Wednesday, February 18, 2015

GK for Bank Exam Updates on 18 February 2015

Here are the list of General Awareness Questions / Current Affair Questions, important of various competitive exams which are held across the country for various job vacancies.

The questions are most important for upcoming bank exams & insurance companies exams. 

Also those who are preparing for other competitive exams such as SSC, Railways, NABARD, SIDBI, UPSC, Management Exams these questions also qualify as very important questions for the above examinations listed by us.

Hence exam aspirants kindly go through these questions and learn them, if any doubt and any query you are most welcome to put your queries in the comment sections of any post.


Also keep visiting the website www.gkforbankexam.blogspot.com at regular intervals for regular update on Current Affair and General Awareness Latest Questions, Also share it with your friends who are preparing for any such exams.


1. When a customer opens a Deposit account with the Bank, which one of the following is the status of the Bank


  • Debtor
  • Creditor
  • Trustee
  • Beneficiary
  • None of these
2. Which of the following is not a type of cheque ?
  • Blank Cheque
  • Crossed Cheque
  • Speed Cheque
  • Order Cheque
  • Bearer Cheque
3. Which of the rate below which banks cannot generally lend is called as
  • Base Rate
  • Floor Rate
  • Call Money Rate
  • Repo Rate
  • Reverse Repo Rate
4. When a bank returns a cheque unpaid, it is called
  • Payment of cheque
  • Payment in due course
  • drawing of cheque
  • dishonour of cheque
  • cancellation of cheque
5. Full form of ECS is ( We mostly hear this term in banking parlance )
  • Electronic Clearing Service
  • Electronic Cleaning Service
  • Electromagnetic Clearing System
  • Electronically Cleaning System
  • Electronic Credit Service
6. Many a times we hear the term OPEC , which is a group of countries related to which sector or field
  • Gold
  • Mining
  • Coal
  • Crude Oil
  • Terrorist Activities
7. Who among the following is the largest shareholder in terms of percentage holding of nationalised banks in India ?
  • RBI
  • State Government
  • Govt of India
  • LIC
  • NABARD
8. NRE Deposit is ?
  • Non resident External Deposit
  • Non resident Extra deposit
  • non refundable external deposit
  • non resident exchange deposit
  • non resident extended deposit
9. Cricket world cup is being held in which country in 2015 ?
  • India
  • South Africa & Zimbawe
  • Australia & Newzeland
  • England & Scotland
  • Pakistan & UAE
10. Magnus Carlson has won FIDE world chess championship 2014 held in Sochi, Russia . He is related to which of the following countries ?
  • Norway
  • Philipines
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Russia
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Answers :-
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  1. Debtor
  2. Speed Cheque
  3. Base Rate
  4. dishonour of cheque
  5. Electronic Clearing Service
  6. Crude Oil
  7. Govt of India
  8. Non resident External Deposit
  9. Australia & Newzeland
  10. Norway

GK Questions Asked in SBI Associate Clerk Exam 2015 Part 2/5


Here is the list of questions asked in the Online examination of SBI Associate Clerk held till 15th February 2015.
All the questions asked in the previous exams of general awareness section of SBI Associate Bank Clerk exam till date are listed below in part manner as there are more than several group of questions.

This part is part 2 of total 5 parts of questions asked in SBI Exam to be published.


  • BSF Foundation day -1 December
  • RBI regulate which sector -Banking
  • Sachin autobiography-Playing It My Way ( Already given in our list of important / current affair questions list 2 months back )
  • 2011 highest urban population state-Maharashtra
  • UNESCO Headquarter- Paris
  • Current Home Minister of India - Rajnath Singh
  • Roger Federer related to which sport- Tennis
  • Hudhud affected which coast? - Visakhapatnam
  • Bharatnatyam start from which state - Tamil Nadu
  • Capital of Assam State - Dispur
  • Where is the head quarter of UNICEF? - New York 
  • When do we observe army day? - 15th January
  • Water week started from - 13th January in context with Ganga Rejuvenation Plan
  • Who is the current Defense minister of India? - Manohar Parikar
  • Which language is second most spoken language in world - Hindi
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GK Questions Asked in SBI Associate Clerk Exam 2015 Part 1/5


Here is the list of questions asked in the Online examination of SBI Associate Clerk held till 15th February 2015.
All the questions asked in the previous exams of general awareness section of SBI Associate Bank Clerk exam till date are listed below in part manner as there are more than several group of questions.


  • Prize given to Raghuram Rajan recently - Governor of the Year in Central Banks awards
  • Newspaper name of recent France attack - Charlie Hebdo ( Important )
  • Deodhar Trophy Champion - East Zone
  • Highest mortality rate in infants state - Odisha ( Formerly called Orrisa )
  • CBI new director - Mr. Anil Kumar Sinha ( Important )
  • Barack obama wife name - Michelle Obama
  • CVV FULL FORM - Card Verification Value ( It is the 3 digit number which is printed on the back side of credit or debit card which is required for authentication of any transaction carried out though the said credit or debit card )
  • PAKISTAN CURRENCY - Pakistani Rupee
  • BSBDA A/C FULL FORM - Basic Savings Bank Account
  • Dramatic decade author? -Pranab Mukherjee ( Important )
  • IMF headquarters -Washington D.C.  ( Important )
  • Champions Trophy Hockey Winner - Germany ( Runner up Pakistan )
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