Friday, November 18, 2011

IBPS CLERKS EXAM GENERAL AWARENESS MCQs


1.Jose Graziano da Sliva of Brazil was elected in June 2011 as the Director-General of which of the following international organizations?
1) UNESCO
2) UNICEF
3) WHO
4) FAO
5) IAEA

2. Ranjan Mathai holds which of the following official positions?
1) Cabinet Secretary
2) Home Secretary
3) Finance Secretary
4) Defence Secretary
5) Foreign Secretary

3. Prakash Bakshi is the Chairman of which of the following institutions / banks?
1) SBI
2) IDBI Bank
3) SEBI
4) PNB
5) NABARD

4. Recep Tayyip Erdogan was reelected as the Prime Minister of which of the following countries in June 2011?
1) Israel
2) Turkey
3) Bangladesh
4) Pakistan
5) None of these

5. Which the following days is not observed in August?
1) Hiroshima Day
2) Nagasaki Day
3) Quit India Day
4) National Youth Day
5) National Sports Day

6. The 9,900 MW Jaitapur nuclear power project will be set up in collaboration with Areva Company of France. In which state is Jaitapur situated?
1) Rajasthan
2) Maharashtra
3) Karnataka
4) Orissa
5) Andhra Pradesh

7. With the collaboration of which of the following countries is the Koodankulam nuclear project in Tamil Nadu being established?
1) France
2) USA
3) Russia
4) Kazakhstan
5) Mongolia

8. Which is the first microfinance institution (MFI) in India to issue an Initial Public Offering (IPO)?
1) SKS
2) Basix
3) Spandana
4) Share
5) Aashirvad

9. Yogesh Agarwal is the chairman of which of the following regulators?
1) FMC
2) TRAI 3) SEBI
4) PFRDA
5) NABARD

10. Which of the following is an air to air missile?
1) Agni
2) Prithvi
3) Astra
4) Akash
5) Shourya

11. Identify the mismatched pair.
1) Amar Pratap Singh -CBI Director
2) Nehchal Sandhu - IB Director
3) Sanjeev Tripathi - RAW Director
4) R.K. Medhekar - NSG Director -General
5) Shiv Shankar Menon - NIA Director-General

12. Which of the following books is not written by V.S. Naipaul?
1) In a Free State
2) A Bend in the River
3) A House for Mr. Biswas
4) Development as Freedom
5) The Masque of Africa

13. The headquarters of Allahabad Bank are located in which of the following city?
1) New Delhi
2) Chennai
3) Kolkata
4) Allahabad
5) Mumbai

14. Identify the mismatched pair
Book -Author
1) Pakistan: The Gathering Storm- Benazir Bhutto
2) Songs of Blood and Sword- Fatima Bhutto
3) The Red Sari: When life is the Price of Power- Javier Moro
4) Daughter of the East- Sheikh Hasina
5) The Insider- P.V.Narasimha Rao

15. Which of the following is the oldest hockey tournament in India? (It was instituted in 1895)
1) Aga Khan Cup
2) Beighton Cup
3) Bombay Gold cup
4) Rangaswamy Cup
5) Obaidullah Khan Gold cup

16. Identify the mismatched pair with regard to the FIFA world cup football tournaments?
YEAR- HOST COUNTRY
1) 2010 -South Africa
2) 2014 -Brazil
3) 2018 -Russia
4) 2022 -USA
5) None

17. Al Jazeera's English news channel will be launched in India very soon. It is based in which of the following city?
1) Kuwait city
2) Riyadh
3) Doha
4) Tehran
5) Muscat

18. Which of the following statements about the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is not true?
1) OECD is an international economic organization founded to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
2) It has celebrated the 50th anniversary in 2011.
3) 34 states are its members.
4) Jose Angel Gurria of Mexico is the Secretary General of OECD.
5) Its headquarters are in Washington.

19. Every year the first Monday of October is observed as?
1) World Environment Day
2) World Habitat Day
3) World Diabetes Day
4) UNO Day
5) World Development Informat-ion Day

20. Which of the following city will host the 2014 winter Olympic Games?
1) Vancouver
2) Nagono
3) Salt Lake city
4) Sochi
5) None of these

21.Identify the mismatched pair
Bank -Punch Line
1) Andhra Bank -For all your needs
2) Vijaya Bank -A friend you can bank upon
3) Corporation Bank- A premier public sector bank
4) Canara Bank -Together we can
5) Allahabad Bank -Relationships beyond banking

22.Wikileaks founder Julian Assa-nge is in the news recently. To which country does he belong?
1) USA
 2) Sweden
3) UK
4) Australia
5) Canada

23.Identify the odd man out
1) Dena Bank
2) Bank of Maharashtra
3) Karnataka Bank
4) Bank of India
5) Central Bank of India

24.The Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) has been re-christened as?
1) MGNREGA
2) JNNURM
3) NRLM
4) Bharat Nirman
5) None of these

25.Which of these associate banks of SBI are fully owned by the State Bank of India?
1) SBT & SBH
2) SBM & SBT
3) SBT & SBBJ
4) SBH & SBP
5) None of these

26.POSCO steel project, India's largest FDI project worth $ 12 billion, got approval from the Environment and Forests Ministry to build a steel plant at Jagatsinghpur in Orissa. To which country does POSCO belong?
1) USA
2) UK
3) South Africa
4) Japan
5) South Korea

27. Identify the mismatched pair
COMPANY CEO
1) Pepsico Indra Nooyi
2) Nokia Sanjay Jha
3) Citigroup Vikram Pandit
4) Reckitt Benckiser Rakesh Kapoor
5) Adobe Systems Shantanu Narayen

28.Indian -American Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has pledged half of his $ 1.4 billion fortune to charity. He is the co-founder of which of the following companies?
1) Google
2) Microsoft
3) Hotmail
4) Sun Microsystems
5) Yahoo!

29.In which year was the RBI Act passed?
1) 1934
2) 1935
3) 1949
4) 1947
5) None of these

30.Which bank has recently started "SMS Unhappy" service to address customer complaints?
1) SBI
2) SBH
3) Andhra Bank
4) Vijaya Bank
5) Bank of Baroda

31.Which bank is credited with the launching of the following projects?
A.Bank on Bike initiative for villages untouched by banking facilities so far was started in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh.
B. One Rupee Bank in Hyderabad for urban financial inclusion.
C. Kohinoor Banjara Premium Banking Centre in Hyderabad where minimum account balance is Rupees one crore.
1) SBH
2) Andhra Bank
3) ICICI Bank
4) SBI
5) HDFC Bank

32.The 4th advance estimates of food grain production for 2010-11was released on July 19, 2011. India has produced how many million tonnes of food grains during 2010-11?
1) 218.11
2) 234.47
3) 241.56
4) 252.47
5) None of these

33.Sushil Modi is the chairman of the empowered committee on goods and service tax (GST). He is the finance minister of which of the following states? (GST will replace VAT from April 1, 2012)
1) Gujarat
2) Bihar
3) Jharkhand
4) Rajasthan
5) Chhattisgarh

34. Which country accounted for 42 percent of total foreign direct investment (FDI) of $19.42 billion in 2010-11?
1) USA
2) UK
3) Mauritius
4) Cyprus
5) China

35. Identify the mismatched pair
1) Central Board of Film Certification- Sharmila Tagore
2) Children's Film Society of India-Nandita Das
3) National Commission for Women-Mamata Sharma
4) National Commission for STs-Rameshwar Oraon
5) National Commission for Protection of Child Rights -Shanta Sinha

ANSWERS:

1. (4) 2. (5) 3. (5) 4. (2) 5. (4) 6. (2) 7. (3) 8. (1) 9. (4) 10. (3)
11. (5) 12. (4) 13. (3) 14. (4) 15. (2) 16. (4) 17. (3) 18. (5) 19. (2) 20. (4)
21. (5) 22. (4) 23. (3) 24. (3) 25. (4) 26. (5) 27. (2) 28. (4) 29. (1) 30. (1)
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CURRENT AFFAIRS PREPARATION PLAN

“Current Affairs” and “General Knowledge” cover many topics like from economy to sports or education to politics, or even technology to automobiles. In every second some issues are happening around the world in these sectors, and to accumulate the excerpt of some highlighted news, and memorize it is a good plan to prepare current affairs and GK.

Some Important Tips to Follow:

Read Newspapers regularly

We all know that “Old is Gold”, same thing applies here too. We need to make a habit of reading newspapers regularly. I’ll suggest you to read more than one newspaper. It will be better if you read one newspaper of your mother language, and other of English. Some useful newspapers are “The Times of India”, “The Hindu”, “The Telegraph” etc. You need to start this habit at least 6 months before the actual exam that will help you to get access to all the important events of that period of time.

You need to keep an eye on what’s happening around you in your country and world as well. Trust me guys, you will surely find it interesting after several days. We all know that staying updated is always a good idea, as it will stand you apart from the rest.

Read Magazines thoroughly

This is another great option to prepare the subject we are talking about. There are many leading magazines that focus on current affairs and General Knowledge. You need to buy it from your local magazine seller, and start reading it thoroughly. These magazines beautifully categorize the articles with its genres to make it interesting to read on. Some of the useful magazines are Pratiyogita Darpan andManorma.

Try to read some business magazines and sports magazines too along with a general magazine. This will increase your chances of cracking the competitive exams with ease. Some useful business magazines areBusiness Today, Business Line etc.

Follow News Channels

You will need to follow news channels at least once a day. Now most of the leading news channels are active for 24*7. You need to pick up a suitable time for yourself to watch any favorite news channel of yours. You can watch ABP News, NDTV, Times Now, ET Now, Zee News etc. Try to go through all the breaking and highlighted news, and make it a habit.

I know that watching news channels for long will bore you, so I’ll suggest you to allocate only 30 minutes for it in a whole day. All the leading ones shows the glimpses of all important events of the day quite frequently, so 30 minutes will be enough for you to boost up your current affairs and GK knowledge.

Maintain a Diary

My teacher used to tell me that whenever you learn something try to write it down in your diary, as it will help you to memorize it in a better manner. He is so right, as this method helped me a lot to score good marks in every exam that I appeared for. As I already mentioned before that a lot of events are occurring in the country and around the world, so it is easily understandable that it is not easy to remember everything. It’s always a superb idea to maintain a diary of current events.

You need to update this diary on a daily basis with all the events that you consider as important ones. This diary will become quite useful for the revision part, as it will provide you information about all the important events at a place. You should keep revising the diary frequently, as it will help you to memorize important names, dates, awards etc.

Channelize your Preparation Accordingly

All the competitive exams are not same, as all of them have different pattern, even when it comes to the same topic as ‘Current Affairs’ or ‘GK’. For example for civil services exam, you need to give importance on events of National value. On the other scenario, in matter of bank job exam, the focus should be on the news on banking sectors, and economic and business news.

Thus I’ll suggest you to prepare as per the exams you are appearing for, as channelizing your preparation according to the pattern of the exam will accelerate your chance of getting selected.

Use Internet Resources

“Google, YouTube and Wikipedia are my favorite teachers’; one of my friends told me this once. This is quite true indeed, so you should use all the available online resources to study current affairs and GK for exams. For example this blog is all about “Current Affairs”, so you can check this blog regularly by subscribing to us (check the sidebar for subscription options). You can actively take part some forums that are focusing on current events. The good part is you can follow the websites of all leadingnewspapers online if you don’t have enough time to read newspapers.

Use Social Networking Sites for Good

Believe me or not you can surely use social networking sites to your benefits. Especially to prepare current affairs and General knowledge Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and StumbleUpon may help you a lot. You can join some Facebook pages, or follow some twitter accounts that are related to current affairs. You can join our Facebook Page too for this matter, or connect with me at LinkedIn or circle me in Google Plus for all the information on recent happenings to boost up your General Knowledgeability.

Give Priority to your Strength

We usually find difficulties when we try to learn everything at once. In that process basically we study a lot, but remember a little. We need to first select our strength areas for our preparation. Try to givepriority to your strength areas. It may be Sports, economy, Government Affairs or technology. Suppose you are applying for Bank exams, then you should prepare industry related news. Along with that you may pick any 2-3 areas of your strength like sports or technology. You need to prepare these sections to the utmost level. I can assure you that these strategies will help you to score much better in Current Affairs section.

Participate in Online Quizzes

You should participate in some free quizzes that are available online to evaluate yourself. For this matter you can easily access our “Quiz Section”. This will give you proper idea whether you are ready for the big exam day or not. As an added factor it will also provide you confidence i.e. very much essential. You can download Monthly-wise current affairs questions from Here.