SSC CGL Tier 1 – Model Questions and Answers

1. The soil group which covers largest area in India is
1) Black Soils
2) Red Soils
3) Laterite Soils
4)Alluvial Soils

2. What can be the maximum period of gap between any two sessions of the Indian parliament?
1) 4 months
2) Two months
3) 1 year
4) 6 months

3. The contribution of agriculture to India’s economy is
1) Decreasing
2) Increasing
3) None of these
4) Constant

4. Which of the following rate is not decided by RBI?
1) Bank Rate
2) Repo Rates
3) Inflation Rate
4) Cash Reserve Ratio

5. Which of the following currencies has the highest value in terms of rupees?
1) Pound Sterling
2) Euro
3) USA Dollar.
4) Japanese Yen

6. The birthday of which of the leader in India is observed as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day)?
1) Mahatma Gandhi
2) Jawaharlal Nehru
3) Subhas Chandra Bose
4) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

7. Which of the following is located in Hyderabad?
1) Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB)
2) National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)
3) All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)
4) Indian Agricultural Research Institute (LARI)

8. As per Census 2011, find the wrong statement?
1) State with highest population density is Bihar.
2) State with lowest sex ratio is Haryana.
3) State with highest literacy rate is Kerala.
4) State with maximum ST population is Punjab.

9. Find the wrong pair? (Vitamin & Chemical Name)
1) Vitamin K Phylloquinone
2) Vitamin C Ascorbic acid
3) Vitamin B2 Riboflavin
4) Vitamin A: Thiamine

10. Myopia is connected with….
1) Ears
2) Eyes 3) Heart
4) Lungs

11. The person who went to England and shot General Dyer dead to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was…..
1) Bhagat Singh
2) Veer Savarkar
3) Udham Singh
4) None of these

12. Acid rain is due to the air pollution by
1) Carbon Monoxide
2) Carbon Dioxide
3) Nitrous oxide and Sulphur dioxide
4) Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

13. Find the wrong pair?
1) First Battle of Panipat 1526
2) Second Battle of Panipat 1556
3) Battle of Plassey 1757
4) Battle of Buxar 1784

14. Who among the following had been unanimously elected as the President of India?
1) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2) Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
3) A. P J. Abdul Kalam
4) Mohammad Hidayatullah

15. Which of the following are direct taxes?
1) Income Tax
2) Corporate Tax
3) Property Tax
4) All of the above

16. Who was the last Mughal Emperor?
1) Akbar II
2) Shah Alam II
3) Bahadur Shah II
4) None of these

17. The Tropic of Cancer is not passed through
1) Madhya Pradesh
2) West Bengal
3) Chattisgarh
4) Uttar Pradesh

18. Which of the following disease is caused by Virus
1) Cholera
2) Tuberculosis
3) Typhoid
4) Hepatitis

19. Who is Jean Henri Dunant?
1) Founder of Red Cross
2) Founder of United Nations
3) Founder of World Bank
4) Founder of UNESCO

20. The Human Development Report (HDR) is an annual milestone published by
1) UNICEF
2) UNESCO
3) UNDP
4) UNCTAD

21. Father of Green Revolution of the World?
1) M.S Swaminathan
2) Verghese Kurien
3) Norman Borlaug
4) Adam Smith

22. Who among the following is not appointed by President of India?
1) Prime Minister of India
2) Union Cabinet Minister
3) Vice President of India
4) Governor of a state

23. Which of the following national park is not located in Madhya Pradesh?
1) Bandhavgarh National Park
2) Bandipur National Park
3) Panna National Park
4) Sanjay National Park

24. Which of the following international organization is located in Paris?
1) Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
2) Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
3) Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
4) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

25. Find the wrong statement?
1) Petroleum is the exhaustible natural resource
2) Dead organisms are transformed into petroleum & natural gas in Presence of air.
3) Bone is hard because of the presence of Calcium carbonate.
4) The working principle of a Washing Machine is Centrifugation.

26. From the constitution of which country was the concept of Directive Principles of State Policy borrowed?
1) USA
2) Ireland
3) Russia
4) None

27. Find the wrong pair? (Nuclear Power Station & State)
1) Kiga Nuclear Power Station Karnataka
2) Kakrapar Nuclear Power Station Gujarat
3) Tarapur Nuclear Power Station Madhya Pradesh.
4) Narora Nuclear Power Station Uttar Pradesh

28. who come 1st and 2nd in the warrant of  precedence?
1) Prime Minister of India and President of India
2) President of India and Prime Minister of India
3) President of India and Vice-President of India
4) None of these

29. Which one among the following prompted Rabindranath Tagore to surrender his title of ‘Sir’?
1) To support Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha Movement
2) To protest against the massacre at Jallianwalabagh and the imposition of martial law in Punjab
3) The passing of the Rowlatt Act
4) None of these

30. During Indian Freedom Struggle, which one of the following happened earliest?
1) Announcement of Partition of Bengal
2) Establishment of Simon Commission
3) First round table conference
4) Quit India Movement

31. Find the correct statement?
A. Light year is a unit of Distance.
B. Mirage is due to unequal heating of different parts of the atmosphere
C. Magnetism at the centre of a bar magnet is Zero
D. Lux is the SI unit of intensity of illumination.
1) only A & B
2) only B & C
3) only A & C
4) All A, B, C & D

32. The Radcliffe line is a boundary between….
1) India and China
2) India and Afghanistan
3) India and Bangladesh
4) None