Saturday 27 October 2012

SSC CHSL Exam (21 oct 2012) General Awareness Question Paper

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Staff  Selection Commission ( SSC ) has  conducted  Combined Higher Secondary Level Exam (CHSL ) for recruitment of  lower division clerk and data entry operator posts on date 21 oct 2012 . Here we are providing you SSC CHSL Exam question paper 2012 (general awareness .SSC will conduct two more sessions of CHSL examination on 28/10/2012 and 04/11/2012 .




General Awareness :

 50 questions asked in the SSC CHSL Exam 2012 ( 21 oct 2012 ) :-

1. Who will act as chairman of Public Accounts Committee?


  • The speaker of the Lok Sabha
  • The Vice-President of India
  • The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha
  • The Leader of the House


2. Who was chosen unanimously as the President of India ?


  • K.R. Narayanan
  • Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  • Dr. S. Radhakrishan
  • Neelam Sanjiva Reddy


3. The Constitution of India was passed by the Constituent Assembly on ?

4. The power to decide an election petition is vested in the ?

5.The 1857 Mutiny failed mainly because ?


  • of  lack of planning and leadership
  • it was premature
  • the British got French support
  • the British numbered more


6. The story of ‘My Experiments with Truth’ is autobiography of ?

7. The basic characteristics of a capitalistic economy is ?


  • absense of monopoly
  • large scale production in primary industaries
  • full employment
  • the private ownership of the means of production


8. Which one of the following taxes is not a direct tax ?


  • Sales tax
  • Estate tax
  • Gift tax
  • Wealth tax


9. UNDP prepares ?

10. Fiscal policy refers to ?

11. Public opinion gets an authoritative expression in a democracy through ?


  • Pressure Groups
  • Public Meetings
  • Newspapers
  • Parliament


12. Which one of the following is not a determine factor of a country’s foreign policy ?


  • Cultural Conditions
  • Religious Conditions
  • National Interests
  • Interdependece


13. What is the capital of Himachal Pradesh ?

14.Tides in the sea have stored in them ?

15. Delivery of developed foetus is scientifically called as ?

16. Thyroxine hormone is secreted by ?

17. The digestive juice which has no enzyme is ?

18. An essential feature of the seed germination is the presence of ?


  • Light
  • Temperature
  • Minerals
  • Waster


19. Plants that grow on stones and rocks are ?

20. Who among the following made the Ganpati festival very popular in Maharastra ?


  • Mahadev Ranade
  • Bal Gangadhar Tilak
  • Gopal Krishna Gokhale
  • Annie Besant


21. The mughal ruler sho built the Buland Darwaza was ?

22. Diarchy in the provinces was introduced through the ?


  • Government of India Act, 1919
  • Government of India Act, 1935
  • Indian Councils Act, 1861
  • Indian Council Act, 1892


23. Which of the following is the word’s largest desert ?


  • The Great Australian Desert
  • Arabian Desert
  • Gobi
  • Sahara


24. The rate of erosion in a stream is lowest where ?

25. The name ‘ Sahyadri’ is related to ?


  • A rain-bearing wind
  • depth is greater
  • breadth is greater
  • velocity is more


26. People die in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide because ?

27. Which of the following acts as photosensitizer during photosynthesis ?


  • Chlorophyll
  • Chlorine
  • Oxygen
  • Notrogen


28. What happens when bleaching powder is left exposed to air ?

29. Arsenic pollution leads to ?


  • Dylexia
  • Allergy
  • White foot disease
  • Black foot disease


30. Which one of following does not contribute to pollution ?


  • Hydroelectric Power Plant
  • Atomic Power Plant
  • Thermal Power Plant
  • Nuclear Power Plant


31. Which of the following are the two major components of dry air ?


  • Nitrogen and Ammonia
  • Oxygen and Carbon dioxide
  • Nitrogen and Oxygen
  • Oxygen and Argon


32. Tactile hair is found in the body of ?

33. The source of energy in the Sun is ?

34. Which one of the following materials is used as controller in a nuclear reactor power generator ?


  • Graphite
  • Heavy Water
  • Cadmium
  • Beryllium


35. Banking of the curves on road or railway track is done to provide  ?


  • gravitational force
  • angular force
  • centripetal force
  • centrifugal force


36. ……….is a type of application software used for communication ?


  • Database
  • Image editing
  • FTP
  • Word Processing


37.  A floppy disk is ?


  • Used as the primary memory in computer system
  • made up of magnetic metrial
  • a semiconductor random-access memory
  • an EPROM


38. MDI stands for ?

39. What is the full form of FCI ?

40. The Twelfth Five Year Plan will be operative for the period ?

41. The state with largest gap in male and female literacy is ?

42. ” Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”  Who said these words ?

43. Comprehensive  Test Ban Treaty ( CTBT ) is associated with the ban on which of the followings ?


  • Ban on nuclear tests for developing arsenals
  • Ban on teerrorism
  • Ban on certain organisations under UN laws
  • Ban on money laundering activities


44. The Pulitzer Prize is associated with which of the following ?


  • Journalism
  • Olympic Games
  • Environmental Protection
  • Civil Aviation


45. Which one of the following is not an example of Lotc ecosystem ?


  • Pond
  • Estuary
  • Stream
  • Lagoon


46. Permissible noise level at industrial area during daytime is ?

47. Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistan Prime Minnister was assassinated in ?

48.Which of the following is correctly matched ?


  • Silk Research Institute  -  Banglore
  • Sugar Research Institute  -  Chennai
  • Leather Research Institute  -  Lucknow
  • Rice Research Institute –  Cuttack


49. Who was affectionately known as the ” Grand Old Man of India ” ?

50. India test fired successfully its Agni-V, surface-to-surface ICBM from Wheeler Island on ?


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