SBI Clerk Mains 2016 Exam: GK Questions asked in 26th June 2016

Slot - 1

1. July 11 observed as – World Population Day

2. Playing it my way book on – Sachin Tendulkar

3. ECB full form – External Commercial Borrowing

4. Ujjwala scheme – for free LPG scheme, launched in Balia, UP

5. Which country becomes first to ban deforestation – Norway

6. Kanha Park located at – MP

7. Salt Lake stadium situated in – Kolkata

8. Indus valley desert in northern region of which country – Pakistan

9. Cuttack situated on which river – Mahanadi River

10 . Malaysia currency – Ringgit

11 . World Tourism organisation headquarter — Madrid, Spain

12. T in RTGS means – Time (Real time gross settlement)

13 . Kandla port located at – Gujarat

14. Maximum amount in Mudra Scheme – Rs. 10 lakh

15. Savings A/c becomes dormant in how many period if not used – 2 years

16. National Automated Clearing House (NACH) is a centralised clearing system launched by – National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

17. Jayant Sinha which State finance minister – Hazaribagh , Jharkhand

18. Hq of Indian Overseas Bank – Chennai

19. CRISIL is a – credit rating agency

20 . FMC merged with – SEBI

21 . Chief Economic Advisor of India – Arvind Subramanian

22 . Lima is capital of – Peru

23. Gatimaan Express route – New Delhi to Agra

24. Kiran bedi is lieufinant governer of – Pondicherry

25. Seema punia is related to – discus throw

26. Krishan Raja Sagar Dam on river – Kaveri

27. Aga khan palace is in state – Pune, Maharashtra

28. DICGC is a subsidiary of – RBI

29. Deutsche Bank headquarter – Frankfurt, Germany

30. Europe highest mountain – Mount Elbrus

31. IDFC headquarter is at – Mumbai

32. The initial authorized corpus of National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) – Rs. 20,000 crore

33. Desert Eagle – II bilateral air combat exercise conducted between – India and UAE

34. India’s first ever civil aviation park to be set up in – Gujarat

35. Skill development scheme – Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)

Slot - 2

1. Canberra is capital of – Australia

2. Mudra Bank total capital – Rs. 20,000 crore

3. Srikanth Kidambi is associated with – badminton

4. Raja bhoj air port situated at – MP

5. Harsimrat Kaur Badal  constituency – Bhatinda

6 . Changu jheel located in – Sikkim, Gangtok

7. Currency of Philippines – Peso

8. N stands in Niti Ayog – National

9. National Housing Bank (NHB), a wholly owned subsidiary of – Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

10. 2016 Judo Olympics venue – Carioca Arena 2

11 . First AC double-decker train announced in Railway budget – Uday express

12. July 18 observed as – Nelson Mandela International Day

13. Country’s first railway university to be set up in – Vadodara, Gujarat

General Awareness Questions asked in SBI Clerk Main June 25th 2016

Shift-1

1. valmiki park in which state? Bihar

2. which country gv back india d artifacts it stole 2000yr back?
USA

3. 6 metro coaches exported to Australia frm which indian
state? Vadodra

4. where is gobi desert located? China and southern Mongolia

5. chabahar port in which country? Iran

6. largest nuclear plant name?

7. Neeraj chopra associated wd which sport? javelin thrower

8. Piñarayi Vijayan cm of which state? Kerala

9. currency of Israel? shekel

10. kSE-100 index? Karachi Stock Exchange.

11. federal is the central bank of which country? the USA

12. which state has got it’s own mascot animal? Guwahati

13. cibil is? credit information agency

14. wular lake in which state? Jammu and Kashmir

15. anant Geete constituency raigad in which state? Maharashtra

16. shishu loan amount? upto Rs 50,000

17. wings of fire authored by? A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

18. July 28 is observed as? World Hepatitis Day

19. what does I stand for in RIDF? Infrastructure (Rural
Infrastructure Development Fund)

20. IMPS is? Immediate Payment System

21. diff b/w CRR n SLR?

22. Bandhan is – pvt sect or RRB or payment bank? pvt sector

23. RBI can’t issue banknote more than what denomination? 10000

24. deadline for Basel 3 implementation? 31-March-2019

25. IDA or IFC hq? Washington D.C.

26. 11 digit code used in cheques? MICR code

27. PayPal is largest what kind of service? online payments system

28. NICL majority stakeholder? Govt of India

29. defence park in which state? Kerala

30. surya mitra by which ministry? Power and coal ministry

31. Nairobi is capital of? Kenya

32. LPG scheme name? Pahal

33. HPCA cricket stadium in? Himachal Pradesh

34. Ahmedabad on which river bank? Sabarmati

35. bank of India HQ? Mumbai

36. foreign trade policy – RBI / EXIM/comm ministry / none of these?

37. G in ECGC stands for? Guarantee (Export Credit Guarantee
Corporation of India)

38. Umaid bhavan palace in which state? Rajasthan

39. payment bank nt allowed to undertake which of the given
function?

40. Gopinath bordoloi stadium in? Assam

41. debt market also called as

42. risk that borrower will default on any type of debt by failing to
make payment?

Shift-2

1. Highest Mountain

2. 3 Questions related to schemes by Government of India

3. 2 questions related to River

4. WHO headquarter – Geneva, Switzerland

5. Full form of “? ” – related to Pradhan Mantri yojna

6. Gandhi Stadium located – Jalandhar, Punjab

7. CM of Puducherry – V. Narayanasamy

8. NACH fullform  A MEANS

9. In DICGC full form G stands for –

10. Phnom Penh is the  capital of – Cambodia

11. Barabati Stadium located – Odisha

12. Highest Mountain –

13. Highest lake –

14.Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport – Patna, Bihar

15. WHICH RIVER Bhagalpur near to which River – Ganga

16. PMFBY related to – Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY)

17. MALABAR Exercise – United States, Japan and India

18. Indonesian Currency –  Indonesian Rupiah (IDR)

19. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) headquarter- Beijing China

20. NACH full form- National Automated Clearing House

21. Jai Prakash Narayan Airport- Patna, Bihar

22. July 17 celebrated as- Day of International Criminal Justice

23. SCORES is platform for complaints of –

24. SETU programme for whom?

25. ARCIL Is –

26. Payment and Small finance banks-

27. Highest Peak –

28. Loknayak Jai Prakash Narayan int. airport where-

29. Union agriculture minister constituency-

30. About place of lake-

31. United bank of India HQ-

32.Chinar wildlife sanctuary-

SBI Clerk Mains General awareness 2016

SBI Clerk Mains General awareness 2016 Preparation and syllabus ,SBI Clerk mains preparation for financial awareness.State bank of India is going to release the marks of candidates for the post of prelim clerk for the post of junior associates in customer support. A lot of candidates have been thinking for the job role which will be related to customer support on call. State bank of India is going to conduct its final phase of written exam for the mains and soon it is going to be conducted very soon. It is very important for the candidates to perform well in the written examination else they will not be able to score good marks in the examination. It is very important for candidates to focus on general awareness which contains both the current affairs and financial awareness. Candidates will be required to solve a lot of questions from various sections and all those candidates who will pass the mains examination will be called next for the personal interview process which is subject to the government approval. Candidates will be required to solve a lot of questions based on general awareness and only after that they will be able to score good marks in this section. Below are some details .

Candidates should know that there will e almost 20 questions from the financial awareness and this cannot be ignored. Candidates who will qualify the examination with good score have better chances for selection as clerk and so it is very important for them to score good marks in overall examination. To improve their performance in SBI clerk mains exam they should know what topic they should study for the financial awareness which is very important. Here are some of the topics which candidates will be required to know before they appear in the exam.

First of all, candidates should know the approximate division of the topics in general awareness which have been given below

• Current Affairs: 33-35%
• Banking/ Economic/ Financial Awareness: 28-30%
• Static Affairs: 5-10%
• Banking/ Economic/ Financial Static Portion: 28-30%

Fanatical awareness will be asked from the below topics and so candidates should keep trying to learn the details which are given under:

• Financial Organisations : SEBI, RBI, SBI (Special Focus)
• Credit rating Agencies: National & International
• FDI limits in different sectors
• Schemes launched by governments related to banking and finance
• Export and Import Items
• RBI Monetary Review
• Stock Exchange
• Announcements made by RBI and other banks
• Business News: Mergers Acquisitions and Buyouts.

SBI Clerk mains General awareness

Also there will be a few questions from static GK which candidates can prepare. They will be asked from popular rivers, national park, mountains etc which candidates should learn. Also most of the questions will be asked from current affairs which candidates should know. to prepare this well, they have to keep learning the current affairs. Questions from past 4 month are being asked in the examination and this is good for candidates to learn the details of current affairs. Topics which will be covered are as under:

• Current affairs
• Indian Banking History and its structure
• Organizations: RBI; NABARD, SEBI, EXIM etc
• Facts and Figures related to Banks
• RBI: Terms , Theories and all data
• All Banking, Economic and Finance related Terms and Theories.
• Foreign Exchange reserves of India.
• Non Banking Financial companies: Definition, Difference from bank etc.
• All schemes. acts and Regulations followed by banks
• Types of Markets, Money and banking instruments
• Banking Abbreviations, terms and concepts.
• Headquarters of Banks
• Currency: History and updates etc.

General Awareness Asked In UIIC AO Exam 2016

The headquarters of Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) of India is located in.- Hyderabad.

International Anti-Corruption Day has been observed annually on - 9 December

Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of India. - Assam

Who beats Novak Djokovic to win first Italian Open title? - Andy Murray

The University of South Florida has announced a postgraduate annual scholarship worth Rs 1 crore in the name of former President to Indian students from the next academic year - APJ Abdul Kalam 

Which is the first region in the country to give transgender people social welfare benefits - such as a pension, housing and food grains - usually allocated for only the most impoverished? - Odisha