Monday 27 August 2012

GENERAL AWARENESS QUESTIONS FOR BANK EXAMS

GENERAL AWARENESS QUESTIONS FOR RRB PO/CLERK

1. “Sensitive Sector” as defined by RBI includes __________
1) Capital Market
2) Real Estate
3) Commodities
4) All Of the above
5) None Of the above

2. In Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) Scheme, government has targeted to ensure universal access to secondary level education by the year _______
1) 2012
2) 2015
3) 2013
4) 2017
5) 2020

3. Note issuing department of RBI should always possess the minimum gold stock of worth _________
1) Rs.115 crore
2) Rs.85 crore
3) Rs. 200 crore
4) Rs.175 crore
5) No minimum stock is needed

4. Who is the new Secretary General of SAARC?
1) Fathima Dhiyana Sayidh
2) Ahmed Saleem
3) Rehman Khan
4) Abdulla Mohmed
5) None Of the above

5. World Day Against Child Labour is celebrated on ____
1) June 10
2) June 15
3) June 12
4) June 17
5) June 22

6. What is the share of BRICS countries in World GDP?
1) 40%
2) 20%
3) 25%
4) 35%
5) 15%

7. The 25th NATO Summit was held in _______
1) Chicago
2) Btitan
3) Mexico
4) France
5) Canada

8. Alok Kumar Misra has been appointed as Chairman of Indian Banks Association (IBA), he is the CMD of which of the following bank?
1) Bank Of Baroda
2) Bank Of India
3) Punjab National Bank
4) Canara Bank
5) Indian Overseas Bank

9. Who is the new Chief Minister of Karnataka state?
1) Sadananda Gowda
2) Pruthvi Raj Chowan
3) Yaddyurappa
4) Jagadish Shettar
5) Prakash Singh

10. Who is the new Chief Election Commissioner of India?
1) S.Y.Khureshi
2) Nandan Neelekani
3) V.S.Sampath
4) V.Gopalan
5) V.S.Sandeep

11. CAPART is related with ______
1) Assisting and Evaluating rural welfare Programmes
2) Computer Hardware
3) Consultant service of export promotion
4) Controlling Pollution in large industries
5) None of these

12. SAARC University will have its Head Office in _________
1) Dhaka (Bangladesh)
2) New Delhi (India)
3) Colombo (Srilanka)
4) Male (Maldives)
5) Kathmandu (Nepal)

13. “World Economic Outlook” report is published by _________
1) IMF
2) World Bank
3) RBI
4) UNCTAD
5) UN

14. Interest rate policy is a part of ______
1) Fiscal Policy
2) Industrial Policy
3) Monetary Policy
4) Capital Market Policy
5) None Of these

15. The new Share Price Index (In dollar Value) of Mumbai Share Market is ______
1) UREX
2) FOREX
3) SENSEX
4) DOLEX
5) NIFTY

16. Recently, a new coast guard station was commissioned in Andhra Pradesh at ______
1) Vijaywada
2) Warangal
3) Tirupathi
4) Chittoor
5) Krishnapatnam

17. India has signed MOU with which of the following countries to boost its bilateral ties in the tourism sector, recently?
1) Austria
2) Israel
3) Italy
4) Netherlands
5) Thailand

18. Serena Williams won her fifth Wimbledon Title, by defeating whom in the final? 
1) Victoria Azarenka
2) Maria Sarapova
3) Samantha Stosur
4) Agnieszka Radwanska
5) Sara Errani

19. Which of the following rates are not decided by RBI?
1) Repo Rate
2) Reverse Repo Rate
3) Base Rate
4) Bank Rate
5) CRR

20. Which of the following year of the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012) registered the highest GDP growth rate?
1) 2007-2008
2) 2008-2009
3) 2009-2010
4) 2010-2011
5) 2011-2012

21. Who won the Wimbledon Men’s singles 2012?
1) Roger Federer
2) Rafel Nadal
3) Novak DJokovic
4) Andy Murray
5) J.del Potro

22. The HeadQuarters of the IMF is located in _____ ?
1) London
2) Paris
3) New York
4) Tokyo
5) Washington DC

23. RBI has decided to release “Plastic Notes” in circulation. The first such series to be circulated will be of _________
1) Rs.5 notes
2) Rs.10 notes
3) Rs.50 notes
4) Both Rs.5 & Rs.10
5) None Of these

24. UNO has constituted a new cell for “Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women” with the name ________
1) Development Women
2) UN Women
3) UN Women Empowerment
4) Division for the Advancement of the Women
5) Italy

25. After the purchase of 200 tone gold from IMF, India’s Central Bank RBI became the _____ largest gold holding Central Bank in the country.
1) Third
2) Fourth
3) Sixth
4) Tenth
5) None of these

26. What is the present rate of SLR?
1) 22%
2) 24%
3) 25%
4) 20%
5) 23%

27. What is the share of sponsor bank in the capital of Regional Rural Bank (RRB)?
1) 35%
2) 40%
3) 49%
4) 51%
5) 100%

28. How many company’s shares have been included in Bombay Stock Market’s new share named as BSE power Index?
1) 10
2) 12
3) 14
4) 16
5) 18

29. Union Budget 2012-13 projects GDP growth rate for 2012-13 at _____
1) 8.0%
2) 7.8%
3) 7.6%
4) 7.4%
5) 6.1%

30. Government has notified to change the FDI ceiling in single brand retailing ______
1) From 51% to 75%
2) From 49% to 51%
3) From 74% to 100%
4) From 51% to 75%
5) From 51% to 100%

31. Who is the new chief Executive officer of Deutsche Bank?
1) Anshu Jain
2) Bikram Singh
3) D.K.Joshi
4) V.S.Sampath
5) Prasanth Singh

32. Indian State which has become the first Nirmal Rajya that is 100% open defecation free is ________
1) West Bengal
2) Sikkim
3) Tripura
4) Assam
5) Bihar

33. The new Egypt President who was elected in June 2012?
1) Bismilla Khan
2) Anshu Jain
3) Trinath Singh
4) Mohammad Morsi
5) Honsi Mubarak

34. Which country test fired the nuclear capable Hatf-VII or Babur Cruise missile with a range of 700 km is ________
1) Pakistan
2) Bangladesh
3) India
4) Iran
5) Russia

35. Who is the head of 99th Indian Science Congress, which is held in Bubaneshwar?
1) Pratibha Patil
2) D.SubbaRao
3) Dr.Manmohan Singh
4) Sonia Gandhi
5) None Of these

36. In the cheques, the drawee is _______
1) One who writes cheque
2) One who mediates cheque
3) RBI
4) Bank
5) All Of the above

37. The FIFA (Federation of International Football Association) world cup venues given. Pick the correct one ?
1) 2010-South Africa
2) 2014-Brazil
3) 2018-Russia
4) 2022-Qatar
5) All Of the above

38. _______ percent of Net Bank Credit (NBC) to be given to Priority sector lending by Domestic Banks as per the order of RBI?
1) 38
2) 40
3) 35
4) 31
5) 50

39. Expand ECGC Ltd _________
1) Export Cash Guarantee Corporation of India Limited
2) Export Credit Guild Corporation of India Limited
3) Export Credit Guarantee Company of India Limited
4) Expand Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited
5) Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Limited

40. The account in which trading of shares in their electronic form is ________
1) DEMAT Account
2) NRI Account
3) Foreign Account
4) Current Account
5) Recurring Account
41. The new chairman of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India is ______
1) T.V.Raghu Nath
2) D.K.Mehrotra
3) Snigdha Nandipati
4) Rahul Battacharya
5) J.Hari Narayan

42. Indian Cricketer who won Wisden India’s maiden outstanding achievement award is:
1) M.S.Dhoni
2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Rahul Dravid
4) V.V.S.Laxman
5) Yuvraj Singh

43. The highest number of branches hold by a foreign bank in India is ________
1) HSBC
2) Citi Bank
3) RBS
4) Deutche Bank
5) Standard Charted Bank

44. Highest rate of Interest fetch by _________
1) Savings Deposit
2) Current Account
3) Fixed Deposit
4) Recurring Account
5) None of these

45. Hyper Inflation means __________
1) Extremely rapid or out of control deflation
2) Extremely slow growth of Inflation
3) Extremely rapid or out of control Inflation
4) Inflation not at all seen
5) None Of these

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