappa
4. Bhajan

Answer - Tappa

Q. Dantidurga, who set up his capital at Malkhed was a ruler.    

1. Pala
2. Pratihara
3. Rashtrakuta
4. Satavahana

Answer - Rashtrakuta

Q. Badminton player won the All England Open men's single title in March 2021.    

1. Lee Chong Wei
2. Momota Kento
3. Viktor Axelsen
4. Lee Zii Jia

Answer - Lee Zii Jia

Q. As per Economic Survey 2020-2021, India’s real GDP is estimated to grow by in financial year 2021-22.
1. 3%
2. 11%
3. 7%
4. 9%

Answer - 11%

Q. The range of force is of the order of 10−16 m.
1. electromagnetic
2. gravitational
3. strong nuclear
4. weak nuclear

Answer - weak nuclear

Q. Which of the following Amendments to the Constitution of India was passed with the primary objective to constitutionally encode the re-organisation of Indian States based on language?
1. Tenth Amendment
2. Sixth Amendment
3. Seventh Amendment
4. Fourth Amendment

Answer - Seventh Amendment

Q. In the Rigvedas there is a hymn in the form of a dialogue between Sage Vishvamitra and two rivers that were worshipped as goddesses. Which are these rivers?

1. Alakananda and Bhagirathi
2. Ravi and Chenab
3. Ganga and Yamuna
4. Beas and Sutlej

Answer - Beas and Sutlej

Q. Who among the following was the first Dr Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee?    

1. MN Saha
2. KS Krishnan
3. CV Raman
4. S Chandrasekhar

Answer - KS Krishnan

Q. The aims to provide tap water connection to every rural home by 2024.    

1. Jal Kranti Abhiyan
2. Jal Shakti Abhiyan
3. Atal Bhujal Yojana
4. Jal Jeevan Mission

Answer - Jal Jeevan Mission

Q. As per Union Budget 2021-22, Fiscal deficit is estimated at per cent of GDP in 2021-22.

1. 5.1
2. 6.8
3. 7.6
4. 7.2

Answer - 6.8

Q.             Refers to an environment in which oxygen is readily available.    

1. Anthropogenic
2. Anaerobic
3. Aerobic
4. Acidification

Answer - Aerobic

SSC CGL General Awareness Questions - 2020

SSC CGL Tier 1 2020 exam was conducted in August 2021. Let us see the SSC CGL Tier 1 General Awareness questions asked in the exam. 

Q. Which of the following statements about Swami Dayanand Saraswati is INCORRECT?

1. His birthplace was Gujarat.
2. He authored the book 'Satyarth Prakash'.
3. He was the founder of Brahmo Samaj.
4. He was the founder of Arya Samaj.

Answer - He was the founder of Brahmo Samaj

Q. Who among the following is a Padma Vibhushan awardee of 2021?
1. Tarlochan Singh
2. Mouma Das
3. Sudarshan Sahoo
4. Sumitra Mahajan

Answer - Sudarshan Sahoo

Q.3 Who among the following was one of the founders of the Hindustan Republic Association?

1. Ram Prasad Bismil
2. Lala Lajpat Rai
3. Jatindranath Mukherjee
4. Surya Sen

Answer - Ram Prasad Bismil

Q. In which of the following years was the Second Round Table Conference in London held?

1. 1925
2. 1939
3. 1931
4. 1941

Answer - 1931

Q. In which of the following years was the Planning Commission of India set up?

1. 1962
2. 1950
3. 1958
4. 1945

Answer - 1950

Q. As per the Union Budget of 2021-22, how many regional national institutes of virology will be set up?
1. Four
2. Two
3. Three
4. Six

Answer - Four

Q. Electron-volt is a unit of ______.
1. energy
2. power
3. current
4. potential difference

Answer - energy

Q. Who among the following was elected as the President of Veterinary Council of India in January 2021?
1. KK Verma
2. Dipankar Seth
3. Umesh Sharma
4. Rajeev Arora

Answer - Umesh Sharma

Q. Which of the following places is famous for a copper mine?
1. Gaya
2. Keonjhar
3. Khetri
4. Satna

Answer - Khetri

Q. ______ is the structural and functional unit of kidney.
1. Medulla
2. Ureter
3. Cortex
4. Nephron

Answer - Nephron

Q. Unique Transaction Reference number is a ______ character code used to uniquely identify a transaction in the RTGS system.
1. 45
2. 22
3. 34
4. 17

Answer - 22

Q. Gurdwara Patalpuri Sahib is located on the bank of river ______.

1. Ganga
2. Beas
3. Yamuna
4. Sutlej

Answer - Sutlej

Q. Who among the following won the ‘3^rd Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize’ for his novel ‘The City and The Sea’ in December 2020?
1. Shekhar Gupta
2. Rajdeep Sardesai
3. Siddhartha Sarma
4. Raj Kamal Jha

Answer - Raj Kamal Jha

Q. Which of the following has the same dimension as that of linear momentum?
1. Work
2. Energy
3. Impulse
4. Stress

Answer - Impulse

Q. In December 2020, the Ministry of Home Affairs declared the entire State of ______ as a ‘disturbed area’ for six more months under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA).
1. Punjab
2. Jharkhand
3. Nagaland
4. West Bengal

Answer - Nagaland

Q. For which of the following franchise teams did AB de Villiers play in IPL 2020?

1. Delhi Capitals
2. Kolkata Knight Riders
3. Mumbai Indians
4. Royal Challengers Bangalore

Answer - Royal Challengers Bangalore

Q.17 In Leh, the first ever ice climbing festival was celebrated in ______ valley in January 2021.

1. Dras
2. Ripchar
3. Markha
4. Nubra

Answer - Nubra

Q. Which of the following is a process in which hot, less dense materials rise upward and are replaced by colder, more dense materials?

1. Conduction
2. Radiation
3. Condensation
4. Convection

Answer - Convection

Q. Baghmara Pitcher Plant Sanctuary is located in which of the following states?

1. Assam
2. Goa
3. Karnataka
4. Meghalaya

Answer - Meghalaya

Q. Who among the following replaced Morarji Desai as the Prime Minister of India in 1979?

1. Chandrasekhar
2. Jagjivan Ram
3. Charan Singh
4. Devi Lal

Answer - Charan Singh

Q. Which of the following schemes is aimed at helping accelerate the uptake of broadband internet services?

1. PM-INTERNET
2. PM-WANI
3. PM-DHWANI
4. PM-VAARTA

Answer - PM-WANI

Q. Which of the following is the application of sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, computer science and engineering to matters of law and to the identification of various facts of civilian investigation?

1. Kalology
2. Morphology
3. Forensic science
4. Psychology

Answer - Forensic science

Q. Who won the Toyota Thailand Open Women’s Singles Title in Bangkok in January 2021?

1. Tai Tzu-ying
2. Ashwini Ponnappa
3. Carolina Marin
4. PV Sindhu

Answer - Carolina Marin

Q. Which of the following is NOT a town/city on the west coast of India?

1. Karwar
2. Gopalpur
3. Mangalore
4. Surat

Answer - Gopalpur

Q. Who among the following had written Kitab-ul-Hind that gave an incisive description of early 11th Century India?
1. Al-Khwarizmi
2. Al-Biruni
3. Al-Kindi
4. Al-Bukhari

Answer - Al-Biruni