IBPS Clerical Examination General Awareness (Recapitulated from the student who appeared the IBPS examination - 2011) Morning Session - Held On 27-11-2011 1. Regarding to Iron ore export- e tendering enquiry is ordered by supreme court to which of the following states? (1) Kerala (2) Karnataka (3) Maharastra (4) MadhyaPradesh 2. Who is the present Union Railway Minister? (1) Sharad Pawar (2) P.Chidambaram (3) DineshTrivedi (4) PranabMukharji (5) A.K.Antony 3. India offered co-operation to conduct Kankesun turai port to which neighbouring country? (1) Bangladesh (2) Nepal (3) Pakisthan (4) Bhutan (5) Srilanka 4. Union Government offered special programme to school children. What is that? (1) Kutir Jyothi (2) Kishore Jeevan (3) Aadhar (4) SEWA (5) Mid day Meal 5. "NPA" Stands for - (1) Non - Performing Assets (2) Net Profit Analysis (3) Net Performing Asset (4) Non - Profit Assets (5) Non Performing Asset 6. Which of the following is having maximum ATM's is India? (1) Bank of India (2) SBI (3) IDBI Bank (4) Punjab National Bank (5) ICICI Bank. 7. Which of the following is not associated with Hockey? (1) Bully (2) Penalty Corner (3) follow on (4) Centre Pass (5) Scoop 8. "EFT" stands for - (1) Extraordinary Fund Transfer (2) Emergency Fund Transfer (3) Electronic Fund Transfer (4) Effective Funds Transfer 1

9. What is the Currency of South Korea? (1) Dollar (2) Yuan (3) Won (4) Ringet 10. Which of the following accounts are maintained by banks? (1) Current Account, Savings Account, Term Deposit (2) Loan Account, Current Account, Advance Account (3) Savings Account, Current Account, Insurance Premium Accounts (4) Fixed Deposits,Post office Deposits (5) Current bill Accounts 11. Who is the President of South Sudan? (1) Riek Machar (2) Salva Kiir Mayardit (3) John Garang (4) Joseph Ukel 12. UNESCO is an institution that work for... (1) Development of World Tourism (2) Children's Education (3) Educational, Social Cultural (4) Economic Scientific Cultural 13. Which of the following is a member of G-8. (1) Spain (2) Poland (3) France (4) China (5) Thailand 14. Which of the following associated with rural development Schemes India? (1) SBI (2) RBI (3) NABARD (4) SEBI (5) EXIM 15. Savings 'bank' is a (1) Where in deposits are made once in year (2) Where in customer can deposit conditionally and withdraw freely (3) Where in customer can deposit freely and withdraw conditionally (4) Where in customer can deposit conditionally and withdraw conditionally (5) Where in deposits are made once in month 16. In BR act 'R' refers to.. (1) Registration (2) Regulation (3) Reformation (4) Restructuring 17. Savings Account with zero balance is called (1) Savings (2) Current Account (3) Fixed Account (4) Term Account (5) No frill Account 18. The inter-state dispute on Treesta river water is between Bangladesh and which of the following Indian states? 2

(1) West Bengal (2) Assam (3) Meghalaya (4) Mizoram 19. Which of the following RBI tools that effect inflation. (1) Raising interest rates and reducing money supply (2) Raising tax rates and increasing money suply (3) Raising tax rates and reducing money suply (4) Prohibition on loans 20. A crossed cheque is? (1) is payable to individual personally (2) is payable through third Party (3) is payable through banker (4) is payable through post office 21. Which of the following awards were created by M.P.Government for music, dance etc? (1) Saraswathi Samman (2) Kalidas Samman (3) SS Bhatnagar (4) Sahitya Akademi Awards 22. Banking is related to which of the following section. (1) Manufacturing (2) Primary (3) Service (4) Secondary 23. Base rate is.. (1) Rate of interest payable on savings deposit (2) Rate of interest payable on term deposit (3) Rate of interest charged by RBI on long term deposits by PSB s (4) Minimum lending rate by commercial banks (5) The minimum interest rate fixed by individual banks 24. Who is the chairman of Rajya Sabha (1) Pratibha Patil (2) Mohammad Hamid Ansari (3) Dr. Manmohan Singh (4) Mierakumar (5) L.K. Advani 25. Mobile Banking refers to... (1) Mobile transfer of funds in interbank transactions. (2) Mobile transfer of funds in interstate transactions (3) Mobile transfer of funds in international transactions (4) Mobile transfer of funds in inter district transactions 3

26. Saina Nehwal is associated with... (1) Badminton (2) Lawn Tennis (3) Table Tennis (4) Long Tennis 27. Who is the Prime minister of Japan. (1) Akihito (2) Yoshikao Noda (3) Yasuhiro Nakasone (4) NaotoKan 28. What is the classic book written by Maxim Gorky? (1) War and peace (2) As you like it (3) Lolitha (4) Alice the wonderland (5) The mother 29. Where is central drug research institute is situated? (1) Dhanbad (2) Jaipur (3) Lucknow (4) Jamshedpur (5) New Delhi 30. Dishonouring of an cheque means? (1) Settlement of the cheque (2) Withdrawing of the cheque (3) Nullifying of the cheque (4) Truncating of the cheque (5) Return of the cheque unpaid 31. Which of the following associated banks, recently merged into state bank of India? (1) State Bank of Travenkore (2) State Bank of Indore (3) State Bank of Saurastra (4) State Bank of Mysore (5) State Bank of Hyderabad. 32. Sub-prime lending means (a) Bank finance to non productive activities (b) Bank finance to who do not qualify for best market Rates (c) Bank finance not shown in the balance Sheet (d) Bank finance in violation of Central bank (e) Bank finance to fictitious accounts 33. What female literacy note as per census 2011? (1) 62% (2) 60% (3) 70% (4) 65%. 34. The terms NEFT-RTGS are associated with? (1) Deposits (2) Loans (3) Electronic Fund Transfer (4) Electronic Payments (5) Cheque Transactions 4

35. ASBA means? (1) Purchase of TCs (2) Purchase of CDs (3) Purchase of IPOs (4) Purchase of CPs (5) Payment to blocked accounts 36. World ozone day is celebrated on. (1) August 10 th (2) September 16 th (3) October 16 th (4) January 19 th (5) December 10 th 37. Which of the following Cup/Trophy associate with cricket. (1) Nehru Gold Cup (2) Ranji Trophy (3) Davis Cup (4) Wimbledon Trophy 38. Father of Indian Nuclear program? (1) Dr. Homi J Baba (2) Dr.S.N. Bose (3) Dr.Vikram Sarabhai (4) Dr.C.V. Raman (5) Dr. Satish Dhawan 39. Which of the following awards were given to M.S. Ahluwalia? (1) Padmavibhushan (2) Padmasree (3) Padma bhushan (4) Bharatratna (5) Man of the Year 40. Nilima and Hande received which of the following awards? (1) Mercy Ravi Award (2) Sangeet Natak Academy (3) Raman Megasasy (4) Booker Prize (5) Golden Pen Award 41. Banks in India regulated by (1) Reserve Bank Act1934 (2) Banking regulation act, 1949 (3) SEBI (4) Companies Act 1956 42. World bank head quarters? (1) Paris (2) London (3) Mumbai (4) New York (5) Washington 43. Which of the following continues is world's largest producer of Jute? (1) Afghanisthan (2) Srilanka (3) Bangladesh (4) South Africa (5) Pakisthan 44. Pondechery Chief minister N. Rangaswamy belongs to which of the following political parties? (1) Indian National Congress (2) All India Anna-DMK (3) DMK (4) All India N.R Congress 45. Compilation of data on Industrial production in india is done by which of the following organizations? (1) Central Statistical Organisation (2) Planning Commission of India (3) Census Commission of India (4) Reserve Bank of India (5) None of the above 5

46. The president of India visited which of the following countries in July 2011? (1) North Korea (2) China (3) Thailand (4) South Korea (5) Mangolia 47. The Government of India has recently added the following currency for allowing Indian /companies to raise debts through External Commercial Barrowings? (1) Dinar (2) Euro (3) Pound Sterling (4) yuan (5) Yen 48. The ownership of Publc Sector Banks rests (1) wholly with Government of India (2) Wholly with share holders &Public (3) Jointly with Government of India and State Bank of India (4) Jointly with Government of India and Reserve Bank of India (5) Jointly with Government of India and share holders &Public 49. NAV stands for (1) Net Added value (2) Net Asset Value (3) Net accumulated value (4) National Asset Value (5) Non Asset Value 50. The maximum and Minimum Limit of money that can be transferred in RTGS? (1) Minimum Two lakhs, maximum no limit (2) Minimum three lakhs, maximum no limit (3) Minimum three lakhs, maximum ten lakhs (4) Minimum one lakh, maximum ten lakhs (5) Minimum one lakh, maximum ten lakhs ANSWERS 1) 2 2) 3 3) 5 4) 5 5) 5 6) 2 7) 3 8) 3 9) 3 10) 1 11) 2 12) 2 13) 3 14) 3 15) 3 16) 2 17) 5 18) 1 19) 1 20) 3 21) 2 22) 3 23) 4 24) 2 25) 1 26) 1 27) 2 28) 5 29) 3 30) 5 31) 2 32) 2 33) 4 34) 3 35) 5 36) 2 37) 2 38) 1 39) 3 40) 3 41) 2 42) 5 43) 3 44) 4 45) 1 46) 4 47) 2 48) 4 49) 2 50) 1 6