GENERAL AWARENESS PRACTICE MCQs FOR ALL BANK EXAMS

1.    RBI extends date of exchange pre -2005 currency notes to on……?
a)1st april -2015   

b) 1st January -2015    

c) 1st April -2016 

d) 1st January -2016
e) 1st april 2020

2.    2014-15 budget " Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao yojana"  expenditure amount is ?
a) 100 crore 

b) 200 crore 

c) 300 crore    

d) 150 crore 

e) 250 crore

3.    Recently which country decided to join the newly formed BRICS bank?
a) Bangladesh 

b) Afghanistan  
c) Myanmar 

d) Maldives     

e) Pakistan

4.    Select wrong option….?
a) Bharat Nirman -2005
b) National Rural health mission -2005
c) MGNREGP -2006
d) PM Gram sadak yojana-2001
e) National development programme -2005

5.    BOR  wildlife sanctuary will become the country's 47th tiger reserve, It was located at?
a) Maharashtra     

b) MadyaPradesh
c) Manipuri 

d) Nagaland 

e) Mizoram

6.    Select wrong option?
a) Brahmos range -290 km
b) Prudwi range  - 350 km
c) Akash range -350 km
d) Dhanush range -350 km
e) Agni range -700km

7.    "Mouda" super thermal power project recently started by PM in …… state?
a) Madyapradesh 

b) Manipuri
c) Maharashtra 

d) Nagaland
e) Mizoram

8.    Pick up wrong sentence ?
a) Sachin tendulkar : 35th national games goodwill ambassador
b)Mary kom : CRPF goodwill ambassador     

c) Virat kohli: BSF goodwill ambassador 

d)    Emma Watson : ADB goodwill ambassador 

e)    Amitabh Bachan : mahatashtra's horticulture goodwill ambassador

9.    The foreign Reserves is kept with…?
a) Central Govt    

b) Central Bank
c) Ministry of Finance    

d) SEBI
e) Ministry of foreign affairs

10.    Select wrong option ?
a) O.Prakash  Kohli : New Governor of Gujarat 

b) Bal ramji Tanddon : New Governor of Chhattisgarh 

c) Kaptan sing solanki : New Governor of Haryana
d) Keshari nath tripati: New Governor of west Bengal 

e) Vinodh kumar duggal : New Governor of Nagaland

11.    In 1860  1st income tax was introduced in India by….?
a) James taylor       

b) James Wilson
c) James newman 

d) James cotton
e) John mathai

12.    Pickup wrong one?
a) UPSC new chairman : Rajni Razdani
b) UGC chairman : venodh prakash
c) Indian bank association chairman for 2014-15 year : T.M. Basin
d) 94th public account committee chairman : K.V. Thomas 

e) 16th loksabha proteme speaker : Kamal nath

13.    Which of the following states has announced launching web portal for industrial licenses?
a) Andhrapradesh 

b) Telangana
c) Tamilnadu    

d) Maharashtra
e) Gujarat

14.    Which of the following Ministry operate the "village gramin Bank's scheme?
a) Ministry of tribal welfare
b) Ministry of rural development
c) Ministry of finance
d) Ministry of home affairs
e) Ministry of urban & rural development

15.    Present the largest source of National Income in India is ?
a) International trade sector
b) Industrial sector 

c) Service sector
d) Agriculture sector
e) Share market sector

16.    Who has topped "Forbes most powerful women list in 2014?
a) Angela Merkal 

b) Jonet elen
c) Hillary Clinton 

d) Michel obama
e) Dilma roseff

17.    The president of India dedicated "rupay" to the nation on 8th may 2014. It was..?
a) Centre for good governs
b) Social networking website
c) India's own card payment network
d) Banking payment network
e) Govt  payment network

18.    "Rupay" has been developed by which organization?
a) Central Govt    

b) Central Bank
c) National payment corporation of India
d) Indian bank association
e) Indian & foreign bank association

19.    What is scheduled bank?
    a) Included in the 2nd schedule of banking regulation act-1934
    b) Included in the 2nd schedule of banking regulation act-1949
    c) Included in the 2nd schedule of RBI act-1934
    d) Included in the 2nd schedule of RBI act-1949
    e) Included in the 2nd schedule of Central govt act - 1952

20.    In which city canara bank has opened its 7th overseas office recently ?
a) New York 

b) Tokyo  

c) Dubai
d) Beijing     

e) London

21.    Which of the Indian origin judge has been appointed as attorney General of Singapore ?
a)    Daveer bandari 

b) kaushik basu    

c) sanjay baaru    

d) V.K. Rajan
e)  K.V. Sharma

22.    The RBI started issuing its bi-monthly credit policy on the recommendation of..?
    a)    Swaraj committee
    b) Raghavan committee      
    c) Bimal jalan committee
    d) Urjit patel committee      
    e) K.C. Chakravarti committee

23.    What is the upper limit of RTGS transactions in India ?
a)No limit 

b)Rs. 1 crore 

c) Rs 100 Crore    

d) Rs 1 lacks     

e)Rs 10 lacks

24.    Books & Authors  given below,  select wrong option ?
a) The lives of others - Neel Mukerge  
b) No country -Kalyan ray
c) public issues before parliament-Vijay Darda 

d) Narendra Modi a political biography-Andy Marino
e) Emergency retold - Kushvanth sing

25.    select wrong option ?
a) IDBI act -2010  

b) NHB act -1987
c) MSMED act-2006
d) FEMA act-1999
e) competition act -2002

26.    select wrong matched ?
a) BBPS: Bharat Bill payment system
b) FRBM: Fiscal Responsibility & Budget Management
c) e-BAAT: Electronic Banking Awareness & Training

d) ECBs: External Commercial Borrowings 

e) FIPB: Foreign interest Promotion board

27.    LIC of India was established in _____?
a) 1965 

b)1966 

c)1956 

d)1969 

e)1975

28.    Under Lead Bank Scheme lead banks were asked to adopt…?
a)Village  

b)Town 

c)District     

d)State     

e) Country

29.    The apex organisation of industrial finance in India is …?
a) IDBI 

b) RBI 

c) ICICI 

d)IFCI        

e) Central Govt

30.    Present the country producing the maximum silk in the world is ?
a) India 

b) China    

c)Japan     

d)South Korea         

e) America

31.    What is "Dow Jones" ?
a) Share market index of New York stock exchange market
b) Share market index of Mumbai stock exchange market 

c) Share market index of Japan stock exchange market
d) Share market index of Shan ghjai  Stock Exchange market 

e) Share market index of Brazil exchange market

32.    The RBI was formed on the recommendations of __ commission ?
a) Narasimhan 

b) Malhotra
c) Hilton & Young 

d) shiva raman   
e) Wilson  

33.    The International monetary fund ( IMF ) is an organization  no of countries?
a) 188 

b) 187 

c) 193 

d) 209 

e) 186

34.    Find the wrong match?
a) Shakti kanta Das - Present Revenue secretary

b) John William Ashe - Present UNO general assembly secretary
c) Yukio Amino -present IAEA chairman 

d) Anthony Lake - present UNICEF chairman 

e) Robert Ajevedo -present WHO director general

35.    Which institution is known as 'soft loan window' of World Bank?
a) IFC 

b) IDA 

c) IMF 

d) IBRD 

e) ICSID

36.    Which of the following committees has given its recommendations on "Disinvestment method "?
a) Rakesh Mohan Committee         

b) Rangarajan Committee       
c) Amartya sen Committee      
d) Kelkar Committee      
e) Y.V.Reddy  Committee

37.    The oldest stock exchange of India is _______ Stock Exchange?
a) Bombay 

b)National     

c)Bangalore    

d) Hyderabad    

e) None

38.    The SLR comprises investments in which of the following ?
a) gold 

b) cash 

c) Govt. securities
d) all the above     

e) None of these

39.    Which of the following Terms is not associated with banking sector ?
a) KYC 

b) RTGS 

c) NET

d) TRAI 

e) CTS

40.    Which of the following is India's New Rating Index developed by Ministry of Finance ?
a) DOLEX  

b) CRIS    

c) SENSEX    

d) CRIS       

e) NIKKEYI

41.    RBI has Recently  hiked the trade related remittance limit  from Rs.2 Lakh to ______ lakhs ?
a) 4 lakh  

b) 5 lakh  

c) 6 lakh        

d) 8 lakh  

e) 10 lakh

42.    The RBI has allowed banks to provide loans to exporters with tenures of up to how many years?
a) 5 years  

b) 6 years 

c) 8 years        

d) 10 years 

e) 12 years

43.    In Nationalised Bank largest shareholder is _____?
a) Central Bank 

b) Central Govt.        

c) Ministry of Finance 

d) NABARD      
e) Indian Bank Association

44.    India's 1st Post Office Savings Bank ATM facility has been opened in which of the following places?
a) Mumbai 

b) Bangalore   

c) Delhi   
d) Kolkata  

e) Chennai

45.    Which of the following states has approved pension scheme for farmers ?
a) Uttarakhand    

b) Uttar Pradesh        

c) Madhya Pradesh 

d) Haryana         

e) Rajastan

Answers:

1) b 2) a 3) a 4) e 5) a 6) c 7) c 8) d 9) b 10) e 

11) b 12) b 13) c 14) a 15) c 16) a 17) c 18) c 19) c 20) a 

21) d 22) d 23) a 24) e 25) a 26) e 27) c 28) c 29) a 30) b 

31) a 32) c 33) a 34) e 35) b 36) b 37) a 38) d 39) d 40) d 

41) b 42) d 43) b 44) e 45) a