SSC CGL 2026-20 General Awareness (GA) & General Knowledge (GK): Detailed Topicwise Syllabus
SSC CGL 2026-20 General Awareness (GA) & General Knowledge (GK): General Awareness (GA) and General Knowledge (GK) section aim at testing the candidates’ general awareness and knowledge of current affairs occurring around the world and in India. We have done a topic-wise analysis to help you score high in this section.
As per the latest notification, SSC will conduct Tier – I CGL Exam from 2nd March to 11th March 2026 and Tier-II CGL Exam from 22nd June 2026 to 25th June 2026 in online mode. To clear the exam you need to identify those sections where you can attempt the maximum number of accurate questions and score the highest marks.
General Awareness (GA) & General Knowledge (GK) Section is considered to be one of the high scoring sections of the SSC CGL Exam. It aims at testing the candidates’ general awareness and knowledge of current affairs occurring around the world and in India. With good preparation and practice, you can attempt more questions in less time and score good marks in GA and GK Section. Chances of getting negative marks are also quite meager in this section.
Let’s look at the exam pattern of SSC CGL Tier-I for General Awareness (GA) and General Knowledge (GK) Section in detail.
Exam Pattern of General Awareness (GA) & General Knowledge (GK) Section
Before starting the preparation, it is imperative to study the exam pattern first. The section constitutes 25% of the total score in the Tier-I Examination. So, let’s look at the exam pattern of General Awareness (GA) and General Knowledge (GK) Section in SSC CGL 2026-20 Tier-I Exam:
In SSC CGL Tier-I Exam, GA and GK section consists of 25 multiple-choice questions and each question carries 2 marks. In this exam, 0.50 marks are deducted as penalty for each wrong answer.
| SSC CGL Tier-I Exam (Objective) | Questions | Marks | Time |
| General Intelligence & Reasoning | 25 | 50 | 60 minutes (Total) |
| General Awareness | 25 | 50 | |
| Quantitative Aptitude | 25 | 50 | |
| English Language and Comprehension | 25 | 50 | |
| TOTAL | 100 | 200 |
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Topic-wise Syllabus of GA and GK Section
After going through the exam pattern, the next step is to understand the topic-wise syllabus of GA and GK Section. Below are the major topics covered in the SSC CGL Tier-I exam under the General Awareness Section:
| Category | Topics | Sub-Topics | No. Of Questions asked |
| Static Gk | History | Facts about Harappa Civilization | 9-11 |
| Vedic culture | |||
| Name of the Kings who built important ancient Temples and Institutions like Nalanda | |||
| Chronology of Medieval India and their important systems | |||
| India’s freedom movement and their leaders | |||
| Geography | India and its neighbouring countries | ||
| Famous Seaport and Airport and their location | |||
| Important institution of world and India and their locations like BRICS, World Bank, IMF, and RBI, etc | |||
| Economy | Terminology of Budget (like National Income, GDP, Fiscal Deficit and many more) | ||
| Five Year Plan and its importance | |||
| Famous persons in the economy | |||
| Institutions and their importance like RBI, SEBI, etc | |||
| Polity | Supreme Court | ||
| Meaning of Write | |||
| Election of President and his functions | |||
| Important constitution bodies like CAG | |||
| Facts about parliament | |||
| Fundamental Duties | |||
| Governor and his functions | |||
| State legislature | |||
| Major Constitutional amendments and their importance | |||
| Official Language | |||
| Emergency Provisions | |||
| National political parties and their symbols | |||
| General Science | Biology | Important Inventions and their inventor | 8-10 |
| Important and Interesting facts about human body parts | |||
| Nutrition in Animals and Plants | |||
| Diseases and their causes like Bacteria | |||
| Viruses and Protozoa | |||
| Last four chapter of NCERT of Class 12th for environment | |||
| Chemistry | Chemical Properties of Substance and their uses | ||
| SI units | |||
| Chemical Name of Important substances like Plaster of Paris, etc. | |||
| Chemical Change and Physical Change | |||
| Properties of Gases | |||
| Surface Chemistry | |||
| Chemistry in Everyday life | |||
| Physics | Important inventions and their inventor | ||
| S.I. units | |||
| Motion | |||
| Sound | |||
| Light | |||
| Wave | |||
| Energy | |||
| Electricity | |||
| Current Affairs | Recent Developments | Sports | 3-5 |
| Awards | |||
| Politics | |||
| Finance and Banking sector | |||
| International Events | |||
| Miscellaneous | GK | Population Census | 3-5 |
| Important Books and their writers | |||
| First sports achievement for India and the world like first Olympic, first Asian Game, etc. | |||
| State Animals and Symbols | |||
| Awards and their importance | |||
| Name of the Scientist who got Noble prize for important discoveries | |||
| Important Days | |||
| Computer | Development of computers | ||
| Input and output devices | |||
| Memory | |||
| Total | 25 |
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Let’s analyse the Topic-wise Weightage of the questions from different categories of GA and GK Section:
From the above pie-chart, it can be analysed that General Science and Static Gk covers the major portion of the GA section SSC CGL Tier-I Exam. Let’s look in detail the topics covered under different heads of GA and GK Section.
- General Science: This section covers around 40% of the GA Section and questions are asked mainly from Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Daily Science, etc.
- Static GK: This section covers around 40% of the GA Section and questions are asked from static topics like Indian Politics, History and Culture, Economy, Geography, etc.
- Current Affairs: This section covers around 10% of the GA Section and questions are asked from topics like recent development in Sports, Awards, Politics, Finance and Banking sector, International happening, etc.
- Miscellaneous: This section covers around 10% of the GA Section and questions are asked from topics like National Schemes, Computers, Book Names and Authors, Logical Analysis, Important Days, etc.