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Miscellaneous GK

About 6 min · General Knowledge · English

Time worked out from the lesson's 320 words at 150 words a minute, plus a minute for each question.

Miscellaneous GK is a scoring section in UP Police Constable that tests your awareness of general facts, abbreviations, and static data. Questions cover important national and international days, capitals and currencies of countries, full forms of common abbreviations, and superlative facts about India (first, largest, longest, highest, etc.).

Key ideas

• Important Days: Both national and international observance days are tested. Focus on UN-designated international days and Indian national days with their themes and significance.
• Capitals and Currencies: Know capital cities and official currencies of major countries, especially neighbors of India, SAARC nations, permanent UNSC members, and G7/G20 countries.
• Abbreviations: Full forms of organizations (UN, WHO, NASA), government schemes (MGNREGA, PMJDY), technical terms (GPS, ATM), and constitutional bodies can be asked.
• Superlatives of India: "First" facts (first woman, first Indian, first spacecraft), "Largest" (by area, population, production), "Longest" (bridges, rivers, tunnels), and "Highest" (peaks, dams, awards).
• Geographical Superlatives: Highest peaks, longest rivers, largest lakes, biggest deserts — both world and India-specific.

Watch out for

• Confusing similar days — World Health Day (April 7) vs. International Nurses Day (May 12). Create date-month associations: "April for Health (4 letters)".
• Mixing old and new NH numbers — Post-2010 renumbering, old NH 7 became NH 44. Exams test current numbering, so use updated information.
• Wrong capitals for dual-capital countries — Sri Lanka's legislative capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, not Colombo. South Africa has three capitals. Verify dual-capital cases carefully.

Quick reference

• Republic Day: Jan 26 | Independence Day: Aug 15 | Gandhi Jayanti: Oct 2
• Environment Day: June 5 | Human Rights Day: Dec 10
• Largest State: Rajasthan (area), UP (population)
• Longest River: Ganga | Highest Peak: Kanchenjunga
• First President: Rajendra Prasad | First PM: Nehru

Check yourself: 3 questions

This lesson is cut from the topic's note, not rewritten. Fact-checked on 18 Oct 2026: an AI-assisted check of this note against cited sources; the errors it found were corrected that day. Some errors may remain. The questions are from Shishya's validated question bank.

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