Monday 25 April 2016

GENERAL AWARENESS/FINANCIAL AWARENESS PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND SELF STUDY PLAN for written exam of SBI JUNIOR ASSOCIATES (CLERK)/ SBIPO/IBPS PO/IBPSCLERK/RRB PO/RRB ASSISTANT( 25APRIL)

Good Morning

Dear Candidates,

Purpose :To prepare for written exam of SBI JUNIOR ASSOCIATES (CLERK)/ PO/IBPS PO/CLERK/RRB PO/ASSISTANT.

Must spend one hour for this section.


Out of this one hour :


Spend 15 min : 
  visit following very useful website,:

 http://bankinterview.in/

on home page you will link for 600 important questions  on banking/financial aspects. click that

last year in all banking exam most questions came out of these questions only. 


you must cram  min 15 Questions out of these 600 QA today.

Spend 30 min :
read any current affair magazine

Spend 15 min:

Learn following :


1. India Inc first in the world to formally adopt UN’s SDG
i. India Inc. is set to formally adopt the United Nations’ (UN) agenda for the world’s sustainable development and the 17 goals identified for its implementation.
ii. SDG- Sustainable Development Growth;
iii. MDG- Millenium Development Growth
iv. SDG- 17 goals; MDG- 8 goals
v. SDG will be a evaluated, monitored and reported in a time-bound manner
vi. MDG was in implementation from 2001-2015
2. SAARC Programming Committee meet begins in Pokhara
i. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will leave for Nepal to attend SAARC ministerial meet. Before the Ministerial meeting, a session of Programming Committee of SAARC will be held in Pokhara (Nepal). Standing Committee of the SAARC, which is a Foreign Secretaries-level Forum, will be held on 16th of this month.
ii. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said the meetings are part of regular interactions within the SAARC framework.
iii. India's focus would be not only to take stock of the decisions but also to work out the way forward on priority issues.
3. Anil Wadhwa concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of San Marino
i. Anil Wadhwa, Ambassador of India to Italy, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of San Marino with residence in Rome. He is an Indian Foreign Service Officer of the 1979 batch was also posted as Secretary (East) in 2014.
ii. He has also served as the Indian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand (Nov 2011 to Jan 2014) and previously as the Ambassador to Poland and to the Sultanate of Oman.
4. Myanmar Parliament elected Htin Kyaw as first civilian President
i. Myanmar's Parliament on 15 March 2016 elected Htin Kyaw as the first civilian president to lead the country after 53 years of military rule. Army took power in a 1962 coup. He is a close aide and adviser of Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of National League for Democracy (NLD) party.
ii. He was elected with 360 of the total 652 votes casted while, military-nominated Myint Swe received 213 votes and stood second followed by the other NLD candidate, Henry Van Thio, who got 79 votes.
iii. They will serve as first vice-president and second vice-president respectively. Kyaw will replace Thein Sein who will step down at the end of March 2016 after five years of army-backed rule.
iv. Htin Kyaw was elected under a complex system in which the two chambers of parliament nominated two presidential candidates and military MPs nominated a third, assuring the army continued influence.
v. The army also retains 25 percent of seats in parliament under a 2008 constitution that it drafted, giving it an effective veto on constitutional change. It also keeps key ministerial portfolios related to security.
5. Parytak Mitra Programme to enable Students to act as Tourist Facilitators
i. Parytak Mitra Programme was in news on 14 March 2016. It came in news after the information on the same was provided in the Lok Sabha by the Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (I/C) Dr. Mahesh Sharma.
ii. The programme was launched by Union Ministry of Tourism on 12 January 2016 (National Youth Day) to inculcate appropriate tourism traits and knowledge amongst the trainees to enable them to act/work as Tourist Facilitators (Prayatak Mitra).
iii. The programme seeks to improve the sectoral service standards, which is one of the pre-requisites for attracting tourists in larger numbers.
iv. College going student including those enrolled with the NCC & NSS in the age group of 18 – 28 years. The age will be reckoned on the last date prescribed for application for admission. The applicant will also furnish a no-objection / sponsorship letter issued by the Principal concerned as to his/her joining the programme.
6. Venezuela president extended economic emergency to protect citizens from economic warfare
i. Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on 14 March 2016 declared a two-month extension on emergency powers meant to help shore up the country's crippled economy.
ii. The declaration will bestow more time on the government of President Nicolas Maduro to intervene in the market, boost productivity and redress a flagging financial sector.
iii. It will also allow the government to take more anti-crisis measures to reduce fiscal moratorium and to tap up funds from the 2015 budget to address short-term social needs.
iv. The extension will bring in measures to enhance positive impacts on the national economy. These include actions on healthcare, nutrition, education, employment.
v. Venezuela has the biggest known oil reserves in the world but has suffered from the plunge in world oil prices since mid-2014. The official inflation rate topped 180 percent in 2015 which is one of the highest in the world. Non-government economists estimate the real rate is several times higher.
7. YES Bank inked MoU with India Brazil Chamber for strategic cooperation
i. India's fifth largest private sector Bank, YES Bank on 11 March 2016 signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Brazil Chamber of Commerce (IBCC) to enable significant cooperation in terms of knowledge partnerships, project consultancy, B2B opportunities, skill and technology initiatives.
ii. As per the announcement of YES Bank, the MoU signing comes in the run up to the 8th Annual BRICS Summit to be held in New Delhi in 2016. The core sectors covered in the MoU will be Sports, Media and Entertainment with special focus on IT, Infrastructure, Broadcast and Innovative solutions driven business opportunities.
iii. YES BANK and IBCC will jointly endeavour to explore exchange of best practices in Sports goods Manufacturing, CSR in sports, SM&E talent management.
iv. Moreover, IBCC will also recommend YES BANK as the Preferred Bank to Brazilian companies looking to do business in India.
8. Altico Capital names Naina Lal Kidwai as Non-Executive Director
i. Mumbai based Non-banking financial company Altico Capital India has appointed former HSBC India chairperson Naina Lal Kidwai as an independent non-executive director.
ii. Altico, focused on real estate, is looking to invest about Rs 2,500 crore every year for five years in the Indian real estate market. Naina lal Kidwai retired as executive director on the board of HSBC Asia Pacific and chairperson of HSBC India last year, after a 13-year stint.
iii. She is on the boards of Larsen & Toubro Limited, Advent Private Equity, Nestle SA, Cipla Ltd and Max Financial Services Ltd besides being chairperson of South Asia Harvard Business School. iv. She is currently involved with several industry associations and has previously been president of FICCI.
9. India Post Selects Deloitte As Consultant For Payments Bank
i. India Post has selected Deloitte to advise it on setting up a payments bank and an agreement between the two will be signed on March 14. The Public Investment Board has already approved the Rs 800-crore proposal of India Post and in 15 days, it will go to the Cabinet for final approval.
ii. Trail run project for the payments bank is set to start from January and the full-fledged operations will start by March As many as 40 international financial firms including World Bank and Barclays have shown interest to partner the postal department for setting up the bank. India Post has 55 lakh branches across the country.
iii. The Department of Posts, trading as India Post, is a government-operated postal system in India; it is generally referred to within India as "the post office". As of 31 March 2011, the Indian Postal Service had 154,866 post offices, of which 139,040 (89.78 percent) were in rural areas and 15,826 (10.22 percent) in urban areas.
iv. It had 25,464 departmental Post Offices and 129,402 Extra-Departmental Branch Post Offices. At the time of independence, there were 23,344 post offices, primarily in urban areas.
v. The postal service is under the Department of Posts, which is part of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of India.
10. 253 Indian Villages Lit Up In Just One Week Under The Scheme Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna
i. 323 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (from 6th to 13th March 2016) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY).
ii. Out of these electrified villages, 86 in Odisha, 73 in Jharkhand , 61 villages in Uttar Pradesh, 42 in Arunachal Pradesh , 33 in Bihar, 16 in Assam, 6 in Chhattisgarh, 3 in Madhya Pradesh and 3 in Rajasthan.
iii. In view of the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s address to nation, on Independence Day, Government of India has decided to electrify remaining 18,452 un-electrified villages within 1000 days i.e. by 01st May, 2018.
iv. The project has been taken on mission mode and strategy for electrification consists of squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and also dividing village electrification process in 12 Stage milestones with defined timelines for monitoring.
11. Lin Dan Earns His Sixth All England Badminton Title

i. Lin Dan from China has won the prestigious 2016 All England Badminton title in the men’s singles category.In the final match played at Birmingham, England he defeated Chinese teammate Tian Houwei by 21-9, 21-10 score.
ii. It was his overall sixth All England badminton title and earlier he had won it in 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012. Nozomi Okuhara of Japan marked her 21st birthday with her first All England title after beating two-time champion Wang Shixian of China 21-11, 16-21, 21-19 in their thrilling final.
iii. Lin Dan is a professional badminton player from China. He is a two-time Olympic champion, five-time world champion, and six-time All England champion.

1. Shape of the Milky Way?
Ans: - Spiral galaxy
2. Battle of Plassey on which river?
Ans: - Bhagirathi River
3. IPTL Full Form?
Ans: - International Premier Tennis League
4. Southernmost point of Indian mainland?
Ans:- Kanyakumari (formerly called Cape Comorin)
5. Second highest peak of world?
Ans: – K2 / Qogir /Godwin Austen
6. Benazir Bhutto was which Prime Minister of Pakistan?
Ans: – 11th
7. Bihu festival celebrated in?
Ans: – Assam
8. Indian Institute of Vegetable Research
Ans:- Varanasi
9. National game of India?
Ans: – Hockey
10. First Indian women who wins gold in Asian games 2014?
Ans: - Jitu Rai (Shooting)
11. Which company developed Macintosh computer?
Ans: - Apple
12. Cuyahoga Valley National Park?
Ans: - Ohio, United States
13. Zika virus transmitted by?
Ans: - Aedes mosquitoes
14. Servants of India Society founded by?
Ans: - Gopal Krishna Gokhale
15. High vitamin A foods include?
Ans: - sweet potatoes, carrots, dark leafy greens, winter squashes
16. UPS Full Form?
Ans: - Uninterruptible Power Supply
17. Albert Einstein got Nobel Prize for his discovery of?
Ans: - the law of the photoelectric effect
18. Why does Government of India act 1935 was important? -
Ans: It is the main source of Indian Constitution
19. In the rebellion of 1857, maximum number of soldiers were in?
Ans: - Awadh
20. Yellow color in Papaya is because of?
Ans: – Carotene
21. 1901 nobel medicine for invention in?
Ans: -Diphtheria
22. Alfred Nobel discovered?
Ans: -dynamite
23. 2010 first face transplant was done in-
Ans: Spain
24. 2005 ukrain, georgia revolution-
Ans:Orange
25. Rakhal lila is dance of which state?
Ans: -assam
26. Fatehpur sikri made by-
Ans: Akbar
27. Henning brand discovered 1st element-
Ans: Phosphorus
28. 1st king of north korea-
Ans: Kim jong-un
29. Tripitaka book of-
Ans:Buddhism
30. Father of experimental pshycology?
Ans: Wilhelm Wundt
31. Which is not an Operating system(options :OS x,win 98,C++,Windows 7)?
Ans: C++
32. Longest railway destination of India?
Ans: Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari.
33. Chipko movement started from where in India?
Ans: Uttrakhand
34. Male is the capital of which country?
Ans: Republic of Maldives
35. Which Vitamin responsible for Blood Clotting?
Ans: Vitamin K
36. Longest river in India which do not fall in sea?
Ans: Yamuna
37.What is Serbian Index?
Ans: capitalization-weighted price index
38. What is the capital of Uganda?
Ans: Kampala
39.Most Peaceful country according to 2015 peace index?
Ans: Iceland
40.Mica is abundant in which state of India?
Ans: Jharkhand
41.Where is Orang Park situated ?
Ans: Assam
42.Cleanest city of India?
Ans: Mysuru
43.New Member of World Trade Organisation?
Ans: Afghanistan
44.Which crop is produced at highest quantity in India?
Ans: Rice
45.H2O is water then what is KOH?
Ans: Potassium Hydroxide
46.1998 pokaran test operation name?
Ans: Operation Shakti
47.Madhubani Paintings Indicates?
Ans: Forest of Honey
48.What is oneirology?
Ans: scientific study of dreams.
49.Modern Olympic 1896 held in which city?
Ans: Athens,Greece
50.Who was Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1999?
Ans: Nawaz Sharif
51.In which year Sikkim get formed?
Ans: 1975
52.what is Sighmo?
Ans: Spring Fesitval
53.Odd one out(ears-hearing,tongue-taste,light-vision,nose-smelling)
Ans: light
54.Holi is Celerbrated with?
Ans: Gulal
55. Which is logo of Make in India?
Ans: Moving Lion
56. What was the duration of PM Modi’s America visit in 2015?
Ans: 5 days.
57.Adhai Din ka Jhopda is in?
Ans: Ajmer,Rajasthan
58.What is LIGO?
Ans: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
59.Who got Olympic quota in wrestling in 2015?
Ans: Narsingh Yadav
60.Most abundant natural combustible gas?
Ans: Methane
61.India got freedom on 15th August in which time day/night/noon/midnight?
Ans: Midnight
62.What is the foundation year of Arunachal Pradesh?
Ans: 1987
63.Change in position with distance is?
Ans: Magnitude
64. When was Indian National Congress formed?
Ans: December 28, 1885
65. 2015 winner of rugby?
Ans: Australia
66. Sajan prakash related to?
Ans: Swimmer
67. Indian army formed by whom?
Ans: Capitan Mohan Singh
68. Davis cup winner 2015?
Ans: Andy Murray
69. The first nobel price for medicine was given to invention of vaccine for which disease?
Ans: Diphtheria
70. World wide Web invented by?
Ans: Tim Berners-lee
71. Which of the following is not Jupiter satellite?(Europa,Ganymede,metis,Titan)
Ans: Titan
72. What is the average thickness of human skin?
Ans: 0.10 inch(or) 2-3 mm
73. Where is shore temple located?
Ans: Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu
74. Who was named as the cultural ambassador of Seychelles in October 2015?
Ans: AR Rahman
75. Which two Indian cities, were added to the creative city network of UNESCO in Dec 2015?
Ans: Varanasi & Jaipur
76. Thermostat is a device in ovens which help to maintain a temperature by?
Ans: Regulating flow of heat
77. Who is popularly known as the father of white revolution in India?
Ans: Verghese Kurien
78. Who wrote the autobiography of an unknown India?
Ans: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
79. In July 1905, who ordered the partition of Bengal?
Lord Curzon
80. Which of the following names is Nilanjana sudeshna, an Indian American Author popularly known as?
Ans: Jhumpa Lahari
81. What is the name of the Tablet computer produced by Data wind which is promoted by the GOVT of India as part of an e-learning program?
Ans: Aakash
82. What is the Laccadive Sea otherwise known as?
Ans: Arabian Sea
83. Who was the Governor General after Mountbatten?
Ans: C. Rajagopalachari
84. The purple frontier, the Earth dragon and the outer fortresses, all refer to?
Ans: Great wall of china
85. What do the terms Geocentric and Heliocentric refer to?
Ans: Earth centered, Sun centered
86. What did Dmitri Mendeleev formulate?
Ans: Periodic Table
87. Pacific : Ocean : : Bay of Bengal : ?
Ans: Sea
88. Who was Charles Correa?
Ans: Architect
89. What does DNA Stands for in Biology?
Ans: Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid
90. In September 2015 NASA scientists found evidence of flowing water on which planet outside Earth?
Ans: Mars
91. As of January 2016, where is ISRO Head quarters?
Ans: Bangalore
92. What was the first football player from the Indian Sub continent to play for a European Club?
Ans: Mohammed Saleem
93. What is the name of the parent company of Google, formed on 2nd October 2015?
Ans: Alphabet Inc
94. What are the 4 key Elements of amino acids?
Ans: Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon
95. What is reason behind yellow colour of Papaya?
Ans: Flavonoids
96. Importance behind gov of India act 1935?
Ans: Main source of Indian constitution
97. World bank given money in DEC?
Ans: swach bharat mission
98. Which country invent pencil
Ans: Switzerland.
99. Who play role of sita in older Ramayana serial
Ans: Deepika Chikhalia.
100. Battle of Plassey war on which river?
Ans: Bhagirathi river 1757
101.1st U.S president to attend republic day parade in india?
Ans: Barack Obama
102. Who commisioned tajmahal?
Ans: Shahjahan
103. First woman doctor in world?
Ans: Elizabeth Blackwell
104. No of Muscles uses for eye ball?
Ans: 6 Muscles
105.What is the national game of China?
Ans: Table Tennis
106.Nearest galaxy to milkway?
Ans: Andromeda
107.Who build jantarmater in delhi?
Ans: Maharaja Jai Singh
108. South Africa currency?
Ans: South African Rand
109.No of players in polo?
Ans: 4
110. Acid in grapes?
Ans: Tartar Acid
111. When was India declared polio-free by WHO?
Ans: 2014
112. Who is the composer of the National Pledge?
Ans: Pydimarri Venkata Subba Rao
113. What the average weight of brain?
Ans: About 3 pounds
114. Which one is the tributary of Indus river?
Ans: Jhelum
115. Which is the first planet discovered by a human?
Ans: Uranus


Anil Aggarwal
Owner & Manager at Anil Aggarwal Coaching
(A proprietorship concern for IBPS exam guidance and Bank Interview preparation)
 Mobile:                               +91 9811340788
E-mail ID:         anilakshita@yahoo.co.in
Office: Flat #49, Trilok Apartments, Patparganj, I.P. Extension, Delhi-110092.

Follow us at:

No comments:

Post a Comment